Kansas psychology advisory committee backs recommendation for $6,000 cap on PSYPACT state assessment

The Licensed Psychology Advisory Committee of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board recommended on Jan. 6, 2026 that the board provide comment supporting a proposed PSYPACT rule to cap annual state assessments at $6,000. The recommendation was recorded by consensus and will be forwarded to the full BSRB for consideration.

Committee chair Richard Nobles, who serves on PSYPACT’s finance committee, described the practical reason for the cap: as larger states join PSYPACT, a state’s assessed share of compact funding could rise substantially. Nobles told the committee that PSYPACT’s current participation levels include about 18,130 telepsychology authorizations and about 1,130 temporary in‑person authorizations nationwide, and said the assessment mechanism charges each jurisdiction roughly $10 per out‑of‑state authorization listed to a state for the prior year. "There are already a lot of states, and I know that those of you who, like, for example, Jay is in Pittsburgh... it's really important to have as many psychologists join PSYPACT..." Nobles said when describing both benefits and funding concerns.

David Fye, BSRB executive director, explained the draft rule change would amend PSYPACT’s assessment rule to allow the commission to cap the annual assessment for any jurisdiction and proposed language that would limit the total amount assessed to any jurisdiction to no more than $6,000 annually. Committee members expressed broad support for limiting Kansas’s exposure to large annual assessments and for forwarding comment to the board in support of the cap. "I think that this is something that I would be more than happy to approve as a cap," Nobles said during the discussion.

The advisory committee’s recommendation is not a binding regulatory action; it is a request that the full BSRB consider submitting supportive comment during PSYPACT’s rule‑comment period. The BSRB board is scheduled to meet the Monday following the advisory committee meeting, and staff indicated the recommendation will be included in materials to the board.

Provenance: The PSYPACT update and the committee’s consensus recommendation were presented and discussed during the advisory committee’s agenda item beginning with the multistate compact update and concluding with the consensus to forward comment to the board.