Kansas Senate Bills

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.

Requiring outpatient competency evaluations in certain circumstances and requiring the court to make specific findings for inpatient competency evaluations.

Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Prohibiting the enforcement of federal immigration laws at polling places and locations designated for the canvassing, auditing and recounting of ballots.

Enacting the defense of drug delivery act to prohibit manufacturer interference relating to 340B drug distribution.

House Substitute for SB 394 by Committee on Elections - Relating to signature verification for advance voting ballots, concerning court orders that invalidate or enjoin signature verification triggering a return to allowing advance voting only if certain conditions exist, establishing venue in the district court in Shawnee county for all constitutional challenges to election laws.

Authorizing students to participate in school activities immediately upon transfer to another school unless such students were recruited, induced or unduly influenced to transfer for athletic activity participation.

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.

House Substitute for SB 404 by Committee on Transportation - Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of the county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds and authorizing county treasurers to charge certain increased fees for vehicle registration transactions.

House Substitute for SB 434 by Committee on Taxation - Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals and discontinuing the sales tax exemption for purchases made by certain qualifying military veterans.

Enhancing the criminal penalty for committing certain crimes in the context of transnational repression and requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training.

Requiring veterans with a condition from military service to be offered diversion for certain offenses and expanding the mitigating factor for departure at sentencing for veterans.

Prohibiting members of the legislature from engaging in transactions involving stocks and other securities during legislative sessions.

Eliminating state income tax on certain qualified overtime compensation.

Clarifying definitions of individuals who are subject to a state and national criminal history record check and which agency receives the results of such record check.

Creating the Kansas law enforcement trust fund, establishing the purposes and requirements for such fund and making a transfer from the state general fund to such fund during FY 2027.

Expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting.

Requiring banks to enter into a written agreement with the state treasurer to be a depository of public moneys, increasing the market value of securities necessary to secure the deposit of public moneys, providing procedures for when a depository fails to follow the requirements of the state treasurer, modifying certain definitions, authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, creating the public moneys fee fund and providing exceptions to the public moneys pooled method if accounts are subject to conflicting federal law.

Providing for income tax credits for payment of employee's child care related expenses and certain employer contributions to expand community child care availability.

House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing certain sales tax exemptions, imposing sales tax on certain sales of lottery tickets, imposing an excise tax on all sports wagers as a rate of 2% of the amount wagered, creating the property tax relief fund and providing for transfers therefrom to the state school district finance fund and creating the sports wagering privilege tax refund fund.

Regulating the acceptance of cryptocurrency as a form of campaign contribution.

Providing a remittance credit to retailers for the collection of sales and compensating use tax.

House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

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.

Establishing a child income tax credit.

Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.

Requiring previous convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.

Establishing the property tax task force that shall study the property tax system in Kansas and develop recommendations and suggest improvements to law.

Removing breastfeeding mothers from the mandatory jury service exclusion list and including them in the discretionary jury service exclusion list.

Requiring cardiac emergency response plans at all recreational youth facilities, including the placement of automatic external defibrillators.