# Kansas HB 2134: 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.

Kansas HB 2134, 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., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Judiciary; status signed, last action 2025-04-11 (Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2134
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: 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.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-01-28
- Last action: 2025-04-11, Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on judiciary, house committee on judiciary
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 8 (654 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 5

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Livestreamed meetings must remain fully viewable: benefit, low. Kansas public bodies that choose to livestream an open meeting must let viewers observe all parts through the chosen medium. The law does not require bodies to livestream meetings. An unintentional technology failure or a disruption caused by the service provider is not a violation.
- Agencies can withhold more public records: cost, low. Kansas agencies do not have to release audio or visual items copyrighted by someone else, including items used at public meetings. They can also withhold records containing material defined as obscene under state law. Some records from agency investigations of civil or administrative violations are…
- Records fees limited, but replies required: mixed, low. Kansas agencies can charge only actual costs tied to providing records, including needed review and redaction—not unrelated costs. They must use the lowest-cost staff category reasonably needed, charge wages without benefits, and provide itemized costs on request. When estimated staff time exceeds…
- Domestic violence program oversight protects records: mixed, low. The law creates a unit in the Kansas Attorney General’s Office to certify and inspect batterer intervention programs. Its records and investigations are confidential when state or federal law requires confidentiality. This protects covered information while limiting public access to it.
- Public subgroups covered, private groups limited: mixed, low. A subcommittee or subordinate group created by a Kansas public body must follow open-meeting rules when its own majority meets. Unless another law says otherwise, a private entity counts as a subordinate group only when the public body controls it. That control can be direct or indirect.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 123 Nay: 0 | pass | 123 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 124 Nay: 0 | pass | 124 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 124 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-26 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-19 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 123 | 0 |   |

## Actions (25)

- 2025-04-11: Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-11: Law effective July 1, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-08: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 (House)
- 2025-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1 (House)
- 2025-03-26: Conference committee report now available (Senate)
- 2025-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman (House)
- 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate)
- 2025-03-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-07: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate)
- 2025-03-03: Hearing: Monday, March 3, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Engrossed on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (House)
- 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-02-20: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House)
- 2025-02-20: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House)
- 2025-02-20: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House)
- 2025-02-20: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 123, Nay 0, Absent 2 (House)
- 2025-02-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary (House)
- 2025-02-03: Hearing: Monday, February 3, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N (House)
- 2025-01-28: Introduced (House)
- 2025-01-28: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_01_0000.pdf)
- As Amended by Senate Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_02_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_enrolled.pdf)

## Related bills

- SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed)
- SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed)
- SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed)
- HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed)
- HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law)
- HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed)

## Sources
- [As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Amended by Senate Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_02_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2134/hb2134_enrolled.pdf)

## Related
- [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026)
- [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026)
- [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026)
- [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026)
- [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026)
- [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2134-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).