Bills & Legislation

Requiring discharged inmates be offered the opportunity to register to vote and requiring the secretary of state to develop a voter registration program that offers voter registration services through certain state agencies and accredited high schools.

Stephanie Sawyer ClaytonDemocrat

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.

Brett FairchildRepublican

Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring law enforcement agencies to share records with other law enforcement agencies about law enforcement officers related to criminal conduct or conduct giving rise to licensing or certification sanctions.

Committee on Judiciary

Establishing statewide standards governing the use of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, permitting a pharmacist to initiate such medication to certain patients, providing civil liability protections to pharmacists who initiate prophylactic therapy to patients for post-exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.

Brandon WoodardDemocrat

Establishing a feminine hygiene product grant program and grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost.

Mari-Lynn PoskinDemocrat

Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, increasing the extent of exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy and providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund.

Committee on Taxation

Standardizing firearm safety programs in school districts.

Patrick Penn

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies related to racial and other biased-based policing using technology and criminalizing violation of racial and other biased-based policing policies.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Creating a civil cause of action for violations of the constitution or laws of the United States by any person acting under the color of law.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $16 an hour and making such minimum wage applicable to employers and employees covered under the provisions of the federal fair labor standards act.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Requiring offenders convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death to register under the Kansas offender registration act.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or when there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Making it unlawful for a person to knowingly train artificial intelligence to encourage or support suicide or the unlawful killing of another person, provide emotional support, develop emotional relationships, act as a healthcare professional, simulate humans or encourage isolation.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the county appraiser to conduct a new physical inspection before increasing the valuation of residential real property by more than 15%.

David HaleyDemocrat

Authorizing the secretary of corrections to enter into a memorandum of understanding to provide money from the evidence-based programs account to residential facilities with behavioral health crisis intervention services for juveniles.

Committee on Judiciary

Authorizing municipalities to prohibit their employees from carrying concealed handguns in municipal buildings.

Committee on Local Government

Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.

Committee on Utilities

Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Modifying member appointment, compensation and meeting requirements of the Kansas fire service training commission.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the aggregate tax credit limit on the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.

Committee on Education

Prohibiting large facilities receiving certain tariffs or failing to meet workforce and electric demand requirements from qualifying for economic development electric rates.

Committee on Utilities

Expanding the income tax credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures to allow credits against certain premium taxes, privilege fees and privilege taxes and allowing the transfer of unused credits to any individual or entity subject to such taxes.

Committee on Taxation

Permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency when applying for nondriver identification cards and eliminating fees for homeless veterans to obtain birth certificates for purposes of nondriver identification card applications.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the safe and transparent arrest act to require all law enforcement agencies operating in Kansas to adopt a written policy regarding the use of facial coverings and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties except as expressly authorized by law.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act and requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas critical infrastructure protection act to prohibit access to state critical infrastructure by countries of concern and the acquisition of critical software and other technology used in state infrastructure from countries of concern.

Craig BowserRepublican

Enacting the advanced practice registered nurse licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for advanced practice registered nurses.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Requiring state assessments performance levels and cut scores to be based on the 2024 performance levels and cut scores.

Committee on Education

Including limited liability partnerships as an entity required to obtain county approval to establish a dairy or swine production facility.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Enacting the Holocaust education act to require school districts to provide instruction on Holocaust education and awareness as part of the social studies curriculum for students in grades six through 12.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Prohibiting counsel from suggesting an amount of damages for noneconomic loss in civil actions.

Committee on Judiciary

Increasing the minimum expenditure amount for school districts for contracted goods and services without requiring sealed bids and the minimum expenditure amount for goods and services that the district superintendent may acquire on behalf of the school district.

Committee on Education

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure.

Committee on Judiciary

Disqualifying from the carbon dioxide capture and sequestration property tax exemption and the income tax accelerated depreciation deduction if machinery and equipment are used to inject animal manure into the ground.

Committee on Taxation

Eliminating the authority of the secretary of wildlife and parks to issue nonresident landowner deer permits.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Exempting certain property used for thrift store purposes by a church or religious organization from property tax.

Rick KloosRepublican

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring hospitals use a surgical smoke plume evacuation system and adopt policies for the evacuation of surgical smoke during certain surgical procedures.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Enacting the safeguarding personal expression at K-12 schools act to authorize students and student clubs or organizations to engage in certain speech or expression at school and providing a civil cause of action for violations of the act.

Committee on Education

Directing the governor to approve eligible programs for workforce Pell grants and providing requirements for the state workforce development board with regard to eligibility, approval and financing of such programs.

Committee on Education

Creating the bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund and providing definitions, procedures and requirements for abandoned digital assets.

Craig BowserRepublican

Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure and increasing the criminal penalties for assault or battery of a utility or communications employee.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Authorizing the imposition of a privilege tax by a municipality for the privilege of selling alcoholic beverages, food and food ingredients and tobacco within a community improvement district.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing comprehensive wellness programs for the Kansas highway patrol and Kansas bureau of investigation, permitting law enforcement personnel of other state agencies to participate in such programs and making annual transfers from the state highway fund and the state general fund for the purpose of financing the implementation of such programs.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat