2023-2024 Regular Session

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for be able, inc.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Limiting when the court is required to give preference to a relative for the custody for adoption of a child in need of care.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Establishing the sunflower teacher-student mentor program within certain school districts to encourage students to pursue a teaching career.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Limiting the number of terms a legislator may serve as speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Prohibiting public utilities from recovering any dues, donations or contributions to any charitable or social organization or entity through customer rates.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Kansas rail safety improvement act, providing for safety requirements for railroad operations and crossings and allowing for the transfer of title for abandoned railroad tracks to cities and counties.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $65,000 of such property's appraised valuation.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Creating a presumption that joint legal custody and maximized parenting time in temporary parenting plans are in the best interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing school districts to include a teacher representative and a student representative as non-voting members of its board of education.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Requiring nonpublic schools to participate in certain assessments and publish on their website performance accountability reports and longitudinal achievement reports.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture, remitting proceeds from civil asset forfeiture to the state general fund, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property, making certain property ineligible for forfeiture, providing persons involved in forfeiture proceedings representation by counsel and the ability to demand a jury trial and allowing a person to request a hearing on whether forfeiture is excessive.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Changing the legal public holiday of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.

Sponsor: Christina Haswood

Prohibiting the expenditure of state moneys for the production or performance of drag shows for which minors are the primary audience.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Removing the publication of notice requirement before a landlord can sell a tenant's property that has been abandoned.

Sponsor: Local Government

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

Sponsor: David Haley

Releasing any person convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana from such person's sentence and providing for the expungement of any associated records.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Providing for payment plans and waiver of fines for traffic fines and court costs, expanding the eligibility for restricted driving privileges, removing and delaying payment for certain fees and eliminating reinstatement of certain fees.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the membership of the behavioral sciences regulatory board, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categories, providing additional continuing education requirements and requiring that clinical social work supervisors be approved by the board.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

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

Sponsor: Education

Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating sexual abuse committed by a minister of religion.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Establishing the temporary candidacy baccalaureate and masters social work licenses and providing requirements and fees therefor.

Sponsor: Higher Education Budget

Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims.

Sponsor: David Haley

Providing a property tax exemption for business property that operates in competition with property owned or operated by a governmental entity.

Sponsor: Taxation

Expanding the scope of uses of campaign contributions to include family caregiving services.

Sponsor: Elections

Proposing a constitutional amendment imposing term limits for state legislators.

Sponsor: Trevor Jacobs

Defining non-covered benefits under dental benefit plans.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Increasing the amount of state moneys distributed to local health departments.

Sponsor: Social Services Budget

Designating Lehigh Portland state park.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time, decreasing the years of practice required for reciprocity licensure of certain behavioral sciences professions, extending the license period for temporary licenses, establishing new license categories and decreasing continuing education requirements related to diagnosis and treatment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Require commercial entities that produce material harmful to minors on the internet to require age verification for access to such internet sites, establishing a civil cause of action against such commercial entities by persons harmed to recover actual and punitive damages, court costs and attorney fees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Concerning state agencies; relating to the employee award and recognition program; authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses; 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

Increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm.

Sponsor: David Haley

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: Jarrod Ousley

Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act, authorizing housing providers to require documentation of the need for an assistance animal and creating the crime of misrepresentation of entitlement to an assistance animal in housing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring public disclosure of an application for a transmission line siting permit under the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.

Sponsor: Utilities

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by Kansas suicide prevention HQ, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

House Substitute for SB 172 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Creating the Kansas land and military installation protection act to prohibit foreign principals from countries of concern from holding any interest in certain real property in this state.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Requiring commercial entities that produce material harmful to minors on the internet to require age verification for access to such internet sites and establishing a civil cause of action against such commercial entities by persons harmed to recover actual and punitive damages, court costs and attorney fees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making the 911 coordinating council subject to the Kansas governmental operations accountability law and reducing the fees imposed on telecommunications services and prepaid wireless services under the Kansas 911 act.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Enacting the community defense and human trafficking reduction act to regulate sexually oriented businesses and human trafficking and to impose criminal penalties.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the defend the guard act to establish when the Kansas national guard may be released into active duty combat.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Increasing the number of commissioners on the state corporation commission subject to gubernatorial appointment and senate confirmation and prohibiting the appointment and confirmation of any person who has a conflict of interest.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Creating the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district act to authorize the establishment of the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district in Douglas county.

Sponsor: Local Government

Authorizing the division of printing to print for local governments and schools.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Decreasing the state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food, food ingredients and prepared food and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Providing that certain mental health medications be available without prior authorization to treat medicaid recipients and abolishing the mental health medication advisory committee.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing restrictions, lender reporting and other requirements for alternative small installment loans made under the UCCC.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring people who live with offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to report when such offender is not home during required hours.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the protect vulnerable adults from financial exploitation act.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Extending the deadline for project agreements under the attracting powerful economic expansion act, enhancing incentives for qualified suppliers and adding a new employee relocation reimbursement incentive for qualified suppliers, limiting the corporate income tax rate reduction provision to two rate reductions and permitting qualified firms and qualified suppliers to participate in other economic development programs for new projects.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing the required age to 21 to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco products including electronic cigarettes and establishing unlawful acts under the Kansas cigarette and tobacco products act and penalties for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Judiciary

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: Judiciary

Limiting the power of the governmental ethics commission to issue subpoenas to when a verified complaint has been filed and the commission has found probable cause exists.

Sponsor: Elections

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

Sponsor: Insurance

Allowing income tax net operating loss carryback from the sale of certain historic hotels.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect of children except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating February 15 of each year as Susan B. Anthony Day in the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing any nonresident student whose parent or guardian is employed by a school district to enroll in and attend such school district.

Sponsor: Timothy Johnson

Prohibiting certain restrictions of residential solar energy devices.

Sponsor: Local Government

Substitute for HB 2273 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Adding members to the commission on peace officers' standards and training and requiring the new members to be appointed with a preference to increase diversity.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use for property tax purposes to include properties used as part of registered agritourism activities.

Sponsor: Lance Neelly

Removing the sunset for the high-density at-risk student weighting under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.

Sponsor: Education

Permitting food establishments to allow dogs in outside areas and microbreweries to allow dogs in outside and inside areas, allowing microbreweries to sell beer with a limited alcohol content as cereal malt beverage.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights and prohibiting the use of mobile telephones by individuals under 18 years of age and for everyone in school and construction zones and providing penalties thereof for violations.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring municipalities and housing authorities to implement work requirements for public housing assistance.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

Broadening the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors and changing certain provisions pertaining to the licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Repealing statutes that prohibit, limit and otherwise restrict municipal regulation of firearms.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.

Sponsor: David Haley

Requiring a person convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense giving rise to such conviction.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring certain license plates to have the motor vehicle county of registration identified on the plate.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring school districts to adopt policies to ensure parents may review educational materials and records pertinent to their child.

Sponsor: Education

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

Sponsor: Alicia Straub

Requiring the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of precinct committeemen and precinct committeewomen to be provided to the county election officer and requiring the county election officer to report such information to the secretary of state.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Shawnee Tribe.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that national guard members receive benefits under the workers compensation act.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Prohibiting the enforcement of federal rules or regulations and the promulgation of state rules and regulations to carry out such enforcement without legislative approval.

Sponsor: Trevor Jacobs

Permitting short form notification service and alternative methods of service under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act and clarifying precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2168 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Amending the commercial industrial hemp act to reduce maximum license and registration fee amounts to $500.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal section 16 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas that requires marriage to be between individuals of the opposite sex.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Providing a deduction from sales or compensating use tax when selling and buying different motor vehicles within 180 days.

Sponsor: Carl Turner

Expanding the eligible uses for the 0% state rate for sales tax for certain utilities and the levying of sales tax on such sales by cities and counties and authorizing cities and counties to exempt such sales from such city or county taxes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing periods of ineligibility for child care subsidy based on cooperation with child support services and requiring the secretary to conduct reviews of cooperation with child support.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Repealing the zoning and planning authority for cities in the three-mile area extending from the city boundaries.

Sponsor: Ken Corbet

Requiring the secretary of corrections to notify judges, prosecutors, nonexpert witnesses and lead investigators when an inmate is released from custody.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing offenders subject to offender registration to register at one location, creating a mechanism for fees to be waived and creating a mechanism to seek relief from registration requirements for violent offenders.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Authorizing disabled veterans to receive a sales tax exemption for the purchase of up to two motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the state corporation commission to review the regional rate competitiveness of an electric utility's rates in electric utility rate proceedings.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

House Substitute for SB 127 by Committee on Taxation - Reducing penalties for the late filing of or the failure to file property tax statements listing property for assessment and the discovery of escaped property and reporting changes after initial statement, decreasing the penalties for failing to timely remit withholding income taxes of employees by employers and providing a sales tax exemption for sales of property and services used in the provision of communications services.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing a five-year property tax exemption for city, county and township property used for business incubator purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing the children's cabinet to form a 501(c)(3) for fundraising for the Dolly Parton imagination library book gifting program.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Regulating the sale and distribution of kratom products, requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations and requiring licensure of kratom product dealers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing residency criteria for students of technical colleges.

