Bills & Legislation

Amending the Kansas drycleaner environmental response act to modify the penalties for violations of the act, the required deductible rate for corrective actions, the environmental surcharge rate, the solvent fee and the delinquency penalty related to environmental surcharges and solvent fees.

Virgil PeckRepublican

Requiring previous convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

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.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Enacting the Kansas medical loss ratios for dental healthcare services plans act.

Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate.

Caryn TysonRepublican

Amending the Kansas indoor clear air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility and amending the definition of smoking to include the use of an electronic cigarette and smoking marijuana.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Enacting 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.

William CliffordRepublican

Providing that any lease or easement involving commercial wind or solar electric generation resources shall not be in force and effect until the board of county commissioners of the affected county approves the commercial wind or solar electric generation project.

Authorizing the secretary of health and environment to license nuclear fusion systems, establishing such licensure fee and authorizing the secretary to impose late fees for any expired radiation protection and control license.

Elaine BowersRepublican

Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Excepting haulers of grain and certain other agricultural goods from gross weight limitations for vehicles.

Virgil PeckRepublican

Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Prohibiting electric public utilities from recovering from ratepayers the costs associated with electric vehicle charging stations and requiring electric public utilities to establish electric vehicle charging service rate schedules.

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.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting discriminatory practices on the basis of religion at public educational institutions and authorizing the attorney general to investigate violations and assess civil penalties under the Kansas act against discrimination.

Stephen OwensRepublican

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

Doug ShaneRepublican

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

Pat PetteyDemocrat

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

Doug ShaneRepublican

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..

Renee EricksonRepublican

Prohibiting discrimination by financial services companies on the basis of social credit score and requiring registered investment advisers to obtain written consent from clients prior to investing client moneys in mutual funds, equity funds, companies and financial institutions that engage in ideological boycotts.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer, warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and remission if the defendant is returned to custody in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium.

Stephen OwensRepublican

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

Requiring school district budget forms and summaries to include all expenditures of bond proceeds.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.

Establishing a property tax valuation appeal process to the board of county commissioners for certain residential and commercial real property and providing for the purchase of the property by the county under certain conditions.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

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.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue licenses for the sale of alcoholic liquor to persons convicted of a felony if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Prohibiting the denial of coverage for the refilling of prescription topical eye medication.

William CliffordRepublican

Requiring that a haircare plan is part of the case plan for a child in custody of the secretary for children and family services and requiring the secretary to offer training on culturally competent haircare to caregivers.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Modifying uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.

Requiring immediate notification of a report of abuse or neglect to a law enforcement agency and providing for law enforcement agencies to request resources from the secretary for children and families.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Imposing term limits on members of the legislature but allowing additional terms conditioned on the vote in the next primary election.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Authorizing each school district to include a teacher representative as a nonvoting member of such district's board of education.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Requiring school districts to provide certain information on school district annual budget forms.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.

Rick BillingerRepublican

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.

Establishing certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

Limiting contributions under the campaign finance act made to political committees for the purpose of independent contributions and requiring the accounting, reporting and auditing of such independent contributions.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Authorizing school districts to request and receive an applicant teacher’s employment files from another school district if such teacher was previously employed by such other school district and establishing which school district is responsible for and the custodian of teacher employment files that are records under the Kansas open records act.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Enacting the responsible gun ownership act to establish the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Amending the Kansas pet animal act to require the Kansas department of agriculture to maintain records of inspections for not less than five years and removing the requirement that the commissioner only apply federal rules and regulations to United States department of agriculture licensed animal distributors and animal breeders.

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.

Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-client privilege while working under the supervision of such attorney.

Elaine BowersRepublican