Kansas bills

Kansas legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 8:07 AM.

1,483 bills

• HB 2345 In committee
  Creating the Kansas office of natural resources within the executive branch and transferring certain duties of the Kansas water office, and the department of agriculture, division of conservation and division of water resources to such office.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2357 Became law
  Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in eviction actions in which the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2349 Passed House
  Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 249 In committee
  Establishing the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) advisory committee to prevent FASD and provide for treatment and support for affected individuals and their families.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2339 In committee
  Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and authorizing the secretary to administer the fund.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2327 Passed House
  Establishing procedures and requirements for the secretary of corrections to issue a certificate of employability to certain inmates.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2326 In committee
  Adding consideration of whether the offender has physical custody of such offender's minor child or is a legal guardian or custodian with physical custody of a minor child to the factors considered for diversions and dispositional departures.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2330 In committee
  Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 246 In committee
  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.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2335 Became law
  Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 247 In committee
  Eliminating the exemption for vehicle dealers from certain requirements of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2361 In committee
  Abolishing the nursing scholarship program and creating the Kansas healthcare service scholarship program to include part-time students and expand the list of eligible programs.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2352 Passed House
  Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect except when reporting would violate the penitential communication privilege and requiring training for persons obligated to report abuse and neglect.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2364 Passed House
  Prohibiting certain health insurers from requiring cost-sharing for nonopioid prescription drugs or providing less favorable coverage for such drug than that for opioid or narcotic prescription drugs for the treatment of pain.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2321 In committee
  Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2338 Became law
  Authorizing the board of cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishing criteria therefor.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2353 In committee
  Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2343 Passed House
  Creating the no-impact home-based business fairness act, supporting the development and growth of such businesses by limiting the regulatory power of municipalities.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2348 In committee
  Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions shall not be defined, awarded or recognized as an entitlement, right or property interest in a faculty member's current, ongoing or future employment by an institution.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2332 Became law
  Establishing a seal for the house of representatives and a seal for the senate and providing for the custody and use of each.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 248 In committee
  Requiring criminal history record check information relating to hemp producers to be sent to the state fire marshal, updating the fingerprinting language for the state banking commissioner for money transmitters and earned wage access services providers and authorizing the state gaming agency and attorney general to have access to more criminal history record information.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2359 Became law
  Enacting the uniform adult guardianship and protective proceedings jurisdiction act and the uniform guardianship, conservatorship and other protective arrangements act.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2328 In committee
  Providing an exception to restrictions on prison-made housing units to allow the secretary of corrections to establish a program for delivering such units into designated areas.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2371 Became law
  Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment act.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2323 Became law
  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.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SCR 1611 Adopted
  Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of supreme court justices and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2347 Became law
  Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft and increasing the criminal penalty for theft to a felony when the property is a motor vehicle of the value of at least $500, creating the crime of unlawful use of a laser pointer and providing criminal penalties therefor, modifying criminal use of a financial card to include certain conduct involving gift cards, increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2341 In committee
  Requiring that sureties for bonds secured for the purpose of clearing contractors liens against property be licensed to do business in Kansas, providing that district courts award attorney fees and costs to successful claimants that demanded payment by the principal and surety prior to filing suit and did not receive payment and requiring a pretrial hearing in such a suit for the purpose of a preliminary finding by the court of whether the surety should pay the amount of the claim to the claimant or alternatively pay such amount into an account to be held by the court.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 253 In committee
  Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 251 In committee
  Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2350 In committee
  Providing that no juvenile less than 18 years of age shall be prosecuted as an adult.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2340 Passed House
  Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain property located in Johnson county.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 252 In committee
  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.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2367 In committee
  Providing naturopathic doctors a certificate of authorization for a business entity to practice medicine.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2362 In committee
  Requiring the department of administration to report identifying information of persons who claim Kansas lottery or gambling prize winnings in excess of $5,000 to the department of health and environment.
  Feb 7, 2025: Introduced
• SB 232 Became law
  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.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2312 Passed Senate
  Excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 230 In committee
  Permitting the division of vehicles to contract with an entity to establish and issue a digital proof of drivers' license and digital proof of identification card, regulating the use thereof and providing a fee for such digital proofs of identification.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 224 In committee
  Providing for the preceptor income tax incentive act, establishing an income tax credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as a community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 241 Became law
  Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 225 In committee
  Requiring counties to purchase homesteads at the appraised values set by county appraisers upon applications made by the owners under certain conditions.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 234 In committee
  Prohibiting the use of genetic sequencers or operational software used for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 235 In committee
  Making it unlawful to sell, offer for sale, use or distribute certain seeds coated with a pesticide that contains a neonicotinoid unless otherwise ordered by the governor.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 233 In committee
  Establishing requirements for decommissioning of commercial solar and wind energy facilities.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 231 Passed Senate
  House Substitute for SB231 by Committee on Elections - Changing the timing of city, school, community college and certain other municipality elections to fall in even-numbered years and requiring the term of office of municipal elected officials to be either two years or four years.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 227 Became law
  Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 244 Vetoed
  House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings for use by only one sex and imposing criminal and civil penalties for violations, defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2310 In committee
  Enacting the career advancement, resources, employment and supports for the disability workforce act, providing for career education programs for students and career enhancement programs for professionals, requiring performance-based contracting for disability services providers, facilitating choice in services by individuals with disabilities, mandating rate parity across all state waiver programs, providing for an online data portal system for waitlist management and services-related communications, requiring the secretary of labor to publish information regarding the disability service provider workforce and providing that direct support workers may be covered by the state health plan.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• SB 239 In committee
  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.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2315 In committee
  Designating every September 9 as Kansas fetal alcohol spectrum disorders day.
  Feb 6, 2025: Introduced