Kansas House Bills

Requiring discharged inmates be offered the opportunity to register to vote and requiring the secretary of state to develop a voter registration program that offers voter registration services through certain state agencies and accredited high schools.

Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts.

Enacting the consumer inflation reduction and tax fairness act and exempting the portion of a credit card transaction constituting a tax or gratuity from assessment of the fee charged by the card issuer.

Authorizing certain nonadmitted insurers to transact certain business in Kansas and requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers.

Adjusting the KPERS 3 dividend interest credit by lowering the dividend interest credit threshold to 5% and increasing the dividend share to 80%.

Allowing an itemized deduction for certain wagering losses for individual income tax purposes.

Providing a property tax exemption for new energy storage systems and excluding new energy storage systems from the commercial and industrial machinery and equipment exemption.

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.

Substitute for HB 2081 by Committee on Taxation - Providing a sales tax exemption for community pharmacies serving medically underserved individuals and families.

Restricting residential homestead property taxes to not more than the established base year for those individual 65 years of age and older.

Requiring that comparable sales of residential property occur within the subdivision or township or the closest-located subdivision or township where such property is located for valuing real property.

Providing an income tax credit for contributions to a child care provider or intermediary.

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of personal property and services, sales of personal property and purchases of construction materials and services for not-for-profit animal shelters and rescue network managers licensed under the Kansas pet animal act.

Reducing the authorized amount of days that a child may be placed in a secure facility and eliminating the court's option to extend such authorization.

Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers.

Enacting the art therapist licensure act to provide for the regulation and licensing of professional art therapists.

Enacting the dietitian licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dietitians.

Establishing a feminine hygiene product grant program and grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost.

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.

Providing for the appointment of delegates to a convention under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.

Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as a member of a health care sharing ministry.

Providing for an increased amount of income for eligibility of individuals for the selective assistance for effective senior relief income tax credit.

Requiring the governor to appointment persons to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.

Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the office of state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance by appointment of a person of the same political party as the incumbent office holder and making such appointment subject to senate confirmation.

Repealing restrictions on municipal regulation of political signs during certain periods of time around election days.

Requiring legislative approval of any national heritage area or national historic trail in the state of Kansas and prohibiting state funding of any national heritage area or national historic trail unless such funding is first approved by the legislature of the state of Kansas.

Eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor and removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law.

Providing for the establishment of an online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance.

Authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance.

Requiring a competitive bid process for the permitting of electric transmission lines.

Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.

Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces.

Authorizing school districts to employ chaplains or accept such persons as volunteers.

Authorizing the state corporation commission to increase or decrease an electric public utility's return on equity based on whether such utility's all-in average retail rate has increased or decreased.

Requiring all persons to be 18 years of age to be eligible to give consent for marriage and eliminating exceptions to such requirement.

Repealing the three-mile extraterritorial planning and zoning authority for cities.

Providing a tax credit for firefighters who incur unreimbursed medical expenses for screening for occupation-related cancer, enacting the fighting chance for firefighters act.

Creating the election crime of interference with an election official.

Authorizing the board of county commissioners to appoint a person to fill a vacancy in a county-elected office when no candidate runs for such office.

Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.

Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers.

Discontinuing the imposition of sales tax on certain cable services.

Substitute for HB 2012 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing the ethanol grant program fund and transferring an amount of not to exceed $5,000,000 from the state general fund to the ethanol grant program fund each July 1 beginning in 2026.

Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, increasing the extent of exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy and providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund.

Prohibiting abortion procedures and creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo.

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.

Modifying the definition of security officer to include certain juvenile corrections officer positions for purposes of the KPERS correctional employees group.

Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and allowing certain service credit purchases of previous KPERS security officer service for purposes of KP&F retirement benefits.

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.

Establishing the EV energy equity road repair tax act (EVEERRT act) and providing for a road repair tax on electricity distributed from a public charging station for electric vehicles.

Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature.

Continuing the reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs of county clerks through calendar year 2029.

Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act.

Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made.

Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government, adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act and requiring an agency submit a proposed rule and regulation to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations prior to presentation of a bill to the legislature for ratification.

Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities.

Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care.

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities, prohibiting courts from assigning a defendant to work release if the defendant is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes and prohibiting the secretary of corrections from granting an inmate leave from confinement except for specified purposes if theinmate is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes or is serving a sentence for certain crimes that require registration as a sex offender.

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.