(Jan. 26, 2025) – Today, the House Health and Human Services Committee worked House Bill 2436, defining emergency opioid antagonist, which defines an emergency opioid antagonist to include an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another person in reasonable need of medical assistance. The committee recommended the bill favorably for passage without amendment. The bill will now go to the full House of Representatives.

The committee also took final action on House Bill 2218, amending the definition of "psilocybin" in the Uniform Controlled Substances Act to exclude the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin and adding crystalline polymorph psilocybin to Schedule IV of the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. The hearing on this bill occurred during the 2025 session, and the committee today amended to update the dates and recommended the bill favorably for passage. The bill will now go to the full House of Representatives.

Bill introductions included topics: 1. allowing chiropractors and APRNs to perform daycare physicals. 2. Establishing a medical cannabis program in Kansas. These bills will be assigned bill numbers in the coming days.

The committee will meet again throughout the week.