Bills & Legislation

Authorizing victims of childhood abuse or neglect to access records related to substantiated reports or investigations of abuse or neglect.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Changing the membership of the judicial council to have one resident lawyer from each judicial district instead of four resident lawyers.

Committee on Judiciary

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

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness.

Committee on Judiciary

Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or public adjuster if the arrest, conviction or diversion is for a fraudulent insurance act and including automobile assigned claims plans in provisions related to fraudulent insurance acts.

Committee on Judiciary

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Establishing requirements for decommissioning of commercial solar and wind energy facilities.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing a refundable income tax credit for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.

Committee on Transportation

Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to allow certain high school students and students eligible to be enrolled in certain school districts to be eligible for scholarships, increasing the tax credit for contributions and the aggregate tax credit limit, providing for aggregate tax credit increases under certain conditions and providing for program administration by the state treasurer.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Exempting certain qualified tips from state income tax.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring that special elections be held on the first Tuesday in March.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS 1 and KPERS 2 retirants and making appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for KPERS to pay the actuarial cost of such cost-of-living adjustment.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance

Creating the election crime of interference with an election official.

Committee on Elections

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by the Johnson county Christmas bureau association.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Russell county for the purpose of financing costs of attendance centers or other school district facilities.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Providing for a homestead property tax exemption for certain veterans and former law enforcement officers with service-connected disabilities.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) advisory committee to prevent FASD and provide for treatment and support for affected individuals and their families.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Creating a special sentencing rule to add 100 months to a sentence for distribution of a controlled substance when the substance involved is fentanyl and the distribution causes the death of a child.

Committee on Judiciary

Creating the crime of engaging in a street stunt, providing criminal penalties therefor and adding engaging in a street stunt to the list of crimes included in fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program.

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Committee on Ways and Means

Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.

Committee on Ways and Means

Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.

Committee on Ways and Means

Requiring counties to purchase homesteads at the appraised values set by county appraisers upon applications made by the owners under certain conditions.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the state corporation commission to engage a consulting firm to conduct a technical and legal feasibility study on new nuclear energy generation.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing certain inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections to petition the court for a resentencing hearing.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Allowing an itemized deduction for certain losses from wagering transactions for individuals for income tax purposes.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

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

Authorizing the KPERS board of trustees to invest in bitcoin exchange-traded products and providing requirements, limitations and definitions regarding such investments.

Craig BowserRepublican

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Committee on Utilities

Requiring the state 911 board to establish requirements for 911 telecommunicators to receive training and continuous education in telecommunicator-cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Committee on Utilities

Requiring the secretary of state to enter into agreements with credit rating agencies for the release of certain information that can be used to verify the citizenship of persons registered to vote in this state.

Committee on Elections

Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property located in Johnson county to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the Kansas healthcare professional employment mobility and patient access act to prohibit post-employment noncompete agreements.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Committee on Utilities

Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.

Committee on Judiciary