2025-2026 Regular Session

Authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact, specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact and providing for recovery of actual damages in exceptional circumstances.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the crime victims compensation board to establish fees chargeable for conducting examinations of persons who may be victims of sexual assault and authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations to administer such fees and to use moneys in the crime victims compensation fund for the payment of such fees.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the penalties for the crime of sexual extortion when an offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 18 years of age or a dependent adult, creating the crimes of aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm and aggravated sexual extortion causing death and requiring the attorney general to prepare and provide educational materials and information concerning such crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting courts from assigning a defendant to work release if the defendant is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes and prohibiting the secretary of corrections from granting an inmate leave from confinement except for specified purposes if the inmate is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes or is serving a sentence for certain crimes that require registration as a sex offender.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring members of governing bodies of subordinate service taxing areas to be residents of such taxing areas.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an American civics examination in order to graduate with a high school diploma.

Sponsor: Education

Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the governor to approve eligible programs for workforce Pell grants and providing requirements for the state workforce development board with regard to eligibility, approval and financing of such programs.

Sponsor: Education

Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Commending the 2026 Kansas Superintendent and Principals of the Year.

Sponsor: Mike Argabright

Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB2299 by Committee on Education - Providing that certain statutory references to accredited nonpublic schools mean nonpublic schools accredited by the state board of education, requiring that schools accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency shall have the same rights as schools accredited by the state board, requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during the school day and prohibiting employees of a school district from using social media to communicate with students for official school purposes.

Sponsor: Education

Expanding pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of COVID-19.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Exempting correctional authorities and certain business entities contracting with correctional authorities from certain rules and regulations governing the possession, transportation and use of explosive materials.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Permitting a pharmacist to distribute pre-measured doses of epinephrine to a school for emergency medication kits.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson.

Sponsor: Mark Schreiber

Requiring that advanced practice registered nurses and registered nurse anesthetists submit to a criminal history check upon application for a nursing license.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Recognizing Barry Ward as the 2026 Kansas State Balladeer

Sponsor: Ronald Ryckman

Increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of the crime of breach of privacy and modifying the culpable mental state required to commit such crime.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or public adjuster if the arrest, conviction or diversion is for a fraudulent insurance act and including automobile assigned claims plans in provisions related to fraudulent insurance acts.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing statewide standards governing the use of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, permitting a pharmacist to initiate such medication to certain patients, providing civil liability protections to pharmacists who initiate prophylactic therapy to patients for post-exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Clarifying county authority over the transfer or appropriation of water by placing such authority, except for domestic use, with the chief engineer and water transfer hearing panel.

Sponsor: Barbara Wasinger

Approving the gaming compact with the Wyandotte Nation.

Sponsor: State-Tribal Relations

Enacting the Kansas medical freedom act to prohibit the denial of an individual's access to certain services based on such individual's medical choices.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing a seal for the house of representatives and providing for its custody and use.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Substitute for HB 2250 - Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility.

Sponsor: Suzanne Wikle

Authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities for such nonpublic schools.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Enacting the Kansas sports authority act to establish a sports authority to provide for the construction, financing and management of certain sports facilities and sports facility infrastructure and create venues for professional sports and other events.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing that leased ground owned by a county-recognized community land trust shall be considered as a factor in determining fair market value for property tax purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring a county appraiser to adjust the value of residential and commercial property upon final determination or obtain a fee simple appraisal if the appraised value exceeds 5% increase over three years.

Sponsor: Taxation

Clarifying modifications for certain business interest expenses and federal net operating loss carrybacks and providing a technical change to a statutory cross reference for recaptured moneys related to adoption savings accounts for purposes of Kansas income tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income.

Sponsor: Taxation

Modifying the composition of the board of pharmacy and prohibiting the board of pharmacy from adopting rules and regulations that would limit or condition the use of telepharmacy.

Sponsor: Insurance

Enacting the defense of drug delivery act to prohibit manufacturer interference relating to 340B drug distribution.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing standards and requirements for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the aggregate tax credit limit on the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Fiduciary Financial Institutions Oversight

Senate Substitute for HB 2212 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing the governor to make a declaration of need for enhanced public safety and security for an extraordinary event and providing certain powers to the governor during a period of such declaration.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the assignment of benefits under certain property and casualty insurance contracts and defining such assignment of benefits as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practice.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Requiring the department of health and environment (KDHE) to seek federal approval for continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, directing state agencies to report to certain legislative committees on Kansans losing public assistance program eligibility, requiring the Kansas department for children and families and KDHE to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance and KDHE to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance waivers or exemptions without legislative approval and self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance, requiring quarterly eligibility redeterminations for medical assistance and providing exceptions for certain individuals, limiting retroactive enrollment in medical assistance, immediately terminating eligibility for medical assistance upon confirmation of death of the enrollee, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Requiring all state board of nursing actions related to nonpractice violations be void, allowing for late license renewal for professional, practical and advanced practice registered nurses, setting fees for late license renewal, limiting unprofessional conduct to acts related to the practice of nursing, prohibiting the board from taking retaliatory action against a licensee based on certain lawful actions and creating a civil cause of action for violation thereof, requiring that board members be subject to senate confirmation and requiring the board to issue refunds for overpayment or duplicate payment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Authorizing payment of certain claims against the state, making appropriations therefor and authorizing certain transfers.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State

Authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family as if the student were a resident of the school district and excluding such student from the open-seat lottery process.

Sponsor: Education

House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

House Substitute for SB356 by House Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of the firearm hold agreement, preempting municipalities from imposing any regulations or additional terms on firearm hold agreements, providing that firearm hold agreements shall not give rise to any inference that the firearm owner lacked legal capacity or fitness to possess a firearm.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the Kansas municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pool act and establishing certain reserve, maximum exposure funding and reporting requirements for municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pools.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Reviving repealed statutes related to estates of absentees.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the state board of education to report to the legislature on federal moneys received by the state, ending certain educational reporting requirements and applying expiration dates to other educational reporting requirements.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Removing the two-bedroom requirement to qualify as hotel, motel or tourist court requiring collection of tax from all such qualifying rentals.

Sponsor: Allen Reavis

Requiring public construction contracts to include a mutual waiver of consequential damages.

Sponsor: Tim Shallenburger

Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring a proponent to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that certain specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand evidence before certain qualified witnesses may testify.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Commending Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve and acknowledging the patriotic commitment of all Kansas employers who support their employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve.

Sponsor: Rick James

Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program.

Sponsor: Education

Granting authority to research universities regarding transactions involving real property, buildings, infrastructure, easements and the procurement of goods and services and exempting such universities from statutes governing such transactions.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

House Substitute for SB451 by House Committee on Elections - Clarifying when contributions may be accepted for the primary and general elections, prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to voters, requiring campaign finance treasurer reports to include the products and services provided by vendors, requiring reporting of small contributions to the public disclosure commission.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing for statewide electrician licensing by the board of technical professions.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Changing the requirement that the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight meet in January and April to meeting at least once each quarter.

Sponsor: Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide a property tax exemption from all school district levies for residential property that is owned by and the principal place of residence of a person who is 60 years of age or older.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring banks to enter into a written agreement with the state treasurer to be a depository of public moneys, increasing the market value of securities necessary to secure the deposit of public moneys, providing procedures for when a depository fails to follow the requirements of the state treasurer, modifying certain definitions, authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, creating the public moneys fee fund and providing exceptions to the public moneys pooled method if accounts are subject to conflicting federal law.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.

Sponsor: TJ Rose

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the taxpayer agreement act to provide for an alternative method of tax increment financing of municipal economic development projects through taxpayer agreements.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing an income tax credit for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel and discontinuing the income tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the athletic licensure trainer compact to provide interstate practice privileges for athletic trainers.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing that applicants for a physician assistant license submit to a criminal record check, providing for the collaboration between physicians and physician assistants and requiring the revocation of a physician assistant license under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Authorizing Audubon of Kansas to convey certain property in Wabaunsee county and requiring any deeds or conveyances related to such property be reviewed and approved by the state historical society.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Providing for a universal homestead exemption from ad valorem property taxation.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence and setting forth relevant procedures.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Designating a portion of U.S. highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for U.S. highway 75.

Sponsor: Transportation

House Substitute for SB231 by Committee on Elections - Changing the timing of city, school, community college and certain other municipality elections to fall in even-numbered years and requiring the term of office of municipal elected officials to be either two years or four years.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing the maximum annual registration fee limit for seed retailers and wholesalers and authorizing a late fee for registrations renewed after the registration deadline.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes under the prison-made goods act.

Sponsor: Kyler Sweely

Designating a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to hazardous waste monitoring and permit application fees by the Kansas department of health and environment.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Providing for the election of alternative payment methods by a dental provider and allowing such payment method to remain in force for the duration of a contract with a dental benefit plan.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring school districts to verify the household gross earned income of each student who qualifies for free meals under the national school lunch program and requiring legislative authorization to receive special assistance payments under federal law.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Requiring an annual reimbursement to the Kansas department of wildlife and parks for lost revenue from free or discounted hunting and fishing licenses, permits or passes that were established by legislative enactment on or after July 1, 2027.

Sponsor: Will Carpenter

Recognizing the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., for their outstanding service to the citizens of our state, our nation, and the international community and for their promotion of sisterhood, scholarship and service.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Increasing the number of allowed residents in a home plus facility from 12 to 16.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the occupational therapy licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges to occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.

Sponsor: Judiciary

House Substitute for Senate Bill 366 by Committee on Transportation - Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties thereof and permitting the display of certain lighting in road construction zones by vehicles and trailers engaged in highway construction and maintenance operations.

Sponsor: Transportation

Permitting moneys received from agricultural production on a state-owned property to be used for the management of all state-owned properties.

Sponsor: Will Carpenter

Reorganizing the Clearwater cemetery district in Sedgwick county to remove Ohio township.

Sponsor: Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Authorizing animal shelters to place certain animals needing treatment or care in foster homes and requiring shelters to display photographs of animals at a location other than the shelter during a holding period.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Providing for the rounding of final transaction amount for sales tax purposes if payment is made with cash.

Sponsor: Taxation

Designating bridges on United States highway 69 and the 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge and a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Transportation

Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Enacting the Kansas property tax freedom act of 2026, providing for the phased elimination of property taxation and for revenue replacement grants to taxing subdivisions, establishing the Kansas fair share purchase surcharge and providing such revenue to taxing subdivisions, the state general fund and the new property tax freedom reserve fund and providing for freedom dividend rebates.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring cost-sharing agreements between municipalities for the maintenance of shared roads.

Sponsor: Local Government

Clarifying the signature verification requirements for advance voting ballot envelopes and providing for the repeal of advance voting statutes, except where advance voting is required by federal law, if a state or federal court issues a final order or judgment which is not subject to appeal invalidating such signature verification requirements.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the applied behavior analysis services in school act to authorize the provision of medically necessary behavioral health services by private providers in schools and requiring school districts to adopt policies for the provision of such services.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Recognizing the seriousness of the national debt and the threat to national security that such debt poses.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Senate Substitute for HB 2501 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement, removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and shotgun barrel length qualification requirements and providing enhanced penalties for certain felonies committed while using a firearm suppressor or short-barrel shotgun.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing additional requirements for applications to the water technical assistance fund and the water projects grant fund, including the requirement that applicants demonstrate the availability of a 25-year water supply, prohibiting grants for issues related to water rights that are impaired by another other water right, prioritizing applications based on various criteria and mandating annual submissions on September 15.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing the state historical society to acquire the junior officers' quarters at Fort Dodge and provide for the use, preservation, improvement, control and maintenance thereof.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Approving the gaming compact with the Wyandotte Nation.

Sponsor: State-Tribal Relations

Senate Substitute for HB 2372 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Establishing requirements for a county sheriff operating a jail for the enforcement of detainer requests issued by the United States immigration and customs enforcement, requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage for law enforcement that enforces federal laws, requiring the state to pay certain judgments in federal court actions, requiring the attorney general to provide representation in certain civil actions and exempting section 287(g) agreements from certain provisions of the interlocal cooperation act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting and joining with other states in the interstate compact for the placement of children and authorizing the administration and implementation of the compact.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Requiring grant applications, expenditure information, reports and other documentation concerning the rural health transformation program to be presented and provided to the state finance council, house of representatives committee on appropriations, senate committee on ways and means and legislative budget committee.

Sponsor: Troy Waymaster

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services and the city of Osawatomie to execute and record an amendment to the original deed for conveyance of certain real property in Miami county that amends the reversionary interest of the state of Kansas to July 1, 2046.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing that certain municipalities may designate the entire municipality within a neighborhood revitalization area under the Kansas neighborhood revitalization act.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing the supreme court to impose a charge to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel through June 30, 2030.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing for credits for payment of employee's child care and contributions to a third party for increased child care options.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Substitute for HB 2346 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing the Kansas sports tourism grant program administered by the secretary of commerce to provide matching grants to communities for developing and continuing sporting events, providing for funding of such grants from the state economic development initiatives fund or from the state general fund if funds are not available therefrom.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Extending the tax credit for certain contributions to community colleges and technical colleges for capital improvements, deferred maintenance or the purchase of technology or equipment.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide a property tax exemption from all school district levies for residential property that is owned by and the principal place of residence of a person who is 60 years of age or older.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for charitable organizations and requiring a fee for registration.

Sponsor: Taxation

Modifying the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements.

Sponsor: Elections

Modifying an exception to the Kansas open records act that authorizes certain individuals to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership by providing that certain individuals who were employed for five or more years, certain elected officials and persons who reside at an address that is subject to restriction from public access may request to have such information restricted and removing an exception related to information or reports obtained and prepared by the office of the state bank commissioner.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Sponsor: Taxation

Ratifying and providing for the continuation of the state of disaster emergency declaration issued on February 24, 2026, for certain counties.

Sponsor: Ken Rahjes

Substitute for SB 315 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the department of wildlife and parks to offer a discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing license to residents of Kansas who are 65 years of age or older and increasing the maximum age to qualify for the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license and decreasing the maximum fee and removing the expiration of such license.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Substitute for Substitute for HB 2132 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Modifying the definition of household income, providing for one refund claim form and providing an eligibility exception for claimants who are required to live away from the homestead by reason of health or other hardship for purposes of homestead property tax refunds, providing that a person shall not lose eligibility for a homestead property tax refund claim or the SAFESR tax credit if the appraised valuation of the homestead subsequently exceeds $350,000 after qualifying in a previous tax year and establishing a constant household income threshold for purposes of the SAFESR tax credit.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing the governor to make a declaration of need for enhanced security for an extraordinary event and providing certain powers to the governor during a period of such declaration.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Kansas right-to-repair act to provide the right for persons who purchase or lease digital electronic equipment to obtain the legal authorization and necessary documentation and parts from original equipment manufacturers to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products, diapers and incontinence products.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing that fire sprinkler systems shall not be required in this state for multi-family dwellings of four attached units or fewer, prohibiting municipal fire sprinkler requirements for multi-family dwellings of four or fewer attached living units and defining apartment buildings for purposes of the fire code.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Prohibiting the assessment of a prepayment penalty against any party more than six months after the execution of a note evidencing a home loan made primarily for personal, family or household purposes secured by a real estate mortgage.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Substitute for HB 2427 by Committee on Appropriations - Establishing the positions of the senate fiscal integrity auditor appointed by the president of the senate and the house of representatives fiscal integrity auditor appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, providing for the duties of such fiscal integrity auditors including access to the state fiscal technology systems and software and reports and recommendations to certain legislative committees.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by revising article 11 by establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas citizens freedom review board, authorizing the board to review tax exemptions and approve or eliminate such exemptions and eliminating the motor vehicle property taxes and fees, state-mandated and state-imposed property taxes and state-imposed income and privilege taxes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing a special education pilot program that provides provisional accreditation to a private entity for the purpose of operating a special education teacher training program, allowing such entity to collect data from such program and providing requirements for full accreditation of such program.

