65-1631. Licensure required of pharmacists; qualification of applicants; application for licensure by examination; reciprocal licensure; fees; applicants from schools outside the United States. (a) It shall be unlawful for any individual to practice as a pharmacist in this state unless such individual is licensed by the board as a pharmacist. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), every applicant for licensure as a pharmacist shall be at least 18 years of age, shall be a graduate of a school or college of pharmacy or department of a university recognized and approved by the board, shall file proof satisfactory to the board, substantiated by proper affidavits, of a minimum of one year of pharmaceutical experience, acceptable to the board, under the supervision of a preceptor and shall pass an examination approved by the board. Pharmaceutical experience as required in this section shall be under the supervision of a preceptor and shall be predominantly related to the dispensing of prescription medication, compounding prescriptions, preparing pharmaceutical preparations and keeping records and making reports required under state and federal statutes. A school or college of pharmacy or department of a university recognized and approved by the board under this subsection shall have a standard of education not below that of the university of Kansas school of pharmacy. The board shall adopt rules and regulations establishing the criteria that a school or college of pharmacy or department of a university shall satisfy in meeting the standard of education established under this subsection.
(b) All applications for licensure by examination shall be made on a form to be prescribed and furnished by the board. Each application for a new license by examination shall be accompanied by a license fee fixed by the board as provided in K.S.A. 65-1645, and amendments thereto.
(c) The board is authorized to adopt rules and regulations relating to the score that an applicant must receive in order to pass the examinations required for licensure. The board shall only accept a passing score on an examination required for licensure from an applicant's first five attempts taking such examination.
(d) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, the board may in its discretion license as a pharmacist, without examination, any individual who is duly registered or licensed by examination in some other state, except that the board may require that such individual take the multi-state jurisprudence examination approved by the board. The board is authorized to adopt rules and regulations relating to the score that such individual shall be required to receive in order to pass the multi-state jurisprudence examination. The board shall only accept a passing score on an examination required for licensure from an applicant's first five attempts taking such examination. Such individual shall file proof satisfactory to the board of having the education and training required of applicants for licensure under the provisions of the pharmacy act of this state. Individuals who are registered or licensed as pharmacists by examination in other states shall be required to satisfy only the requirements that existed in this state at the time they become registered or licensed in such other states. The provisions of this subsection shall apply only if the state in which the individual is registered or licensed grants, under like conditions, reciprocal registrations or licenses as pharmacists, without examination, to pharmacists duly licensed by examination in this state. Reciprocal licensure shall not be denied to any applicant otherwise qualified for reciprocal licensure under this section who has met the internship requirements of the state from which the applicant is reciprocating or who has at least one year of practice as a licensed pharmacist. A reciprocal licensure may be denied for any of the reasons set forth in K.S.A. 65-1627(a)(1) through (a)(13), and amendments thereto.
(e) In the event that an applicant for reciprocal licensure has not been subject to laws requiring continuing education as a condition for renewal of a registration or license, such applicant shall be required to satisfy the board through a competency examination that the applicant has the knowledge and ability to meet Kansas standards for licensure as a pharmacist.
(f) All applicants for reciprocal licensure shall file their applications on a form to be prescribed and furnished by the board and such application shall be accompanied by a reciprocal licensure fee fixed by the board as provided in K.S.A. 65-1645, and amendments thereto. The reciprocal licensure fee established by this section immediately prior to the effective date of this act shall continue in effect until a different reciprocal licensure fee is fixed by the board by rules and regulations as provided in K.S.A. 65-1645, and amendments thereto.
(g) The board shall take into consideration any felony conviction of such individual, but such conviction shall not automatically operate as a bar to licensure.
(h) All applicants for licensure who graduate from a school or college of pharmacy outside the United States or who graduate from a school or college of pharmacy not approved by the board shall submit information to the board, as specified by rules and regulations, and this information shall be accompanied by an evaluation fee fixed by the board as provided in K.S.A. 65-1645, and amendments thereto, that shall be in addition to any other fee paid by the applicant under the pharmacy act of the state of Kansas. The evaluation fee fixed by the board under this section immediately prior to the effective date of this act shall continue in effect until a different evaluation fee is fixed by the board by rules and regulations as provided in K.S.A. 65-1645, and amendments thereto. The board may contract with investigative agencies, commissions or consultants to assist the board in obtaining information about such schools or colleges of pharmacy. In entering such contracts the authority to approve schools or colleges of pharmacy shall remain solely with the board.
(i) All applicants for licensure who graduate from a school or college of pharmacy outside the United States or who are not citizens of the United States shall provide proof to the board that the applicant has a reasonable ability to communicate with the general public in English. The board may require such applicant to take the test of English as a foreign language and to attain the grade for passing such test as established by the board by rules and regulations.
