Bills & Legislation

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.

Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

Requiring the governor to appointment persons to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.

Committee on Elections

Authorizing the state corporation commission to increase or decrease an electric public utility's return on equity based on whether such utility's all-in average retail rate has increased or decreased.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Repealing restrictions on municipal regulation of political signs during certain periods of time around election days.

Committee on Local Government

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.

Committee on Appropriations

Requiring the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to provide certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

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

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.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing certain offenders to petition for relief from registration requirements under the Kansas offender registration act.

Committee on Judiciary

Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as a member of a health care sharing ministry.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing the advisory commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander affairs.

Rui XuDemocrat

Enacting the consumer inflation reduction and tax fairness act and exempting the portion of a credit card transaction constituting a tax or gratuity from assessment of the fee charged by the card issuer.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by Kansas legal services, inc.

Committee on Taxation

Creating the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion.

Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican

Substitute for HB 2081 by Committee on Taxation - Providing a sales tax exemption for community pharmacies serving medically underserved individuals and families.

Committee on Taxation

Restricting residential homestead property taxes to not more than the established base year for those individual 65 years of age and older.

Committee on Taxation

Providing an income tax credit for contributions to a child care provider or intermediary.

Committee on Taxation

Designating a portion of United States highway 77 as the POW MIA memorial highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 (026) in Clay county as the POW MIA memorial bridge.

Committee on Veterans and Military

Exempting certain devices and contests from the crime of unlawful gambling.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring interest earnings of the parks fee fund to be transferred to such fund each month.

Committee on Ways and Means

Imposing a nameplate capacity tax and a production tax upon certain wind farms and solar facilities, crediting the nameplate capacity tax and the production tax revenue to the property tax relief fund, creating the property tax relief fund, transferring moneys from the property tax relief fund to the state school district finance fund and decreasing the statewide property tax levy for schools.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and allowing certain service credit purchases of previous KPERS security officer service for purposes of KP&F retirement benefits.

Pat ProctorRepublican

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

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Providing a rebate instead of an income tax credit for the high performance tax credit program and capping the maximum rebate provided.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.

Brett FairchildRepublican

Prohibiting the acquisition of critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and the procurement of final or finished goods or services from countries of concern.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Repealing the prohibition on municipal establishment of guaranteed income programs.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Restoring homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

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.

Committee on Judiciary

Enacting the applied behavior analysis services in school act to authorize the provision of medically necessary behavioral health services by private providers in schools and requiring school districts to adopt policies for the provision of such services.

Committee on Education

Authorizing the sale of electronic cigarettes in cigarette vending machines.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Allowing an itemized deduction for certain wagering losses for individual income tax purposes.

Committee on Taxation

Reducing the authorized amount of days that a child may be placed in a secure facility and eliminating the court's option to extend such authorization.

Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

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

Committee on Health and Human Services

Enacting the dietitian licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dietitians.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by not-for-profit corporations operating a community theater.

Committee on Taxation

Requiring that comparable sales of residential property occur within the subdivision or township or the closest-located subdivision or township where such property is located for valuing real property.

Committee on Taxation

Exempting correctional authorities and certain business entities contracting with correctional authorities from certain rules and regulations governing the possession, transportation and use of explosive materials.

Committee on Ways and Means

Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the Kansas municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pool act and establishing certain reserve, maximum exposure funding and reporting requirements for municipal self-funded medical and prescription drug insurance pools.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Committee on Ways and Means

Modifying the definition of security officer to include certain juvenile corrections officer positions for purposes of the KPERS correctional employees group.

Pat ProctorRepublican

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

Committee on Federal and State Affairs