Sponsor: Education

Imposing a 3% excise tax on all sports wagers, distributing the proceeds of such tax to the state school district finance fund and decreasing the statewide property tax levy for school districts by 1.5 mills.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending the Kansas drycleaner environmental response act to modify the penalties for violations of the act, the required deductible rate for corrective actions, the environmental surcharge rate, the solvent fee and the delinquency penalty related to environmental surcharges and solvent fees.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Permitting highway construction and maintenance vehicles in road construction zones to display flashing amber, white or green lights at all times or flashing white and blue lights under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks.

Sponsor: Transportation

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Furthering economic development by providing for authorization of a port authority by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, authorizing redevelopment of mall facilities as STAR bond projects, allowing vertical construction for certain STAR bond projects, facilitating such projects in less-populated counties in the Wichita and Kansas City metropolitan statistical areas, setting visitor origin requirements for such projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Enacting the Kansas health insurance affordability transparency act to require a report specifying the financial impact to covered individuals resulting from the passage of certain health insurance legislation.

Sponsor: Insurance

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Sponsor: Chase Blasi

Creating the no-impact home-based business fairness act, supporting the development and growth of such businesses by limiting the regulatory power of municipalities.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services.

Sponsor: Utilities

Establishing requirements for the county sheriff operating a jail for the enforcement of United States immigration and customs enforcement detainers, requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage for law enforcement that enforces federal laws, requiring the state to pay certain judgements in a federal court action, requiring the attorney general to provide representation in certain civil actions and authorizing county sheriffs to enter into certain interlocal cooperation agreements without the approval of the board of county commissioners.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the safeguarding personal expression at K-12 schools act to authorize students and student clubs or organizations to engage in certain speech or expression at school and providing a civil cause of action for violations of the act.

Sponsor: Education

Increasing the tax on electronic cigarettes and crediting the revenue to the children's initiative fund.

Sponsor: Taxation

Substitute for HB 2434 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Extending the number of years that new credits may be issued or earned for contributions to graduates of aerospace and aviation-related educational programs and employers of program graduates.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Labette county for the purpose of providing financial support to fire departments located in the county.

Sponsor: Virgil Peck

Excluding owners of oil leases from having to file request for exemption with the board of tax appeals for property tax exemptions.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing that a nondisclosure agreement shall not be judicially enforceable in a dispute involving childhood sexual abuse or human trafficking allegations or claims.

Sponsor: Lauren Bohi

Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege and requiring training for persons obligated to report abuse and neglect.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators, imposing certain limits on virtual currency kiosk transaction amounts and charges and authorizing the attorney general and any law enforcement agency to investigate reports of fraudulent money transmission and report to the state bank commissioner.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program, providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program, authorizing judges to waive the fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit and requiring judges to waive the fee for petitions for expungement of municipal arrest records in certain cases.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Permitting county appraisers to request lease agreements from taxpayers when valuing property for property tax purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a registry kiosk of Kansas military forces killed in action or who died of wounds incurred during active duty to be placed within the state capitol.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor, deductions from income when using the single sales factor and receipts factor, the decrease in corporate income tax rates determining when sales other than tangible personal property are made in the state and excluding sales of a unitary business group of electric and natural gas public utilities.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring that vehicle turn signals be used when moving right or left or exiting a roundabout.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Repealing the mail ballot election act.

Sponsor: Allen Reavis

Requiring the secretary of wildlife and parks to prepare and present any plans to reorganize the Kansas department of wildlife and parks to certain legislative committees and legislative approval of any such plans.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Commemorating the life and career of Representative Billie Ray McCreary.

Sponsor: Sandy Pickert

Substitute for HB 2234 by Committee on Taxation - Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by Junction City main street, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring treasurers of candidates and persons who support or oppose constitutional amendments to report lists of small donors' names and addresses to the public disclosure commission and providing that such lists shall not be a part of any report required to be made public.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that countywide retailers' sales tax is apportioned based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until December 31, 2026.

Sponsor: Taxation

Permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over city residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit from 30 miles per hour to 25 miles per hour without an engineering and traffic investigation.

Sponsor: Transportation

Increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements and authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to accept multiple payment amounts as long as rent is paid on time and in full and to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of manufactured homes mobile homes and modular homes and materials and services used by a contractor when constructing or remodeling affordable housing for certain organizations.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the state board of regents to adopt rules and regulations to prohibit state moneys from being allocated for certain low-earning outcome programs and prohibiting political subdivisions from allocating state moneys for certain low-earning outcome programs.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring children to be toilet trained to enroll in and attend kindergarten in any public school and providing certain exceptions thereto.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring school districts to obtain parental consent prior to providing certain school-based mental health services to a student.

Sponsor: Megan Steele

Authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports and updating statutes related to services provided by the chief information technology officer.

Sponsor: Legislative Modernization

Repealing the three-mile extraterritorial planning and zoning authority for cities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Sponsor: Taxation

Modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals for school district at-risk accountability plans.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing for permanent seizures of animals in instances when the owner violates county resolutions and authorizing judges of competent jurisdiction to order such seizures.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Permitting a licensee to request that such licensee's mailing address be provided on a driver's license.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring hospitals to screen all patients for eligibility for such hospital's financial assistance program or charity care policy.

Sponsor: Insurance

Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.

Sponsor: Elections

Expanding the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors, specifying continuing education requirements, increasing the required amount of professional liability insurance and modifying certain provisions relating to the licensure and regulations of naturopathic doctors.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing for a presidential preference primary election every four years commencing in 2028 and aligning the special election date in March with the presidential preference primary election date.

Sponsor: Elections

Changing the timing of city, school, community college and certain other municipality elections to fall in even-numbered years and requiring the term of office of municipal elected officials to be either two years or four years.

Sponsor: Elections

Requiring landlords to comply with a default maintenance code if the rental property is in a city or county that has not adopted a maintenance code.

Sponsor: Leah Howell

Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substance.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring certain 340B entities to report annually to the Kansas department of insurance on certain costs, savings and payments made under the federal 340B drug pricing program.

Sponsor: Insurance

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Sponsor: Education

urging the U.S. Congress to fully fund the federal government's original funding promise under the individuals with disabilities education act

Sponsor: Taxation

Ratifying and providing for the continuation of the state of disaster emergency declaration issued on February 9, 2026, for Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte counties.

Sponsor: Chris Croft

House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations, defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the cost threshold for when a county shall use the public bidding process in awarding a construction contract.

Sponsor: Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Honoring the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk and recognizing October 14 as Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day.

Sponsor: Tim Shallenburger

Requiring interest earnings of the parks fee fund to be transferred to such fund each month.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Extending the sunset for the angel investor tax credit to 2031.

