# Kansas SB 8: Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights.

Kansas SB 8, Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Transportation; status signed, last action 2025-03-21 (Approved by Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas SB 8
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights.
- Status: signed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2025-01-15
- Last action: 2025-03-21, Approved by Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025
- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: house committee on transportation, senate committee on transportation
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 3 (277 yes, 0 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 1

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Drivers must move over near stopped vehicles: mixed, medium. Kansas drivers must use caution near stopped or parked vehicles showing hazard lights, flares, cones, signs, or reflective triangles. On highways with at least two lanes going their way, drivers must move to a lane not beside the vehicle when safe. If moving over is unsafe or impossible, or on othe…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 119 Nay: 0 | pass | 119 | 0 |   |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 39 Nay: 0 | pass | 39 | 0 |   |
| 2025-03-10 | House | Final Action - Passed | pass | 119 | 0 |   |

## Actions (12)

- 2025-03-21: Approved by Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025 (Senate)
- 2025-03-14: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 14, 2025 (Senate)
- 2025-03-10: Final Action - Passed; Yea 119, Nay 0, Absent 6 (House)
- 2025-03-05: Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by House Committee on Transportation (House)
- 2025-02-27: Hearing: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 582-N (House)
- 2025-02-07: Received and Introduced (House)
- 2025-02-07: Referred to House Committee on Transportation (House)
- 2025-02-06: Consent Calendar Passed (Senate)
- 2025-01-28: Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2025-01-23: Hearing: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate)
- 2025-01-16: Referred to Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2025-01-15: Introduced (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_8/sb8_00_0000.pdf)
- Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_8/sb8_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 Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_8/sb8_00_0000.pdf)
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_8/sb8_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)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB8-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).