Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2695

Introduced
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Refer
3/17/26  

Caption

Enacting the enhanced oversight and accountability for the prescription of psychotropic drug prescriptions act to require the secretary of health and environment to establish an online reporting system for adverse drug reactions.

Impact

If enacted, HB 2695 would introduce significant changes to the regulatory landscape regarding how psychotropic drugs are prescribed and monitored in the state. The establishment of an online reporting system would not only facilitate better data collection on adverse reactions but could also lead to more informed prescribing practices by healthcare providers. The intent is to create a proactive framework for assessing the safety and efficacy of these medications, which are often prescribed to vulnerable populations, including children and individuals with mental health conditions.

Summary

House Bill 2695, titled the 'Enhanced Oversight and Accountability for Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions Act,' seeks to improve the monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions associated with psychotropic medications. The bill requires the state Secretary of Health and Environment to establish a comprehensive online reporting system that allows healthcare providers to report adverse reactions. This initiative aims to enhance patient safety and ensure that individuals receiving psychotropic medications are effectively monitored for any negative side effects.

Contention

While the bill has garnered support from various mental health advocacy groups and healthcare professionals who emphasize the need for better tracking of medication effects, there are concerns regarding its implementation and the potential for increased bureaucracy. Some critics argue that the added reporting requirements might burden practitioners and deter them from prescribing necessary medications. The balance between improving oversight and maintaining access to critical treatments remains a notable point of debate among stakeholders.

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 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.

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 SB6

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

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

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 SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS SB3

Clarifying the procedures and restrictions on accepting a nomination for an elected office.

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