Kansas bills

Kansas legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 15, 2026, 8:04 PM.

1,483 bills

• HB 2519 Became law
  Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the Kansas open records act.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 371 In committee
  Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2513 Became law
  Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 375 Vetoed
  Enacting the proxy advisor transparency act, requiring proxy advisors to make certain disclosures when recommending an action against company management, authorizing the attorney general to investigate and take enforcement actions against violators and establishing a private right of action for a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 361 Vetoed
  Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 364 Became law
  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.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 360 Passed Senate
  Enacting the Kansas consumer prescription protection and accountability act and providing for regulation and registration of pharmacy benefits managers.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 363 Passed Senate
  Requiring the department of health and environment (KDHE) to seek federal approval for continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, directing state agencies to report to certain legislative committees on Kansans losing public assistance program eligibility, requiring the Kansas department for children and families and KDHE to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance and KDHE to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance waivers or exemptions without legislative approval and self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance, requiring quarterly eligibility redeterminations for medical assistance and providing exceptions for certain individuals, limiting retroactive enrollment in medical assistance, immediately terminating eligibility for medical assistance upon confirmation of death of the enrollee, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 374 Became law
  Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2522 Passed House
  Permitting highway construction and maintenance vehicles in road construction zones to display flashing amber, white or green lights at all times or flashing white and blue lights on stationary trailers under certain conditions and prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in a school zone or a road construction zone.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2524 Became law
  Permitting the secretary for children and families to license family foster homes when certain persons reside in such home and creating an appeal process for family foster homes when licenses are not granted.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2516 In committee
  Providing for the qualifications of regular and provisional appraisers and allowing for the appointment of such appraisers to serve as county appraisers.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2517 In committee
  Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Leavenworth county for the purposes of furnishing, equipping, improving and maintaining county-supported emergency management operations.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 366 Became law
  House Substitute for Senate Bill 366 by Committee on Transportation - Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties thereof and permitting the display of certain lighting in road construction zones by vehicles and trailers engaged in highway construction and maintenance operations.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 368 Vetoed
  Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 370 In committee
  Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2523 In committee
  Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with Kansas universities or colleges, authorizing state educational institutions to affiliate with accredited independent institutions and providing procedures for such affiliations.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2514 In committee
  Designating the first Tuesday in May as precinct committee person awareness day.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 369 In committee
  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.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2518 Became law
  Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 367 Passed Senate
  Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2515 Vetoed
  Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 362 Passed Senate
  Requiring the office of each state officer to keep and maintain records of information concerning all travel locations and expenses of the state officer that were paid or reimbursed by the state during each fiscal year and provide such records of information upon request by a member of the public.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2520 Became law
  Increasing the number of allowed residents in a home plus facility from 12 to 16.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2525 In committee
  Prohibiting the use of remote ballot boxes for the return of advance voting ballots.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 373 In committee
  Creating a maximum length of time for an agreement between a utility and law enforcement to install law enforcement equipment on a utility pole or structure.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2521 Vetoed
  Expanding the Kansas tort claims act to include child placement agencies that contract with the secretary for children and families.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 372 Passed Senate
  Enacting the app store accountability act to regulate app store and developer operations with respect to minors, create requirements for age verification and parental consent and provide for enforcement under the Kansas consumer protection act and through a private cause of action.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• SB 365 In committee
  Providing for the election of county appraisers and discontinuing the authority to form appraisal districts with district appraisers.
  Jan 22, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2483 In committee
  Enacting the transparency and reform of utility expenditures act.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 352 In committee
  Creating the bitcoin and digital assets reserve fund and providing definitions, procedures and requirements for abandoned digital assets.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 359 In committee
  Increasing the mandatory retirement age for certain judges, requiring more years of service prior to receiving a member contribution reduction and increasing the maximum retirement benefit.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2508 In committee
  Prohibiting healthcare providers from prescribing medication, administering diagnostic tests or conducting ongoing behavioral health treatments to minors except in certain circumstances.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2485 Became law
  Authorizing the chief executive officer of the board of regents to negotiate and settle repayment obligations arising under financial aid programs administered by the board, providing requirements for agreements between postsecondary educational institutions and school districts for postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools, directing the governor to approve short-term workforce training programs for Pell grant eligibility, modifying requirements under the every child can read act and prohibiting Kansas promise scholarship awards for remedial hours.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2507 Became law
  Removing the requirement for migratory waterfowl stamps to be validated by a signature across the face of each such stamp and increasing the fees for such stamps, authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to fees, registrations and other charges by the department of wildlife and parks and providing an exception from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act for department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2487 Became law
  Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 349 In committee
  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.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2509 Became law
  Allowing licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests, adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, adding an advanced practice registered nurse position to the board of governors of the healthcare stabilization fund and requiring advance practice registered nurses to maintain professional liability insurance as a condition of active licensure.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2486 In committee
  Requiring children to be toilet trained to enroll in and attend kindergarten in any public school and providing certain exceptions thereto.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2495 In committee
  Authorizing counties to adopt resolutions to regulate activities on or within navigable rivers and adding navigable rivers to the crime of criminal trespass.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 356 Became law
  House Substitute for SB 356 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2503 Passed House
  Repealing the mail ballot election act.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 353 Became law
  Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 351 In committee
  Requiring correctional facilities and jails to allow inmates and prisoners to make telephone calls at no cost.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2493 In committee
  Requiring a person transmitting or delivering a ballot on behalf of another voter to include such person's driver's license number in the written statement on the ballot envelope.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• SB 358 Became law
  Requiring individuals convicted of certain felonies to be held without bond in the county jail until sentencing.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2502 Passed House
  Requiring the Kansas department of wildlife and parks to offer discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing passes to residents of this state who are 65 years of age or older and removing the expiration date for Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2484 In committee
  Eliminating the Kansas residency requirement after completing a Kansas promise scholarship program, clarifying the work requirements upon completion of such program and repealing the sunset on the program.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2505 Passed Senate
  Providing an exception for Kansas department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced
• HB 2482 Became law
  Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider.
  Jan 21, 2026: Introduced