1,336 bills tracked in Kansas.
Requiring school districts to adopt policies to limit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours and requiring the state board of education to designate a period of time for social media awareness and develop goals and materials relating thereto.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in those counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county.
Barbara BallardDemocrat
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Making the theft of livestock or implements of husbandry a severity level 5, nonperson felony.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Prohibiting second and successive motions and ineffective counsel claims in habeas corpus actions and providing for direct appeal to the supreme court in habeas corpus appeals filed by inmates sentenced to death.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Requiring every employer to provide each employee with meal periods and rest periods.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Updating provisions of the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions (TEFFI) act by making the act part of the state banking code, adjusting and providing certain definitions, reducing the TEFFI charter application fee, authorizing the issuance of certificates and trust certificates, providing for the supervision of TEFFIs by the state bank commissioner and including Kansas nonprofit corporations as qualified charities for the TEFFI income tax credit.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Establishing a child income tax credit.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act.
Allen ReavisRepublican
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Amending the Kansas amusement ride act relating to inspections of amusement rides and inflatable devices, training regarding the operation of amusement rides and inflatable devices and establishing an annual permit fee for inflatable devices.
Allen ReavisRepublican
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Requiring a law enforcement officer executing a search warrant at residential premises to be uniformed and to knock and announce themselves before entering the property.
Alexis SimmonsDemocrat
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
Last action Feb 4, 2025
Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to create an informational video describing abortion laws in Kansas.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Providing funding for STAR bond districts to replace lost food sales tax revenue.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Establishing a child income tax credit.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Establishing the endow Kansas tax credit act to provide tax credits for endowment gifts to certain endowment funds held by qualified community foundations.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Authorizing parents of a child who is the subject of an investigation of abuse or neglect or a child in need of care proceeding and victims of childhood abuse or neglect to access records related to such investigation or proceeding.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Prohibiting lobbying for or by foreign adversaries; authorizing the attorney general to file civil lawsuits; providing for civil penalties for violations thereof.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by sleep in heavenly peace, inc.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Including children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder under the definition of other health impairment in the special education for exceptional children act.
Last action Feb 3, 2025
Creating a traffic infraction for not securely storing a firearm in an unattended vehicle, providing exceptions and penalties therefor and requiring the office of the attorney general to conduct a secure storage of firearms educational campaign and create materials therefor.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Enacting the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.
Barbara BallardDemocrat
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Authorizing the Kansas state employees health care commission to provide insurance coverage for certain allergen introduction dietary supplements for infants under the state health care benefits program and requiring the commission to submit an impact report to the legislature if such coverage is provided.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Providing a KPERS working after retirement exemption from the employer contribution rate for retirants who are employed as teachers by a school district in a position for which a certificate to teach is required.
Cyndi HowertonRepublican
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Enacting the every mom matters act to require the state treasurer to contract with eligible organizations to provide information and support services to pregnant women and parents considering adoption.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Providing an income tax subtraction modification for sales or taking of property subject to eminent domain.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Declaring the even-numbered year general election day as a legal public holiday.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Authorizing legal publications to be made on internet websites selected by the governing body of a city, county or school district.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Enacting the defend the guard act to prescribe when the Kansas national guard may be released from the state for active duty combat.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours and to prohibit students from using school district computers or devices to access social media platforms.
Last action Jan 31, 2025
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.
Brett FairchildRepublican
Last action Jan 31, 2025
Requiring the secretary for children and families to notify the parent of a child who is the subject of an investigation of abuse or neglect of such parent's rights during such investigation and to complete a written report upon closing such an investigation, providing for an agreement between the parent of a child and the secretary if such child is removed from the home during an investigation of abuse or neglect and a parent to withhold certain information except when otherwise ordered by a court.
Last action Jan 30, 2025
Requiring the Kansas state high school activities association to establish a school classification system based on student attendance and a multiplier factor that adjusts certain schools' student attendance.
Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican
Last action Jan 30, 2025
Requiring firearms and stun guns to be stored in locked containers, establishing crimes for failure to store such weapons where a person under 18 years of age has access to such weapons and creating more severe penalties for firearms with large-capacity magazines.
Last action Jan 30, 2025
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.
Last action Jan 30, 2025
Providing an income tax credit for the sale and distribution of biodiesel and renewable diesel blends for motor vehicle fuels.
Last action Jan 30, 2025
Imposing property tax on rental and leased vehicles and discontinuing the excise tax on the rental and lease of such vehicles.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Specifying when boards of directors for irrigation districts of 35,000 or more acres may conduct board member elections by mail ballot and establishing the terms for such members.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour.
Brandon WoodardDemocrat
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Establishing the advisory commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander affairs.
Rui XuDemocrat
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Prohibiting the permitting and siting of electric transmission lines within any area designated by the United States department of energy as a national interest electric transmission corridor.
Troy WaymasterRepublican
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for adults who want decision-making assistance and amending the crime of mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person.
Bill RhileyRepublican
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Increasing transfers from the lottery operating fund, to the community crisis stabilization centers fund and the clubhouse model program fund of the Kansas department for aging and disability services.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Requiring the secretary of state to enter into agreements with credit rating agencies for the release of certain information that can be used to verify the citizenship of persons registered to vote in this state.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Requiring school districts to offer parents the opportunity to object to educational materials and activities that are not included in approved curriculum or standards or that impair a parent's beliefs, values or principles.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Increasing the minimum expenditure amount for school districts for contracted goods and services without requiring sealed bids and the minimum expenditure amount for goods and services that the district superintendent may acquire on behalf of the school district.
Last action Jan 29, 2025
Authorizing school districts to levy an annual tax levy of up to two mills for the purposes of school building safety, security and compliance with the Americans with disabilities act and including such levy in the capital outlay state aid determination for such school districts.
Last action Jan 28, 2025
Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install, operate and maintain school bus cameras.
Last action Jan 28, 2025