Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2678

Introduced
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  

Caption

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Impact

If passed, HB 2678 would have significant implications for state laws regarding the legality of cannabis use in therapeutic settings. It would establish a regulatory framework for the medical cannabis industry, including guidelines for growers, processors, and dispensaries, thus creating a legal market. The bill could also help alleviate the fears surrounding criminal prosecution for patients who rely on medical cannabis for their health and quality of life. Through regulated access, the state could also generate revenue from taxes imposed on cannabis sales.

Summary

House Bill 2678, known as the Kansas Medical Cannabis Act, proposes to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale, and use of medical cannabis and its products. The bill aims to provide legal access to medical cannabis for patients suffering from certain medical conditions, acknowledging the therapeutic potential of cannabis as a treatment option. Proponents of the bill emphasize the importance of offering patients an alternative to traditional pharmaceuticals, particularly for those with chronic pain or debilitating conditions where conventional treatments are ineffective.

Contention

Despite its potential benefits, the bill is not without controversy. Opponents raise concerns about the social implications of legalized cannabis, including issues related to substance abuse and public health. There are also concerns about how the state plans to regulate this new industry, including measures to prevent misuse and ensure that medical cannabis is only available to those who genuinely need it. Additionally, the bill could face pushback from those who oppose any form of cannabis legalization, fearing that it may lead to broader legalization efforts in the future.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SCR1602

Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.