# Kansas HB 2342: Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions.

Kansas HB 2342, Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development; status signed, last action 2025-04-11 (Law effective May 1, 2025) (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas HB 2342
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-02-07
- Last action: 2025-04-11, Law effective May 1, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on judiciary, house committee on commerce
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 8 (652 yes, 2 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 6

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Privacy safeguards protect background-check records: benefit, low. Fingerprints and criminal records received through the law's shared background-check process are confidential and exempt from Kansas open-records requests. That confidentiality protection expires July 1, 2029, unless lawmakers review and reenact it. Using or sharing information from that process fo…
- Detective-law applicants now include firearm permit seekers: cost, low. Kansas private detective law now counts people seeking a firearm permit under that law as applicants. They join people seeking private detective or detective agency licenses in provisions that use the term “applicant.” This definition alone sets no new fee, background check, or eligibility rule.
- Commerce workers face job screening standards: cost, low. The Kansas Commerce secretary may order state and national criminal checks for employees and final applicants in sensitive jobs. Final applicants are among the most qualified and under final consideration for a job offer. Covered jobs include senior leaders, IT managers, chief counsel, and grant or…
- Financial-service leaders face criminal record screening: cost, low. Beginning January 1, 2025, the Kansas bank commissioner may require fingerprints and state and national criminal checks for money-transmission licensing. Covered people include applicants in control of a licensee, licensees, and key individuals; checks may accompany an original application. People…
- Criminal checks bring fees and fingerprint help: mixed, low. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation may charge a reasonable fee for criminal checks under the law's shared background-check process. A person or organization subject to a check may have to pay, but the law sets no amount. State and local law enforcement agencies must help take fingerprints for peopl…
- Labor staff face tax-data background checks: mixed, low. Kansas Labor employees with access to federal tax information received directly from the IRS must undergo fingerprinting and criminal checks. The checks use state and national records and cover employees already granted access or due to receive it. This adds employee screening while helping safegua…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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: 39 Nay: 1 | pass | 39 | 1 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 123 Nay: 0 | pass | 123 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 124 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-27 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-19 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 39 | 1 |   |
| 2025-02-20 | House | Final Action - Passed | pass | 123 | 0 |   |

## Actions (23)

- 2025-04-11: Law effective May 1, 2025 (House)
- 2025-04-10: Engrossed on Monday, March 31, 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 40, Nay 0 (Senate)
- 2025-03-27: Conference committee report now available (Senate)
- 2025-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1 (House)
- 2025-03-25: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Sean Tarwater, Rep. Adam Turk and Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton (House)
- 2025-03-25: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees (Senate)
- 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 39, Nay 1 (Senate)
- 2025-03-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate)
- 2025-03-11: Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S (Senate)
- 2025-02-26: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate)
- 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (Senate)
- 2025-02-20: Final Action - Passed; Yea 123, Nay 0, Absent 2 (House)
- 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House)
- 2025-02-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development (House)
- 2025-02-14: Hearing: Friday, February 14, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 346-S (House)
- 2025-02-13: Hearing: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 346-S — CANCELED (House)
- 2025-02-07: Introduced (House)
- 2025-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development (House)

## Bill text

- As Amended by Senate Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_01_0000.pdf)
- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_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 Senate Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_01_0000.pdf)
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2342/hb2342_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-HB2342-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).