Bills & Legislation

Providing for a sales tax exemption for non-profit organizations serving students of United States military academies, alumni of such academies and families of students and alumni of such academies.

Providing for a three-year exemption from severance tax for new oil and gas wells.

Increasing penalties for the crimes of assault and battery if committed against a public-facing worker while such worker is engaged in the performance of such worker's assigned duties.

Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses; enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions.

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.

Establishing requirements for the county sheriff operating a jail for the enforcement of United States immigration and customs enforcement detainers, requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage for law enforcement that enforces federal laws, requiring the state to pay certain judgements in a federal court action, requiring the attorney general to provide representation in certain civil actions and authorizing county sheriffs to enter into certain interlocal cooperation agreements without the approval of the board of county commissioners.

Permitting the director of investments of the health care stabilization fund to invest funds as authorized for insurance companies.

Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to accept multiple payment amounts as long as rent is paid on time and in full and to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing.

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

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.

Providing that artificial persons shall not possess any political powers relating to election activity or ballot-issue activity.

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.

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

Enacting the esthetics licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for estheticians.

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.

Requiring registration of agents and political organizations representing countries of concern.

Repealing or discontinuing certain income tax credit incentives, extending the income tax credit for angel investors and aviation-related employment and providing expanded options in the high performance tax credit program for tax credit transfers.

Setting standards for patient and caregiver identification cards to ensure legal access to medical cannabis, establishing the Kansas medical cannabis agency within the department of health and environment and removing cannabis from the Kansas uniform controlled substances act.

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of any school property.

Directing the university of Kansas to operate a statewide repository of anonymous human trafficking data that is submitted by law enforcement agencies and prosecutors.

Enacting the providing civil relief from coerced debt act to provide protections and remedies for victims of certain debts constituting a coerced debt because of actions by another individual within the context of domestic violence.

Enacting the Kansas managed care bid fidelity and accountability act prohibiting the termination of certain clinical service contracts, providing penalties for material deviations from request for proposal responses and requiring reporting to the legislature of bid audits and material deviations.

Increasing the minimum bail requirements for certain crimes from $50,000 to $100,000 and requiring certain findings to reduce such requirements.

Amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations to include persons in a position of trust or authority when such position is used to carry out the offense.

Increasing the criminal penalties for second or subsequent convictions of the crime of violation of a protective order.

Increasing the time of initial orders and possible extensions under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act.

Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.

Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions is not a right to or property interest in continued employment.

Encouraging school districts to annually designate a Linda Brown and family walk to school day.

Enacting the family rights in medical investigations act to provide requirements for the reporting of suspicions of abuse or neglect of a child for medical professionals and require a medical professional to provide notice to a parent of a CARE exam and allow parents to request a second medical opinion.

Requiring the state board of regents and the state board of education to ensure that no teacher preparation program includes content related to diversity, equity and inclusion and providing an extended period for retired and substitute teachers to complete certain required literacy training as part of the Kansas blueprint for literacy.

Establishing the Kansas medical rights of conscience act to permit a healthcare provider to refuse to provide transgender healthcare services if such services violate the provider's conscience and creating a civil cause of action for violation of this act.

Directing the secretary for children and families to request or update a pending waiver application from the supplemental nutrition assistance program that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of food commonly marketed, advertised or recognized as candy and soft drinks.

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

Enacting the patient's right to save act to establish shared savings programs and providing for the duties and requirements of such programs.

Requiring hospitals to screen all patients for eligibility for such hospital's financial assistance program or charity care policy.

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.

Directing the state registrar of vital statistics to provide death certificates to survivors of deceased veterans with a service-connected disability that state in such certificates the relationship between the cause of death and the service-connected disability of such veterans.

Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.

Requiring managed care organizations to provide an explanation of benefits to KanCare and CHIP enrollees.

Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act.

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish uniform siting and permitting standards for certain energy facilities and limiting local governmental actions relating thereto

Authorizing judges to waive the docket fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit.

Decreasing the number of votes required to not retain a judge of the district court in office from a majority to 40% in judicial districts that have nonpartisan selection of judges and retention elections.

Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made.

Requiring the director of the division of personnel services of the department of administration to add judges of the district court to the state drug screening program.

Requiring the supreme court to develop or procure a court date reminder program for the purpose of sending advance notifications to individuals with scheduled court dates for a criminal case or an infraction and requiring all courts to send certain notifications using such program.