Kansas Bills

Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install, operate and maintain school bus cameras.

Expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program, increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program and providing for aggregate tax credit limit increases under certain conditions.

Making certain provisions of the commercial industrial hemp act applicable only if the Kansas department of agriculture has submitted a state plan to the federal government for the state monitoring and regulation of industrial hemp within Kansas and such state plan is still active.

Providing for a property tax exemption for one motor vehicle for firefighters.

Substitute for Substitute for HB 2132 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody.

Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.

Authorizing retirement and disability benefits under KPERS, KP&F and the retirement system for judges to be paid on either a biweekly or monthly basis at the option of a member or recipient.

Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.

Authorizing cities and counties to regulate the sale and purchase of firearms and ammunition within a building owned by such city or county.

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by Kansas legal services, inc.

Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities.

Increasing the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles and trucks and electric motorcycles and distributing the fees to the state highway fund and the special city and county highway fund.

Discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit for qualified developments receiving a 4% federal tax credit.

Authorizing municipalities to prohibit their employees from carrying concealed handguns in municipal buildings.

Establishing the state conservation fund and transferring $2,500,000 to such fund and providing for the enhanced transfer of moneys from the state general fund to the state water plan fund and from the state water plan fund to the water technical assistance fund and the water project grant fund.

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.

Designating 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.

Standardizing firearm safety programs in school districts.

Including participation in certain learning experiences and agricultural activities as a valid excuse for absence from school and authorizing school boards to make rules therefor.

Establishing statewide standards governing the use of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, permitting a pharmacist to initiate such medication to certain patients, providing civil liability protections to pharmacists who initiate prophylactic therapy to patients for post-exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by not-for-profit corporations operating a community theater.

Providing for approval by the department of wildlife and parks for qualified program or management plans to qualify for the nongame and endangered species habitat credit.

Providing for transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits from the year that the credit was originally issued.

Authorizing the sale of electronic cigarettes in cigarette vending machines.

Authorizing victims of childhood abuse to access records related to substantiated reports or investigations of abuse or neglect and extending the time to file civil actions for recovery of damages caused by childhood sexual abuse.

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.

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

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.

Providing a income tax subtraction modification for amounts received as compensation for serving in the armed forces and providing that a person shall not lose eligibility for a homestead property tax refund claim or the selective assistance for effective senior relief (SAFESR) income tax credit if the appraised valuation of the homestead subsequently exceeds $350,000 after qualifying in a previous tax year.

Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.