Sponsor: Education

Removing the cap on damages that may be awarded in wrongful death actions.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.

Sponsor: Utilities

Applying the requirements of net metering to electric cooperatives and municipal electric utilities, increasing the utility system-wide capacity limitation of net-metered systems, removing the load-size limitations on net-metered systems and requiring such systems to be appropriately sized based on a customer's load.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

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

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

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

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities.

Sponsor: Taxation

Prohibiting motorcycle profiling by law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by sleep in heavenly peace, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Prohibiting ownership in certain real property in this state by foreign individuals and entities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the campaign finance and governmental ethics statutes to extend the time frame for hearings before the governmental ethics commission and making technical amendments.

Sponsor: Elections

Eliminating the annual cap on tax credits for restoration and preservation of certain commercial structures under the historic Kansas act.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing certain power purchase agreements with renewable energy suppliers, exempting the sales of electricity pursuant to power purchase agreements from public utility regulation and requiring electric public utilities to enter into parallel generation contracts with certain customers of the utility.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Authorizing the Kansas department of wildlife and parks to purchase land in Jewell county.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Providing membership affiliation in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Establishing the office of homeland security within the adjutant general's office and prescribing powers and duties thereof.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Deeming certain refugees as residents of the state for the purposes of tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions.

Sponsor: Education

Establishing a property tax exemption for retired and disabled veterans.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the crime of elector fraud to make it a crime to falsify presidential elector certificates.

Sponsor: Elections

Permitting a prosecution for childhood sexual abuse to be commenced at any time, permitting victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages caused by such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring precinct committeemen and committeewomen to provide the county clerk with their address, phone number and email address.

Sponsor: Elections

Establishing the Sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students in Kansas.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Concerning the investment of state moneys; reestablishing the provisions of law authorizing the state treasurer to certify and transfer a portion of state moneys, equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property, available for investment to the KPERS board of trustees.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Increasing good time and program credit for certain offenders and removing liability protection for wrongful acts committed by the department of corrections in making good time and program credit calculations.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Creating the constitution and federalism defense act to establish a joint legislative commission to evaluate the constitutionality of federal mandates.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring local governmental officials to disclose substantial interests in the construction and operation of a wind or solar energy conversion system and to abstain from all local governmental actions relating to such matters.

Sponsor: Local Government

Providing for future decreased income tax rates contingent on retention of a 7.5% state general fund ending balance.

Sponsor: Taxation

House Substitute for House Substitute for SB 96 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing for sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Extending voting franchise in city elections to qualified electors living in areas subject to extraterritorial zoning or subdivision regulations.

Sponsor: Tory Blew

Creating the Arkansas city area public library district act and the Udall area public library district act, requiring an election for the creation of such district and authorizing unified school districts No. 470 and 463 to levy a tax on behalf of such library district.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Requiring the display of the national motto in public schools, colleges and universities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for joint liability for costs and sanctions in third-party funded litigation, requiring certain discovery disclosures and requiring payment of certain costs for nonparty subpoenas.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit, sales tax exemption and loans and grants 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, requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports on the economic impact, providing sales tax exemptions for purchases by a certain community theaters and purchases and sales made by the friends of cedar crest association and establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for employers that employ members of the Kansas army and air national guard and establishing an income tax credit for employees that are members thereof.

Sponsor: Insurance

Discontinuing state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the secretary of state to revise the information collected from persons registering to vote to ensure that the state may utilize the systematic alien verification of entitlements program (SAVE) to delete non-citizens from voter registration rolls.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing the income limit to qualify for the income tax subtraction modification for social security income.

Sponsor: Taxation

Increasing the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification for social security income and providing that all social security benefits qualify for the subtraction modification commencing in tax year 2026.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the campus intellectual diversity act to establish an office of public policy events at each public postsecondary educational institution.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Providing for sales tax exemption for hygiene products.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Requiring a witness to each signature on an advance voting ballot envelope and limiting the witness to not more than 10 advance voting ballot envelopes.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing a back-to-school sales tax holiday for sales of certain school supplies, computers and clothing.

Sponsor: Taxation

Changing the required number of employees contained in the definitions of "large employer" and "small employer" for purposes of coverage of autism spectrum disorder.

Sponsor: Insurance

Including individuals who receive a high school equivalency (HSE) credential in performance-based payments for certain postsecondary educational institutions.

Sponsor: Education

Establishing the office of entrepreneurship within the department of commerce, encouraging that 5% of state contracts and certain incentive funding go toward Kansas businesses that have been in operation for less than five years, encouraging the elimination of first-year business fees and requiring the office of entrepreneurship to submit an annual report to the legislature.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Adding an exception to the hearsay rule to allow admission of statements made to a translator without the testimony of the translator.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Amending statutes concerning election procedures and election officials.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing the income limit for the exemption of social security benefits and exempting certain retirement plan income from Kansas income tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2069 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing medical student and residency loan assistance to encourage the practice of obstetrics and gynecology in medically underserved areas of the state.

Sponsor: Education

Creating definitions of "intimate partner" and "intimate partner violence" in the Kansas criminal code and requiring certain considerations be made in determining bond when a crime is committed against an intimate partner.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for an exemption from continuing education licensure requirements for certain insurance producers.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Discontinuing certain exemptions from the pharmacy benefits manager licensure act.

Sponsor: Insurance

Substitute for HB 2103 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Eliminating the statutory 15% alternative investment limit for the KPERS fund and requiring the KPERS board to establish an alternative investment percentage limit.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Modifying the deadline for requesting a recount after an election.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing an income tax rate of 5% for individuals and corporations, decreasing the surtax for entities subject to the privilege tax and providing that future income tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates.

Sponsor: Taxation

Expanding the eligible fields of study and establishing a maximum scholarship amount for certain private postsecondary educational institutions in the Kansas promise scholarship act.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring the secretary of state to enter into agreements with the Kansas department of aging and disability services, the Kansas department of children and families and the Kansas department of health and environment to cross-check various welfare recipient data to ensure the state's voter registration rolls are current.

Sponsor: Elections

Expanding the scope of uses of campaign contributions to include family caregiving services.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Authorizing community college and technical college appointments to the postsecondary technical education authority and establishing the length of membership terms.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless deemed appropriate by the court.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Increasing the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification for social security income.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for the publication of signed statements of fair campaign practices and a cause of action for violations of such statement.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Creating a traffic infraction for operating a vehicle while fatigued.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients, providing a sales tax exemption for children's diapers and feminine hygiene products, establishing the STAR bonds food sales tax revenue replacement fund, altering the calculation for STAR bond districts and discontinuing the food sales income tax credit.

Sponsor: Taxation

Designating "Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the Capitol."

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Authorizing cities and counties to enact local laws to regulate abortion as stringent as or more stringent than state law.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Including juvenile corrections officers in the definition of "security officer" for purposes of the KPERS correctional employees group.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Prohibiting internet social media terms of service that permit censorship of speech.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Changing the membership requirements, terms of members and the quorum requirements for the information technology executive council.

Sponsor: Information Technology

Enacting the protect vulnerable adults from financial exploitation act, requiring reporting of instances of suspected financial exploitation under certain circumstances and providing civil and administrative immunity to individuals who make such reports.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Allowing single sales factor apportionment of business income for certain taxpayers.

Sponsor: Taxation

Substitute for HB 2077 by the Committee on Appropriations - Implementing additional reporting requirements for information technology projects and state agencies, requiring additional information technology security training and status reports, requiring reporting of significant cybersecurity audits and changing the membership requirements, terms of members and the quorum requirements for the information technology executive council.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by a not-for-profit corporation operating a community theater.

Sponsor: Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2026 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Requiring political subdivisions to adopt a budget that remains at or below revenue neutral and use funds to reduce property tax in order to receive local ad valorem tax reduction fund (LAVTRF) distributions, providing for one annual transfer to the fund, eliminating the county and city revenue sharing fund and discontinuing certain transfers to the special city and county highway fund.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Excluding manufacturers' coupons from the sales or selling price for sales tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring existing wind energy conversion systems to install light-mitigating technology systems.

Sponsor: Utilities

Increasing the rate of compensation for legislators for service during regular and special sessions and the interim period between regular sessions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the statutory limit for charges assessed on loans made by pawnbrokers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Defining grounds for impeachment of justices of the supreme court and certain judges of the district court.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Making and concerning appropriations for the university of Kansas medical center for fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025 for conducting certain clinical trials at the midwest stem cell therapy center.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Providing a remittance credit to retailers for the collection of sales and compensating use tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the food assistance program.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to complete a citizenship curriculum.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Providing an annual sales tax holiday for sales of certain school supplies.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2056 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Clarifying the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun under the personal and family protection act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting the carryforward of certain net operating losses for individuals for Kansas income tax purposes and excluding social security payments from household income and increasing the appraised value and household income thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead claims.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Making the use of artificial light for the purpose of spotting, locating or taking wildlife unlawful and restricting rule and regulation authority.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Limiting current workers compensation benefit reductions that are based on the receipt of retirement benefits to reductions only to permanent disability compensation and only when retirement benefits begin after the accident.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

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

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting a will or a copy of a will filed within six months after the death of the testator to be admitted to probate at any time.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Restricting the authority of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases; repealing the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Providing for a property tax exemption for up to two motor vehicles for volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical service providers.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to indicate when a student's identification issued by such institution cannot be used for voting purposes.

Sponsor: Elections

Exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, providing income tax subtraction modifications for retirement plan amounts, federal work opportunity tax credit and employee retention credit disallowances and the carryforward of certain net operating losses, increasing the Kansas standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment and excluding social security payments from household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased homestead property tax refund claims.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver’s licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Revising the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to provide per-student education funding based on student enrollment in the current school year.

Sponsor: Education

Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

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

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Requiring the secretary of state to submit an annual report to the legislature on voter registration procedures.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing the Kansas standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment for income tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Increasing the maximum compensation benefits payable by an employer for permanent total disability suffered by an injured employee.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring verification of residential addresses of registered voters and creating the crime of falsifying a residential address for purposes of voter registration.

Sponsor: Elections

Reducing income tax rates for resident individuals domiciled in a rural equity decline county.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a healthcare facility, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof and increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider.

Sponsor: Susan Concannon

Enacting the Kansas child mutilation prevention act to criminalize performing gender reassignment surgery or prescription of hormone replacement therapy on certain persons and providing grounds for unprofessional conduct for healing arts licensees.

Sponsor: Mike Thompson

Eliminating the statutory 15% alternative investment limit for the KPERS fund and requiring the KPERS board to establish an alternative investment percentage limit.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Benefits

Prohibiting internet social media terms of service that permit censorship of speech and making violations subject to civil fines under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Creating the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products and the Kansas cannabidiol regulation act to regulate the testing and retail sale of cannabidiol products.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Commemorating the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.

Sponsor: Marvin Robinson

Providing an income tax credit for contributions to a child care provider or intermediary.

Sponsor: Taxation

Preserving child labor protections by requiring a legislative review process when considering bills proposing to reduce or eliminate child labor protections, providing that the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations review such bills and that the secretary of labor provide a report to the legislature to assist the legislature’s consideration of such bills.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Transferring all information technology services under the chief information technology officer of each branch of government, creating chief information security officers within the judicial and legislative branches, requiring a chief information security officer to be appointed by the attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner and requiring the chief information security officers to implement certain minimum cybersecurity standards, making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for the office of information technology, Kansas information security office and the adjutant general, authorizing certain transfers and imposing certain limitations and restrictions, and directing or authorizing certain disbursements and procedures for all state agencies and requiring legislative review of state agencies not in compliance with this act.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring criminal history record checks for all sales of firearms and providing criminal penalties for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing a commencement date for candidate nomination filings for municipal elections.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for a legislative review process and criteria when considering bills that propose new or additional occupational regulation, requiring the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations to review such bills and authorizing the joint committee to direct regulatory entities or to contract with a consulting firm to provide a report to the legislature to inform the legislature's consideration of such bill.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the amount charged per annum on closed end credit consumer loans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to provide public notice of missing persons 18 years of age or older who have an intellectual disability.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Taxation

Prohibiting state educational institutions from endorsing discriminatory ideologies, using diversity, equity and inclusion statements or providing preferential consideration on the basis of such discriminatory ideologies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting entering or remaining on and knowingly making false statements to gain access to animal facilities and field crop production areas, providing penalties therefor and removing the intent to destroy property in the farm animal and field crop and research facilities protection act.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas

Sponsor: David Haley

Providing that a fertilized human ovum or embryo existing outside the uterus of a human body shall not be considered an unborn child or human being.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prescribing documentation requirements to determine eligibility for any benefit derived from a service-connected disability.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the Kansas ultrasound act, requiring that an obstetric ultrasound be performed on a woman prior to an abortion, permitting a woman to avert her eyes from the ultrasound images, establishing civil and criminal penalties and providing an emergency exception to requirements of the act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Exempting elevators that are owned by a nonprofit organization with a maintenance service contract for such elevator from the annual inspection requirement under the elevator safety act.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

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

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creating the Kansas food and financial literacy grant program for local food security service providers to develop food and financial literacy materials and training for food assistance applicants and recipients.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income limit for an income tax subtraction modification for social security income, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate, abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund and decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Sponsor: Taxation

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: Federal and State Affairs

Mandating insurance coverage for pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS).

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the Kansas gun rights preservation act to prohibit the commandeering of state resources to enforce federal gun control against law-abiding citizens.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting certain discriminatory actions related to reimbursement of entities participating in the federal 340B drug pricing program.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Amending the Kansas life and health guaranty association act to include health maintenance organizations as member insurers and broadening the assessment base for long-term care insurance insolvencies.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for the Dane G. Hansen foundation.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the Kansas specie legal tender act and the Kansas bullion depository act, authorizing the state treasurer to approve electronic currencies backed by specie legal tender and 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

Establishing the Pike reservoir project district act to provide for a lake and related commercial and residential development in Bourbon county and authorizing a governing board and sales and property tax increment financing for such project.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Inclusion of AM radio in vehicles and endorsement of AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act

Sponsor: Ken Rahjes

Requiring cities of the first class and counties that have cities of the first class to adopt, by ordinance or resolution, respectively, law enforcement vehicle pursuit protocols and requiring chiefs of police and county sheriffs to propose such protocols for adoption or amendment.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Exempting certain gaming suppliers from the certification requirement of the Kansas expanded lottery act when such suppliers do not contract with the state or the lottery gaming facility manager.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the department of corrections to establish a correctional center nursery for incarcerated expectant mothers and their child to allow certain expectant mothers to care and bond with their child for up to 36 months while incarcerated.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Prohibiting insurance companies from using environmental, social and governance criteria in the process of writing contracts of insurance, indemnity or suretyship, authorizing the attorney general or the county attorney or district attorney where a violation occurred to enforce such prohibition and providing a civil penalty for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the criminal penalties for knowingly and maliciously abandoning any animal in any place without making provisions for the proper care of the animal.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue licenses for the sale of alcoholic liquor to persons convicted of a felony if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring political subdivisions to adopt a budget that remains at or below revenue neutral and use funds to reduce property tax in order to receive local ad valorem tax reduction fund (LAVTRF) distributions.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for the appointment of delegates to a convention under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities therefor.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Creating the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm and providing criminal penalties for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Marshall county for the purpose of financing the costs of constructing or remodeling and furnishing a jail facility.

Sponsor: Taxation

Extending restrictions on fees charged for records by state agencies under the open records act to include fees charged for records by political and taxing subdivisions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the crime of unlawful entry into the state of Kansas and requiring notification of federal immigration authorities upon arrest for such offense.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

Sponsor: Taxation

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 and the decrease in corporate income tax rates.

Sponsor: Taxation

Permitting a plan sponsor to authorize electronic delivery as the standard method of delivery of all plan documents and health insurance identification cards made to health benefit plan covered persons covered by a health benefit plan.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Clarifying the definition of armed forces and updating the definition thereof to include the space force.

Sponsor: Taxation

Prohibiting the acquisition of critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and requiring the divesture of such technology.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Establishing a blueprint for literacy to create a literacy advisory committee, appoint a director of literacy education, require the state board of regents and the state board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential and professional development, authorize the state board of regents to recommend diagnostic and formative literacy assessments, authorize university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses and require a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing an income tax credit for the sale and distribution of ethanol blends for motor vehicle fuels.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing a Kansas education opportunity scholarship program to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship program.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

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: Federal and State Affairs

Abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund, discontinuing certain transfers to the special city and county highway fund and decreasing rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the "Defense of affordable prescriptions act" to prohibit certain discriminatory actions related to reimbursement of entities participating in the federal 340B drug pricing program.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting the closure of an electric generation facility without a reliable and readily dispatchable replacement and notification of such closure.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Creating the protection against deep fakes act to provide a cause of action for damages arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence to create an image or likeness of another person without such person's consent for use in obscene material.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the KPERS retirement benefit multiplier for members who are security officers of the department of corrections.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring notices required to exceed the revenue neutral rate to be sent on forms provided by the director of accounts and reports, granting taxing subdivisions the option to hold hearings on the same day and at the same location as other taxing subdivisions within a county and excluding the state mandated 20 mills levied by a school district from the revenue neutral rate.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring that comparable sales of residential property occur within the subdivision or township or closest located subdivision or township where such property is located for valuing real property.

Sponsor: Taxation

Modifying certain terms, definitions, deadlines and provisions contained in the uniform consumer credit code and transferring certain mortgage provisions from the uniform consumer credit code to the Kansas mortgage business act.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Substitute for SB 514 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing restricted driving privileges for certain individuals that fail to comply with a traffic citation, authorizing certain individuals with revoked driving privileges to be eligible for restricted driving privileges and permitting such individuals to drive to and from dropping off or picking up children from school or child care, to and from purchasing groceries or fuel and to and from religious worship services.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing counties to contract with other counties to share 911 public safety answering point services and authorizing the distribution of 911 fee moneys to counties for such purposes.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

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 the exceptions to the wrongful cause of death action for lawful abortions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

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

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Changing the fee charged by the department of commerce for applications for certain economic development programs from a flat fee to a certain percentage of the total economic development incentive program package as determined by the secretary of commerce within a specified percentage range.

