Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB328

Introduced
1/14/26  
Refer
1/15/26  
Report Pass
2/3/26  
Engrossed
2/11/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Refer
3/5/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Refer
3/17/26  

Caption

Permitting a pharmacist to distribute pre-measured doses of epinephrine to a school for emergency medication kits.

Summary

SB 328 updates Kansas law governing emergency medications in schools, with a primary focus on epinephrine and asthma-related treatments. The bill authorizes pharmacists to distribute stock supplies of standard-dose and pediatric-dose epinephrine delivery systems, as well as albuterol inhalers, solution, and spacers, to schools under a prescription written in the school’s name by a physician or mid-level practitioner. It also expands and modernizes school medication definitions so that “medication” includes auto-injectable epinephrine delivery systems and clarifies related terms used in school self-administration and emergency-medication statutes. The bill preserves and reinforces school authority to maintain emergency medication kits and to allow school nurses or trained designated personnel to administer epinephrine or albuterol in emergencies. It requires schools to have policies on storage, inventory monitoring, training, and documentation, and it continues liability protections for pharmacists, schools, and school personnel acting under the statute. The measure also repeals and replaces existing sections of law to align the school medication framework with current terminology and delivery-system technology.

Impact

SB 328 amends K.S.A. 72-6282, K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-1680, and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 72-6283, and repeals the existing versions of those sections. In practical terms, it broadens the statutory language from “epinephrine auto-injectors” to “epinephrine delivery systems,” allowing schools to receive and use updated emergency medication devices in school health kits. The bill affects pharmacists, physicians, mid-level practitioners, school districts, school nurses, designated school personnel, students with asthma or anaphylaxis, and schools that maintain stock emergency medication supplies.

Sentiment

The available voting history suggests strong support for the bill: it passed the Senate Consent Calendar unanimously, 40-0. The bill’s caption and structure indicate a largely technical and safety-oriented measure aimed at improving school emergency response capabilities, which typically draws broad bipartisan support. No committee transcript objections are provided, and the absence of recorded opposition in the vote suggests general agreement with the bill’s public health purpose.

Contention

No specific committee debate is available, so there is no documented controversy in the provided materials. Potential points of concern inherent in the bill include the scope of pharmacist authority to supply school emergency kits, the training and delegation of emergency medication administration to nonmedical school personnel, and liability protections for schools and pharmacists. The bill also updates terminology from auto-injectors to delivery systems and expands the school medication framework, but the available record does not show these changes were disputed.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

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 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 SB6

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

KS SB8

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

KS HB2002

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

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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

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 SB3

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

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