Sponsor: Commerce

Including limited liability partnerships as an entity required to obtain county approval to establish a dairy or swine production facility.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Discontinuing yearly registration and registration fees for motor vehicles when registered by an individual or individuals and used as a passenger vehicle or for personal use and discontinuing sales tax on transfers and property tax on such vehicles.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Creating a right for an adult care home resident to use such resident's pharmacy of choice without being charged a fee or financial penalty by the adult care home because of such choice.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Authorizing the administrator to set and the commissioner of insurance to cause to be published in the Kansas register certain fees and eliminating the 10% credit to the state general fund required of fee funded agencies as reimbursement for certain services provided by the state.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to in-person practice requirements in a dental office owned by a licensee.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Authorizing judges to waive the docket fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Regulating the manufacture, wholesale and distribution of electronic cigarettes in this state and establishing licensure of electronic cigarette manufacturers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring at least one member of the Kansas state fair board to be a resident of Reno county.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for a three-year exemption from severance tax for new oil and gas wells.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring additional licensing requirements for assisted living facilities with dementia care.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Prohibiting any governmental agency from regulating landings, takeoffs or the operation of aquatic aircraft on waters of the state.

Sponsor: Angel Roeser

Removing the current exception to the criminal use of weapons statute that allows any individual over the age of 21 or with a provisional license to possess a concealed handgun in or on school property or grounds or at any regularly scheduled school-sponsored activity or event if not otherwise prohibited under either federal or state law.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Supporting the State of Israel and affirming the historical, biblical and legal significance of Judea and Samaria.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.

Sponsor: Robyn Essex

Enacting the Kansas bullion depository act to authorize the state treasurer to establish, administer or contract for the administration of bullion depositories and allowing for state moneys to be deposited in such bullion depositories and invested in specie legal tender.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring each school district adopt an independent review process as part of such district's policies prohibiting and preventing bullying.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the providing civil relief from coerced debt act to provide protections and remedies for victims of certain debts constituting a coerced debt because of actions by another individual within the context of domestic violence.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases and sales made by the friends of cedar crest association.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by allowing the legislature to contract public debt and pledges to the payment thereof the full faith, credit and taxing power of the state and giving the legislature authority over all matters concerning the contracting of public debt.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions through budget provisos, appropriations bills or temporary fiscal measures without following specified review procedures, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines and updating the criteria for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing penalties for the crimes of assault and battery if committed against a public-facing worker while such worker is engaged in the performance of such worker's assigned duties.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing that motorcycle license plates shall contain a combination of not fewer than six letters or numerals.

Sponsor: Adam Smith

Requiring that a child in custody of the secretary be provided information regarding the child's rights and the secretary maintain confirmation of the child's notification and understanding of such child's rights in child in need of care proceedings.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies related to racial and other biased-based policing using technology and criminalizing violation of racial and other biased-based policing policies.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring that a no cost-sharing requirement be imposed on insureds for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations for breast cancer.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Limiting the annual amount of expenditures and demand transfers from the state general fund, requiring certification by the state treasurer and providing for additional requirements on the governor's and legislature's budget plans and legislative measures.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the county appraiser to submit a single property appraisal report at the valuation appeal hearing before the regular division of the state board of tax appeals.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Adding certain third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher and authorizing special education state aid reimbursement for qualified teachers who provide approved special education or related services to students with an IEP administered by such school district pursuant to a contract.

Sponsor: Education

Permitting the director of investments of the health care stabilization fund to invest funds as authorized for insurance companies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Designating the official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.

Sponsor: Transportation

Recognizing February 5, 2026, as Wear Red Day in the Kansas legislature.

Sponsor: Barbara Wasinger

Providing that courts are not required to appoint counsel for an indigent inmate in certain habeas corpus actions.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Restricting residential homestead property taxes to not more than the established base of property taxes owed for individuals 65 years of age and older and eliminating the property tax exemption for certain commercial properties used for healthcare when in competition with other non-exempt properties.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing tax exemption eligibility for commercial and industrial machinery and equipment that is currently ineligible for tax exemption due to such equipment being acquired or transported into this state on or before June 30, 2006.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the motor vehicle right to repair act.

Sponsor: Commerce

Enacting the Kansas rural business growth program act, providing a premium tax credit to incentivize capital investment in rural areas and establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of incentivizing such investment.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the Kansas task force on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to study such technologies and make recommendations to the legislature.

Sponsor: Legislative Modernization

Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes and requiring school districts to report on the amount of screen time that certain students experience during a typical school day.

Sponsor: Sherri Brantley

Amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations to include persons in a position of trust or authority when such position is used to carry out the offense.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the minimum bail requirements for certain crimes from $50,000 to $100,000 and requiring certain findings to reduce such requirements.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the imposition of a privilege tax by a municipality for the privilege of selling alcoholic beverages, food and food ingredients and tobacco within a community improvement district.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Setting standards for patient and caregiver identification cards to ensure legal access to medical cannabis, establishing the Kansas medical cannabis agency within the department of health and environment and removing cannabis from the Kansas uniform controlled substances act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of any school property.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Directing the university of Kansas to operate a statewide repository of anonymous human trafficking data that is submitted by law enforcement agencies and prosecutors.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the Kansas medical rights of conscience act to permit a healthcare provider to refuse to provide transgender healthcare services if such services violate the provider's conscience and creating a civil cause of action for violation of this act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Proposing to amend section 13 of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require a simple majority for passage of a resolution to ratify any amendment to the constitution of the United States or to make any application for congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution of the United States.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the patient's right to save act to establish shared savings programs and providing for the duties and requirements of such programs.

Sponsor: Insurance

Requiring each school district board of education to allocate membership association dues to individual board members and prohibiting the payment of such dues if a board member elects not to join such membership association.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Enacting the Kansas short-term, limited duration insurance act; establishing definitions, disclosure, premiums, renewal and underwriting requirements relating thereto and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt rules and regulations to implement and oversee the act.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Creating a civil cause of action for violations of the constitution or laws of the United States by any person acting under the color of law.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Exempting certain property used for thrift store purposes by a church or religious organization from property tax.

Sponsor: Rick Kloos

Establishing the Kansas first responder scholarship program to provide postsecondary tuition assistance to certain first responders and dependents of such first responders.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Establishing the Kansas international trade commission to further international trade between Kansas and other countries, in particular Ireland, Japan and Taiwan, and creating the Kansas international trade commission fund.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Imposing property tax on used motor vehicles following the 12th month in which a used vehicle was purchased or acquired.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Modifying an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act concerning software programs for electronic data processing.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the supreme court to develop or procure a court date reminder program for the purpose of sending advance notifications to individuals with scheduled court dates for a criminal case or an infraction and requiring all courts to send certain notifications using such program.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Decreasing the number of votes required to not retain a judge of the district court in office from a majority to 40% in judicial districts that have nonpartisan selection of judges and retention elections.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring hospitals use a surgical smoke plume evacuation system and adopt policies for the evacuation of surgical smoke during certain surgical procedures.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish uniform siting and permitting standards for certain energy facilities and limiting local governmental actions relating thereto

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Recognizing Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, for their outstanding service to the citizens of our state, our nation and the international community and their promotion of scholarship, service and advocacy

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state.

Sponsor: Ford Carr

Proposing to amend the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section relating to the right for adults to possess and use cannabis.

Sponsor: Ford Carr

Establishing standards of conduct for agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) prohibiting facial covering of agents, requiring vehicles be clearly marked, requiring judicial search warrants, prohibiting raids in places of worships, schools, daycare centers, hospitals and courts, requiring minimum training.

Sponsor: Alexis Simmons

Modifying the crime of unlawful acts involving theft detection shielding devices to include possessing, with the intent to commit theft, a computer program, application, software or other device adapted, designed or commonly used to operate a lock or locks on or start a motor vehicle without an ignition key or key fob, or to copy, store information relating to, or interfere with those functions and providing for exceptions.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility.

Sponsor: Education

Restoring homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Allowing healthcare providers to charge fees to furnish a patient's healthcare records and providing for the disclosure of a deceased patient's healthcare records to certain individuals.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Repealing the prohibition on municipal establishment of guaranteed income programs.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Enacting the Kansas critical infrastructure protection act to prohibit access to state critical infrastructure by countries of concern and the acquisition of critical software and other technology used in state infrastructure from countries of concern.

Sponsor: Craig Bowser

Proposing to amend the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section relating to the public right to possess and use cannabis for medical purposes.

Sponsor: Ford Carr

Enacting the opioid patients right to know act to require the disclosure of the risks associated with prescribed opioid use.

Sponsor: Alexis Simmons

Enacting the safe and transparent arrest act to require all law enforcement agencies operating in Kansas to adopt a written policy regarding the use of facial coverings and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties except as expressly authorized by law.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Prohibiting certain federal law enforcement officers from entering hospitals, schools and places of worship under certain circumstances and prohibiting law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties with certain exceptions.

Sponsor: Ford Carr

Congratulating and commending the members of the 2026 Kansas Teacher of the Year team.

Sponsor: Susan Estes

Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders.

Sponsor: Melissa Oropeza

Providing for official legal publications on a county website for counties with a population of 100,000 or more.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Providing that amendments related to credit for time spent incarcerated are applicable to any sentence computed on or after October 20, 2023.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-client privilege while working under the supervision of such attorney.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the university of Kansas school of medicine to use a letter grading system or other tiered grading system to assess student performance.

Sponsor: Education

Allowing for a public library taxing district to withdraw from a regional system of cooperating libraries with no discretion regarding approval of such withdrawal by the state library board.

Sponsor: Steven Howe

Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which such advertisement is placed.

Sponsor: Angel Roeser

Prohibiting unit owners associations from imposing certain restrictions on solar energy conversion systems.

Sponsor: Local Government

Establishing the Kansas-Italy trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Italy.

Sponsor: Lauren Bohi

Prohibiting certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS and requiring disclosure of information and the testing of products that contain intentionally added PFAS and are sold, offered for sale, distributed or distributed for sale in this state.

Sponsor: Lauren Bohi

Requiring the secretary of state to conduct periodic checks to compare the statewide voter registration system against the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) database and submit an annual report to the legislature on the outcomes of such checks.

Sponsor: Elections

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Authorizing the secretary of corrections to enter into a memorandum of understanding to provide money from the evidence-based programs account to residential facilities with behavioral health crisis intervention services for juveniles.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Butler county for the purpose of providing property tax relief.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.

Sponsor: Suzanne Wikle

Mandating health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services.

Sponsor: Alexis Simmons

Requiring a valid upland game bird stamp prior to taking any upland game bird in this state, except on private land, establishing the upland game bird restoration fund and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to use moneys from such fund for the procurement and release of upland game birds.

Sponsor: Shawn Chauncey

Enacting the safe battery collection and recycling stewardship act and prohibiting the sale of covered batteries or battery-containing products unless the producer is part of a battery stewardship organization with an approved plan.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Enacting the foreign adversaries out of higher education act to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from accepting gifts, grants and other moneys from foreign adversaries and their affiliates, prohibiting certain foreign adversary affiliates from operating on campuses and providing training and education on such foreign adversaries and their affiliates.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the safe and transparent arrest act to require all law enforcement agencies operating in Kansas to adopt a written policy regarding the use of facial coverings and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties except as expressly authorized by law.

Sponsor: Angela Martinez

Establishing the positive learning environment act to provide for certain rights for teachers and require school districts to adopt school management plans to address behavioral infractions by students.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefits claims process.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding, data use agreement or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Enacting the Kansas property rights protection act to require just compensation be provided to landowners for governmental actions that impose burdens upon or diminish the value of private property.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Proposing to amend article 1 of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section establishing a system of electing the governor and the lieutenant governor by creating a state electoral college whereby each state senatorial district would have a vote in selection of the governor and the lieutenant governor.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing that the law enforcement officers memorial advisory committee may receive requests from a Kansas law enforcement agency for the Kansas highway patrol and the Kansas bureau of investigation to provide temporary personal and other assistance in support of funeral services honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the service of the state.

Sponsor: Transportation

Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide that property tax exemptions be approved by the electors of the state.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Adding compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas to alternative fuels that are eligible for the income tax credit for alternative-fueled motor vehicle property expenditures.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending the Kansas indoor clear air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility and amending the definition of smoking to include the use of an electronic cigarette and smoking marijuana.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance.

Sponsor: Suzanne Wikle

Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Enacting the student secular bill of rights to establish statutory protections against religious coercion and discrimination in public schools.

Sponsor: Silas Miller

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Holocaust education act to require school districts to provide instruction on Holocaust education and awareness as part of the social studies curriculum for students in grades six through 12.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Providing for the use of triple trailers on highways, increasing the allowable gross weight for such vehicle combinations and allowing the use of trailers with dealer license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made to establish and maintain Kansas war memorials and providing a property tax exemption for property with Kansas war memorials.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the rural health transformation fund, prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program, crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund and making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies.

Sponsor: Troy Waymaster

Including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 100 miles per hour or more and 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime of reckless driving.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to establish a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of Kansas to provide charitable consumer financial education initiatives in Kansas.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Authorizing animal shelters to place neonate animals in foster homes and requiring shelters to display photographs of animals at a location other than the shelter during a holding period.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or when there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety.

Sponsor: Douglas Shane

Authorizing cities and counties to levy a 0% sales and use tax on sales of food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Taxation

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Providing an exception to unauthorized practice of law under the Kansas consumer protection act for an employee of the judicial branch or a district court providing a standard form to a member of the public.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.

Sponsor: Utilities

Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey real property valued at $5,000,000 or less without further legislative authorization and requiring the submission of an annual report listing any such real property sales to the legislature.

Sponsor: Angel Roeser

Allowing hunters who are federally licensed drone operators to use drones to locate wounded or recently deceased deer.

Sponsor: Kevin Schwertfeger

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to decrease the assessment percentage used to determine the assessed value of real property used for residential purposes and mobile homes used for residential purposes from 11½% to 9% for purposes of property taxation.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain property located in Johnson county.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Creating the bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund and providing definitions, procedures and requirements for abandoned digital assets.

Sponsor: Craig Bowser

Permitting certain healthcare providers to complete health assessments for children enrolled at day care facilities.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Increasing the personal needs allowance for residents receiving long-term care in a medicaid-approved nursing facility.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Setting a maximum fee for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Increasing certain municipal court fee assessments and crediting such increase to the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and training fund and the crime victims assistance fund.

Sponsor: Transportation and Public Safety Budget

Enacting the insurance savings account act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas income tax act.

Sponsor: Adam Smith

Prohibiting public adjusters from negotiating for or effectuating the settlement of any insurance claim relating to residential lines of insurance.

Sponsor: Insurance

Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Establishing an impaired provider program, expanding the grounds for disciplinary action against a licensee and providing for the reinstatement of a revoked license under the Kansas nurse practice act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Permitting a licensed chiropractor to evaluate and provide written clearance to a school athlete who has been removed from a sport competition or practice session pursuant to the school sports head injury prevention act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Leavenworth county for the purposes of furnishing, equipping, improving and maintaining county-supported emergency management operations.

Sponsor: Timothy Johnson

Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing for the qualifications of regular and provisional appraisers and allowing for the appointment of such appraisers to serve as county appraisers.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the Kansas state high school activities association to establish a school classification system for activities based on student attendance and a multiplier factor that adjusts certain schools' student attendance.

