Kansas House Bills

Enacting the providing civil relief from coerced debt act to provide protections and remedies for victims of certain debts constituting a coerced debt because of actions by another individual within the context of domestic violence.

Enacting the Kansas managed care bid fidelity and accountability act prohibiting the termination of certain clinical service contracts, providing penalties for material deviations from request for proposal responses and requiring reporting to the legislature of bid audits and material deviations.

Setting standards for patient and caregiver identification cards to ensure legal access to medical cannabis, establishing the Kansas medical cannabis agency within the department of health and environment and removing cannabis from the Kansas uniform controlled substances act.

Increasing the minimum bail requirements for certain crimes from $50,000 to $100,000 and requiring certain findings to reduce such requirements.

Increasing the criminal penalties for second or subsequent convictions of the crime of violation of a protective order.

Amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations to include persons in a position of trust or authority when such position is used to carry out the offense.

Increasing the time of initial orders and possible extensions under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act.

Providing that tenure at postsecondary educational institutions is not a right to or property interest in continued employment.

Encouraging school districts to annually designate a Linda Brown and family walk to school day.

Requiring the state board of regents and the state board of education to ensure that no teacher preparation program includes content related to diversity, equity and inclusion and providing an extended period for retired and substitute teachers to complete certain required literacy training as part of the Kansas blueprint for literacy.

Enacting the family rights in medical investigations act to provide requirements for the reporting of suspicions of abuse or neglect of a child for medical professionals and require a medical professional to provide notice to a parent of a CARE exam and allow parents to request a second medical opinion.

Establishing the Kansas medical rights of conscience act to permit a healthcare provider to refuse to provide transgender healthcare services if such services violate the provider's conscience and creating a civil cause of action for violation of this act.

Adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards.

Directing the secretary for children and families to request or update a pending waiver application from the supplemental nutrition assistance program that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of food commonly marketed, advertised or recognized as candy and soft drinks.

Enacting the patient's right to save act to establish shared savings programs and providing for the duties and requirements of such programs.

Directing the state registrar of vital statistics to provide death certificates to survivors of deceased veterans with a service-connected disability that state in such certificates the relationship between the cause of death and the service-connected disability of such veterans.

Requiring managed care organizations to provide an explanation of benefits to KanCare and CHIP enrollees.

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish uniform siting and permitting standards for certain energy facilities and limiting local governmental actions relating thereto

Decreasing the number of votes required to not retain a judge of the district court in office from a majority to 40% in judicial districts that have nonpartisan selection of judges and retention elections.

Requiring the director of the division of personnel services of the department of administration to add judges of the district court to the state drug screening program.

Authorizing judges to waive the docket fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit.

Requiring the supreme court to develop or procure a court date reminder program for the purpose of sending advance notifications to individuals with scheduled court dates for a criminal case or an infraction and requiring all courts to send certain notifications using such program.

Providing that certain resultant trusts are not subject to claims of the settlor's creditors.

Modifying an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act concerning software programs for electronic data processing.

Enacting the Kansas surrogate medical decisions act to establish a hierarchy for identifying a surrogate who would make healthcare decisions and provide associated definitions and provider guidelines.

Creating a right for an adult care home resident to use such resident's pharmacy of choice without being charged a fee or financial penalty by the adult care home because of such choice.

Permitting a person with a disability to be issued one special license plate for each vehicle owned, registered and operated by such person.

Imposing property tax on new motor vehicles following the 12th month in which a new vehicle was purchased or acquired.

Providing for a decreased gallonage tax on beer and cereal malt beverages that are produced and packaged within the United States.

Imposing property tax on used motor vehicles following the 12th month in which a used vehicle was purchased or acquired.

Enacting the affirming parental rights act to require school districts to provide parents with an affirming parental rights document, requiring the investigation of parental rights violations and establishing certain remedies for parents aggrieved by such violations.

Requiring examination and licensure of home inspectors in the same manner as general contractors and providing that home inspectors obtain liability insurance coverage as required for general contractors.

Establishing within the legislative branch the office of the director for Kansas advisory commissions, the advisory commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander affairs and the Kansas Native American affairs commission and transferring the Hispanic and Latino American affairs commission and the advisory commission on African-American affairs to the legislative branch.

Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders.

Prohibiting certain federal law enforcement officers from entering hospitals, schools and places of worship under certain circumstances and prohibiting law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties with certain exceptions.

Providing that courts are not required to appoint counsel for an indigent inmate in certain habeas corpus actions.

Providing that amendments related to credit for time spent incarcerated are applicable to any sentence computed on or after October 20, 2023.

Permitting nonuniform zoning regulations within a zoning district.

Providing for official legal publications on a county website for counties with a population of 100,000 or more.

Modifying the crime of unlawful acts involving theft detection shielding devices to include possessing, with the intent to commit theft, a computer program, application, software or other device adapted, designed or commonly used to operate a lock or locks on or start a motor vehicle without an ignition key or key fob, or to copy, store information relating to, or interfere with those functions and providing for exceptions.

Providing for the modernization of notarization and the notary public process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents and requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2027.

Enacting the enhanced oversight and accountability for the prescription of psychotropic drug prescriptions act to require the secretary of health and environment to establish an online reporting system for adverse drug reactions.

Enacting the opioid patients right to know act to require the disclosure of the risks associated with prescribed opioid use.

Prohibiting certain applications of swine waste, establishing setback rules and requiring applicators to prevent nuisance conditions.

Establishing standards of conduct for agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) prohibiting facial covering of agents, requiring vehicles be clearly marked, requiring judicial search warrants, prohibiting raids in places of worships, schools, daycare centers, hospitals and courts, requiring minimum training.

Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or when there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing the city to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county.

Enacting the Kansas tri-share child care act for the sharing of child care costs among employers, employees and the state, establishing the Kansas tri-share child care matching program to be administered by the director of the Kansas office of early childhood and creating the Kansas tri-share child care matching program fund.

Providing that a nondisclosure agreement shall not be judicially enforceable in a dispute involving childhood sexual abuse or human trafficking allegations or claims.

Prohibiting any governmental agency from regulating landings, takeoffs or the operation of aquatic aircraft on waters of the state.

Prohibiting certain agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) from being employed as a law enforcement officer in Kansas.

Enacting the public official accountability act to provide personal liability for actions by public officials that violate constitutional rights or exceed such official's lawful duties.

Providing price limits and other requirements for health benefits covering prescription insulin drugs and establishing the insulin affordability program for the uninsured.

Allowing healthcare providers to charge fees to furnish a patient's healthcare records and providing for the disclosure of a deceased patient's healthcare records to certain individuals.

Enacting the Kansas organic waste land application accountability act and authorizing the department of health and environment to regulate the land application of biosolids and organic waste materials, except when applied by a bona fide farmer conducting normal farming operations on land owned or leased by such farmer.

Establishing the department of corrections peer support fund and transferring moneys from the state general fund to the department of corrections peer support fund.

Renaming the tax credit for low income students scholarship program the Kansas K-12 students scholarship program, expanding eligibility under the program, increasing the aggregate tax credit limit and moving the program's administration to the state treasurer.

Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state.

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Mandating health insurance plans to provide coverage and payment for hearing aids for children under the age of 18.