Bills & Legislation

Prohibiting school employment contracts from excluding documentation of disciplinary actions or behavioral corrective actions taken with regard to an employee.

Committee on Education

Requiring certain school district employees to receive training in seizure recognition and related first aid.

Committee on Education

Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing for a property tax exemption from local government levies to the extent of the first $100,000 of appraised value for certain owner-occupied homes and authorizing local governments to propose a ballot question to opt out of such property tax exemption.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

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

Modifying deadlines for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and certification of tax levies to the director of property valuation to be earlier than the current deadlines and providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to request a waiver from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services to end participation in certain expenditure authorities under the KanCare demonstration.

Committee on Government Efficiency

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.

Committee on Judiciary

Authorizing home delivery of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage by licensed retailers, drinking establishments and third-party delivery services.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Adding advanced practice registered nurses to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Requiring each member of a municipal governing body whose district territory includes land being acquired to approve the exercise of eminent domain for such acquisition when such land is to be used for a recreational project.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Enacting the Kansas medical freedom act to prohibit the denial of an individual's access to certain services based on such individual's medical choices.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release.

Committee on Judiciary

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring school district bond elections and other tax levy question submitted elections be held only on primary or general election dates and only permitting one such bond election to be conducted each calendar year.

Committee on Education

Granting the attorney general concurrent authority to prosecute any crimes related to schools.

Committee on Education

Requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full-time positions paid from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and lapsing state general fund appropriations for such positions for fiscal year 2026.

Committee on Government Efficiency

Establishing the education opportunity tax credit to provide an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children who are not enrolled in public school.

Committee on Education

Requiring an electric public utility to pay a landowner's attorney fees when a party appeals the appraisers' award and the jury renders a verdict that is greater than the appraisers' award in an eminent domain action.

Committee on Judiciary

Repealing the three-mile extraterritorial planning and zoning authority for cities.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.

Committee on Judiciary

Providing that payment of special assessments for years other than the year being redeemed is not required for purposes of partial redemption of homesteads with delinquent property taxes.

David HaleyDemocrat

Enacting the fair chance housing and homelessness reduction act to limit the use of past evictions and rental arrears to deny applicants from renting a home.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Committee on Ways and Means

Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.

Pam CurtisDemocrat

Requiring every employer to provide each employee with meal periods and rest periods.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

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

Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Including participation in certain learning experiences and agricultural activities as a valid excuse for absence from school and authorizing school boards to make rules therefor.

Committee on Education

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees.

Committee on Veterans and Military

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

Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide a property tax exemption from all school district levies for residential property that is owned by and the principal place of residence of a person who is 60 years of age or older.

Committee on Taxation

Expanding pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of COVID-19.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Brandon WoodardDemocrat

Imposing property tax on rental and leased vehicles and discontinuing the excise tax on the rental and lease of such vehicles.

Committee on Taxation

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

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.

Committee on Education

Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install, operate and maintain school bus cameras.

Committee on Education

Making certain provisions of the commercial industrial hemp act applicable only if the Kansas department of agriculture has submitted a state plan to the federal government for the state monitoring and regulation of industrial hemp within Kansas and such state plan is still active.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Providing for the qualifications of regular and provisional appraisers and allowing for the appointment of such appraisers to serve as county appraisers.

Committee on Taxation

Making the theft of livestock or implements of husbandry a severity level 5, nonperson felony.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts.

Mari-Lynn PoskinDemocrat

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

Stephanie Sawyer ClaytonDemocrat