(j) Every registered pharmacist holding a valid registration as a pharmacist in effect on the day preceding the effective date of this act shall be deemed to be a licensed pharmacist under this act, and such individual shall not be required to file an original application hereunder for a license.
History: L. 1953, ch. 290, § 17; L. 1962, ch. 37, § 1; L. 1967, ch. 342, § 1; L. 1972, ch. 231, § 6; L. 1974, ch. 252, § 1; L. 1975, ch. 319, § 17; L. 1981, ch. 247, § 1; L. 1982, ch. 263, § 1; L. 1986, ch. 235, § 3; L. 1986, ch. 231, § 20; L. 1986, ch. 236, § 2; L. 1987, ch. 236, § 2; L. 1988, ch. 243, § 7; L. 1991, ch. 187, § 2; L. 1998, ch. 98, § 3; L. 2002, ch. 184, § 1; L. 2021, ch. 106, § 8; June 3.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 16 - Regulation Of Pharmacists
65-1626 Pharmacy act; definitions.
65-1626a Practice of pharmacy defined; persons engaged as pharmacists.
65-1627a Same; jurisdiction of board; petition, who may file; stipulation, order based thereon.
65-1627b Same; direction by board to file petition or to prosecute.
65-1627c Same; form of petition, rules.
65-1627f Same; powers of board; term of suspension, probation or revocation; hearing; orders.
65-1627h Costs of proceedings.
65-1627k Certain records of board of pharmacy confidential; exceptions.
65-1628 Order; judicial review.
65-1629 Inspection of drugs by board; samples; analyses; publication of results.
65-1630 Rules and regulations.
65-1633 Change of mailing address or email address of pharmacist.
65-1634 Responsibility for quality of drugs sold; adulteration or mislabeling unlawful.
65-1636 Sale of drugs limited to pharmacies; violations; exceptions.
65-1637a Institutional drug rooms; supervision and record-keeping; rules and regulations.
65-1637e Compounding of drugs and distribution of compounded drugs; rules and regulations.
65-1638 Sale of drugs and poisons by registered pharmacist.
65-1640 Act not applicable to manufacture or to certain sales of poisons.
65-1641 Display of pharmacist license; when unlawful.
65-1644 Duplicate licenses, registrations and permits; fees.
65-1647 Repeated violations of act or rules and regulations may be enjoined.
65-1650 Regulation of advertising of prescription-only drugs; exceptions and exclusions.
65-1651 Sections part of and supplemental to pharmacy act.
65-1653 References to registered pharmacists deemed to apply to licensed pharmacists.
65-1654 Privileged communications.
65-1658 Civil fines for violations.
65-1668 Utilization of unused medications act; not applicable to certain medications.
65-1670 Same; duties of the board of pharmacy; duties of qualifying center or clinic.
65-1671 Same; criteria for accepting unused medications; dispensing.
65-1672 Same; participation; adult care homes; powers and duties of a qualifying center or clinic.
65-1673 Same; criminal and civil liability under the act.
65-1674 Same; rules and regulations; duties of the board of pharmacy.
65-1675 Same; duties of the secretary of health and environment; records.
65-1677 Collaborative drug therapy management advisory committee; purpose and membership.
65-1680 Epinephrine kits in schools; rules and regulations.
65-1681 Prescription monitoring program act.
65-1684 Same; charges and fees prohibited.
65-1686 Same; another agency as contractor.
65-1687 Same; maintenance of records.
65-1688 Same; act does not create civil liability or duty.
65-1689 Same; advisory committee created; members; terms.
65-1690 Same; advisory committee in cooperation with other entities.
65-1691 Same; board consultation with advisory committee; annual report.
65-1692 Same; rules and regulations.
65-1694 Same; veterinary prescription monitoring program task force; study; members; report.
65-1694a Same; prescription monitoring program fund created.
65-1696 State board of pharmacy; fingerprinting and criminal history.
65-16,103 Same; no cost charged to pharmacies; funding of program.
65-16,104 Same; confidential information; authorized access to data in the log.
65-16,106 Same; rules and regulations.
65-16,121 Pharmacy audit integrity act.
65-16,123 Same; procedural requirements.
65-16,124 Same; audit reports; recoupment and repayment of funds; access to audit information.
65-16,125 Same; final report; availability.
65-16,126 Same; application of the act.
65-16,128 Electronic transmission of prescription orders required, when; exceptions.
65-16,129 Pharmacists authorized to administer drugs, when; exceptions.