Sponsor: Education

Including children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder under the definition of other health impairment in the special education for exceptional children act.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Modifying member appointment, compensation and meeting requirements of the Kansas fire service training commission.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Classifying crimes related to driving under the influence and driving a commercial vehicle under the influence as person crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Extending the expiration date of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act from 2027 to 2028.

Sponsor: Education

Providing an exception to KORA that authorizes certain retired KPERS members to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.

Sponsor: Kyle McNorton

Requiring the director of property valuation to conduct a review or audit of the appraisal and apportionment of the valuation of the property of any public utility when the total appraised value of property of such public utility in this state decreased more than 5% and a governmental body requests such review or audit.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring persons convicted of or given diversion agreements for driving under the influence offenses to attend victim impact panel programs.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing a nonpartisan candidate to include such candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with such candidate's name.

Sponsor: Elections

Requiring the county election officer to call a special election to fill a vacancy within the governing body of a municipality if the position remains vacant after 60 days.

Sponsor: Elections

Eliminating the Kansas residency requirement after completing a Kansas promise scholarship program, clarifying the work requirements upon completion of such program and repealing the sunset on the program.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring all persons to be 18 years of age to be eligible to give consent for marriage and eliminating exceptions to such requirement.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certain state and criminal history record checks conducted by the Kansas department for aging and disability services.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Declaring that the world health organization, the united nations and the world economic forum have no power within the state of Kansas or any political subdivisions thereof to enforce any rule, regulation, fee, tax, policy or mandate.

Sponsor: Rebecca Schmoe

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028 and 2029 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing for the assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2026 legislative session.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Authorizing the removal of a voter from voter registration rolls if such voter is issued a driver's license by another state and requiring attestation on voter registration form that obtaining a foreign driver's license constitutes a change in residency for voting purposes.

Sponsor: Elections

Modifying the definition of earnings to include paid compensation for wage garnishment exemption purposes.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028 and 2029 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing for joint sessions of the Senate and the House of Representatives for the purposes of hearing messages from the Governor and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Providing that the failure of an alcohol or drug test can be certified when the law enforcement officer administering such test had reasonable grounds to believe a person was attempting to operate a vehicle.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing school districts to employ chaplains or accept such persons as volunteers.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Prohibiting members of the legislature from engaging in transactions involving stocks and other securities during legislative sessions.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Prohibiting members of the legislature from lobbying for a period of four years after leaving office.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2026 session of the Legislature.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Requiring veterans with a condition from military service to be offered diversion for certain offenses and expanding the mitigating factor for departure at sentencing for veterans.

Sponsor: Stephen Owens

Defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of motor vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.

Sponsor: Susan Humphries

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to revoke a TEFFI charter, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating council.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Fiduciary Financial Institutions Oversight

Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine tablets.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Establishing the EV energy equity road repair tax act and providing for a road repair tax on electricity distributed from a public charging station for electric vehicles.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Providing an excise tax on large employers for certain federal benefits paid to employees.

Sponsor: Heather Meyer

Requiring each local board of education of a school district to appoint a nonvoting student representative to such board of education.

Sponsor: Nikki McDonald

Discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit for qualified developments receiving a 4% federal tax credit.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Determining food that contains specific color additives to be adulterated.

Sponsor: Kevin Schwertfeger

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by bowling centers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Recognizing April 15, 2025, as Jackie Robinson Day.

Sponsor: Patrick Penn

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes.

Sponsor: Caryn Tyson

A resolution congratulating and commending the 2024-2025 Washburn University men's basketball team for an outstanding season and qualification for the Final Four of the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship.

Sponsor: Brenda Dietrich

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Finney, Pawnee, Seward and Jackson counties, providing that countywide retailers' sales tax apportionment based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until December 31, 2026, and excluding exempt sales of certain custom meat processing services from sales tax exemption certificate requirements.

Sponsor: Taxation

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2025 regular session of the Senate and House of Representatives.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Commending Senator Jerry Moran for his unwavering support of Kansas farmers.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska concerning sports wagering.

Sponsor: State-Tribal Relations

Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county and requiring the case, warrant and subpoena information be sealed in criminal and juvenile offender cases.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Senate Substitute for HB 2125 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Modifying the deadline for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk, providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget, modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice for property tax purposes, extending reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar years 2025 and 2026, prohibiting a filing fee when a previous appeal remains pending before the board of tax appeals and authorizing the continuation of the 20-mill statewide property tax levy for schools.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.

Sponsor: Insurance

Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Including programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the international multisensory structured language education council as approved at-risk educational programs.

Sponsor: Education

Substitute for SB 45 by Committee on Education - Requiring the state board of education to calculate graduation rates for all school districts for purposes of accreditation using an alternative calculation.

Sponsor: Education

Substitute for SB 29 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Removing the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts and providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Granting the Shawnee county board of county commissioners the discretion to create a citizens commission on local government.

Sponsor: Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Substitute for HB 2152 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Mandating financial institutions to secure governmental unit deposits in excess of the amount insured or guaranteed by the FDIC by utilizing a public moneys pooled method of securities, prohibiting investment advisers that execute bids for the investment of public moneys from managing moneys directly from such bid, allowing governmental unit deposits to be invested at a rate agreed upon by the governmental unit and the financial institution, requiring certification from a governmental unit that deposits in the municipal investment pool fund were first offered to a financial institution in the preceding year and allowing financial institutions to file complaints upon the failure to comply.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Eliminating the requirement that the state 911 board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the state 911 operations fund, state 911 grant fund and state 911 fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the state 911 operations fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the state treasury to the state treasury.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Requiring state agencies to provide notice of revocation of administrative rules and regulations to the public and removing abolished and inactive state agencies from the agency review requirement.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain nonresidential property located in Johnson county.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Excluding dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act.

Sponsor: Transportation

Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Recognizing March 29, 2025, as Vietnam War Veterans Day.

Sponsor: Mike Thompson

Establishing the Kansas technical college operating grant fund administered by the state board of regents.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Specifying that sheriffs have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishing a statute of limitations for such claims and requiring the state corporation commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting a sheriff from charging a fee for service of process for proceedings under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be authorized upon the order of a healthcare professional, permitting certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requiring entities that control automated external defibrillators to register the device with the emergency medical services board.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election.

Sponsor: Elections

Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.

Sponsor: Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Extending the amount of time required for reports to be filed with the state historical society for certain United States public land surveys from 30 to 90 days.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains.

Sponsor: Transportation

Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct.

Sponsor: Local Government

Providing for the FFA, route 66 association of Kansas and blackout distinctive license plates, creating the license plate replacement fund and modifying requirements for the issuance and production of license plates and the documentation requirements for military license plate applications.

Sponsor: Transportation

Updating the Kansas national guard educational assistance act to include dependents of national guard members and the Kansas national guard educational master's for enhanced readiness and global excellence (EMERGE) program to include other advanced degrees.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations.

Sponsor: Commerce

Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Sub for SB 193 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Exempting law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonists pursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Creating the regulatory relief division within the office of the attorney general and establishing the general regulatory sandbox program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Directing the department of administration to adopt written policies governing the negotiated procurement of managed care organizations to provide state medicaid services pursuant to a contract with the Kansas program of medical assistance.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Transferring the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the department of health and environment to the Kansas council on developmental disabilities.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Senate Substitute for HB 2313 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Prohibiting the use of the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek and other artificial intelligence platforms controlled by a country of concern on state-owned devices and on any state network and the use of genetic sequencers or operational software used for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the Kansas protected cell captive insurance company act, providing for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance company and updating certain terms, requirements and conditions of the captive insurance act, reducing insurance company premium tax rates, creating parity between the insurance agent and public adjuster licensing requirements, authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register not later than December 1 of the current year.

