Bills & Legislation

Amending the uniform nonparent visitation act to modify the evidentiary standard for awarding visitation to a nonparent.

Committee on Judiciary

Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.

Committee on Appropriations

Extending the number of years of availability of the income tax credit for contributions to friends of cedar crest association and the Eisenhower foundation.

Committee on Taxation

Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions shall not be defined, awarded or recognized as an entitlement, right or property interest in a faculty member's current, ongoing or future employment by an institution.

Committee on Judiciary

Reducing the required waiting period for employment of KPERS retirants hired by a school district for a covered position that requires a teaching license or certificate.

Kevin SchwertfegerRepublican

Increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the board of county commissioners or the city governing body to refer the proposed creation of a conservation easement to the appropriate planning commission for review and recommendation; providing the board of county commissioners or the city shall approve or deny the creation of conservation easements.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget

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 violations of such prohibition.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Requiring additional licensing requirements for assisted living facilities with dementia care.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.

Committee on Appropriations

Authorizing the over-the-counter purchase of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine tablets.

Brett FairchildRepublican

Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.

Committee on Welfare Reform

Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Committee on Taxation

Adding compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas to alternative fuels that are eligible for the income tax credit for alternative-fueled motor vehicle property expenditures.

Committee on Taxation

Providing an excise tax on large employers for certain federal benefits paid to employees.

Heather MeyerDemocrat

Creating the rural health transformation fund, prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program, crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund and making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies.

Troy WaymasterRepublican

Prohibiting public adjusters from negotiating for or effectuating the settlement of any insurance claim relating to residential lines of insurance.

Committee on Insurance

Imposing unilateral annexation restrictions on cities and expanding the causes of action for landowners to challenge such annexations.

Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics

Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy.

Joint Committee on Fiduciary Financial Institutions Oversight

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028 and 2029 for various state agencies.

Committee on Appropriations

Enacting the insurance savings account act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas income tax act.

Adam SmithRepublican

Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance.

Suzanne WikleDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas bullion depository act to authorize the state treasurer to establish, administer or contract for the administration of bullion depositories and allowing for state moneys to be deposited in such bullion depositories and invested in specie legal tender.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

J.R. Claeys

Authorizing cities and counties to levy a 0% sales and use tax on sales of food and food ingredients.

Committee on Taxation

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 Utilities

Prohibiting the transfer of hemp-derived cannabinoid products to any person under the age of 21, establishing packaging and labeling requirements for such products and amending the definition of industrial hemp and hemp products.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Relating to the definitions of lobbyist, lobbying and lobbying client for purposes of the state governmental ethics law.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Decreasing the state rate for sales and use taxes for prepared food and increasing the percent credited to the state highway fund from sales and use tax revenue collected.

Stephanie Sawyer ClaytonDemocrat

Establishing the EV energy equity road repair tax act (EVEERRT act) and providing for a road repair tax on electricity distributed from a public charging station for electric vehicles.

Bill RhileyRepublican

Continuing the reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs of county clerks through calendar year 2029.

Brett FairchildRepublican

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue certain licenses to persons convicted of certain felonies if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by care to share cancer support group of Bourbon county, Kansas, inc.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals and discontinuing the sales tax exemption for purchases made by certain qualifying military veterans.

Pat ProctorRepublican

Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature.

Legislative Post Audit Committee

Substitute for HB 2012 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing the ethanol grant program fund and transferring an amount of not to exceed $5,000,000 from the state general fund to the ethanol grant program fund each July 1 beginning in 2026.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the back to work act to require all full-time state employees to perform such employees' duties in their assigned office, facility or field location, provide for certain exceptions by agency heads and require certain reports regarding such exceptions.

Committee on Ways and Means

Providing funding for the state historical society to issue a scope statement, plan the work to be accomplished and issue a request for proposals for a master plan for the Quindaro ruins archaeological park in Wyandotte county, Kansas, and implement such master plan.

Committee on Ways and Means

Discontinuing the imposition of sales tax on certain cable services.

Committee on Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for period products, diapers and incontinence products.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing that the failure of an alcohol or drug test can be certified when the law enforcement officer administering such test had reasonable grounds to believe a person was attempting to operate a vehicle.

Committee on Transportation

Requiring the approval by a majority of electors voting at an election in order for the governing body of any taxing entity to increase its total amount of property tax to be levied by more than the annual rate of inflation.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting law enforcement agencies and officers from participating in immigration enforcement in places of religious worship, elementary and secondary schools and hospitals.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Decreasing individual income tax rates, discontinuing tax credits of the high performance incentive program and the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, discontinuing payroll withholding tax benefits of the promoting employment across Kansas act, discontinuing the crediting of certain amounts to the job creation program fund and repealing certain tax credits.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation