Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2678 - Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.
AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to medical cannabis; enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act; providing for the licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, manufacturing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products; establishing the medical cannabis registration fund and the medical cannabis regulation fund; requiring the expungement of cannabis-related charges; assessing an excise tax and requiring amounts collected from such tax to be used to fund child care, economic development, mental health, low-cost housing and property tax rebates; making exceptions to the crimes of unlawful manufacture and possession of controlled substances; amending K.S.A. 21-5703, 21-5706, 21-5707, 21-5709, 21-5710, 21-6109, 23-3201, 38-2269, 44-1009, 44-1015, 79-5201 and 79-5210 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 8-1567, 21-5705, 21-6607, 22-3717, 22-4714, 44-501, 44-706, 65-1120 and 65-28b08 and repealing the existing sections.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-04 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-16 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-03-16 | Latest Action | Withdrawn from Committee on Federal and State Affairs; Referred to Committee on Interstate Cooperation |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
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| HB 2042 | HB2042 - Requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection instead of submitting such reports annually, requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance to be $100,000, eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties. | enrolled |
| HB 2192 | HB2192 - Limiting or prohibiting work release for people convicted of a second or third offense of domestic battery, requiring an offender convicted of a first offense to undergo a domestic violence offender assessment, excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs. | enrolled |
| HB 2479 | HB2479 - Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order. | enrolled |
| SB 356 | SB356 - House Substitute for SB356 by House Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of the firearm hold agreement, preempting municipalities from imposing any regulations or additional terms on firearm hold agreements, providing that firearm hold agreements shall not give rise to any inference that the firearm owner lacked legal capacity or fitness to possess a firearm. | enrolled |
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