Sponsor: Commerce

Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Providing workers compensation act coverage for the Kansas national guard, limiting benefit reductions for retirement benefits, increasing dependents death benefits, reducing certain functional impairment requirements, increasing compensation for certain disability categories and for treatment without authorization, raising the evidentiary standard for future medical treatment, limiting certain procedures for post-award medical benefit claims, allowing benefit payment by funds transfer or payment cards, establishing procedures for neutral healthcare examinations, exchanges and admission of medical reports, extending employee injury notification deadlines, eliminating the deadline for motions to avoid dismissal for lack of prosecution, providing for expedited settlement and digital recording of hearings and other changes to the workers compensation act.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Requiring the secretary for children and families to reimburse hospitals when a child in custody of the secretary remains at such hospital and is no longer receiving medical services.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Authorizing school districts to employ or accept chaplains as volunteers.

Sponsor: Education

Eliminating school district open enrollment requirements and authorizing school districts to determine nonresident student enrollment.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician 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 and nurses.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Repealing the prohibition on transportation of alcoholic beverages in opened containers and on drinking or consuming alcoholic liquor inside vehicles while on the public streets, alleys, roads or highways.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by the boys' and girls' club of Topeka.

Sponsor: Taxation

Directing the department of corrections to establish a correctional center nursery for incarcerated expectant mothers and their child to allow certain expectant mothers to care and bond with their child for up to 36 months while incarcerated.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry act program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company's qualified business facility.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Extending the period of time to file for property tax homestead claims.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the Kansas land and military installation protection act to prohibit foreign principals from countries of concern from holding any interest in certain real property in this state.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring ignition interlock device manufacturers to pay fees to the state for the administration of the ignition interlock program.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the crime of aggravated sexual extortion, providing criminal penalties for violations thereof and adding making a demand for money or other thing of value to the elements of sexual extortion.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting cities and counties that grant or approve certain property tax exemptions or tax increment financing from exceeding their revenue neutral rates for property tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring cities and counties to report local economic development incentive program information to the secretary of commerce and providing that such information be posted on the department of commerce economic development incentive program database, requiring certain changes to that database regarding the presentation of search results, providing for a summary report by the secretary of commerce on certain economic development incentive program data and requiring the secretary of administration to include on the Kansas taxpayer transparency act website certain information concerning grants.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the secretary of corrections to use hypoxia for the purpose of carrying out a sentence of death and requiring the district court to issue a warrant to the secretary of corrections to carry out a sentence of death.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the state board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on certain statistics of students who take the statewide assessments.

Sponsor: Education

Establishing the crime of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Expanding the duties of the secretary of health and environment when investigating maternal deaths to include promoting continuity of care, helping develop performance measures and establishing an external review committee to study cases and make recommendations to prevent maternal deaths.

Sponsor: Jarrod Ousley

Establishing the personal hygiene fund and program within the Kansas department of children and families and providing an individual income tax credit for taxpayer contributions to the personal hygiene fund.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Increasing the criminal penalty for a third or subsequent conviction of domestic battery and creating a mandatory minimum sentence for aggravated domestic battery.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the second amendment financial privacy act, prohibiting financial institutions from using a firearms code to engage in certain discriminatory conduct and surveilling, reporting or tracking the purchase of firearms and ammunition, authorizing the attorney general to investigate and enforce violations of such act and providing a civil penalty for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring school districts to provide timely implementation of an individualized education program and advanced enrollment for certain children who are new to such school district.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

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

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting suspension of a person's driving privileges or driver's license due to nonpayment of fines or court costs from traffic citations.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities.

Sponsor: Utilities

Allowing groundwater management districts boards to provide relevant information rather than advice and assistance regarding groundwater management and other appropriate matters of concern of a district.

Sponsor: Water

Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the Kansas Alzheimer's disease advisory council.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Providing for digital proof of driver's license and digital proof of identification card and regulating the use thereof.

Sponsor: Transportation

Updating the general terms of supervision for offenders on probation and postrelease supervision.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing the sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for certain students.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting a state agency, city or county from restricting the sale or use of motor vehicles based on the energy source used for the vehicles; allowing a state agency, city and county to have their own purchase policies for motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Revising the special education state aid statewide excess costs calculation to count additional funding, requiring the state board of education to determine each school district's excess costs and to establish a special education state aid equalization distribution schedule to distribute certain amounts of special education state aid and requiring school districts to transfer amounts attributable to the special education weighting from their supplemental general funds to their special education funds.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing for digital proof of driver's license and digital proof of identification card and regulating the use thereof.

Sponsor: Transportation

Changing the membership of the Kansas judicial council from four resident lawyers to one resident lawyer from each congressional district.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register.

Sponsor: Insurance

Specifying the eligibility requirements to participate in activities governed by the Kansas state high school activities association for students enrolled in a nonpublic school.

Sponsor: Education

Excluding social security payments from household income and expanding eligibility related to increased property tax homestead property tax refund claims.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting cities and counties from banning the sale of products or services otherwise allowed by state law.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to allow students enrolled in underperforming school districts to be eligible for a scholarship.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt anaphylaxis prevention and response policies for schools and day care facilities that set forth guidelines and procedures to prevent and respond to anaphylaxis.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Allowing juvenile offenders in the custody of the secretary of corrections to leave the juvenile correctional facility for certain programming and educational opportunities when approved by the secretary.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Authorizing the director of vehicles to adopt rules and regulations for participation in the federal motor carriers safety administration's drug and alcohol clearinghouse and disqualifying a person's commercial vehicle driving privileges when such person has violated or is noncompliance with the requirements of the clearinghouse.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting acquisitions of ownership interests in certain Kansas real property by foreign individuals and entities unless authorized by the state land council and establishing the state land council.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the Kansas small, minority, woman, disadvantaged and service-disabled veteran business enterprise development act, providing for development of such business enterprises through greater participation in providing goods and services to state agencies and postsecondary educational institutions and requiring development of plans and goals for such participation, establishing the office of minority and women business development within the department of commerce and providing for an advisory committee on certified small business enterprises.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Establishing requirements for the determination of virtual school state aid for adult students.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Extending the period for how long a groundwater right can be deposited in a water bank, requiring withdrawn water to be authorized by a water bank on or before December 1, requiring an evaluation of the central Kansas water bank by an independent consultant before July 1, 2025 and establishing a maximum length for a water bank charter extension.

Sponsor: Water

Establishing the Kansas education enrichment program to provide educational awards to elementary and secondary school students for qualifying expenses for educational goods and services.

Sponsor: Education

Establishing fentanyl poisoning awareness week for public middle schools and high schools to educate students on the abuse of and addiction to fentanyl and other opioids.

Sponsor: Angela Martinez

Extending the time that school districts may provide notice to parents of the administration of any nonacademic test, questionnaire, survey or examination and requiring school districts to contact parents if any such test, questionnaire, survey or examination indicates concerns.

Sponsor: Education

Establishing procedures in the Kansas code of procedure for municipal courts related to determination of an accused person's competency to stand trial and requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for the costs of keeping persons in the custody of a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting assignment of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to supervision by court services officers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring landowners whose land is taken by eminent domain for electric transmission lines to be compensated at not less than fair market value multiplied by 150%.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the membership appointed by the governor on the council on travel and tourism and updating the house committee assignment required for house members from the committee on agriculture and natural resources to the committee on commerce, labor and economic development;reducing the required allocation of funds from the department of commerce's matching grant program for the promotion of tourism by public and nonprofit entities and removing the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.

Sponsor: Commerce

Creating the no-impact home-based business act, limiting the ability of municipalities to regulate such businesses and prohibiting certain types of activities by such businesses.

Sponsor: Laura Williams

Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing cities to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the department of health and environment to develop and publish educational information regarding the use of nonopioids.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Concerning rural communities in Kansas, creating the Kansas rural downtown revitalization act, establishing the rural downtown revitalization fund, making transfers to such fund, prescribing guidelines for the expenditure of moneys credited thereto and the duties of the department of commerce and requiring annual reports to certain committees of the legislature.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing the amount of state moneys distributed to local health departments.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing a sales tax exemption for exploration place, inc. and the Kansas children's discovery center, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Exempting the practice of hair removal by sugaring from the definition of cosmetology.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Prohibiting advertising of sports wagering through internet websites and electronic device applications.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Authorizing the director of vehicles to adopt rules and regulations for participation in the federal motor carriers safety administration's drug and alcohol clearinghouse and allowing for the disqualification of commercial vehicle driving privileges when a driver has violated or is noncompliance with the requirements of the clearinghouse.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing the director of vehicles to waive the knowledge and skills test for driving a commercial vehicle for an applicant that provides evidence that such applicant qualifies for the military even exchange program for commercial driver's licenses.

Sponsor: Transportation

Allowing title insurance agents to submit escrow, settlement or closing funds through certain real-time or instant payment systems.

Sponsor: Insurance

Requiring the attorney general to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees relating to coordinated law enforcement agency training regarding missing and murdered indigenous persons.

