Bills & Legislation

Eliminating certain tax credits, exemptions, incentives, refunds and limitations, a transitional adjustment, a checkoff and a restoration program administered by the secretary that have expired or are no longer applicable.

Removing the criminal penalties for possession of a personal-use quantity of marijuana and creating a civil penalty for possession of a personal-use quantity of marijuana.

Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Claeys, J.R.

Prohibiting the transfer of hemp-derived cannabinoid products to any person under the age of 21, establishing packaging and labeling requirements for such products and amending the definition of industrial hemp and hemp products.

Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Providing funding for the state historical society to issue a scope statement, plan the work to be accomplished and issue a request for proposals for a master plan for the Quindaro ruins archaeological park in Wyandotte county, Kansas, and implement such master plan.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Requiring economic development electric rate discounts offered by public utilities to cover the incremental and variable costs to serve customers that receive such a discount.

Relating to the definitions of lobbyist, lobbying and lobbying client for purposes of the state governmental ethics law.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Prohibiting law enforcement agencies and officers from participating in immigration enforcement in places of religious worship, elementary and secondary schools and hospitals.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for certain expenses incurred by state officers and employees for travel in attending conferences or events provided by nonprofit organizations and for discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Decreasing individual income tax rates, discontinuing tax credits of the high performance incentive program and the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, discontinuing payroll withholding tax benefits of the promoting employment across Kansas act, discontinuing the crediting of certain amounts to the job creation program fund and repealing certain tax credits.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by care to share cancer support group of Bourbon county, Kansas, inc.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Requiring the approval by a majority of electors voting at an election in order for the governing body of any taxing entity to increase its total amount of property tax to be levied by more than the annual rate of inflation.

Stephen OwensRepublican

Amending the campaign finance act and the state governmental ethics laws regarding the qualifications of members of the governmental ethics commission, actions of the commission, formation of political committees, reporting requirements and requirements for "paid for" attributions.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Exempting certain qualified tips from state income tax.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Chase BlasiRepublican

Requiring the state corporation commission to engage a consulting firm to conduct a technical and legal feasibility study on new nuclear energy generation.

Claeys, Joseph

Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Requiring that special elections be held on the first Tuesday in March.

Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention of the states under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Requiring grants awarded pursuant to the Kansas educator registered apprenticeship program for education apprentice tuition and fees to be made twice per year and at the time payments for such tuition and fees are due.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Providing sales tax exemptions for certain services purchased on behalf of a provider in the provision of communication services and certain purchases by the Kansas fairgrounds foundation and modifying the definition of alcoholic beverages for purposes of the retailers' sales tax.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Clarifying modifications for certain business interest expenses and federal net operating loss carrybacks and providing a technical change to a statutory cross reference for recaptured moneys related to adoption savings accounts for purposes of Kansas income tax.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.

Pat PetteyDemocrat

Requiring legislative approval to construct high-impact electric transmission lines.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by bowling centers.

Requiring government agencies, public utilities and other entities when exercising the power of eminent domain to make a good faith offer for the property prior to filing an eminent domain action, providing the good faith offer, if greater than the appraiser's award, shall be deposited with the court, allowing appeals from that amount, prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain for recreational trails and park and recreational facilities and deleting the power of the legislature to condemn property for economic development.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue certain licenses to persons convicted of certain felonies if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.

Pat PetteyDemocrat

Enacting the back to work act to require all full-time state employees to perform such employees' duties in their assigned office, facility or field location, provide for certain exceptions by agency heads and require certain reports regarding such exceptions.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Authorizing certain inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections to petition the court for a resentencing hearing.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to allow certain high school students and students eligible to be enrolled in certain school districts to be eligible for scholarships, increasing the tax credit for contributions and the aggregate tax credit limit, providing for aggregate tax credit increases under certain conditions and providing for program administration by the state treasurer.

Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program.

Providing that no person shall be sentenced to death for crimes committed after July 1, 2025, and creating the crime of aggravated murder.

Elaine BowersRepublican

Enacting the insurance savings account act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas income tax act.

Requiring criminal history record check information relating to hemp producers to be sent to the state fire marshal, updating the fingerprinting language for the state banking commissioner for money transmitters and earned wage access services providers and authorizing the state gaming agency and attorney general to have access to more criminal history record information.

Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) advisory committee to prevent FASD and provide for treatment and support for affected individuals and their families.

Kellie WarrenRepublican

Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certain state and criminal history record checks conducted by the Kansas department for aging and disability services.

Eliminating the exemption for vehicle dealers from certain requirements of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Kellie WarrenRepublican

Requiring outpatient competency evaluations in certain circumstances and requiring the court to make specific findings for inpatient competency evaluations.

Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.

Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or public adjuster if the arrest, conviction or diversion is for a fraudulent insurance act and including automobile assigned claims plans in provisions related to fraudulent insurance acts.

Creating a special sentencing rule to add 100 months to a sentence for distribution of a controlled substance when the substance involved is fentanyl and the distribution causes the death of a child.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS 1 and KPERS 2 retirants and making appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for KPERS to pay the actuarial cost of such cost-of-living adjustment.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Authorizing victims of childhood abuse or neglect to access records related to substantiated reports or investigations of abuse or neglect.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Making it unlawful to sell, offer for sale, use or distribute certain seeds coated with a pesticide that contains a neonicotinoid unless otherwise ordered by the governor.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat