Bills & Legislation

Authorizing the state corporation commission to increase or decrease an electric public utility's return on equity based on whether such utility's all-in average retail rate has increased or decreased.

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

Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Stephanie Sawyer ClaytonDemocrat

Expanding pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of COVID-19.

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

David HaleyDemocrat

Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.

Authorizing certain offenders to petition for relief from registration requirements under the Kansas offender registration act.

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours and students from using school district computers or devices to access social media platforms.

Chase BlasiRepublican

Excluding from sales taxation the service of installing or applying tangible personal property for the reconstruction, restoration, remodeling, renovation, repair or replacement of a building or facility.

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

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Establishing the mental health intervention team program in the Kansas department for aging and disability services in state statute and providing incentives for coordination between school districts, qualified schools and mental health intervention team providers.

Requiring judicial foreclosure tax sales by public auction to be conducted in person at a physical location in the county.

David HaleyDemocrat

Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act, providing for automatic increases to such limits based on the consumer price index and eliminating such limits on contributions to party committees.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Requiring certain law enforcement agencies to apply for and enter into agreements with United States immigration and customs enforcement for the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

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

Providing tax exemption eligibility for telecommunication, railroad, commercial and industrial machinery and equipment that is currently ineligible for tax exemption due to such equipment being acquired or transported into this state on or before June 30, 2006.

Authorizing a special education pilot program that provides provisional accreditation to a private entity for the purpose of operating a special education teacher training program, allowing such entity to collect data from such program and providing requirements for full accreditation of such program.

Providing for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.

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

Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing cities to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Enacting the clean air preservation act to prohibit solar radiation modification, geoengineering, weather modification, cloud seeding and other polluting atmospheric experiments or interventions and creating a crime for violation thereof.

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

Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility.

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

Authorizing municpal court services agencies to issue identification certificates to individuals under probation supervision.

Requiring all legislators and the spouses of legislators who are in leadership positions to disclose the amount of any salary they receive paid by public funds, providing that such information be published on the legislative website and requiring such information be provided in statements of substantial interest.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

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

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.

Prohibiting certain conduct in connection with the sale or resale of entertainment tickets and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full-time positions paid from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and lapsing state general fund appropriations for such positions for fiscal year 2026.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Providing that the legislature may approve the creation of port authorities by enactment of a bill and authorizing the governing body of the unified government of Wyandotte county and Kansas City, Kansas, to create a port authority.

David HaleyDemocrat

Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims.

David HaleyDemocrat

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 the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission.

Doug ShaneRepublican

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 for a property tax exemption from local government levies to the extent of the first $100,000 of appraised value for certain owner-occupied homes and authorizing local governments to propose a ballot question to opt out of such property tax exemption.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

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

Brenda DietrichRepublican

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Extending voter franchise in city elections to qualified electors living in areas subject to extraterritorial zoning or subdivision regulations.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

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

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

Establishing the education opportunity tax credit to provide an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children who are not enrolled in public school.

Renee EricksonRepublican

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

Mike PetersenRepublican

Modifying deadlines for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and certification of tax levies to the director of property valuation to be earlier than the current deadlines and providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

Providing for transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits from the year that the credit was originally issued.

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.