Sponsor: Christina Haswood

Directing the Kansas turnpike authority to establish a toll exemption program for current members of the armed forces whose orders direct a permanent place of duty within Kansas.

Sponsor: Nathan Butler

Prohibiting any county or city legislation that would modify the established classes of individuals protected from discrimination under the Kansas act against discrimination.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the state treasurer to establish a mortgage insurance program for certain individuals and establishing the homes for every local protector, educator and responder act of Kansas.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

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

Sponsor: Taxation

Organizing requirements for public assistance program sections within the statute.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

House Substitute for SB 419 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Providing immunity from prosecution for certain drug crimes when persons seek or provide medical assistance related to the use of a controlled substance.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Modifying deadlines for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and certification of tax levies to the director of property valuation to earlier than current deadlines and providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the fairness in condemnation act to require the condemning authority to provide the property owner notice of a planned condemnation proceeding, an offer for purchase and a court review of compliance with this act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Senate Substitute for HB2645 by Committee on Education - Removing limits on the number and amount of awards under the nursing service scholarship program, modifying the interest rate terms for repayment obligations under such program, abolishing the nursing service scholarship review committee and modifying the financial limitations on awards under the Kansas hero's scholarship act and broadening the eligibility requirements for such awards.

Sponsor: Education

Creating a crime for injuring or causing death of certain authorized emergency vehicle operators and establishing penalties therefor and increasing penalties for unlawful passing of stationary authorized emergency vehicle.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting suspension of a person's driving privileges or driver's license due to nonpayment of fines or court costs from traffic citations.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring job search instead of a 20-hour work week for child care subsidy eligibility, allowing food assistance funds for advertising food assistance programs and modifying penalties for non-cooperation for all assistance programs.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Concerning research at Kansas public postsecondary educational institutions, creating the Kansas strategic research act, establishing the Kansas strategic research fund, making transfers to such fund, prescribing guidelines for expenditure of moneys credited thereto and the powers, duties, and functions of the state board of regents, requiring annual reports to certain committees of the legislature.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a decision has not been entered and filed within six months of submission and a list of cases in which a petition for review has not been granted or denied within six months of submission.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing school districts to require a student to attend virtual school when such student is returning to school after having been expelled.

Sponsor: Timothy Johnson

Increasing the capacity limitation for the total amount of facilities subject to net metering that may operate within the service territory of investor-owned electric utilities, requiring facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer's average load and establishing requirements for exporting power to a utility from a facility subject to net metering.

Sponsor: Utilities

Reducing the number of appointed board members on certain insurance-related governing boards and the frequency of meetings of the the committee on surety bonds and insurance.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Specifying criminal penalties for unlawful distribution of fentanyl-related controlled substances when distributed by weight or dosage unit.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Excluding certain types of incarceration time from being included in the allowance for time spent incarcerated when calculating a criminal defendant's sentence.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring each school district to establish an at-risk student accountability plan and to show academic improvement in certain student subgroups and students identified as eligible for at-risk programs, prohibiting the state board of education from revising the curriculum standards in English language arts and mathematics until 75% of all students achieve proficiency and requiring school districts to comply with all state laws and rules and regulations to maintain accreditation.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Establishing a rebuttable presumption against retirement of fossil fuel-fired electric generating units, requiring the state corporation commission to report on such retirements and extending the timelines for the commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for generating or transmission facilities.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Requiring critical thinking be integrated into elementary and secondary instruction.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Granting the medicaid inspector general access to the prescription monitoring program database without a warrant and replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas bureau of investigation with a member appointed by the attorney general's office.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for additional sources of revenue for the water program management fund and requiring water supply system and wastewater treatment facility operator certification examination fees to not exceed the costs for such exams.

Sponsor: Water

Abolishing the division of legislative post audit, creating the statewide elected office of state auditor and enacting the state audit act.

Sponsor: Robert Olson

Providing for the sporting Kansas City distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing an income tax subtraction modification for sales of property subject to eminent domain.

Sponsor: Taxation

Including mental, emotional and behavioral health treatment to medical services that may be provided to a child alleged or adjudicated to be a child in need of care.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Establishing a property tax exemption for disabled veterans.

Sponsor: KC Ohaebosim

Providing a sales tax exemption for exploration place, inc.

Sponsor: Chase Blasi

Providing that programs and treatments provided by a certified community behavioral health clinic be granted a renewal certification if such programs and treatments have been previously certified or accredited.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

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

Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Affirming the Kansas senate's unwavering support for free press in the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring school districts to be in compliance with all state laws and rules and regulations to be accredited and requiring the state board of education to establish a process to challenge determinations of such compliance.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Requiring automated expungement of certain records from a person's criminal record to seal such records from public view and limit disclosure thereof.

Sponsor: Judiciary

House Substitute for SB 387 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 24, FY 25 and FY 26 and enacting, revising and abolishing certain statutes relating to the educational system.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Prohibiting the use of any form of ranked-choice voting method for the conduct of elections.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the office of the child advocate.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring the state board of education to authorize teaching licenses for individuals who complete an alternative teacher certification program.

Sponsor: Education

Creating the statewide drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) program educator position, establishing the drug abuse resistance education fund and providing funding for such fund by annual transfer of state moneys.

Sponsor: Robyn Essex

Authorizing the court to grant expungement of a juvenile adjudication if the person has not been convicted or adjudicated of an offense in the past two years.

Enacting the constitutional right to health freedom act to regulate the activities of the secretary of health and environment related to public health functions; repealing statutes relating to the secretary's authority to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Designating a portion of K-96 highway as the 96th "Deadeye" Infantry Division memorial highway.

Sponsor: Joe Seiwert

Prohibiting the secretary for children and families from using federal benefits of a child in need of care for the care and custody of the child and requiring the secretary to create and maintain an account of such benefits received for such child.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Changing driving training requirements to allow driving school instructors to hold a valid driver's license from any state.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing a feminine hygiene product grant program and grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Reducing the waiting period for a KPERS retirant to return to work for a participating employer during a period beginning July 1, 2024, and ending July 1, 2029.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Prohibiting crew size requirements for class II and class III railroads.

Sponsor: Transportation

Increasing the membership of the Kansas wildlife and parks commission from seven to nine, granting membership appointment authority to multiple state officers and providing certain requirements for the members of such commission.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for state agencies, increasing expenditure limitations, authorizing certain transfers, funding of the fiscal year 2024 salary increase for certain state employees, transferring funds from the legislature employment security fund of the legislative coordinating council to the university of Kansas and Wichita state university health collaboration fund of the university of Kansas, to the Wichita state university and university of Kansas health collaboration fund of Wichita state university and to the state general fund and authorizing certain expenditures from the build Kansas matching grant fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental office using licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the Kansas national guard educational master's for enhanced readiness and global excellence (EMERGE) program.

Sponsor: Adam Turk

Enacting the civil liability for doxing act to prohibit intentionally publishing another person's personally identifiable information without the consent of the person whose information is published under certain circumstances and authorize a civil action for violations of the act to recover damages and obtain injunctive relief.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring certain persons on a third or subsequent conviction of driving under the influence to participate in a multidisciplinary model of services for substance use disorders.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Imposing sales and compensating use tax on digital property and subscription services and providing for the decrease in sales and compensating use tax rates in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to not renew contracts to provide childcare licensing services and replace such services with state employees and to conduct surveys of childcare providers on the department's provision of childcare licensing services.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Amending statutes regulating the practice of barbering regarding licensure, examination and fees.

Sponsor: Local Government

Clarifying a special sentencing rule applicable to violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing a postretirement benefit payment to certain KPERS retirants.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Prohibiting school districts and local libraries from prohibiting, banning or restricting books or other media unless certain requirements are met.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the secretary for children and families to identify relatives and persons with whom a child in custody of the secretary has close emotional ties for placement and send notice of custody to the persons when identified.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Establishing the Kansas trade service scholarship act and making appropriations to the state board of regents for fiscal year 2025 to provide grants to community colleges, technical colleges and the Washburn institute of technology for capital improvements, repairs and maintenance of trade program buildings.

Sponsor: Robert Olson

Affirming the Kansas house of representatives' unwavering support for the free press in the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Establishing the state conservation fund, the working lands conservation fund, the wildlife conservation fund and the Kansas outdoors fund, providing for the use of moneys from such funds, requiring certain reports to the governor and the legislature and authorizing certain transfers to and from such funds.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing schools to maintain emergency albuterol kits and administer such medication in emergency situations.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Prohibiting the use of public moneys for lobbying activities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating a portion of United States highway 81 as the Merle Miller memorial highway.

Sponsor: Transportation

Substitute for HB 2512 by Committee on Elections - Relating to advance voting ballots; requiring county election officers to provide at least four hours of advance voting in-person on the Saturday before an election; providing after January 1, 2025, such ballots cast in-person be received in the county election office by 7:00 p.m. on the Sunday proceeding the election; exception to allow voting in-person until 12:00 noon on Monday for good cause.

