Bills & Legislation

Mandating health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services.

Alexis SimmonsDemocrat

Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which such advertisement is placed.

Angelina RoeserRepublican

Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.

Rui XuDemocrat

Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus.

Lance W. NeellyRepublican

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Rui XuDemocrat

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

Rui XuDemocrat

Modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals for school district at-risk accountability plans.

Enacting the student safety and awareness act to require school districts to designate a month during the school year as student safety and awareness month and to provide educational programs for students on the dangers and effects of fentanyl use, personal safety and awareness and social media literacy, safety and responsibility during such designated month.

Enacting the foreign adversaries out of higher education act to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from accepting gifts, grants and other moneys from foreign adversaries and their affiliates, prohibiting certain foreign adversary affiliates from operating on campuses and providing training and education on such foreign adversaries and their affiliates.

Requiring that all election audits and recounts be conducted using a hand count of paper ballots.

Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican

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.

Angela MartinezDemocrat

Making and concerning appropriations for the state board of regents for the Kansas blueprint for literacy, expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting.

Prohibiting social medial platforms from allowing children under 16 years of age to create, maintain or access an account unless the platform has obtained verified parental consent.

Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program, providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program, authorizing judges to waive the fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit and requiring judges to waive the fee for petitions for expungement of municipal arrest records in certain cases.

Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.

Suzanne WikleDemocrat

Prohibiting past sanctions for failure to comply with a traffic citation that are more than five years old from being considered by courts or the division of vehicles in determining suspended or restricted driving privileges and eliminating certain notice requirements for the division of vehicles related to suspended or restricted drivers' licenses.

Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.

Requiring that noncompete agreements be reasonable and providing that such agreements are null and void upon the sale or change in ownership or control of an employer.

Steven K. HoweRepublican

Establishing the Kansas empowerment savings program, authorizing certain employees to contribute to individual retirement accounts through an automatic payroll deduction and providing powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of the Kansas empowerment savings program board of trustees within the state treasurer's office concerning such program.

Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefits claims process.

Extending the tax credit for certain contributions to community colleges and technical colleges for capital improvements, deferred maintenance or the purchase of technology or equipment.

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Butler county for the purpose of providing property tax relief.

Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria and treatment provided at such centers and transferring moneys from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund for use at such centers.

Removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income.

Enacting the Kansas property rights protection act to require just compensation be provided to landowners for governmental actions that impose burdens upon or diminish the value of private property.

Bill RhileyRepublican

Requiring the secretary of state to conduct periodic checks to compare the statewide voter registration system against the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) database and submit an annual report to the legislature on the outcomes of such checks.

Requiring that a child in custody of the secretary be provided information regarding the child's rights and the secretary maintain confirmation of the child's notification and understanding of such child's rights in child in need of care proceedings.

Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.

Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.

Robyn R. EssexRepublican

Requiring landlords to comply with a default maintenance code if the rental property is in a city or county that has not adopted a maintenance code.

Leah HowellRepublican

Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care.

Increasing the service charge fee for each license, permit, stamp or other issue of the department of wildlife and parks to an amount of not to exceed $2.00 and, in the case of each migratory waterfowl habitat stamp, an amount of not to exceed $1.00.

Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

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, enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters, establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses and permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and such members’ eligible spouses.

Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.

Timothy JohnsonRepublican

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of manufactured homes mobile homes and modular homes and materials and services used by a contractor when constructing or remodeling affordable housing for certain organizations.

Requiring the secretary of commerce and the secretary of wildlife and parks to jointly conduct a feasibility study regarding a potential state purchase of acorns resort and the designation of such location as a state park or the incorporation of such location into the existing Milford state park in Geary county.

Providing a property tax exemption for real property owned by a not-for-profit organization and used to provide affordable housing.

Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Providing that motorcycle license plates shall contain a combination of not fewer than six letters or numerals.

Smith, A.

Providing that the law enforcement officers memorial advisory committee may receive requests from a Kansas law enforcement agency for the Kansas highway patrol and the Kansas bureau of investigation to provide temporary personal and other assistance in support of funeral services honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the service of the state.

Designating a portion of United States highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for United States highway 75.

Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the crime victims compensation board.

Modifying criminal sentencing rules applicable in multiple conviction cases where consecutive sentences may be imposed by the sentencing judge and the sentence for the primary crime is a nonprison sentence.