Kansas bills

Kansas legislators · Data: Open States

State bill data last updated Oct 16, 2026, 4:38 PM.

1,483 bills

• HB 2226 In committee
  Providing incumbent electric transmission owners a right of first refusal for the construction of certain electric transmission lines.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2237 Became law
  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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2228 Vetoed
  Senate Substitute for HB 2228 by Committee on Judiciary - 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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 192 In committee
  Requiring judicial foreclosure tax sales by public auction to be conducted in person at a physical location in the county.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2255 Became law
  Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2224 In committee
  Requiring a law enforcement officer executing a search warrant at residential premises to be uniformed and to knock and announce themselves before entering the property.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2240 Vetoed
  Senate Substitute for HB 2240 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program, increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to act on agency requests when the legislature is not in session.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 186 Became law
  Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2236 In committee
  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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2258 In committee
  Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in those counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 182 In committee
  Enacting the Kansas medical loss ratios for dental healthcare services plans act.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 183 In committee
  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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2247 In committee
  Prohibiting certain terms in a contract between a health insurer and a dentist and requiring that reviews, audits or investigations of healthcare providers be completed within six months.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2253 In committee
  Making the theft of livestock or implements of husbandry a severity level 5, nonperson felony.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 177 In committee
  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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2233 In committee
  Disqualifying from the carbon dioxide capture and sequestration property tax exemption and the income tax accelerated depreciation deduction if machinery and equipment are used to inject animal manure into the ground.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 180 In committee
  Requiring previous convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2266 In committee
  Enacting the advanced practice registered nurse licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for advanced practice registered nurses.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 190 In committee
  Providing that payment of special assessments for years other than the year being redeemed is not required for purposes of partial redemption of homesteads with delinquent property taxes.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2246 Passed House
  Enacting the consumer protection related to hospital price transparency act.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2264 In committee
  Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2232 In committee
  Establishing a child income tax credit.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2225 In committee
  Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2235 In committee
  Updating provisions of the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions (TEFFI) act by making the act part of the state banking code, adjusting and providing certain definitions, reducing the TEFFI charter application fee, authorizing the issuance of certificates and trust certificates, providing for the supervision of TEFFIs by the state bank commissioner and including Kansas nonprofit corporations as qualified charities for the TEFFI income tax credit.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2267 In committee
  Prohibiting certain licensed individuals from using conversion therapy on minors.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2248 In committee
  Establishing the Kansas nursing initiative grant program and authorizing the state board of regents to approve need-based or competitive grants for the expansion of nursing faculty, laboratory supplies and tools for student success at postsecondary educational institutions.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HCR 5009 In committee
  Proposing a constitutional amendment reserving the power of initiative to the people of Kansas.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 189 In committee
  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.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2259 In committee
  Requiring school districts to adopt policies to limit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours and requiring the state board of education to designate a period of time for social media awareness and develop goals and materials relating thereto.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2244 In committee
  Modifying the composition of the board of pharmacy and prohibiting the board of pharmacy from adopting rules and regulations that would limit or condition the use of telepharmacy.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2254 Became law
  Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2250 Became law
  Substitute for HB 2250 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted infections, authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies, allowing expired emergency opioid antagonists to be used to treat an opioid overdose, permitting first responders to distribute and administer expired emergency opioid antagonists, permitting a pharmacist to distribute epinephrine delivery systems to a school for use in emergency medication kits and amending definitions related to medication in schools to allow for use of epinephrine delivery systems.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 181 Passed Senate
  House Substitute for SB 181 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees and authorizing certain transfers.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 188 In committee
  Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 196 In committee
  Requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and prohibiting income tax deductions for wages and remuneration paid to unauthorized aliens.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 174 In committee
  Enacting the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2261 Became law
  Providing that Kansas highway patrols officers majors are to be within the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and a superintendent, assistant superintendent or major shall be returned to a rank with permanent status not lower than the rank held when the officer was appointed to such respective position.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 194 Became law
  Providing that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1958, that restrict the use of real property owned by state educational institutions for only single-family residence purposes and contain discriminatory provisions to restrict ownership or tenancy by race are against public policy and therefore void.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2241 In committee
  Prohibiting second and successive motions and ineffective counsel claims in habeas corpus actions and providing for direct appeal to the supreme court in habeas corpus appeals filed by inmates sentenced to death.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2256 In committee
  Directing the governor to create and award the order of the sunflower to recognize military spouses' service to their communities.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 187 In committee
  Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 175 Became law
  Updating the definition of athletic trainer and providing an exemption for those licensed in another state, District of Columbia, territory or foreign country to practice in Kansas.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 184 Passed Senate
  Amending the Kansas drycleaner environmental response act to modify the penalties for violations of the act, the required deductible rate for corrective actions, the environmental surcharge rate, the solvent fee and the delinquency penalty related to environmental surcharges and solvent fees.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2260 In committee
  Prohibiting the use of an electronic communications device while operating a motor vehicle and providing penalties for violations thereof.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2234 In committee
  Substitute for HB 2234 by Committee on Taxation - Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by Junction City main street, inc.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• SB 195 In committee
  Establishing the property tax task force that shall study the property tax system in Kansas and develop recommendations and suggest improvements to law.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2230 In committee
  Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2249 Became law
  Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2263 Passed Senate
  Designating a future interchange on K-10 highway as the Kris Norton memorial interchange, a portion of K-5 highway as the Rep Marvin S Robinson memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 160 as the CPL Monte Wayne Forrest memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 77 as the POW MIA memorial highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 (026) in Clay county as the POW MIA memorial bridge, and redesignating a current portion of the Harry Darby memorial highway for interstate highway 635.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced
• HB 2227 In committee
  Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system.
  Feb 4, 2025: Introduced