Sponsor: Insurance

Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of supreme court justices and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board.

Sponsor: Education

Authorizing the board of cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishing criteria therefor.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Encouraging the governor to fully cooperate with federal enforcement of immigration laws.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

Modifying the definition of public-private partnership to increase the allowable cost-share limit for expenditures by the department of corrections on certain correctional institution construction projects.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require individuals to be citizens of the United States, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the voting area in which such person seeks to vote in order to vote in this state.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Senate Substitute for HCR 5011 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring that certain contractual provisions be incorporated in all contracts for certain cities and counties, including the provisions of form DA-146a, with certain exceptions.

Sponsor: Local Government

Commemorating Dr. David J. Spittal's retirement as President of MidAmerica Nazarene University.

Sponsor: Adam Thomas

Designating Kansas as a purple heart state, requiring the governor to proclaim August 7 of each year as purple heart day and urging veterans organizations to plan special activities in observance thereof.

Sponsor: Larry Alley

Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights.

Sponsor: Transportation

Excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Validating the election results for the bond issuance question submitted by the board of education of USD 200, Greeley county, at a special election held on May 21, 2024.

Sponsor: Tory Blew

Increasing the statutory limits on bonds issued by a township based on township population and purpose of the bond issuance.

Sponsor: Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Providing that future personal and corporate income tax rate and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding tax receipt revenues.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing certain nonadmitted insurers to transact certain business in Kansas and requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers.

Sponsor: Insurance

Prohibiting fees for electronic copies of records under the open records act, exempting from disclosure formally closed investigations with no found violations, requiring county or district attorneys to file reports of violations with the attorney general in October instead of January, determining the membership calculation of subordinate groups under the open meetings act, requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe and providing for a five minute deviation to resume an open meeting at the conclusion of executive sessions.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of a county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district and allowing such board to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring employees of school districts and postsecondary educational institutions to use the name and pronouns consistent with a student's biological sex and birth certificate and authorizing a cause of action for violations therefor.

Sponsor: Education

House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Modifying member appointments to the wildlife and parks commission, authorizing the commission to direct the secretary to develop or report on rules and regulations and allowing members to submit potential rules and regulations to the commission.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the cosmetology compact to provide interstate practice privileges.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance.

Sponsor: Insurance

Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Making application to the congress of the United States to call a convention of the states to establish term limits for members of congress.

Sponsor: Bill Sutton

Eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor and removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Discontinuing the imposition of sales tax on certain cable services.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Extending the number of years of availability of the income tax credit for contributions to friends of cedar crest association and the Eisenhower foundation.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days and authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration.

Sponsor: Insurance

Requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection instead of submitting such reports annually, requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance to be $100,000, eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties.

Sponsor: Insurance

Recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the capitol.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.

Sponsor: Commerce

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the State Government Affairs Council.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Recognizing the members of the Kansas Task Force 1 for their outstanding efforts as responders during Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Sponsor: Kenny Titus

Proposing to amend article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas citizens freedom review board, authorizing the board to review tax exemptions and approve or eliminate such exemptions and eliminating the state-imposed property taxes and income and privilege taxes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the Kansas-Ireland trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Ireland and creating the Kansas-Ireland trade commission fund.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a Kansas voluntary do-not-sell firearms list to prevent the purchase of firearms by any person who voluntarily registers to be placed on the list.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring certain prior convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that prior convictions of a crime that is determined unconstitutional by an appellate court shall not be used for criminal history scoring purposes unless the basis of the determination of unconstitutionality by the appellate court is later overruled or reversed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the state conservation fund and transferring $2,500,000 to such fund and providing for the enhanced transfer of moneys from the state general fund to the state water plan fund and from the state water plan fund to the water technical assistance fund and the water project grant fund.

Sponsor: Water

Providing funding for the state historical society to issue a scope statement, plan the work to be accomplished and issue a request for proposals for a master plan for the Quindaro ruins archaeological park in Wyandotte county, Kansas, and implement such master plan.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection instead of submitting such reports annually, requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance to be $100,000 and eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits from the year that the credit was originally issued.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for certain expenses incurred by state officers and employees for travel in attending conferences or events provided by nonprofit organizations and for discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Imposing property tax on rental and leased vehicles and discontinuing the excise tax on the rental and lease of such vehicles.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion.

Sponsor: Samantha Poetter Parshall

Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting the transfer of hemp-derived cannabinoid products to any person under the age of 21, establishing packaging and labeling requirements for such products and amending the definition of industrial hemp and hemp products.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.

Sponsor: Government Efficiency

Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the back to work act to require all full-time state employees to perform such employees' duties in their assigned office, facility or field location, provide for certain exceptions by agency heads and require certain reports regarding such exceptions.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer hearing an administrative action.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring economic development electric rate discounts offered by public utilities to cover the incremental and variable costs to serve customers that receive such a discount.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Exempting law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonistspursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Providing for the establishment of an online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance.

Sponsor: Insurance

Increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the aviation and innovative manufacturing in Kansas act to attract businesses establishing a headquarters or engaged in aircraft assembly, electric or hydrogen-powered motor vehicle production, and other specified industries to Kansas by offering companies meeting certain employment and investment requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Allowing an itemized deduction for certain losses from wagering transactions for individuals for income tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Urging the United States Congress to increase the penalties for violations of federal immigration laws and the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prosecute employers who hire undocumented immigrants.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Transferring the licensure of on-premise cereal malt beverage retailers and off-premise cereal malt beverage retailers from cities and counties to the alcoholic beverage control division of the department of revenue; allowing continued local licensure by cities or counties.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Exempting certain qualified tips from state income tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing the property tax task force that shall study the property tax system in Kansas and develop recommendations and suggest improvements to law.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Providing for the first adjournment of the senate and the house of representatives for a period of time during the 2025 regular session of the legislature.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Establishing the Kansas nursing initiative grant program and authorizing the state board of regents to approve need-based or competitive grants for the expansion of nursing faculty, laboratory supplies and tools for student success at postsecondary educational institutions.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing an income tax credit for an eligible small business that purchases qualified local news organization advertising.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the shelter to home pet rescue act providing for an income tax credit for medical expenses spent on adopted cats and dogs.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing certain offenders to petition for relief from registration requirements under the Kansas offender registration act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing funding for STAR bond districts to replace lost food sales tax revenue.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the consumer protection related to hospital price transparency act.

Sponsor: Insurance

Establishing procedures and requirements for the secretary of corrections to issue a certificate of employability to certain inmates.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Russell county for the purpose of financing costs of attendance centers or other school district facilities.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Adding a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Prohibiting electric public utilities from recovering from ratepayers the costs associated with electric vehicle charging stations and requiring electric public utilities to establish electric vehicle charging service rate schedules.

Sponsor: Utilities

Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property located in Johnson county to the Shawnee Tribe; requiring deeds and conveyances contain restrictive covenants prohibiting any gaming or gambling on such property; requiring a report by the Shawnee Tribe every two years for a 10-year period to the joint committee on state-tribal relations regarding the rehabilitation of the property and consultations with other tribes.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Amending the Kansas pet animal act to require the Kansas department of agriculture to maintain records of inspections for not less than five years and removing the requirement that the commissioner only apply federal rules and regulations to United States department of agriculture licensed animal distributors and animal breeders.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing the secretary of state, in consultation with county election officers, to adopt rules and regulations for the use of remote ballot boxes.

Sponsor: Elections

Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing a pump installation contractor license and requiring additional examination, qualification and record-keeping requirements for licensed pump installation contractor and water well contractors.

