# Kansas HB 2289: Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits.

Kansas HB 2289, Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Transportation; status signed, last action 2025-04-24 (Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2289
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-02-05
- Last action: 2025-04-24, Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on transportation, house committee on transportation
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 8 (574 yes, 72 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 2

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Housing investors can claim transferred credits earlier: benefit, medium. Recipients of transferred Kansas housing investor tax credits can claim them starting in the original investor's cash-investment year. This rule applies retroactively to credits issued for tax year 2022 and later. The housing project must have approval and an issued credit, and claimants must provi…
- Kansas housing developers lose new tax credits: cost, low. Kansas caps affordable housing tax-credit awards at $25 million for plan year 2025 and $8.8 million yearly for 2026–2028. Beginning November 15, 2025, Kansas bars applications and additional awards for tax-exempt bond projects receiving 4% federal housing credits. Those projects keep allocations aw…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 116 Nay: 6 | pass | 116 | 6 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 98 Nay: 23 | pass | 98 | 23 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 33 Nay: 7 | pass | 33 | 7 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-04-11 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 33 | 7 |   |
| 2025-04-11 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 98 | 23 |   |
| 2025-03-19 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Final Action - Passed | pass | 116 | 6 |   |

## Actions (25)

- 2025-04-24: Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-11: Conference committee report now available (Senate)
- 2025-04-11: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 33, Nay 7 (Senate)
- 2025-04-11: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted (House)
- 2025-04-11: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 98, Nay 23, Absent 4 (House)
- 2025-04-11: Engrossed on Monday, April 14, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-11: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 18, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted (Senate)
- 2025-03-26: Sen. Larry Alley, Sen. Stephen Owens, and Sen. Mary Ware are appointed to replace Sen. Mike Petersen, Sen. Rick Kloos, and Sen. Ethan Corson on the Conference Committee (Senate)
- 2025-03-25: Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Adam Turk, and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton are appointed to replace Rep. Shannon Francis, Rep. Robyn R. Essex, and Rep. Henry Helgerson on the Conference Committee (House)
- 2025-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Mike Petersen, Sen. Rick Kloos and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Shannon Francis, Rep. Robyn R. Essex and Rep. Henry Helgerson (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)
- 2025-03-05: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2025-03-03: Hearing: Monday, March 3, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-02-20: Final Action - Passed; Yea 116, Nay 6, Absent 3 (House)
- 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House)
- 2025-02-14: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Transportation (House)
- 2025-02-13: Hearing: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 582-N (House)
- 2025-02-05: Introduced (House)
- 2025-02-05: Referred to House Committee on Transportation (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by Senate Committee on Transportation: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_01_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_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 Senate Committee on Transportation (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2289/hb2289_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-HB2289-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).