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type: "Bill"
title: "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."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2068"
citation: "Kansas HB 2068 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Barbering", "Cosmetology and Body Art", "Compacts", "HB 2676", "HB 2740", "Licenses and Licensure", "SB 322", "SB 431"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2026-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fc9648d-5120-40b5-ab0f-f01d73339a6d"
source_url: "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2068/"
source_hash: "6b053ad3f489e04e5e04b9150f1944394a0aefb0fd7cd767f80b716146f1e840"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
---
# Kansas HB 2068 (2025-2026) — 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.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2068/hb2068_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2068/hb2068_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2068/hb2068_enrolled.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-04-09** Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-09** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
- **2026-04-09** Engrossed on Wednesday, April 1, 2026
- **2026-03-26** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 107, Nay 18
- **2026-03-26** Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed
- **2026-03-25** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0
- **2026-03-25** Conference committee report now available
- **2025-03-20** Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Cindy Holscher appointed as conferees
- **2025-03-20** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz
- **2025-03-19** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-02-14** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 119, Nay 0, Absent 6 `passage`
- **2025-02-14** Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- **2025-02-14** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2025-02-06** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23** Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Introduced `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fc9648d-5120-40b5-ab0f-f01d73339a6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).