Bills & Legislation

Prohibiting amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions through budget provisos, appropriations bills or temporary fiscal measures without following specified review procedures, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria, reorganizing sections for improved readability and compliance, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines and updating the criteria for determining suitable work and disqualification conditions for unemployment benefits.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Repealing or discontinuing certain income tax credit incentives, extending the income tax credit for angel investors and aviation-related employment and providing expanded options in the high performance tax credit program for tax credit transfers.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing requirements for the county sheriff operating a jail for the enforcement of United States immigration and customs enforcement detainers, requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage for law enforcement that enforces federal laws, requiring the state to pay certain judgements in a federal court action, requiring the attorney general to provide representation in certain civil actions and authorizing county sheriffs to enter into certain interlocal cooperation agreements without the approval of the board of county commissioners.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Kansas medical rights of conscience act to permit a healthcare provider to refuse to provide transgender healthcare services if such services violate the provider's conscience and creating a civil cause of action for violation of this act.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Permitting a person with a disability to be issued one special license plate for each vehicle owned, registered and operated by such person.

Committee on Transportation

Establishing the Kansas-Italy trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Italy.

Lauren BohiRepublican

Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.

Suzanne WikleDemocrat

Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Imposing conditional term limits on members of the legislature and requiring nomination for office by petition after such term limits have run.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Clarifying the identifying information in mandatory reports of abuse or neglect of children and increasing the penalty for failing to report such abuse or neglect.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefits claims process.

Committee on Veterans and Military

Authorizing each school district to include a teacher representative as a nonvoting member of such district's board of education.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Modifying uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.

Robyn R. EssexRepublican

Modifying criminal sentencing rules applicable in multiple conviction cases where consecutive sentences may be imposed by the sentencing judge and the sentence for the primary crime is a nonprison sentence.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring that a haircare plan is part of the case plan for a child in custody of the secretary for children and family services and requiring the secretary to offer training on culturally competent haircare to caregivers.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility.

Suzanne WikleDemocrat

Requiring the secretary of commerce and the secretary of wildlife and parks to jointly conduct a feasibility study regarding a potential state purchase of acorns resort and the designation of such location as a state park or the incorporation of such location into the existing Milford state park in Geary county.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers.

Committee on Judiciary

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of manufactured homes mobile homes and modular homes and materials and services used by a contractor when constructing or remodeling affordable housing for certain organizations.

Committee on Taxation

Providing that motorcycle license plates shall contain a combination of not fewer than six letters or numerals.

Adam SmithRepublican

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas medical loss ratios for dental healthcare services plans act.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Prohibiting the use of an electronic communications device while operating a motor vehicle and providing penalties for violations thereof.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Prohibiting cities and counties from requiring land as part of a right-of-way as a condition for issuing a building permit unless the property owner consents and is paid fair compensation.

Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime of reckless driving.

Committee on Transportation

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by O'Connell children's shelter, inc.

Committee on Taxation

Requiring that all election audits and recounts be conducted using a hand count of paper ballots.

Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican

Prohibiting the denial of coverage for the refilling of prescription topical eye medication.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Prohibiting social medial platforms from allowing children under 16 years of age to create, maintain or access an account unless the platform has obtained verified parental consent.

Committee on Legislative Modernization

Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Requiring the secretary of state to conduct periodic checks to compare the statewide voter registration system against the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) database and submit an annual report to the legislature on the outcomes of such checks.

Committee on Elections

Authorizing school districts to request and receive an applicant teacher’s employment files from another school district if such teacher was previously employed by such other school district and establishing which school district is responsible for and the custodian of teacher employment files that are records under the Kansas open records act.

Committee on Education

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.

Timothy JohnsonRepublican

Providing a property tax exemption for real property owned by a not-for-profit organization and used to provide affordable housing.

Committee on Taxation

Requiring school districts to provide certain information on school district annual budget forms.

Committee on Education

Excluding from sales taxation the service of installing or applying tangible personal property for the reconstruction, restoration, remodeling, renovation, repair or replacement of a building or facility.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

Enacting the student safety and awareness act to require school districts to designate a month during the school year as student safety and awareness month and to provide educational programs for students on the dangers and effects of fentanyl use, personal safety and awareness and social media literacy, safety and responsibility during such designated month.

Committee on Education

Making and concerning appropriations for the state board of regents for the Kansas blueprint for literacy, expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting.

Committee on Education

Enacting the safe and transparent arrest act to require all law enforcement agencies operating in Kansas to adopt a written policy regarding the use of facial coverings and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties except as expressly authorized by law.

Angela MartinezDemocrat

Establishing the Kansas empowerment savings program, authorizing certain employees to contribute to individual retirement accounts through an automatic payroll deduction and providing powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of the Kansas empowerment savings program board of trustees within the state treasurer's office concerning such program.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Enacting the Kansas property rights protection act to require just compensation be provided to landowners for governmental actions that impose burdens upon or diminish the value of private property.

Bill RhileyRepublican

Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Providing that the law enforcement officers memorial advisory committee may receive requests from a Kansas law enforcement agency for the Kansas highway patrol and the Kansas bureau of investigation to provide temporary personal and other assistance in support of funeral services honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the service of the state.

Committee on Transportation