Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe.
Judiciary, Judiciary
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 11, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
HB 2125
Senate Substitute for HB 2125 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Modifying the deadline for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk, providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget, modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice for property tax purposes, extending reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar years 2025 and 2026, prohibiting a filing fee when a previous appeal remains pending before the board of tax appeals and authorizing the continuation of the 20-mill statewide property tax levy for schools.
Assessment and Taxation, Taxation
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 11, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
HB 2045
Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.
Financial Institutions and Insurance, Insurance
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 11, 2025
Vetoed
Kansas
HB 2028
Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to report to the house and senate committees on agriculture and natural resources on the impact of limiting out of state waterfowl hunters.
Federal and State Affairs, Agriculture and Natural Resources
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 11, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
HB 2007
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.
Ways and Means, Appropriations
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 11, 2025
Passed
Kansas
SCR 1611
Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of supreme court justices and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.
Federal and State Affairs, Judiciary
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Passed
Kansas
SCR 1602
Encouraging the governor to fully cooperate with federal enforcement of immigration laws.
Federal and State Affairs, Federal and State Affairs
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Passed
Kansas
SB 269
Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain amount in the budget stabilization fund.
Assessment and Taxation, Taxation
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Passed
Kansas
SB 250
Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient.
Health and Human Services, Public Health and Welfare
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 241
Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.
Judiciary, Judiciary
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 227
Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures.
Commerce, Taxation
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 199
Designating the existing fallen firefighters memorial within the Kansas firefighters museum in Wichita as the official fallen firefighters memorial of the state of Kansas and replacing the Kansas firefighters memorial advisory committee with the Kansas firefighter memorial council; defining the fireworks sales season for seasonal retailers of consumer fireworks, providing for year-round sales by permanent retailers of consumer fireworks, requiring permanent retailers to register with the state fire marshal.
Commerce, Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 194
Providing that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1958, that restrict the use of real property owned by state educational institutions for only single-family residence purposes and contain discriminatory provisions to restrict ownership or tenancy by race are against public policy and therefore void.
Local Government, Local Government, Transparency and Ethics
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 193
Sub for SB 193 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Exempting law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonists pursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director.
Health and Human Services, Public Health and Welfare
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 166
Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations.
Commerce, Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 139
Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code.
Financial Institutions and Insurance, Financial Institutions and Pensions
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 137
Authorizing the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act to a licensed firearm dealer.
Federal and State Affairs, Federal and State Affairs
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 135
Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.
Judiciary, Judiciary
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 126
House Sub for SB 126 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund, increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances and increasing the annual assessment rate on hospital providers.
Health and Human Services, Public Health and Welfare
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 117
Expanding the property tax exemption for Strother field airport property.
Commerce, Taxation
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 114
Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.
Education, Education
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Passed
Kansas
SB 105
Requiring the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.
Federal and State Affairs, Elections
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 104
Granting the Shawnee county board of county commissioners the discretion to create a citizens commission on local government.
Local Government, Local Government, Transparency and Ethics
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 97
Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains.
Transportation, Transportation
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025
Signed by Governor
Kansas
SB 78
Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibiting accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and providing a cause of action for violations thereof.
Education, Education
2025-2026 Regular Session Latest Action: April 10, 2025