Sponsor: Elections

Removing automobile club from the definition of person for purposes of enforcing penalties for violations of insurance law.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to provide public notice of missing persons 18 years of age or older who have an intellectual disability.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing procedures for law enforcement agencies and the secretary for children and families to follow and use when a child in custody of the secretary is reported missing and requiring the secretary to obtain a nondrivers' identification card for such reports.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Abolishing the current wildlife and parks; commission; creating a new Kansas wildlife and parks commission; granting appointment authority to multiple state officers; authorizing the commission to elect a chairperson.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring a candidate's non-government issued email address be provided with declarations of intent, nomination petitions or nomination certifications for national, state and local offices.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Permitting vehicle dealers to sell vehicles on consignment contracts under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.

Sponsor: Michael Murphy

Prohibiting legislators from accepting any state employment and the lieutenant governor from employment as a state agency head.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring approval of livestock brand applications by the animal health commissioner and increasing the maximum amount for brand registration and renewal fees.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Eliminating certain camp site and cabin fees for senior citizens at Kansas state parks.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Increasing criminal penalties for a driver who leaves the scene of a vehicular accident when the accident results in the death of any person or more than one person, if the driver knew or reasonably should have known that such accident resulted in injury or death.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Establishing the Kansas purple alert plan to provide public notice of missing persons 18 years of age or older who have been diagnosed with an intellectual disability and are in certain dangerous circumstances.

Sponsor: Insurance

Continuing the reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs of county clerks through calendar year 2028.

Sponsor: Local Government

Designating facilities where elective abortions are performed as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Proposing a constitutional amendment to amend section 4 of the Kansas bill of rights to recognize the right to bear arms as a fundamental right that includes the possession and use of ammunition, firearm accessories and firearm components, and that any restrictions on such right are subject to the strict scrutiny standard.

Sponsor: Blake Carpenter

Designating the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad as the official state heritage railroad.

Sponsor: Transportation

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

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Establishing policy requirements for school safety and security and cardiac emergency response plans and providing grant programs for the implementation of such policies.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring voter verification of identity when returning an advance voting ballot.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, for state agencies; increasing expenditure limitations to the foregoing; funding of the fiscal year 2024 salary increase for certain state employees.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Designating a bridge in Sumner county as the SrA Derek Scott Martin memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Designating the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad as the official state heritage railroad.

Sponsor: Transportation

Establishing the alternatives to abortion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $100,000 of such property's appraised valuation.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Providing for the delta waterfowl distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Transportation

Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas to decrease the assessed value for real property used for residential purposes to 10 1/2% for 2025 and 9 1/2% for 2026 and each year thereafter.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Requiring child care facilities, elementary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and employers to grant exemptions from vaccine requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the request and repealing the meningitis vaccine requirement to live in student housing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring that the appointment of the executive director of the Kansas children's cabinet be confirmed by the senate.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Requiring each school district to employ an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder specialist.

Sponsor: John Resman

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.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing the state board of education to establish a new unified school district, if necessary, for the attachment of territory of a school district disorganized via voter petition and providing for administrative and judicial review of resolutions to permanently close a public school building.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing a transfer of state general fund moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund in fiscal year 2025 and all fiscal years thereafter, requiring political subdivisions to credit all such moneys to residential property taxpayers in the form of a rebate and providing a formula for such rebate amount.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Substitute for HB 2494 by Committee on Education - Establishing policy requirements for cardiac emergency response plans for school districts and providing a grant program for the implementation of such policy.

Sponsor: Education

Eliminating the requirement to conduct a recurring 911 implementation audit, a recurring KPERS audit and certain economic development incentive audits.

Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit

Providing for the election of county appraisers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Crediting tax revenue generated from wagers made on historical horse races to the horse breeding development fund and the horse fair racing benefit fund.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Changing certain reporting requirements of group-funded liability and workers compensation pools.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for the distribution of local ad valorem tax reduction fund (LAVTRF) moneys from the state to residential property taxpayers in the form of rebates.

Sponsor: Robert Olson

Changing the order of succession for the office of governor to provide that the speaker of the house of representatives shall become governor if the office of both the governor and lieutenant governor are vacant rather than the president of the senate.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the state board of education to establish a new unified school district, if necessary, for the attachment of territory of a school district disorganized via voter petition and providing for administrative and judicial review of resolutions to permanently close a public school building.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring annual filing of a statement of substantial interest by local governmental officers and employees, exempting elected or appointed officers of townships or school districts from such requirements absent a change in substantial interests of such officers.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing for evaluation of a juvenile offender's academic record, dyslexia screening and reading level assessment and limiting overall juvenile offender case length limit extensions to two extensions and 60 days per extension.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

A constitutional amendment to grant counties home rule powers.

Sponsor: Mike Dodson

Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company’s qualified business facility.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Clarifying the determination of taxable income and providing for the passing through of tax credits to electing pass-through entity owners for purposes of the salt parity act.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting the commencement of the school term prior to Labor Day.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Creating the born-alive infants protection act to provide legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting the change of the point of diversion of a water right if such change causes the safe yield of the source of water supply to be exceeded.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Removing the definition of lead-free and an exception for leaded joints in the public water supply system law and updating terminology relating to hazardous waste generated by certain persons.

Sponsor: Jim Minnix

Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company’s qualified business facility.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Excluding registered agritourism locations from building permit requirements or building codes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of construction materials by a contractor for a not-for-profit corporation operating a theater.

Sponsor: Taxation

Specifying the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration amount for final hemp products and allowing certain hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the legislative help grant fund, establishing legislative help grants, state representative grants and state senator grants for cities and counties and prescribing procedures, requirements and limitations for such grants.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for the construction and equipment of the NIAR technology and innovation building on the innovation campus of Wichita state university.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Imposing requirements for reapportionment legislation.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the legislative compensation commission and prescribing powers and duties of the commission and the legislature.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Permitting functional incapacitation release and terminal medical condition release for persons sentenced to imprisonment for an off-grid offense and extending terminal medical condition release to inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 180 days.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

House Substitute for SB 318 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing a state employment preference for persons with disabilities and expanding the veterans preference to include remarried spouses of a deceased veteran who died while, and as a result of, serving in the armed forces and surviving spouses, whether remarried or not remarried of a prisoner of war.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Substitute for HB 2450 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs, electricity and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $600,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver's licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing vessels that operate upon the Perry reservoir to be licensed as clubs and drinking establishments.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the medical cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a Kansas exemption for state income tax purposes for an unborn child with a detectable heartbeat.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring public utilities to report certain data.

Sponsor: Taxation

Prohibiting remote ballot boxes, providing for reporting and publication of voting results and public access to voting records and materials, limiting advance voting provisions and requiring receipt of advance voting ballots by election day, limiting the size of precincts, making the general election a state holiday, providing that the sheriff has sole jurisdiction for and shall provide security at voting places, establishing the authority of the legislature over elections with preeminence over rules and regulations of the secretary of state and federal election law and making certain election crimes felonies.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the act against abusive access litigation to create a civil action for determining whether litigation that alleges any access violation under the Americans with disabilities act or similar law constitutes abusive litigation and authorizing penalties for such abusive litigation.

Sponsor: Taxation

House Substitute for SB 300 by Committee on Taxation - Modifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income limit for an income tax subtraction modification for social security income, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate, abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund, providing for certain transfers to the special city and county highway fund and decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Sponsor: Taxation

Updating certain terms, requirements and fees contained in the Kansas pet animal act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to give certain notices to victims and conduct a lethality assessment.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Abolishing the study commission for the consolidation of Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte county, consolidation commission of Topeka, Kansas, and Shawnee county, study commission for the consolidation in Greeley county, state emergency response commission, transportation vision task force, Persian Gulf war veterans health initiative act, Kansas export finance act, community strategic planning assistance act, natural and scientific areas advisory board, public finance transparency board, Kansas film services commission, Kansas bioscience authority, KAN-ED act and department of health and environment advisory committees.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Substitute for HB 2414 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Developing postsecondary engineering programs, providing scholarships for engineering students at certain public and private institutions of higher education by establishing a matching grant program to be administered by the secretary of commerce and creating the engineering graduate incentive fund.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

House Substitute for SB 291 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Transferring all cybsersecurity services under the chief information technology officer of each branch of government, creating chief information security officers within the judicial and legislative branches, requiring a chief information security officer to be appointed by the attorney general, Kansas bureau of investigation, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner and requiring the chief information security officers to implement certain minimum cybersecurity standards, requiring the information technology executive council to develop a plan to integrate executive branch information technology services under the executive chief information technology officer, making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for the office of information technology, Kansas information security office and the adjutant general, authorizing certain transfers and imposing certain limitations and restrictions and directing or authorizing certain disbursements and procedures for all state agencies and requiring legislative review of state agencies not in compliance with this act.

Sponsor: Legislative Modernization

Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, permitting a 16 year-old staff member to staff a unit with children at least 12 months old without supervision, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase day care facility availability or capacity.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring director of property valuation appraiser directives be established by rules and regulations.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing a refundable income, privilege and premium tax credit for direct payments made by employers to student loans on behalf of a qualified employee.