Sponsor: Water

Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

Creating the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) educator position.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment and prohibit professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Congratulating and commending the award-winning educators in Kansas.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring that special elections be held on the first Tuesday in March.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention of the states under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the help not harm act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Supporting the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing on being a recipient finalist for a KC-46A Pegasus mission and accompanying aircraft.

Sponsor: Adam Turk

Establishing the education opportunity tax credit to provide an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children who are not enrolled in public school.

Sponsor: Education

Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install, operate and maintain school bus cameras.

Sponsor: Education

Authorizing the animal health commissioner to issue permits for raccoon ownership and requiring vaccinations, annual check-ups, educational program completion and compliance with breeding restrictions.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Designating February 5, 2025, as Early Childhood Advocacy Day and recognizing the need to invest in the future success of Kansas by supporting the well-being and education of our youngest residents as well as the parents and adults who care for them.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and authorizing the secretary to administer the fund.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing transfers from the lottery operating fund, to the community crisis stabilization centers fund and the clubhouse model program fund of the Kansas department for aging and disability services.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing sales tax exemptions for certain services purchased on behalf of a provider in the provision of communication services and certain purchases by the Kansas fairgrounds foundation and modifying the definition of alcoholic beverages for purposes of the retailers' sales tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring grants awarded pursuant to the Kansas educator registered apprenticeship program for education apprentice tuition and fees to be made twice per year and at the time payments for such tuition and fees are due.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Directing the secretary for aging and disability services to expand and establish peer support specialist certifications and the secretary for health and environment to pursue a medicaid code for telehealth services provided by peer support specialists.

Sponsor: Social Services Budget

Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the secretary of health and environment to license nuclear fusion systems, establishing such licensure fee and authorizing the secretary to impose late fees for any expired radiation protection and control license.

Sponsor: Utilities

Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Sponsor: Utilities

Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.

Sponsor: Utilities

Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

Enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for career education programs for students and career enhancement programs for professionals, requiring performance-based contracting for disability services providers, facilitating choice in services by individuals with disabilities, mandating rate parity across all state waiver programs, providing for an online data portal system for waitlist management and services-related communications, requiring the secretary of labor to publish information regarding the disability service provider workforce and providing that direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing for approval by the department of wildlife and parks for qualified program or management plans to qualify for the nongame and endangered species habitat credit.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.

Sponsor: Social Services Budget

Requiring certain state agencies, counties, cities and political subdivisions to reimburse the owner or operator of communications or video service facilities for the costs to modify or relocate such facilities for certain road and highway projects.

Sponsor: Utilities

Proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require individuals to be citizens of the United States, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the voting area in which such person seeks to vote in order to vote in this state.

Sponsor: J.R. Claeys

Providing for the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the 2025-2026 biennium.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1958, that restrict the use of real property owned by state educational institutions for only single-family residence purposes and contain discriminatory provisions to restrict ownership or tenancy by race are against public policy and void.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) advisory committee to prevent FASD and provide for treatment and support for affected individuals and their families.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Authorizing parents of a child who is the subject of an investigation of abuse or neglect or a child in need of care proceeding and victims of childhood abuse or neglect to access records related to such investigation or proceeding.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Establishing the endow Kansas tax credit act to provide tax credits for endowment gifts to certain endowment funds held by qualified community foundations.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing an exception to the crime of unlawful possession of controlled substances for residents of Kansas who possess marijuana and are disabled veterans with a valid medical marijuana card issued by any state.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS 1 and KPERS 2 retirants and making appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for KPERS to pay the actuarial cost of such cost-of-living adjustment.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the preceptor income tax incentive act, establishing an income tax credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as a community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Amending the uniform nonparent visitation act to modify the evidentiary standard for awarding visitation to a nonparent.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Permitting the division of vehicles to contract with an entity to establish and issue a digital proof of drivers' license and digital proof of identification card, regulating the use thereof and providing a fee for such digital proofs of identification.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring outpatient competency evaluations in certain circumstances and requiring the court to make specific findings for inpatient competency evaluations.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring that sureties for bonds secured for the purpose of clearing contractors liens against property be licensed to do business in Kansas, providing that district courts award attorney fees and costs to successful claimants that demanded payment by the principal and surety prior to filing suit and did not receive payment and requiring a pretrial hearing in such a suit for the purpose of a preliminary finding by the court of whether the surety should pay the amount of the claim to the claimant or alternatively pay such amount into an account to be held by the court.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Abolishing the nursing scholarship program and creating the Kansas healthcare service scholarship program to include part-time students and expand the list of eligible programs.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Creating the Kansas office of natural resources within the executive branch and transferring certain duties of the Kansas water office, and the department of agriculture, division of conservation and division of water resources to such office.

Sponsor: Water

Requiring the department of administration to report identifying information of persons who claim Kansas lottery or gambling prize winnings in excess of $5,000 to the department of health and environment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the prescription drug cost and affordability review act to establish the prescription drug pricing board and prescription drug affordability stakeholder council to review the cost of prescription medications and establish upper payment limits for certain prescription drugs.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.

Sponsor: Elections

Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

Sponsor: Douglas Shane

Providing for a homestead property tax exemption for certain veterans and former law enforcement officers with service-connected disabilities.

Sponsor: Patrick Schmidt

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.

Sponsor: Transportation

Raising the mandatory retirement age for magistrate judges regularly admitted to practice law who serve in counties with a population of 10,000 or fewer people.

Sponsor: Judiciary

A resolution recognizing the need to invest in the future success of Kansas by supporting the wellbeing and education of our youngest residents.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring any person convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death or register under the Kansas offender registration act for 15 years.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Providing state general funds for school meals programs and prohibiting local boards from collecting money for such meals.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring judicial foreclosure tax sales by public auction to be conducted in person at a physical location in the county.

Sponsor: David Haley

Modifying the definition of lead-based paint in the residential childhood lead poisoning prevention act to include paint that contains lead equal to or in excess of 0.009% by weight or in excess of that specified in federal law, whichever is less.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing that payment of special assessments for years other than the year being redeemed is not required for purposes of partial redemption of homesteads with delinquent property taxes.

Sponsor: David Haley

Requiring that certain abortion complications be reported to the Kansas department of health and environment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring a law enforcement officer to consult with the secretary for children and families before taking a child into custody and that the secretary respond and offer consultation to such law enforcement officer outside of the secretary's operating hours.

Sponsor: Jarrod Ousley

Decreasing the state rate for sales and use taxes for prepared food and increasing the percent credited to the state highway fund from sales and use tax revenue collected.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Providing for food sales tax revenue replacement for STAR bond districts established prior to December 31, 2022, establishing the STAR bonds food sales tax revenue replacement fund, providing for transfers from the state general fund to such revenue replacement fund and transfers from such revenue replacement fund in the amount of food sales tax revenues lost to the applicable cities or counties and extending the sunset date of the STAR bonds financing act to July 1, 2031.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the returning to nonaccountability of the executive branch agencies that report to the governor act and eliminating the budget process requirements of a performance-based budgeting system.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Establishing limitations for land transactions for wind and solar energy projects and allowing a consumer to revoke such land transaction under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the motor vehicle right to repair act.

Sponsor: Transportation

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program, increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program and providing for aggregate tax credit limit increases under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Education

Authorizing retirement and disability benefits under KPERS, KP&F and the retirement system for judges to be paid on either a biweekly or monthly basis at the option of a member or recipient.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Supporting the authorization and funding of the public safety autonomous technologies research, testing, certification and commercialization program and the passage of the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2025 .

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Requiring the state board of healing arts to grant provisional licensure to certain international physicians with offers of employment at healthcare providers operating in Kansas.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Designating the polka as the state dance.

Sponsor: Kenneth Collins

Requiring certain school district employees to receive training in seizure recognition and related first aid.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the right to speak your truth act to prohibit defamation actions in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act.