Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt rules and regulations that allow for the direct and indirect potable reuse of treated wastewater, providing additional requirements for applications to the water technical assistance fund and the water projects grant fund and extending the current expiration date of such funds.

Removed the requirement that rules prioritize affordable or achievable treatment processes, replacing it with language allowing rules that may require unaffordable or unachievable processes.

Added authority for the secretary to adopt rules regarding monitoring, record maintenance, reporting, sampling, analysis, and system inspections.

Added new provisions defining different categories of public water supply systems, such as community and noncommunity systems.

Added a new section to repeal the existing K.S.A. 65-162a and 65-171m statutes, replacing them with the amended text.

Corrected formatting inconsistencies and clarified the structure of the definitions and regulatory sections.

New requirement for adopted rules to prioritize prescriptive treatment processes that make water reuse affordable or achievable.

Established new grant criteria prioritizing public health, resource management, population trends, regional cooperation, and weather resiliency.

Added provisions to extend expiration dates for the Water Technical Assistance Fund and Water Projects Grant Fund.

Requires transferring money from the state general fund to the state water plan fund.

Set a new annual application deadline of September 15 for water grants.

Prohibited grants for projects related to water rights impaired by another existing water right.

Added conditions for revoking and requiring repayment of grants under specific circumstances.