Bills & Legislation

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 33 by Committee on Taxation - Providing that countywide retailers' sales tax is apportioned based on total assessed valuations of the county and cities within the county rather than property taxes levied.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor and removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Reducing insurance company premium tax rates and discontinuing remittance and crediting of a portion of the premium tax to the insurance department service regulation fund.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Exempting the state of Kansas from daylight saving time but providing for moving to permanent daylight saving time upon an act of Congress requiring such move.

Kenny TitusRepublican

Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.

Committee on Education

Prohibiting nonresidents from hunting migratory waterfowl during certain times and places and increasing fees for migratory waterfowl habitat stamps.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Extending the time period for eligibility for the loan repayment program and the income tax credit for rural opportunity zones, adding down payment assistance and child care reimbursement as program benefit options and expanding eligibility for the income tax credit.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Regulating the manufacture, wholesale and distribution of electronic cigarettes in this state and establishing licensure of electronic cigarette manufacturers.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Deleting the requirement that the name of treasurers be listed in attributions for political advertising.

Committee on Elections

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Ty MastersonRepublican

Enacting the defense of drug delivery act to prohibit manufacturer interference relating to 340B drug distribution.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services.

Committee on Utilities

Permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance.

Committee on Insurance

Modifying an exception to the Kansas open records act that authorizes certain individuals to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership by providing that certain individuals who were employed for five or more years, certain elected officials and persons who reside at an address that is subject to restriction from public access may request to have such information restricted and removing an exception related to information or reports obtained and prepared by the office of the state bank commissioner.

Committee on Judiciary

Modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals for school district at-risk accountability plans.

Committee on Education

Including gross vehicle weight in the definitions for classes of commercial motor vehicles for drivers' license purposes and modifying the definition of commercial motor vehicle and creating a definition of air mile and gross vehicle weight in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

Committee on Transportation

Adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Substitute for Substitute for HB 2132 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody.

Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

Substitute for HB 2798 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents.

Committee on Appropriations

Transferring officers, employees, powers, duties and functions relating to the state health care benefits program from the division of the state employee health benefits plan of the department of administration to the insurance department, establishing the commissioner of insurance as the chairperson of the Kansas state employees health care commission, providing that all management functions of such commission be administered by the commissioner of insurance and eliminating a pilot program regarding employer contributions for certain children.

Committee on Insurance

Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing a property tax exemption for new energy storage systems and excluding new energy storage systems from the commercial and industrial machinery and equipment exemption.

Committee on Taxation

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.

Committee on Insurance

Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program or increases cost to the state or making certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Committee on Government Efficiency

Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege and requiring training for persons obligated to report abuse and neglect.

Committee on Judiciary

Enacting the utility railroad crossing act and establishing a process and limitations for utilities to interact with railroad right-of-way.

Committee on Utilities

Enacting the Kansas health insurance affordability transparency act to require a report specifying the financial impact to covered individuals resulting from the passage of certain health insurance legislation.

Committee on Insurance

Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an American civics examination in order to graduate with a high school diploma.

Committee on Education

Requiring citizenship status be listed on driver's licenses.

Committee on Elections

Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for allowing an adult to receive decision-making assistance from one or more other adults, requirements for decision-making agreements and duties related thereto.

Committee on Judiciary

Extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming applications approved if not approved or denied within 45 days of submission.

Committee on Education

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

Committee on Insurance

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.

Committee on Commerce

Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer.

Committee on Taxation

House Substitute for SB 181 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees and authorizing certain transfers.

Committee on Ways and Means

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

House Substitute for SB231 by Committee on Elections - Changing the timing of city, school, community college and certain other municipality elections to fall in even-numbered years and requiring the term of office of municipal elected officials to be either two years or four years.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.

Committee on Appropriations

Requiring applications for advance voting ballots be filed by the 14th day prior to election day, that advance voting in person be completed by 12:00 p.m. on the Sunday prior to election day, extending the time for transmittal of advance voting ballots to 22 days prior to an election and ending the time for voter registration at 23 days prior to election day.

Committee on Elections

House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Committee on Judiciary

Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a registry kiosk of Kansas military forces killed in action or who died of wounds incurred during active duty to be placed within the state capitol.

Committee on Veterans and Military

Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the crime victims compensation board.

Committee on Judiciary

Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer hearing an administrative action.

Committee on Judiciary