# Kansas HB 2518: Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act. Kansas HB 2518, Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Judiciary; status signed, last action 2026-04-09 (Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2518-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas HB 2518 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2026-01-22 - Last action: 2026-04-09, Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026 - Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on judiciary, house committee on judiciary - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 8 (656 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Funding companies face fines and oversight: benefit, medium. Consumer legal funding companies must register with the Kansas secretary of state. After notice, a hearing opportunity, and a finding of willful violation, the attorney general can assess up to $10,000 per violation. When penalties are assessed, the company cannot recover the funded amount or contr… - Clearer funding contracts and cancellation rights: benefit, low. Covered Kansas plaintiffs must receive clear, fully completed contracts, with page initials, signature warnings, and prominent front-page cost and rights notices. Contracts must show cash received, all charges regardless of label, itemized one-time charges, maximum repayment, and amounts at six-mon… - Consumers keep control of funded claims: benefit, low. Funding companies cannot influence how your claim is handled or settled; those decisions stay with you and your attorney. Companies cannot seek waivers of your rights or remedies, including jury trial rights. They cannot knowingly offer or arrange funding to make a represented consumer switch attor… - Funding referrals face conflict safeguards: benefit, low. Funding companies cannot pay, offer, or accept referral commissions or other consideration involving covered legal or medical providers or their employees. They also cannot advertise false or misleading claims. Your attorney and the attorney's immediate family cannot hold a financial stake in a com… - Repeat funding and funding sources restricted: cost, low. A company that knows you already sold claim proceeds generally must pay or purchase the earlier funded amount and contracted charges before funding again. The companies can agree in writing to a smaller payoff. Funding at the same time is allowed with written consent from you and your attorney. Com… - Attorney review safeguards your funding contract: mixed, low. Your attorney must acknowledge reviewing required disclosures and representing you under a written agreement for payment from your recovery. The acknowledgment confirms proceeds go through an attorney trust account or settlement fund, with payment to the company and steps to fulfill the contract. I… - Claim funding gets new repayment rules: mixed, low. Kansas plaintiffs can sell rights to future claim proceeds for cash for personal or household expenses, not claim expenses. Repayment comes only from available claim proceeds; with no proceeds, you owe nothing except for material contract breaches, fraud, or misrepresentation. Amounts due must be s… - Funding disclosure duties and privacy protections: mixed, low. After a written request, you or your attorney must disclose whether you entered a funding contract within 30 days. Disclosure goes to the requesting claim party and each insurer with a duty to defend. A continuing duty also requires disclosure within 30 days after entering a funding contract. Your… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Judiciary ## 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: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 124 Nay: 0 | pass | 124 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 124 Nay: 0 | pass | 124 | 0 | | | 2026-03-27 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 124 | 0 | | | 2026-03-27 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-03-19 | Senate | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-02-18 | House | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 124 | 0 | | ## Actions (25) - 2026-04-09: Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026 (House) - 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026 (House) - 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026 (House) - 2026-03-27: Conference committee report now available (Senate) - 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1 (House) - 2026-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees (Senate) - 2026-03-23: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman (House) - 2026-03-19: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-18: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2026-03-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate) - 2026-03-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2026-03-11: Hearing: Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 10:30 AM — Room 346-S (Senate) - 2026-02-25: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate) - 2026-02-24: Received and Introduced (Senate) - 2026-02-19: Engrossed on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 (House) - 2026-02-18: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1 (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Bradley Barrett (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Bradley Barrett was adopted (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2026-02-12: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary (House) - 2026-02-02: Hearing: Monday, February 2, 2026, 3:30 PM — Room 582-N (House) - 2026-01-22: Introduced (House) - 2026-01-22: Referred to House Committee on Judiciary (House) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_01_0000.pdf) - As Amended by Senate Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb2518_03_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_enrolled.pdf) - {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_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 (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_01_0000.pdf) - [As Amended by Senate Committee (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb2518_03_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_enrolled.pdf) - [{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2518/hb2518_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-HB2518-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).