Open enrollment is just one of the problematic policies bundled in the K-12 budget that has to be taken up when the Legislature returns next week.

In addition to Senate Substitute for House Bill 2280 which effectively would end all required immunizations for school attendance, Senators are considering two other bills that would prohibit measures to contain the spread of infectious diseases.

Senate Substitute for HB 2280 which is intended to remove the ability of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts to investigate and possibly sanction medical professionals who prescribe medications that are not approved for certain illnesses, now includes a provision radically expanding the religious exemption for parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.