Bills & Legislation

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Sheridan county for the purpose of financing the costs of constructing a jail and law enforcement center.

House Substitute for SB 51 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports, updating statutes related to services provided by the chief information technology officer and authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals.

Prohibiting the enforcement of federal immigration laws at polling places and locations designated for the canvassing, auditing and recounting of ballots.

Increasing the penalty for a second or subsequent adjudication of criminal use of weapons and modifying the penalties for the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and the length of the ban on possessing a weapon for certain felons.

Increasing the annual limit on transfers from the lottery operating fund to the community crisis stabilization centers fund and the clubhouse model program fund.

Removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and firearm barrel length qualification requirement.

Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.

Creating the Kansas public employees retirement system cost-of-living adjustment commission, prescribing powers and duties of the commission and establishing procedures of the legislature relating to the annual cost-of-living adjustment rate recommended by the commission.

Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions.

Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Providing income tax credits for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel and expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and discontinuing income tax credits for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, environmental compliance, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement.

Adding kratom to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming amendments to the definition of fentanyl-related controlled substance in the criminal code.

Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to provide annual training on freedom of speech, association and exercise of religion to certain individuals based on materials, programs and procedures developed by the state board of regents, in consultation with the attorney general, requiring the state board of regents to confirm that each such institution has complied with training requirements and authorizing the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance.

Enacting the motor vehicle right to repair act.

Expanding the definition of stalking to include more technology-based methods, requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies for making primary aggressor assessments when responding to domestic violence calls and requiring a prosecutor to affirm such assessment was completed, prohibiting public agencies from charging fees to victims of domestic violence for public records, allowing evidence of other domestic violence offenses to be admissible in a criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a domestic violence offense, adding certain contact to options for protection from abuse or stalking orders and allowing lifetime extensions of protection from abuse orders for victims of domestic battery.

Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.

Adding an element to the crime of sexual exploitation of a child that involves communication through electronic means and social media and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Requiring law enforcement agencies to share records with other law enforcement agencies about law enforcement officers related to criminal conduct or conduct giving rise to licensing or certification sanctions.

Authorizing the imposition of a privilege tax by a municipality for the privilege of selling alcoholic beverages, food and food ingredients and tobacco within a community improvement district.

Requiring that each attendance center needs assessment be conducted by the local board of education and include input from board members, teachers, school site councils and school administrators and that board members receive certain state assessment data and identify allocations of money in the school district budget and budget summary.

Providing for a universal homestead exemption from ad valorem property taxation.

Enacting the Kansas property tax freedom act of 2026, providing for the phased elimination of property taxation and for revenue replacement grants to taxing subdivisions, establishing the Kansas fair share purchase surcharge and providing such revenue to taxing subdivisions, the state general fund and the new property tax freedom reserve fund and providing for freedom dividend rebates.

Moving marijuana from schedule I to schedule III of the uniform controlled substances act.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing, providing for the sealing and expungement of court records in eviction actions related to such rental agreements and requiring mediation in such eviction cases unless the court finds that mediation would not aid the parties materially.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Creating a civil cause of action for violations of the constitution or laws of the United States by any person acting under the color of law.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence and setting forth relevant procedures.

Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure and increasing the criminal penalties for assault or battery of a utility or communications employee.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Authorizing comprehensive wellness programs for the Kansas highway patrol and Kansas bureau of investigation, permitting law enforcement personnel of other state agencies to participate in such programs and making annual transfers from the state highway fund and the state general fund for the purpose of financing the implementation of such programs.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring school districts to demonstrate improvement in academic performance and be in compliance with all federal and state statutes and rules and regulations to achieve or maintain accreditation.

Exempting certain property used for thrift store purposes by a church or religious organization from property tax.

Rick KloosRepublican

Establishing the Kansas first responder scholarship program to provide postsecondary tuition assistance to certain first responders and dependents of such first responders.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring hospitals use a surgical smoke plume evacuation system and adopt policies for the evacuation of surgical smoke during certain surgical procedures.

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity delivered to residential premises for noncommercial use.

David HaleyDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas short-term, limited duration insurance act; establishing definitions, disclosure, premiums, renewal and underwriting requirements relating thereto and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt rules and regulations to implement and oversee the act.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Authorizing the administrator to set and the commissioner of insurance to cause to be published in the Kansas register certain fees and eliminating the 10% credit to the state general fund required of fee funded agencies as reimbursement for certain services provided by the state.

Requiring school districts to publicly list the names and email addresses of current school board members, authorizing local school board members to add new items to board meeting discussions, ask questions or engage in discussion with members of the public and access school property, authorizing members of the public to address school boards at board meetings and authorizing payment of annual dues to any not-for-profit organization that provides services to member school districts.

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $16 an hour and making such minimum wage applicable to employers and employees covered under the provisions of the federal fair labor standards act.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Repealing the prohibition on municipal establishment of guaranteed income programs.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Providing tenants with relief from use by landlords of old eviction or rental arrears records to deny housing.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Including limited liability partnerships as an entity required to obtain county approval to establish a dairy or swine production facility.

Prohibiting certain persons from recovering damages in certain civil actions and creating requirements for actions involving negligent security.

Requiring offenders convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death to register under the Kansas offender registration act.

Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.

Requiring state assessments performance levels and cut scores to be based on the 2024 performance levels and cut scores.

Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.

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