Bills & Legislation

Modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

Committee on Transportation

Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing an exception for Kansas department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act.

Will CarpenterRepublican

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

Providing that the theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony.

Kevin SchwertfegerRepublican

Modifying the crime of unlawful sexual relations to describe who is a person in a position of authority for a school.

Committee on Judiciary

Modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity by changing the connection to breach of privacy and describing the content of the image, video or other recording.

Committee on Judiciary

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

Kenneth CollinsRepublican

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Committee on Judiciary

Designating a portion of I-35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for I-35.

Committee on Transportation

Establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

Committee on Water

Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Substitute for HB 2346 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing the Kansas sports tourism grant program administered by the secretary of commerce to provide matching grants to communities for developing and continuing sporting events and providing for funding of such grants from the state economic development initiatives fund.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Providing for the election of alternative payment methods by a dental provider and allowing such payment method to remain in force for the duration of a contract with a dental benefit plan.

Committee on Health and Human Services

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 Health and Human Services

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.

Committee on Commerce

Requiring landlords to comply with a default maintenance code if the rental property is in a city or county that has not adopted a maintenance code.

Leah HowellRepublican

Decreasing the minimum age requirement from age seven to six for compulsory school attendance of students.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

Making application to the congress of the United States to call a convention of the states to establish term limits for members of congress.

Bill SuttonRepublican

Providing for the Joint Rules of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the 2025-2026 biennium.

Daniel HawkinsRepublican

Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of supreme court justices and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Directing the governor to create and award the order of the sunflower to recognize military spouses' service to their communities.

Committee on Veterans and Military

Creating the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) educator position.

Committee on Education

Removing the current solid waste permit exception for the disposal of solid waste generated by drilling oil and gas wells through the practice of land-spreading.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use for property tax purposes to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity.

Pat ProctorRepublican

Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Enacting the help not harm act to restrict the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibit healthcare providers from providing gender transition whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorize a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, require professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment and prohibit professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.

Committee on Welfare Reform

Authorizing the secretary of state, in consultation with county election officers, to adopt rules and regulations for the use of remote ballot boxes.

Committee on Elections

Requiring water supply system and wastewater treatment facility operator certification examination fees to not exceed the costs for such exams and eliminating the certification of operators through correspondence courses.

Committee on Water

Establishing a pump installation contractor license and requiring additional examination, qualification and record-keeping requirements for licensed pump installation contractor and water well contractors.

Committee on Water

Requiring employees of school districts and postsecondary educational institutions to use the name and pronouns consistent with a student's biological sex and birth certificate and authorizing a cause of action for violations therefor.

Committee on Education

Condemning the pardons and commutations of sentences for those individuals involved in the attack at the United States capitol building on January 6, 2021.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Commending Senator Jerry Moran for his unwavering support of Kansas farmers.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Providing for a presidential preference primary election every four years commencing in 2028 and aligning the special election date in March with the presidential preference primary election date.

Committee on Elections

Establishing a pump installation contractor license and requiring additional examination, qualification and record-keeping requirements for licensed pump installation contractor and water well contractors.

Gary WhiteRepublican

Requiring children to be toilet trained to enroll in and attend kindergarten in any public school and providing certain exceptions thereto.

Committee on Education

Removing certain terms relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

Requiring expedited procedures for children who are under two years of age at the time that a petition is filed requesting such child be adjudicated to be a child in need of care, requiring permanency for such a child within 12 months and directing the secretary to report on such expedited procedures.

Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the professionals' freedom of expression act to provide protection for professionals and businesses against adverse action as a result of an expression of beliefs of such professional or business that is unrelated to such profession or business.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substance.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Providing for the delta waterfowl distinctive license plate.

Will CarpenterRepublican

Requiring a person transmitting or delivering a ballot on behalf of another voter to include such person's driver's license number in the written statement on the ballot envelope.

Committee on Elections

Providing exceptions to the automatic termination of candidate campaign accounts.

Committee on Elections

Permitting a licensee to request that such licensee's mailing address be provided on a driver's license.

Committee on Transportation