Topeka ? With the crucial part of her health care plan stalled in the Legislature, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is signing into law less ambitious proposals drafted by others.

The latest Tuesday included a bill pushed by Republican senators to encourage small businesses to contribute to health savings accounts for their employees. Another, sponsored by four House members, would make it easier for some cancer patients to obtain expensive drugs.

Last week, the Democratic governor signed GOP senators’ bill to require the Department of Education to set standards for the food offered in schools, including in vending machines. The measure was seen as a step in fighting childhood obesity.

Sebelius has proposed a $50 million package that would raise tobacco taxes to finance expansion of state health care coverage for poor adults and subsidies for small businesses’ health plans. But legislators have shown little enthusiasm for her plan, which would increase the cigarette tax by 50 cents a pack to $1.29.

The Democratic governor has criticized the Republican-dominated Legislature for not moving more aggressively on health care. Last week, she said legislators’ grade on the issue so far this session would be “incomplete.”

“We are facing a quiet crisis in health care,” Sebelius said in a statement Tuesday. “That requires us to look at every option for making health care more affordable and accessible.”

But House Speaker Doug Mays said Sebelius hasn’t been aggressive in pushing her proposal. Only a month ago, a Senate committee introduced a bill to raise cigarette taxes and hasn’t had a hearing.

“It’s a little disingenuous to criticize the Legislature for not taking action,” said Mays, R-Topeka. “I have to question whether she really wanted it to begin with.”

One bill Sebelius signed Tuesday gives businesses having from two to 50 employees income tax credits if they contribute to employees’ health savings accounts, which allow people to set aside money to cover future medical expenses. The maximum credit would be $70 per month per employee, and the state expects to forgo $135,000 in revenues annually.

The other measure sets up a state program under which unused cancer drugs in unopened packages can be donated to hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices and distributed to needy patients.