# Kansas HB 2206: Renaming the Kansas governmental ethics commission to the Kansas public disclosure commission, defining terms in the campaign finance act, requiring the filing of statements of independent expenditures, prohibiting agreements requiring contributions in the name of another and requiring the termination of unused campaign finance accounts. Kansas HB 2206, Renaming the Kansas governmental ethics commission to the Kansas public disclosure commission, defining terms in the campaign finance act, requiring the filing of statements of independent expenditures, prohibiting agreements requiring contributions in the name of another and requiring the termination of unused campaign finance accounts., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Elections; status signed, last action 2025-04-10 (Reengrossed on Thursday, March 27, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2206-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas HB 2206 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Renaming the Kansas governmental ethics commission to the Kansas public disclosure commission, defining terms in the campaign finance act, requiring the filing of statements of independent expenditures, prohibiting agreements requiring contributions in the name of another and requiring the termination of unused campaign finance accounts. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-03 - Last action: 2025-04-10, Reengrossed on Thursday, March 27, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Elections - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on federal and state affairs, house committee on elections - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 6 (368 yes, 194 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Kansas updates campaign filing and ethics oversight: benefit, low. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission replaces the Governmental Ethics Commission. The law names the new commission as the responsible ethics agency and extends its stated coverage and rulemaking authority. Campaign-finance filers can submit required information electronic… - Amendment campaigns must report donors and spending: cost, low. People accepting donated money to support or oppose a proposed Kansas constitutional amendment must report to the secretary of state. A preliminary report is due 15 days before each election on the amendment and includes donor and spending details above $50. A supplemental report is due within 15 d… - Campaign accounts face new closure rules: cost, low. Elected Kansas officials who skip their next election or lose a primary or general election must close that office's campaign account. The deadline is 90 days after the second subsequent general election for that office in which they are not elected. The treasurer must handle leftover money as the… - Governors cannot personally use inauguration money: cost, low. Money received by an inaugural treasurer can pay only legitimate inauguration costs. It cannot pay the governor-elect's or governor's personal expenses, including normal living costs. Expenses benefiting the governor without a direct link to the inauguration also count as personal use. - New limits on Kansas political committees: cost, low. Groups qualify as political committees when annual contributions or spending exceed $3,000 and they meet a campaign-purpose test. They qualify through a stated purpose of electing state or local candidates, or campaign spending totaling at least 50% of program spending. The spending test covers the… - Campaign coordination rules include vendor exceptions: mixed, low. Spending that directly urges a candidate's election or defeat counts as coordinated when a candidate or committee requests or recommends it. Coordination also includes agreeing to a payer's spending recommendation. The law excludes specified communications, public information, endorsements, contrib… - Donor privacy expands; pass-through deals banned: mixed, low. Campaign donors can give up to $50 without making their name and address known to the recipient, up from $10. Contributions above $50 require that information. A committee cannot accept money under a condition or agreement to pass some or all of it to another candidate or committee. Such agreements… - Higher threshold for independent spending reports: mixed, low. For spenders outside candidate, party, and political committees, the annual independent-spending reporting threshold rises from $100 to $1,000. Reports must identify each payee receiving more than $500, including name, address, date, amount, purpose, candidate, office, and support or opposition. Re… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Elections ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 74 Nay: 45 | pass | 74 | 45 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 78 Nay: 44 | pass | 78 | 44 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 32 Nay: 8 | pass | 32 | 8 | | | 2025-03-24 | House | Concurred with amendments | pass | 78 | 44 | | | 2025-03-20 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 32 | 8 | | | 2025-02-14 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 74 | 45 | | ## Actions (22) - 2025-04-10: Reengrossed on Thursday, March 27, 2025 (House) - 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 31, 2025 (House) - 2025-04-07: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025 (House) - 2025-03-24: Concurred with amendments; Yea 78, Nay 44, Absent 3 (House) - 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Tim Shallenburger (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Tim Shallenburger was adopted (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate) - 2025-03-20: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 32, Nay 8 (Senate) - 2025-03-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs (Senate) - 2025-03-12: Hearing: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 144-S (Senate) - 2025-03-07: Hearing: Friday, March 7, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 144-S — CANCELED (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Referred to Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Engrossed on Monday, February 17, 2025 (House) - 2025-02-17: Received and Introduced (Senate) - 2025-02-14: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2025-02-14: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2025-02-14: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-02-14: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 74, Nay 45, Absent 6 (House) - 2025-02-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Elections (House) - 2025-02-06: Hearing: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 218-N (House) - 2025-02-03: Introduced (House) - 2025-02-03: Referred to House Committee on Elections (House) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee on Elections: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_enrolled.pdf) - {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_02_0000.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 Elections (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_enrolled.pdf) - [{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2206/hb2206_02_0000.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) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2206-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).