Bills & Legislation

Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Repealing the three-mile extraterritorial planning and zoning authority for cities.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Providing for the election of county appraisers and discontinuing the authority to form appraisal districts with district appraisers.

Increasing the mandatory retirement age for certain judges, requiring more years of service prior to receiving a member contribution reduction and increasing the maximum retirement benefit.

Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.

Modifying member appointment, compensation and meeting requirements of the Kansas fire service training commission.

Creating the bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund and providing definitions, procedures and requirements for abandoned digital assets.

Craig BowserRepublican

Requiring correctional facilities and jails to allow inmates and prisoners to make telephone calls at no cost.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Enacting the age-appropriate school device act to establish safety standards and requirements for the use of school-issued devices in certain grade levels and authorizing parents to opt students out of certain uses of such devices.

Requiring the Kansas state high school activities association to establish a school classification system for activities based on student attendance and a multiplier factor that adjusts certain schools' student attendance.

Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Prohibiting plaintiffs from filing abusive civil actions against certain defendants with whom the plaintiff has a current or former family, household or dating relationship and authorizing the court to impose prefiling restrictions on such plaintiffs.

Removing breastfeeding mothers from the mandatory jury service exclusion list and including them in the discretionary jury service exclusion list.

Extending the expiration date of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act from 2027 to 2028.

Requiring the state board of regents to adopt rules and regulations to prohibit state moneys from being allocated for certain low-earning outcome programs and prohibiting political subdivisions from allocating state moneys for certain low-earning outcome programs.

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028 and 2029 for various state agencies.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Providing requirements for agreements between a school district and a postsecondary educational institution for the provision of postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Authorizing the KPERS board of trustees to invest in bitcoin exchange-traded products and providing requirements, limitations and definitions regarding such investments.

Craig BowserRepublican

Including a home school within the definition of private elementary and secondary school and defining home school.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Providing for a presidential preference primary election every four years commencing in 2028 and aligning the special election date in March with the presidential preference primary election date.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Prohibiting the use of fluoride additives in public water supplies.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Excluding buyer's premiums from the sale price of property purchased at auction for real estate sales validation questionnaire and property tax valuation purposes.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.

Providing that the failure of an alcohol or drug test can be certified when the law enforcement officer administering such test had reasonable grounds to believe a person was attempting to operate a vehicle.

Kellie WarrenRepublican

Modifying the definition of earnings to include paid compensation for wage garnishment exemption purposes.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Expanding property tax exemption eligibility to include commercial and industrial machinery and equipment that was acquired or transported into this state on or before June 30, 2006.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Requiring that vehicle turn signals be used when moving right or left or exiting a roundabout.

Brad StarnesRepublican

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to establish a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of Kansas to provide charitable consumer financial education initiatives in Kansas.

Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting members of the legislature from engaging in transactions involving stocks and other securities during legislative sessions.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Eliminating state income tax on certain qualified overtime compensation.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Regulating the acceptance of cryptocurrency as a form of campaign contribution.

Craig BowserRepublican

Designating a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the deputy sheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental office using licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Prohibiting members of the legislature from lobbying for a period of four years after leaving office.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring persons convicted of or given diversion agreements for driving under the influence to attend victim impact panel programs.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Requiring veterans with a condition from military service to be offered diversion for certain offenses and expanding the mitigating factor for departure at sentencing for veterans.

Stephen OwensRepublican

Classifying crimes related to driving under the influence and driving a commercial vehicle under the influence as person crimes.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to revoke a TEFFI charter, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating council.

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Chase BlasiRepublican

Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Virgil PeckRepublican

Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature.

Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.