# Kansas HB 2254: Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust.

Kansas HB 2254, Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources; status signed, last action 2025-03-26 (Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025) (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2254
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-02-04
- Last action: 2025-03-26, Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on agriculture and natural resources, house committee on agriculture and natural resources
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 3 (286 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Safer milk payments, stricter processor duties: mixed, low. Kansas milk producers gain payment protections, while processors face new duties and nonpayment penalties. Processors must hold milk-sale payments in trust as the producer’s property until the full purchase price is paid. After a missed timely payment, producers can require a separate, interest-bea…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 123 Nay: 0 | pass | 123 | 0 |   |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 123 | 0 |   |

## Actions (17)

- 2025-03-26: Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (House)
- 2025-03-21: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025 (House)
- 2025-03-18: Consent Calendar Passed (Senate)
- 2025-03-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)
- 2025-03-13: Hearing: Thursday, March 13, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 144-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Engrossed on Monday, February 24, 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 Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)
- 2025-02-13: Hearing: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 112-N (House)
- 2025-02-12: Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 112-N — CANCELED (House)
- 2025-02-04: Introduced (House)
- 2025-02-04: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_01_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferability of credentials earned through ACT workkeys career readiness assessments to… (failed)

## Sources
- [As Amended by House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2254/hb2254_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferab…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2530-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2254-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).