# Kansas SB 13: Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state. Kansas SB 13, Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Government Efficiency; status signed, last action 2025-04-01 (Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB13-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 13 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-16 - Last action: 2025-04-01, Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Government Efficiency - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on federal and state affairs, senate committee on government efficiency - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (322 yes, 4 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 7 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Farm workers can choose no representation: benefit, low. Eligible agricultural workers can vote for an employee organization listed on their representation ballot or choose “no representation.” This gives workers an explicit choice not to have an organization represent them. - More state workers get dues deductions: benefit, low. Kansas state officers and employees can authorize payroll dues deductions for any employee organization they belong to. The organization no longer needs an annual report filing or business agent registration to qualify. Written authorization must cover at least 180 days and can be ended with 30 day… - Labor groups face fewer filing rules: benefit, low. Kansas labor groups no longer file governing documents, annual financial reports, or officer and office information with the Secretary of State. Agricultural employee groups seeking certification still need governing documents that meet the required internal rules. Business agents still need licens… - Taxpayers lose one income tax relief process: cost, low. The law ends one process for canceling Kansas income tax debt exceeding $100, including penalties and interest. Under that process, the secretary petitioned the State Board of Tax Appeals to cancel the debt. The related order and public list of canceled debts are no longer required. This repeal end… - State loses river erosion easement authority: cost, low. The law ends the Kansas Water Office director’s authority under these statutes to arrange conservation easements on state river property. That authority covered erosion-control projects on the Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri rivers in Kansas. The related notice, public comment, and easement-filing r… - Labor agents face fewer license penalties: mixed, low. After an interested party complains of a violation, the attorney general or a county attorney can bring an enforcement action. Courts can no longer suspend or revoke a labor business agent’s license through that action. This removes a possible penalty for agents and a remedy available through enfor… - Warehouse rules ease, customer safeguards end: mixed, low. The law repeals several requirements for bonded warehouse operators, including bond and licensing rules. Operators face fewer state requirements, while customers lose the safeguards those rules provided. The law does not establish replacement bond or licensing rules. ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Government Efficiency ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 121 Nay: 2 | pass | 121 | 2 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-19 | House | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 121 | 2 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 | | ## Actions (16) - 2025-04-01: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-25: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, March 25, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (House) - 2025-03-19: Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted (House) - 2025-03-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 121, Nay 2, Absent 2 (House) - 2025-03-18: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Federal and State Affairs (House) - 2025-03-11: Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 9:00 AM — Room 346-S (House) - 2025-02-25: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-25: Referred to House Committee on Federal and State Affairs (House) - 2025-02-19: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (Senate) - 2025-02-06: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency (Senate) - 2025-01-29: Hearing: Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 9:30 AM — Room 144-S (Senate) - 2025-01-17: Referred to Senate Committee on Government Efficiency (Senate) - 2025-01-16: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_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 Government Efficiency (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_13/sb13_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) - [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-SB13-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).