Sponsor: Taxation

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

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the use of the cost approach for special purpose property for property tax valuation purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Defining primary aggressor for domestic violence purposes and requiring law enforcement policies to direct that arrest is the preferred response only with respect to the primary aggressor.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing sampling rules for alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages for spirits distributors, wine distributors and beer distributors in regard to the amount of products used for samples for distributors, retailers and club and drinking establishment licensees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act, establishing certain standards of care, requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services and establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing the secretary of administration on behalf of the Kansas department for aging and disability services to convey lands in Shawnee county to the Kansas commission on veterans affairs.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Amending section 6 of article 6 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to prohibit public funds from being used for private nonpublic schools.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Requiring public utilities to report information regarding customer assistance programs, account delinquencies and disconnections.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Decreasing the sales and use tax rate, establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients, providing a sales tax exemption for children's diapers and feminine hygiene products, establishing the STAR bonds food sales tax revenue replacement fund and altering the calculation for STAR bond districts.

Sponsor: Taxation

Constitutional amendment proposing the Kansas Citizen Involvement Amendment to reserve the powers of initiative and referendum to the citizens of Kansas.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by a not-for-profit corporation operating a community theater.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Changing the total amount credited to the state gaming revenues fund, increasing the transfer of moneys from such fund to the correctional institutions building fund and decreasing the transfer of moneys to the state economic development initiatives fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Eliminating the zoning and planning authority for cities in the three-mile area extending from the city boundaries.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing membership in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Establishing tax withholding requirements when certain employees work in multiple states.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Adding possession or using a firearm during the commission of certain drug crimes to the crime of criminal use of weapons and creating a special sentencing rule of presumptive imprisonment for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Granting law enforcement officials access to the prescription monitoring program database without a warrant and replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas bureau of investigation with the attorney general or the attorney general's designee.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Urging the adoption of a student bill of rights.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school sponsored trips.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program to expand Medicaid eligibility.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Amending the crime of aggravated endangering a child to increase the criminal penalties in certain environments where any person is distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, manufacturing or attempting to manufacture fentanyl-related controlled substances.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating an energy assistance program and a program for unhoused individuals to secure affordable housing and establishing eligibility for such programs.

Sponsor: Welfare Reform

Requiring the court to appoint an attorney to represent a child who is the subject of child in need of care proceedings and allowing for the optional appointment of a guardian ad litem.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for requirements for use of funds allocated to agencies for the purpose of supporting unhoused individuals and creating penalties for unauthorized camping on government-owned land.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing KPERS 3 members an additional interest credit of 1% for calendar year 2023.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Senate Substitute for HB 2416 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Enacting the adoption savings account act, allowing individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas income tax act.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting governmental entities from sharing or transmitting social care information into a closed loop referral system.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to facilitate workforce development by providing grants and workforce retention incentive tax credits to adults who pursue baccalaureate degrees from eligible postsecondary educational institutions in certain fields of study.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Allowing a retailer to retain the state rate of sales and compensating use tax from movie ticket sales and concession sales.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Exempting charitable raffle prizes of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages from the Kansas liquor control act, the club and drinking establishment act and the Kansas cereal malt beverage act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Substitute for SB 254 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the office of United States senator by appointment of a person of the same political party as the incumbent office holder and making such appointment subject to senate confirmation.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring drug manufacturers to provide pricing under the federal 340B drug pricing program to pharmacies that enter into contractual agreements with entities covered under the 340B program and prohibiting pharmacy benefits managers from denying patients the freedom to use the pharmacy and healthcare provider of such patient's choice.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Prohibiting new self-service storage facilities from being located within 1,000 feet of a child care facility or school.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for residential property.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Requiring the plaintiff's attorney to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Grant county.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture, remitting proceeds to the state general fund and requiring law enforcement agencies to make forfeiture reports more frequently.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the crime of unlawful storage of any firearm including a rifle, shotgun or machine gun or stun guns and the crime of unlawful storage of a large magazine capacity rifle or shotgun or machine gun where a minor has access.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Directing the office of vital statistics to provide birth or death certificates to the Kansas department for children and families and exempt the department from fees for such certificates.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Applying real estate broker licensure provisions to trusts, authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders and providing that dealing in real estate transactions involving assignable contracts requires licensure.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Senate Substitute for HB 2422 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Exempting certain gaming suppliers from the certification requirement of the Kansas expanded lottery act when such suppliers do not contract with the state or the lottery gaming facility manager.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring firearms and stun guns to be stored in locked containers, establishing crimes for failure to store such weapons where a person under 18 years of age has access to such weapons and creating more severe penalties for firearms with large-capacity magazines.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the cold case homicide victims' families' rights act to provide for a system for reviewing the case files of cold case homicides upon written application by certain persons.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2391 by Committee on Elections - Amending the act establishing the governmental ethics commission, relating to campaign finance, establishing a five-year statute of limitations for bringing actions before the commission, limiting the commission's subpoena power, allowing respondents to transfer a hearing before the commission to a hearing officer under the office of administrative hearings.

Sponsor: Elections

Substitute for SB 219 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Expanding eligibility for rural emergency hospital licensure to facilities that meet criteria between 2015 and 2020.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Exempting certain services provided in an adult care homes from the provisions of the acts regulating cosmetologists and barbers.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing the school district board of education member free speech and transparency act.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Enacting the Kansas indian child welfare act.

Sponsor: Christina Haswood

Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support.

Sponsor: David Haley

Defining "benefit year" and "temporary unemployment" in the employment security law, allowing the extension of temporary unemployment; requiring electronic report filing by certain employers, permitting discretion in appointments and terms for the temporary employment security board of review, delaying new account formation after certain business acquisitions, requiring the new unemployment insurance system to allow employer reports regarding claimant compliance and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to extend new system implementation deadlines.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Requiring that licensing bodies provide paper-based and verified electronic credentials to credential holders, including military servicemembers and others receiving Kansas credentials based on their credentials from other jurisdictions, that the secretary of administration develop and implement an electronic license verification system, that centralized electronic credential data management systems be established with instant verification systems operated by licensing bodies and excepting the certification of law enforcement officers from all provisions of the amended section.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from the crime of criminal sodomy.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for transfers to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Authorizing establishment of city or county child death review boards and permitting disclosure of records and information related to child deaths.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Amending the Kansas amusement ride act relating to inspections of amusement rides and inflatable devices, training regarding the operation of amusement rides and inflatable devices and establishing an annual permit fee for inflatable devices.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing educational agencies to disclose student data for the purpose of conducting research contracted for by an educational agency.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring protection from abuse and protection from stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking orders to restrain the plaintiff from contacting the defendant.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the medical autonomy/accessibility and truth act to remove certain provisions regarding abortion from the no taxpayer funding for abortion act, the woman's-right-to-know act and the pain-capable unborn child act to allow for insurance coverage for abortions, provide tax benefits for abortion-related services and remove inaccurate statements regarding the risks of abortion.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Prohibiting the use of the social media platform TikTok on state-owned devices and on any state network.

Sponsor: Legislative Modernization

Enacting the commercial property assessed capital enhancement or C-PACE act, requiring the department of commerce to designate or establish a C-PACE board, providing for assessment contracts between C-PACE lenders and property owners and establishing rights, duties and responsibilities of mortgage lenders.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

House Substitute for SB 233 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from treating 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 and nurses.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Increasing the criminal penalties for harming or killing certain dogs and horses and requiring restitution for such offense to include certain expenses.

Sponsor: Dan Hawkins

Enacting the adoption savings account act allowing individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas income tax act, increasing the income tax credit amount for adoption expenses, establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities and providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the director of the budget to independently determine costs of compliance and implementation for all proposed rules and regulations and authorizing the director of the budget to disapprove proposed rules and regulations.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing a notice to appear that meets certain requirements to serve as a lawful complaint under the Kansas code of criminal procedure, requiring a minimum bond premium in district court and providing reasons for suspending or terminating authorization of a compensated surety.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Updating certain terms, definitions and conditions relating to the requirements of certain insurance reports, examinations and transactions.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Allowing compensation from the crime victims compensation board to be awarded for criminally injurious conduct, and increasing the amount that can be transferred from the crime victims compensation fund to the crime victims assistance fund in each fiscal year.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing certain telecommunications and video service providers to operate in county public right-of-way and limiting the fees and costs that a county may impose upon such providers for such activities.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Requiring the secretary for children and families to release certain information related to a child fatality when criminal charges are filed alleging that a person caused such fatality.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Modifying requirements related to certain business entity filings with the secretary of state, authorizing a change of registered office address by a current occupant under the business entity standard treatment act and changing the information required in an amendment to the articles of incorporation for a cooperative.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing criminal penalties for a driver who leaves the scene of a vehicular accident when the accident results in the death of any person or more than one person, if the driver knew or reasonably should have known that such accident resulted in injury or death.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Eliminating the requirement to conduct a recurring 911 implementation audit, a recurring KPERS audit and certain economic development incentive audits.

Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit

Enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Enacting the countries of concern divestment act, increasing the statutory alternative investment percentage limitation for the KPERS trust fund, increasing the amount of KPERS retirant compensation subject to the statutory employer contribution rate to the first $40,000 earned in a calendar year, providing a KPERS working after retirement exemption for retirants employed by a community developmental disability organization or a community service provider in a licensed professional nurse, licensed practical nurse or direct support position and increasing the working after retirement earnings limit for members of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring the secretary for health and environment to provide a death certificate of a child to the state child death review board, increasing the number of board members, allowing for compensation and providing for the disclosure of certain records to certain persons for securing grants.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from taking certain actions regarding admission applicants, applicants for employment and faculty concerning diversity, equity or inclusion, exceptions, providing for civil remedies and penalties, submitting a report to the legislature and posting information on the board of regents website.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing workers compensation act coverage for the Kansas national guard, limiting benefit reductions for retirement benefits, increasing dependents death benefits, reducing certain functional impairment requirements, increasing compensation for certain disability categories and for treatment without authorization, raising the evidentiary standard for future medical treatment, limiting certain procedures for post-award medical benefit claims, allowing benefit payment by funds transfer or payment cards, establishing procedures for neutral healthcare examinations, exchanges and admission of medical reports, extending employee injury notification deadlines, eliminating the deadline for motions to avoid dismissal for lack of prosecution, providing for expedited settlement and digital recording of hearings and other changes to the workers compensation act.

Sponsor: Commerce

Including placement in foster care as a criteria for a student to be eligible for at-risk programs and services.

Sponsor: Education

Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Amending the Kansas pesticide law to expand the applicability of civil and criminal penalties and update requirements for training and supervision, proof of financial responsibility, pesticide applications in the sodium cyanide predator control category and record retention by government agencies.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Enacting the commercial financing disclosure act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Transferring registration requirements and related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for professional employer organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of state effective January 1, 2025, granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund and ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act, providing limitations on state and local law enforcement agency requests for federal adoption of a seizure under the act, requiring probable cause affidavit filing and review to commence forfeiture proceedings, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property to clear and convincing evidence, authorizing courts to order payment of attorney fees and costs for certain claimants and requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to submit forfeiture fund financial reports to the legislature.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Pertaining to the regulation of certain drugs, authorizing schools to maintain stock supplies of emergency medication kits for certain life-threatening conditions and adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring railroads operating in Kansas to maintain minimum distances from the near-edge of railroad crossings to the storage of certain rolling stock on sidings.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing for the Kansas City Chiefs, sporting Kansas City, Sedgwick county zoo, Kansas City royals, Kansas City current, Topeka zoo, support the troops and the first city of Kansas distinctive license plates and requiring certain license plates to have the county of registration for the motor vehicle identified on the license plate.

Sponsor: Kellie Warren

Holding a control person liable for violations of the Kansas uniform securities act by an individual subject to discipline under the act unless the control person was unaware and could not reasonably have known of the violations of such individual.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the protect vulnerable adults from financial exploitation act, authorizing the real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders in under certain circumstances and regulating contract for deed transactions.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Substitute for HB 2570 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Defining benefit year, temporary unemployment, wages and other terms in the employment security law, requiring electronic filing for certain employers, establishing qualifications for employment security board of review candidates, extending the deadline for new accounts following business acquisitions, making certain changes to the employer rate schedules and lowering rates for new employers, enabling employers to report claimant work search issues, confirming legislative coordinating council oversight for the new unemployment insurance information technology system implementation, authorizing the secretary to grant additional temporary unemployment in certain circumstances, requiring the secretary to publish certain information, abolishing the employment security interest assessment fund and providing relief for negative account balance employers.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing the transfer from the state highway fund to the public use general aviation airport development fund.

Sponsor: Transportation

Updating certain definitions, terms, conditions and provisions related to the Kansas insurance guaranty association act and Kansas life and health insurance guaranty association act.

Sponsor: Insurance

Authorizing counties to use home rule powers to exempt from conducting school sanitary inspections.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Congratulating Rhett Ryman on his first-place at both Kansas Regional and State Bowling Tournaments.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska concerning sports wagering.

Sponsor: State-Tribal Relations

Requiring vacancies in county commissioner districts created by an increase in the number of commissioner districts be filled at the next general election and providing for staggered terms for such newly elected county commissioners.

Sponsor: Local Government

Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska concerning sports wagering.

Sponsor: State-Tribal Relations

Repealing the expiration provisions of the Sedgwick county urban area nuisance abatement act.

Sponsor: Local Government

Standardizing criminal history record check fingerprinting language and defining who may be fingerprinted for a criminal history record check.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Updating the maximum penalties that may be imposed by the state corporation commission for pipeline safety violations to comply with requirements of the federal pipeline and hazardous materials safety administration.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Congratulating SevenDays on its 10th anniversary of teaching kindness and making a ripple to change the world.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Clarifying practice privileges of institutional license holders.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Recognizing Success Learning Inclusion and its President and CEO, Lisa Jackson.

Sponsor: Brenda Dietrich

Providing for geographic positions or locations of points within the state of Kansas under the Kansas plane coordinate system act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Renaming Kansas state university polytechnic campus as Kansas state university Salina.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing that military spouses of active military servicemembers shall be exempted from all occupational licensing, registration and certification fees.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the board of directors for a drainage district to hold a meeting in executive session in accordance with the open meetings act.

Sponsor: Local Government

Enacting the no patient left alone act to require facilities to allow in-person visitation to certain patients at hospitals, adult care home and patient care facilities.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Creating the Riley county unincorporated area nuisance abatement act and the Crawford county unincorporated area nuisance abatement act to establish procedures for the removal and abatement of nuisances in the unincorporated areas of such counties and the assessment of the costs for such abatement.

Sponsor: Local Government

Requiring school districts to publicly list the names and email addresses of current school board members, authorizing local school board members to add new items to board meeting discussions, ask questions or engage in discussion with members of the public and access school property, authorizing members of the public to address school boards at board meetings and authorizing payment of annual dues to any not-for-profit organization that provides services to member school districts.

Sponsor: Education

Removing the requirement for underground storage tank operating permits to be obtained annually.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Supporting the Kinaway Chamber of Commerce and the First Nations Leadership Development Trade Mission to Kansas.

Sponsor: David Haley

Congratulating Kansas City Kansas Community College on its 100th anniversary.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Commemorating the celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

Sponsor: Sean Tarwater

Celebrating the historic and immense contributions of the Hispanic and Latino communities to the Kansas economy.

Sponsor: Angela Martinez

Congratulating Goodwill of Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas on its 130th anniversary in 2024.

Sponsor: Mike Thompson

Designating April 24th as Ad Astra STEM Day in Kansas.

Sponsor: Kristen O'Shea

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Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Great Western Cattle Trail.

Sponsor: Gary White

Requiring that federal disability determinations for veterans be probative.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Prescribing documentation requirements to determine eligibility for any benefit derived from a service-connected disability.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Adding "maternity center" to the definition of "healthcare provider" for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Eliminating the court's requirement to order child support be paid to the secretary when custody of a child is awarded to the secretary.

Sponsor: Child Welfare and Foster Care

Authorizing public utilities and law enforcement agencies to enter into utility pole attachment agreements to allow for the installation of law enforcement equipment on structures located within the public right-of-way and exempting public utilities from civil liability relating thereto.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Prohibiting charges for electronic copies and determinations of whether a record exists and limiting charges for employee time required to make records available under the Kansas open records act.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Substitute for HB 2598 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders, prohibiting dealing in assignable contracts for certain residential real estate and providing that certain violations thereof are subject to the Kansas consumer protection act, regulating contract for deed transactions, authorizing recording of contract for deeds or affidavits of equitable interest, listing deceptive practices constituting violations of the consumer protection act, requiring notice to the buyer of default and allowing buyers to cure such default.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Substitute for HB2519 by Committee on Elections - Deleting from the general election crime of corrupt political advertising coverage of advertisements for constitutional amendments; adding coverage of advertising for constitutional amendments to the crime of corrupt political advertising which is part of the campaign finance act.

Sponsor: Elections

Modifying the definition of veteran and disabled veteran to create a common definition for each term and clarifying disability evaluations for benefits granted to disabled veterans.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Updating the definition of armed forces and updating such definition to include the space force.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Amending the campaign finance act regarding the crime of corrupt political advertising to delete the requirement of listing the treasurer of organizations sponsoring the political advertising.

Sponsor: Elections

Requiring that only physical paper ballots be reviewed when conducting election audits.

Sponsor: Elections

Imposing a five-year expiration on all improvement districts and community improvement districts if no improvements are carried out within the five-year period.

Sponsor: Local Government

Substitute for HB 2542 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - 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

Mandating that certain contractual provisions be incorporated in all city and county contracts, including the provisions of form DA-146a, with certain exceptions.

Sponsor: Local Government

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.

Sponsor: Timothy Johnson

Providing for the 1st Infantry Division and the armed services occupation medal distinctive license plates.

Sponsor: Mike Dodson

Providing for model year license plate decals to be displayed on antique trucks and motorcycles.

Sponsor: Transportation

Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarships administered by the Kansas board of regents that have repayment obligations as a part of the terms and conditions of such scholarship and authorizing the Kansas board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment obligations and charge fees to cover the costs of administering such scholarship programs.

Sponsor: Education

Increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer when the person has prior convictions of the offense.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice