Kansas bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas HB 2068

Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice, permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain, adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards and removing the authority of the state board of pharmacy to authorize individuals to access the prescription monitoring program database by rules and regulations.

1. Introduced
2. In committee
3. Passed House
4. Passed Senate
5. To Governor
6. Became law

Sponsors

• Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Summary

Text versions

• As Introduced
• As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
• Enrolled

Roll-call votes

No recorded votes on this bill.

Actions

• Jan 23, 2025 · House
  Introduced
• Jan 23, 2025 · House
  Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services
• Feb 6, 2025 · House
  Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Health and Human Services
• Feb 14, 2025 · House
  Committee of the Whole - Be passed
• Feb 14, 2025 · House
  Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
• Feb 14, 2025 · House
  Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 119, Nay 0, Absent 6
• Feb 17, 2025 · Senate
  Received and Introduced
• Feb 18, 2025 · Senate
  Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
• Mar 10, 2025 · Senate
  Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
• Mar 18, 2025 · Senate
  Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• Mar 18, 2025 · Senate
  Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
• Mar 19, 2025 · Senate
  Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
• Mar 20, 2025 · House
  Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz
• Mar 20, 2025 · Senate
  Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Cindy Holscher appointed as conferees
• Mar 25, 2026 · Senate
  Conference committee report now available
• Mar 25, 2026 · Senate
  Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0
• Mar 26, 2026 · House
  Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed
• Mar 26, 2026 · House
  Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 107, Nay 18
• Apr 9, 2026 · House
  Engrossed on Wednesday, April 1, 2026
• Apr 9, 2026 · House
  Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
• Apr 9, 2026 · House
  Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026