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IntroducedJan 23, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 14, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 19, 2025
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Became LawApr 09, 2026
Kansas House Bill
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.
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 09, 2026: Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 2068
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Developmentsponsor
- William Wilk on behalf of the Kansas Chamber of CommerceRequester
Votes
YES: 119
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Wanda Brownlee Paige
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Samantha Poetter Parshall
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L. Ruiz
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Simmons
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
YES: 107
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brunk
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Caiharr
- Carlin
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Hawkins
- Helwig
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Meyer
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Samantha Poetter Parshall
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Storm
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 18
OTHER: 0
Actions
- Apr 09, 2026 | House
- Engrossed on Wednesday, April 1, 2026
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
- Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026
- Mar 26, 2026 | House
- Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 107 Nay: 18
- Mar 25, 2026 | Senate
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 20, 2025 | Senate
- Motion to accede adopted; Senator Gossage, Senator Clifford and Senator Holscher appointed as conferees
- Mar 20, 2025 | House
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Representative Carpenter, W. , Representative Bryce and Representative Ruiz, S. as conferees
- Mar 19, 2025 | Senate
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 18, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Mar 10, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Feb 25, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- Feb 18, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Feb 17, 2025 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 14, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 119 Nay: 0
- Feb 06, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Health and Human Services
- Feb 05, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- Jan 23, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Documents
- As introduced - Supplementary Note
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- Conference Committee Report Brief - Wed, Mar 25, 2026PDF
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Staff, Office of Revisor of Statutes (HB2068 Bill Brief)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Michael Kelly, Kansas Council of Chapters, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) (HB2068 Written Only Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Leslie Roste, Future of the Beauty Industry Coalition (HB2068 Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Keith Buckhout, Council for Interstate Compacts (HB2068 Written Only Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Michelle Richart, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Washington, D.C. (HB2038 Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by Lt. Col. Keith Marshall, Kansas Adjutant General's Department (HB2068 Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Tue, Feb 25, 2025: Testimony by William Wilk, Kansas Chamber (HB2068 Testimony)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Carly Choi, Office of the Revisor of Statutes (HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Katrina Abraham, Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce (A06 HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Leslie Roste, Future of the Beauty Industry Coalition (A05 HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Conor Norris, West Virginia University (A04 HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by William Wilk, Kansas Chamber (A03 HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Keith Marshall, Adjutant General's Department (A02 HB2068)
- Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare, Wed, Feb 5, 2025: Testimony by Michelle Richart, U.S. Department of Defense (A01 HB2068)
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Health and Human Services
