# Kansas HB 2590: Enacting the Kansas community property trust act to authorize the use of community property trusts during the marriage of settlor spouses and amending the Kansas uniform trust code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorize the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand, restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration. Kansas HB 2590, Enacting the Kansas community property trust act to authorize the use of community property trusts during the marriage of settlor spouses and amending the Kansas uniform trust code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorize the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand, restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions; status signed, last action 2026-04-09 (Engrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 2026) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2590-2025-2026 - 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 2590 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Enacting the Kansas community property trust act to authorize the use of community property trusts during the marriage of settlor spouses and amending the Kansas uniform trust code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorize the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand, restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2026-01-29 - Last action: 2026-04-09, Engrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 - Sponsor: Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on financial institutions and insurance, house committee on financial institutions and pensions - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 8 (656 yes, 2 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 7 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Married couples gain shared property trusts: benefit, medium. Married couples can place some or all property in a Kansas community property trust, even without living in Kansas. Both spouses must sign, include the required warning, and use a Kansas-resident trustee or Kansas-authorized fiduciary company. Assets count as community property during marriage; ass… - Trust rules protect surviving spouses’ half: benefit, medium. When one spouse dies, the survivor owns half the trust’s total value, outside the deceased spouse’s inheritance directions. The deceased spouse’s half follows their will or succession law. The survivor’s half is excluded from the elective estate used to calculate a spouse’s statutory inheritance cl… - Divorcing spouses split trust assets equally: mixed, medium. Divorce generally ends the community property trust, with half its assets going to each spouse. A pending divorce case alone does not end it, but a case pending for 180 days generally does. Exceptions apply when, within those 180 days, either spouse objects in writing, a court orders otherwise, spo… - Trust debt claims follow spouses’ shares: mixed, medium. For a debt incurred by one spouse before or during marriage, creditors can reach that spouse’s half of the trust. The other spouse’s half is outside that recovery rule. For debts both spouses incur during marriage, creditors can reach trust property generally. Placing assets in this trust does not… - Trust creators can receive tax reimbursements: mixed, medium. Unless trust terms say otherwise, trustees can reimburse grantor-trust creators for income taxes attributable to the trust. This covers liability under 26 U.S.C. § 671 or other applicable federal tax law. The trustee chooses whether to pay; reimbursement is not required. Payments cannot exceed the… - Representatives can bind trust beneficiaries: mixed, low. Designated representatives can act for and bind beneficiaries in specified court proceedings and out-of-court trust matters. This includes children, incapacitated people, unborn beneficiaries, and people whose identity or location cannot reasonably be found. Representatives must agree to serve, are… - Spouses gain grounds to challenge trusts: mixed, low. A spouse resisting enforcement can prove legal grounds to invalidate a community property trust made during marriage. Grounds include extreme unfairness, lack of voluntary agreement, fraud, duress, coercion, or specified failures to disclose information. A court decides whether the trust is legally… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions ## 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: 125 Nay: 0 | pass | 125 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 123 Nay: 1 | pass | 123 | 1 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-03-26 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 125 | 0 | | | 2026-03-25 | 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 | pass | 123 | 1 | | ## Actions (21) - 2026-04-09: Engrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 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) - 2026-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 125, Nay 0 (House) - 2026-03-25: Conference committee report now available (Senate) - 2026-03-25: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-24: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Brenda Dietrich, Sen. Michael Fagg and Sen. Silas Miller appointed as conferees (Senate) - 2026-03-23: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Nick Hoheisel, Rep. Angela Stiens and Rep. Rui Xu (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) - 2026-03-11: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance (Senate) - 2026-03-05: Hearing: Thursday, March 5, 2026, 9:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate) - 2026-02-19: Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance (Senate) - 2026-02-18: Final Action - Passed; Yea 123, Nay 1, Absent 1 (House) - 2026-02-18: Received and Introduced (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House) - 2026-02-11: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions (House) - 2026-02-02: Hearing: Monday, February 2, 2026, 9:00 AM — Room 582-N (House) - 2026-01-29: Introduced (House) - 2026-01-29: Referred to House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions (House) ## Bill text - As Amended by Senate Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb2590_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2590/hb2590_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2590/hb2590_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/hb2590_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2590/hb2590_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2590/hb2590_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) - [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-HB2590-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).