# Kansas SB 139: Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code. Kansas SB 139, Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance; status signed, last action 2025-04-10 (Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB139-2025-2026 - 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 139 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-31 - Last action: 2025-04-10, Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 - Sponsor: Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on financial institutions and pensions, senate committee on financial institutions and insurance - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 8 (648 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 7 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Companies get hearings on bank control: benefit, low. Companies must receive notice when the Kansas banking commissioner determines they may control a bank or another company's policies or management. They also get a chance for a hearing under the Kansas Administrative Procedure Act. - Merged banks lose charters next business day: benefit, low. An approved merger may end the separate existence of a bank or trust company. When it does, that institution's charter becomes void the next business day after the merger is completed. - More institutions can advertise financial services: benefit, low. Entities with federally insured deposits and a Kansas, other state, or federal charter can advertise banking services without Kansas commissioner authority. Federally insured banks and credit unions can also advertise trust services without that authority. Another state or the federal government mu… - Banks must report leadership changes sooner: cost, low. Kansas banks and trust companies must report newly appointed chief executives, presidents, and directors before they start their duties. Reports must include each person's past and current business and professional ties. Institutions must report voluntary or involuntary departures from these roles… - Out-of-state trust companies face stricter standards: cost, low. The commissioner can require out-of-state trust companies to meet the stricter of two sets of requirements. These are Kansas banking rules and their home state's requirements for Kansas trust companies doing business there. This authority applies to companies operating or seeking to operate in Kans… - Trust offices face notices, wider move exemptions: mixed, low. Trust companies applying to open, operate, or move a trust service office must publish daily notice for two consecutive weeks. The public must have at least 10 days to comment after the second publication. Companies can ask the commissioner to exempt moves of less than 10 miles, up from less than o… - Trustee changes get tiered paperwork rules: mixed, low. Applications to replace a trustee generally no longer need certified board action or proof of publication. Those documents are required when the originating trustee or financial institution transfers more than 50% of its total fiduciary accounts. For those transfers, notice must run every day for t… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 122 Nay: 0 | pass | 122 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 122 Nay: 0 | pass | 122 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-26 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2025-03-25 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 122 | 0 | | | 2025-03-17 | House | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 122 | 0 | | | 2025-02-19 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 40 | 0 | | ## Actions (21) - 2025-04-10: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-04-08: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-03-25: Conference committee report now available (House) - 2025-03-25: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 122, Nay 0, Absent 3 (House) - 2025-03-19: Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Nick Hoheisel, Rep. Angela Stiens and Rep. Rui Xu appointed as conferees (House) - 2025-03-18: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Brenda Dietrich, Sen. Michael Fagg and Sen. Marci Francisco (Senate) - 2025-03-17: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 122, Nay 0, Absent 3 (House) - 2025-03-14: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2025-03-14: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2025-03-10: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions (House) - 2025-03-05: Hearing: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9:00 AM — Room 582-N (House) - 2025-02-20: Received and Introduced (House) - 2025-02-20: Referred to House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions (House) - 2025-02-19: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate) - 2025-02-19: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance (Senate) - 2025-02-12: Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 9:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate) - 2025-02-11: Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate) - 2025-02-03: Referred to Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance (Senate) - 2025-01-31: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_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 House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_139/sb139_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-SB139-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).