How current is Kansas’s pharmacy staffing rule, and how does RxShift know?

The rule on file

K.A.R. 68-5-16. Up to 4 pharmacy technicians per pharmacist, and no more than 2 of them may be technicians who have not passed a Board-approved certification exam.

That is the sentence the Kansas page states. The passages below are what the issuing body served when RxShift read it, kept as a dated record so a pharmacy and its counsel can check the sentence against the source. How a rule is read is decided by people and recorded with its date; no automated check can change a reading. RxShift reports deficiencies against this reading; it does not certify compliance, and nothing here is legal advice.

Every read and every re-check, newest first

A dated read is RxShift reading the issuing body’s text and recording it in a dated report; its public note is repeated here word for word from the updates log. A re-check is the weekly automated comparison of the recorded passages against the live page. People decide every reading; a re-check never changes one. Kansas's issuing body does not allow automated re-checks, so this state rests on its dated reads.

• 2026-10-19

  Re-check: not allowed

  The automated re-check could not read rules.ks.gov (HTTP 405).

• 2026-10-19

  Currency screen

  A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

  Kansas's pharmacy technician ratio is unchanged as of October 19, 2026. Under K.A.R. 68-5-16 a pharmacy may have no more than 4 pharmacy technicians per pharmacist, and a pharmacist may supervise no more than 2 technicians at a time who have not passed a Board-approved certification examination; the 2026 legislative session did not amend K.S.A. 65-1663, the statute that gives the Board this ratio power.

  Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

• 2026-10-16

  Re-check: not allowed

  The automated re-check could not read rules.ks.gov (empty or near-empty page (10 characters of text), likely a JavaScript-only shell).

• 2026-10-16

  Full read

  Read in full from the issuing body's own text and recorded word for word.

  Kansas's pharmacy technician ratio is unchanged as of October 16, 2026, re-read from the Secretary of State's authenticated Kansas Administrative Regulations. Under K.A.R. 68-5-16 a pharmacy may have no more than 4 pharmacy technicians per pharmacist, and a pharmacist may supervise no more than 2 technicians at a time who have not passed a Board-approved certification examination. The rule was last amended February 7, 2020.

  Confidence recorded: high. This entry on the updates log

• 2026-10-15

  Re-check: no baseline

  No report with a verbatim record qualified as a baseline on that date, so there was nothing for the automated re-check to compare.

• 2026-10-12

  Currency screen

  A check for any amendment, repeal or proposal since the last full read.

  Kansas limits pharmacy technicians to four per pharmacist in any pharmacy, and separately provides that a pharmacist may not supervise at any time more than two pharmacy technicians who have not passed a certification examination approved by the Board (K.A.R. 68-5-16, last amended effective February 7, 2020). The Kansas Pharmacy Act and the Board's rules set no maximum shift length, minimum rest period, required break or consecutive-day limit for pharmacy staff; a 2026 law (HB 2068, effective April 30, 2026) lets pharmacies employ remote pharmacists, interns and technicians, applies the same K.A.R. 68-5-16 ratio to remote supervision, and requires pharmacies that use remote workers to keep their pharmacy-act records for five years.

  Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log

• 2026-09-17

  Report

  A dated report on file for this state.

  Kansas limits pharmacy technicians to four per pharmacist, and separately limits any one pharmacist to supervising no more than two technicians who have not passed an approved certification examination (K.A.R. 68-5-16). That rule was last amended effective February 7, 2020.

  Confidence recorded: medium. This entry on the updates log