Bills & Legislation

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

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring persons convicted of or given diversion agreements for driving under the influence to attend victim impact panel programs.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Classifying crimes related to driving under the influence and driving a commercial vehicle under the influence as person crimes.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Providing requirements for agreements between a school district and a postsecondary educational institution for the provision of postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools.

Committee on Education

Removing the authority of the state board of pharmacy to authorize individuals to access the prescription monitoring program database by rules and regulations.

Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations

Prohibiting the use of fluoride additives in public water supplies.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Permitting a pharmacist to distribute pre-measured doses of epinephrine to a school for emergency medication kits.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Enacting the age-appropriate school device act to establish safety standards and requirements for the use of school-issued devices in certain grade levels and authorizing parents to opt students out of certain uses of such devices.

Committee on Education

Providing for a property tax rebate for certain real property used for residential or commercial and industrial purposes when such property sells in a qualifying sale for less than 97% of the county appraised value.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Committee on Ways and Means

Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention of the states under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing sales tax exemptions for certain services purchased on behalf of a provider in the provision of communication services and certain purchases by the Kansas fairgrounds foundation and modifying the definition of alcoholic beverages for purposes of the retailers' sales tax.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring legislative approval to construct high-impact electric transmission lines.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.

Committee on Ways and Means

Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certain state and criminal history record checks conducted by the Kansas department for aging and disability services.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring veterans with a condition from military service to be offered diversion for certain offenses and expanding the mitigating factor for departure at sentencing for veterans.

Stephen OwensRepublican

Requiring the Kansas state high school activities association to establish a school classification system for activities based on student attendance and a multiplier factor that adjusts certain schools' student attendance.

Committee on Education

Requiring the state board of regents to adopt rules and regulations to prohibit state moneys from being allocated for certain low-earning outcome programs and prohibiting political subdivisions from allocating state moneys for certain low-earning outcome programs.

Committee on Education

Expanding property tax exemption eligibility to include commercial and industrial machinery and equipment that was acquired or transported into this state on or before June 30, 2006.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Enacting the ensuring transparency in prior authorization act to impose requirements and limitations on the use of prior authorization in healthcare.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Regulating the acceptance of cryptocurrency as a form of campaign contribution.

Craig BowserRepublican

Requiring that vehicle turn signals be used when moving right or left or exiting a roundabout.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Designating a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the deputy sheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Providing for a presidential preference primary election every four years commencing in 2028 and aligning the special election date in March with the presidential preference primary election date.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Excluding buyer's premiums from the sale price of property purchased at auction for real estate sales validation questionnaire and property tax valuation purposes.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Eliminating certain tax credits, exemptions, incentives, refunds and limitations, a transitional adjustment, a checkoff and a restoration program administered by the secretary that have expired or are no longer applicable.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Clarifying modifications for certain business interest expenses and federal net operating loss carrybacks and providing a technical change to a statutory cross reference for recaptured moneys related to adoption savings accounts for purposes of Kansas income tax.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Chase BlasiRepublican

Prohibiting plaintiffs from filing abusive civil actions against certain defendants with whom the plaintiff has a current or former family, household or dating relationship and authorizing the court to impose prefiling restrictions on such plaintiffs.

Committee on Judiciary

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 Ways and Means

Modifying the definition of earnings to include paid compensation for wage garnishment exemption purposes.

Committee on Judiciary

Prohibiting members of the legislature from engaging in transactions involving stocks and other securities during legislative sessions.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Removing breastfeeding mothers from the mandatory jury service exclusion list and including them in the discretionary jury service exclusion list.

Committee on Judiciary

Including a home school within the definition of private elementary and secondary school and defining home school.

Committee on Education

Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Committee on Ways and Means

Requiring grants awarded pursuant to the Kansas educator registered apprenticeship program for education apprentice tuition and fees to be made twice per year and at the time payments for such tuition and fees are due.

Committee on Ways and Means

Requiring that employees of the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf be paid at same rate of compensation that is paid to a teacher employed by USD 233, Olathe, in the current school year.

Committee on K-12 Education Budget

Prohibiting members of the legislature from lobbying for a period of four years after leaving office.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring government agencies, public utilities and other entities when exercising the power of eminent domain to make a good faith offer for the property prior to filing an eminent domain action, providing the good faith offer, if greater than the appraiser's award, shall be deposited with the court, allowing appeals from that amount, prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain for recreational trails and park and recreational facilities and deleting the power of the legislature to condemn property for economic development.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring that a no cost-sharing requirement be imposed on insureds for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations for breast cancer.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Repealing the three-mile extraterritorial planning and zoning authority for cities.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the right to speak your truth act to prohibit defamation actions in certain circumstances.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat