Bills & Legislation

Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in eviction actions in which the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act.

Committee on Judiciary

Clarifying county authority over the transfer or appropriation of water by placing such authority, except for domestic use, with the chief engineer and water transfer hearing panel.

Barb WasingerRepublican

Prohibiting the assessment of a prepayment penalty against any party more than six months after the execution of a note evidencing a home loan made primarily for personal, family or household purposes secured by a real estate mortgage.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring that advanced practice registered nurses and registered nurse anesthetists submit to a criminal history check upon application for a nursing license.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Finney, Pawnee, Seward and Jackson counties, providing that countywide retailers' sales tax apportionment based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until December 31, 2026, and excluding exempt sales of certain custom meat processing services from sales tax exemption certificate requirements.

Committee on Taxation

Providing an additional personal exemption for head of household tax filers and increasing the personal exemption for certain disabled veterans for purposes of income tax, modifying the definition of household income related to increased property tax homestead refund claims, providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor, providing for the apportionment pursuant to the three-factor test of a manufacturer who sells alcoholic liquor, requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact, establishing deductions from income when using the single sales factor and receipts factor, providing for the decrease in corporate income tax rates, determining when sales other than tangible personal property are made in the state, excluding sales of a unitary business group of electric and natural gas public utilities, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers.

Committee on Taxation

Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Adding a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran and removing the active requirement from military service members for occupational licensure.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Committee on Health and Human Services

Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.

Committee on Insurance

Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits.

Committee on Transportation

Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

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.

Committee on Judiciary

Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Updating the Kansas national guard educational assistance act to include dependents of national guard members and the Kansas national guard educational master's for enhanced readiness and global excellence (EMERGE) program to include other advanced degrees.

Committee on Education

Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.

Committee on Appropriations

Abolishing the department of corrections alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund, creating the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund and transferring the moneys and liabilities from such abolished fund to the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain nonresidential property located in Johnson county.

Committee on Transportation

Reorganizing subsections of the public assistance statute.

Committee on Welfare Reform

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas register, authorizing the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, renaming the office of the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, securities division, renaming the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, assistant commissioner, securities division and eliminating the requirement of senate confirmation for appointees to such position, requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers and authorizing such nonadmitted insurers to transact business in Kansas with vehicle dealers and to provide excess coverage insurance on Kansas risks.

Committee on Insurance

Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Patrick Penn

Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.

Committee on Insurance

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Troy WaymasterRepublican

Substitute for HB 2149 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Requiring distributed energy retailers to disclose certain information to residential customers who are offered or seeking to install a distributed energy system, requiring the attorney general to convene an advisory group to develop, approve and periodically revise a standard form for such disclosures and requiring publication thereof, establishing requirements for interconnection and operation of distributed energy systems, increasing the total capacity limitation for an electric public utility's provision of parallel generation service and a formula to determine appropriate system size.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Substitute for HB 2114 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Clarifying which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increasing application fees for a permit to construct, modify or add to a dam, requiring post-construction permit fees and requiring any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer.

Committee on Water

Eliminating the requirement that the state 911 board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the state 911 operations fund, state 911 grant fund and state 911 fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the state 911 operations fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the state treasury to the state treasury.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Senate Substitute for HB 2125 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Modifying the deadline for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk, providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget, modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice for property tax purposes, extending reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar years 2025 and 2026, prohibiting a filing fee when a previous appeal remains pending before the board of tax appeals and authorizing the continuation of the 20-mill statewide property tax levy for schools.

Committee on Taxation

Permitting beekeepers who meet certain requirements to sell packaged honey and honeycombs without holding a food establishment or food processing plant license under the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act.

Rebecca SchmoeRepublican

Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations.

Committee on Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Education - Providing for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and correcting federal statutory citations in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.

Committee on Education

Extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years.

Committee on Water

Including funeral home online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from the voter registration books; requiring that poll workers be citizens of the United States and live within the state of Kansas; prohibiting the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents who are citizens of the United States as poll workers on the basis of residency or being a registered voter; relating to advance voting ballot applications; modifying the requirements for soliciting registered voters to submit advance voting applications.

Committee on Elections

Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to hazardous waste monitoring and permit application fees by the Kansas department of health and environment.

Committee on Insurance

Prohibiting municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program.

Committee on Welfare Reform

Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2025 legislative session.

Ty MastersonRepublican

Providing temporary rules for the Senate until permanent rules are adopted.

Ty MastersonRepublican

Providing for the assignments of seats in the Senate for the 2025 Legislative session.

Ty MastersonRepublican

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

Ty MastersonRepublican

Providing for the assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2025 Legislative session.

Daniel HawkinsRepublican

Providing temporary rules for the House of Representatives until permanent rules are adopted.

Daniel HawkinsRepublican

Providing for the organization of the House of Representatives for the 2025 legislative session

Daniel HawkinsRepublican

Providing for joint sessions of the Senate and the House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing messages from the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Adjutant General.

Daniel HawkinsRepublican

Adopting the permanent rules of the Senate for the 2025-2028 term.

Ty MastersonRepublican