KS — 2026 Regular Session | Bill Commons

1,483 bills

SB 92 — Extending the expiration date for provisions that authorize an electric utility to not offer parallel generation service to certain large load customers and exempt certain large load customers from the determination of the utility's peak demand.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
SB 462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.vetoed
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
SB 364 — Requiring the department of wildlife and parks to offer a discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing license to residents of Kansas who are 65 years of age or older and increasing the maximum age to qualify for the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license and decreasing the maximum fee and removing the expiration of such license.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
SB 480 — Reviving repealed statutes related to estates of absentees and requiring nonresident fiduciaries to appoint an agent residing in this state.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
HB 2518 — Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Reengrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026
HB 2467 — Prohibiting past convictions or sanctions for failure to comply with a traffic citation that are more than five years old from being considered by courts and the division of vehicles in determining suspended or restricted driving privileges and eliminating certain notice requirements for the division of vehicles.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
SB 459 — Removing the prisoner review board from the supervision of the secretary of corrections, changing the appointing authority and creating qualifications for the members of the board and requiring parole hearings to be postponed if proper notice of the public comment session is not made to the victim.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
HB 2004 — Senate Substitute for HB 2004 by Committee on Government Efficiency - .Requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations and requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies.vetoed
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
HB 2615 — 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.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
SCR 1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.died on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-09: Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Ty Masterson, Sen. Chase Blasi and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as third conferees
HB 2536 — Requiring proposed guardians for certain adults who have a cognitive impairment or are diagnosed with a neurological condition to complete training approved by the secretary for aging and disability services prior to appointment as a guardian.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
HB 2333 — Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.vetoed
Latest action 2026-04-09: Engrossed on Sunday, March 29, 2026
HB 2729 — Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act.vetoed
Latest action 2026-04-09: Vetoed by Governor; Returned to House on Monday, April 6, 2026
SB 353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
HB 2437 — Establishing the save Kansas act, authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, imposing restrictions on websites that can accept and transmit voter registration applications, removing individuals disqualified for voting from such records and providing an open records request exemption for certain information related to such records.vetoed
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
SB 232 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
HB 2591 — Authorizing financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of an adult account holder to a designated agency, notify any adult designated as a trusted contact by such account holder of suspected financial exploitation and place a temporary hold on certain transactions or disbursements. Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, and establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators. 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. Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act, and eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Reengrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 2026
HB 2613 — Providing for the crime victims compensation board to establish fees chargeable for conducting examinations of persons who may be victims of sexual assault, authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations to administer such fees and to use moneys in the crime victims compensation fund for the payment of such fees and allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the board.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Engrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 2026
HB 2571 — Senate Substitute for HB 2571 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Increasing the cost threshold for when a county shall use the public bidding process in awarding a construction contract.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
SB 271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
HB 2560 — Concerning postsecondary education; authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university, granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Engrossed on Tuesday, March 31, 2026
HB 2237 — Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
HB 2769 — Requiring members of governing bodies of subordinate service taxing areas to be residents of such taxing areas.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
HB 2323 — 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.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
SB 408 — Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026