Bills & Legislation

Disqualifying from the carbon dioxide capture and sequestration property tax exemption and the income tax accelerated depreciation deduction if machinery and equipment are used to inject animal manure into the ground.

Requiring the state board of healing arts to grant provisional licensure to certain international physicians with offers of employment at healthcare providers operating in Kansas.

Amending the Kansas indoor clear air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility and amending the definition of smoking to include the use of an electronic cigarette and smoking marijuana.

Prohibiting certain terms in a contract between a health insurer and a dentist and requiring that reviews, audits or investigations of healthcare providers be completed within six months.

Establishing the mental health intervention team program in the Kansas department for aging and disability services in state statute and providing incentives for coordination between school districts, qualified schools and mental health intervention team providers.

Requiring judicial foreclosure tax sales by public auction to be conducted in person at a physical location in the county.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Eliminating certain restrictions for eligibility for public assistance, including removing the requirement to cooperate with child support services, restrictions on persons convicted of drug felonies, requirements for employment and training programs, photograph requirements for benefits cards and legislative action required for expansion of medical assistance, permitting the secretary from granting categorical eligibility standards, extending the lifetime limitation on benefits, providing for hardship extensions and exempting parents providing care for a child less than one year of age.

Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act, providing for automatic increases to such limits based on the consumer price index and eliminating such limits on contributions to party committees.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.

Barbara BallardDemocrat

Creating the motor vehicle right to repair act.

Requiring certain law enforcement agencies to apply for and enter into agreements with United States immigration and customs enforcement for the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Requiring a law enforcement officer to consult with the secretary for children and families before taking a child into custody and that the secretary respond and offer consultation to such law enforcement officer outside of the secretary's operating hours.

Jarrod OusleyDemocrat

Providing that the selection of alternative payment methods by a dental provider will remain in force for the duration of a contract with a dental benefit plan.

Providing state general funds for school meals programs and prohibiting local boards from collecting money for such meals.

Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state.

Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment to certain KPERS retirants who are 85 years of age or older.

Extending the number of years of availability of the income tax credit for contributions to friends of cedar crest association and the Eisenhower foundation.

Establishing the order of priority of a decedent's surviving parents who cannot agree on the disposition of such decedent's remains.

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.

Smith, A.

Providing tax exemption eligibility for telecommunication, railroad, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment that is currently ineligible for tax exemption due to such equipment being acquired or transported into this state on or before June 30, 2006.

Enacting the student secular bill of rights to establish statutory protections against religious coercion and discrimination in public schools.

Heather MeyerDemocrat

Providing an excise tax on large employers for certain federal benefits paid to employees.

Heather MeyerDemocrat

Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine tablets.

Brett FairchildRepublican

Authorizing a special education pilot program that provides provisional accreditation to a private entity for the purpose of operating a special education teacher training program, allowing such entity to collect data from such program and providing requirements for full accreditation of such program.

Providing for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing cities to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Enacting the clean air preservation act to prohibit solar radiation modification, geoengineering, weather modification, cloud seeding and other polluting atmospheric experiments or interventions and creating a crime for violation thereof.

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.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

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

Enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act and requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Authorizing municpal court services agencies to issue identification certificates to individuals under probation supervision.

Requiring all legislators and the spouses of legislators who are in leadership positions to disclose the amount of any salary they receive paid by public funds, providing that such information be published on the legislative website and requiring such information be provided in statements of substantial interest.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas healthcare professional employment mobility and patient access act to prohibit post-employment noncompete agreements.

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies related to racial and other biased-based policing using technology and criminalizing violation of racial and other biased-based policing policies.

Prohibiting certain conduct in connection with the sale or resale of entertainment tickets and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full-time positions paid from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and lapsing state general fund appropriations for such positions for fiscal year 2026.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Providing that the legislature may approve the creation of port authorities by enactment of a bill and authorizing the governing body of the unified government of Wyandotte county and Kansas City, Kansas, to create a port authority.

David HaleyDemocrat

Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims.

David HaleyDemocrat

Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing for a property tax exemption from local government levies to the extent of the first $100,000 of appraised value for certain owner-occupied homes and authorizing local governments to propose a ballot question to opt out of such property tax exemption.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program, increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program and providing for aggregate tax credit limit increases under certain conditions.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.

Renee EricksonRepublican

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

Brenda DietrichRepublican