Bills & Legislation

Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations.

Committee on Commerce

Providing that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1958, that restrict the use of real property owned by state educational institutions for only single-family residence purposes and contain discriminatory provisions to restrict ownership or tenancy by race are against public policy and therefore void.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Validating the election results for the bond issuance question submitted by the board of education of USD 200, Greeley county, at a special election held on May 21, 2024.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.

Committee on Judiciary

Substitute for SB 29 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Removing the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Providing for occupational licensing annual reports by agencies to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations and requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by the legislature by ratification.

Committee on Judiciary

Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval.

Committee on Commerce

Substitute for SB 45 by Committee on Education - Requiring the state board of education to calculate graduation rates for all school districts for purposes of accreditation using an alternative calculation.

Committee on Education

Authorizing Audubon of Kansas to convey certain property in Wabaunsee county and requiring any deeds or conveyances related to such property be reviewed and approved by the state historical society.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Substitute for SB 67 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe, procure and administer drugs consistent with the registered nurse anesthetist's education and qualifications.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Requiring the state long-term care ombudsman and regional ombudsman to receive training in memory care.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Removing the prisoner review board from the supervision of the secretary of corrections, changing the appointing authority and creating qualifications for the members of the board and requiring parole hearings to be postponed if proper notice of the public comment session is not made to the victim.

Committee on Judiciary

Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibiting accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and providing a cause of action for violations thereof.

Committee on Education

Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and reducing the number of audits required for such program.

Committee on Education

Reviving repealed statutes related to estates of absentees and requiring nonresident fiduciaries to appoint an agent residing in this state.

Committee on Judiciary

Substitute for SB 54 by Committee on Judiciary - Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requiring reporting of such agreements to courts.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains.

Committee on Transportation

Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Increasing the statutory limits on bonds issued by a township based on township population and purpose of the bond issuance.

Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Enacting the Kansas consumer prescription protection and accountability act and providing for regulation and registration of pharmacy benefits managers.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

Committee on Judiciary

Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

Committee on Transportation

Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher, providing for special education state aid reimbursement for certain qualified teachers, authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.

Committee on Education

Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain amount in the budget stabilization fund.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.

Committee on Ways and Means

Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer and removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income.

Joint Committee on Fiduciary Financial Institutions Oversight

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.

Committee on Education

Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures.

Committee on Commerce

Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.

Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State

Authorizing financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of an adult account holder to a designated agency, notify any adult designated as a trusted contact by such account holder of suspected financial exploitation and place a temporary hold on certain transactions or disbursements. Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, and establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators. Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy. Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act, and eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring the state board of education to report to the legislature on federal moneys received by the state, ending certain educational reporting requirements and applying expiration dates to other educational reporting requirements.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

Providing that applicants for a physician assistant license submit to a criminal record check, providing for the collaboration between physicians and physician assistants and requiring the revocation of a physician assistant license under certain circumstances.

Committee on Health and Human Services

House Sub for SB 126 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund, increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances and increasing the annual assessment rate on hospital providers.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Substitute for HB 2731 by Committee on Welfare Reform -Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.

Committee on Welfare Reform

Enacting the speech-language pathology assistant act to provide for the licensure of speech-language pathology assistants.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

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.

Committee on Government Efficiency

Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas, coordination between the department of commerce and the office of judicial administration.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources