# Kansas HB 2223: Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements. Kansas HB 2223, Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Health and Human Services; status signed, last action 2026-03-12 (Approved by Governor on Thursday, March 12, 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2223-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas HB 2223 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-03 - Last action: 2026-03-12, Approved by Governor on Thursday, March 12, 2026 - Sponsor: Committee on Health and Human Services - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on public health and welfare, house committee on health and human services, house committee on federal and state affairs - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 6 (458 yes, 106 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 4 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Kansas optometrists can provide more eye care: benefit, medium. Kansas optometrists can use medical devices and prescribe, give, or dispense drugs, but cannot inject drugs into the eye. Authorized procedures include chalazion incision and curettage, skin-lesion removal and biopsy, laser capsulotomy, and laser trabeculoplasty. For these procedures and adult open… - Optometrists face limits on dispensing medicine: cost, low. Optometrists dispensing prescription-only medicine under a lawful prescription face a quantity limit. They can supply 24 hours’ worth or the minimum needed until a licensed pharmacist can fill the prescription. The limit does not apply to the eye lenses specified in the law. - Certain optometrists must carry liability coverage: cost, low. Beginning January 1, 2028, liability insurance requirements apply to optometrists credentialed for four types of procedures. These are chalazion incision and curettage, skin-lesion removal and biopsy, laser capsulotomy, and laser trabeculoplasty. New and renewed policies must provide at least $500,… - Medical injury fund sets payout limits: mixed, medium. For covered medical injury or death claims, the Kansas fund’s liability cannot exceed the provider’s coverage selected when the incident happened. Board adjustments to specified coverage amounts must preserve minimums of $1 million per claim and $3 million in total coverage. The fund cannot cover c… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Health and Human Services ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 98 Nay: 23 | pass | 98 | 23 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 34 Nay: 6 | pass | 34 | 6 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 97 Nay: 24 | pass | 97 | 24 | | | 2026-02-26 | House | Concurred with amendments | pass | 98 | 23 | | | 2026-02-18 | Senate | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 34 | 6 | | | 2025-03-18 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 97 | 24 | | ## Actions (25) - 2026-03-12: Approved by Governor on Thursday, March 12, 2026 (House) - 2026-03-03: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 (House) - 2026-02-27: Engrossed on Thursday, February 26, 2026 (House) - 2026-02-26: Concurred with amendments; Yea 98, Nay 23, Absent 4 (House) - 2026-02-18: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 34, Nay 6 (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Beverly Gossage (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Beverly Gossage was adopted (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. William Clifford (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. William Clifford was rejected (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended (Senate) - 2026-02-10: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2026-01-29: Hearing: Thursday, January 29, 2026, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-03-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House) - 2025-03-18: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-18: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 97, Nay 24, Absent 4 (House) - 2025-03-18: Received and Introduced (Senate) - 2025-03-14: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2025-03-12: Hearing: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N (House) - 2025-03-06: Hearing: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N — CANCELED (House) - 2025-02-26: Withdrawn from House Committee on Health and Human Services; Rereferred to House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2025-02-18: Withdrawn from House Committee on Federal and State Affairs; Referred to House Committee on Federal and State Affairs (House) - 2025-02-03: Introduced (House) - 2025-02-03: Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) ## Bill text - As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_enrolled.pdf) - {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_02_0000.pdf) ## Related bills - SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed) - SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed) - SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed) - HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed) - HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law) - HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_enrolled.pdf) - [{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2223/hb2223_02_0000.pdf) ## Related - [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026) - [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026) - [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026) - [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026) - [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026) - [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2223-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).