(March 17, 2025) – Senate Bill 291 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation – Concerns health professions and practices; relates to optometry; modifies certain provisions of the optometry law related to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements

Senate Bill 294 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Concerns health and health care; relates to medical cannabis; enacts the Kansas Medical Cannabis Act; provides for the licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, manufacturing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products; establishes the Medical Cannabis Registration Fund and the Medical Cannabis Regulation Fund; making exceptions to the crimes of unlawful manufacture and possession of controlled substances

Senate Bill 295 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Concerns marijuana; removes the criminal penalties for possession of a personal-use quantity of marijuana; creates a marijuana infraction

House Bill 2405 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs, requested by Representative Miller – Concerns cannabis; creates the Adult Use Cannabis Regulation Act; provides for the licensure and regulation of cannabis, including the cultivation, manufacturing, transportation, possession and sale of cannabis; provides certain fines and penalties for violations of the act; provides exemptions from crimes involving controlled substances; imposes a tax on the sale of cannabis and provides for the disposition of the revenues collected thereon; creates the Cannabis Business Regulation Fund

House Concurrent Resolution 5013 by Representatives Sutton, Neighbor, Bryce, W. Carpenter, Francis, Hoheisel, Howe, Hoye, Humphries, Long, Minnix, Resman, C. Smith, Wasinger and White – Urges Congress to give state insurance regulators authority over Medicare Advantage plans