Kansas House Bills

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.

Permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain.

Establishing the Kansas-Italy trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Italy.

Prohibiting certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS and requiring disclosure of information and the testing of products that contain intentionally added PFAS and are sold, offered for sale, distributed or distributed for sale in this state.

Establishing the positive learning environment act to provide for certain rights for teachers and require school districts to adopt school management plans to address behavioral infractions by students.

Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.

Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which such advertisement is placed.

Prohibiting unit owners associations from imposing certain restrictions on solar energy conversion systems.

Mandating health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services.

Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement.

Establishing the private energy campus and industrial host-site electric generation act to authorize the provision of energy services to private enterprises located on a private energy campus.

Modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals for school district at-risk accountability plans.

Enacting the student safety and awareness act to require school districts to designate a month during the school year as student safety and awareness month and to provide educational programs for students on the dangers and effects of fentanyl use, personal safety and awareness and social media literacy, safety and responsibility during such designated month.

Enacting the foreign adversaries out of higher education act to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from accepting gifts, grants and other moneys from foreign adversaries and their affiliates, prohibiting certain foreign adversary affiliates from operating on campuses and providing training and education on such foreign adversaries and their affiliates.

Making and concerning appropriations for the state board of regents for the Kansas blueprint for literacy, 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 that all election audits and recounts be conducted using a hand count of paper ballots.

Enacting the safe and transparent arrest act to require all law enforcement agencies operating in Kansas to adopt a written policy regarding the use of facial coverings and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing a facial covering that conceals or obscures their facial identity in the performance of their duties except as expressly authorized by law.

Prohibiting social medial platforms from allowing children under 16 years of age to create, maintain or access an account unless the platform has obtained verified parental consent.

Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.

Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program, providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program, authorizing judges to waive the fee in expungement cases by reviewing and granting a poverty affidavit and requiring judges to waive the fee for petitions for expungement of municipal arrest records in certain cases.

Prohibiting past sanctions for failure to comply with a traffic citation that are more than five years old from being considered by courts or the division of vehicles in determining suspended or restricted driving privileges and eliminating certain notice requirements for the division of vehicles related to suspended or restricted drivers' licenses.

Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.

Requiring that noncompete agreements be reasonable and providing that such agreements are null and void upon the sale or change in ownership or control of an employer.

Establishing the Kansas empowerment savings program, authorizing certain employees to contribute to individual retirement accounts through an automatic payroll deduction and providing powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of the Kansas empowerment savings program board of trustees within the state treasurer's office concerning such program.

Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act.

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefits claims process.

Extending the tax credit for certain contributions to community colleges and technical colleges for capital improvements, deferred maintenance or the purchase of technology or equipment.

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Butler county for the purpose of providing property tax relief.

Removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income.

Enacting the Kansas property rights protection act to require just compensation be provided to landowners for governmental actions that impose burdens upon or diminish the value of private property.

Requiring the secretary of state to conduct periodic checks to compare the statewide voter registration system against the federal systematic alien verification for entitlements (SAVE) database and submit an annual report to the legislature on the outcomes of such checks.

Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria and treatment provided at such centers and transferring moneys from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund for use at such centers.

Requiring that a child in custody of the secretary be provided information regarding the child's rights and the secretary maintain confirmation of the child's notification and understanding of such child's rights in child in need of care proceedings.

Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.

Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.

Increasing the service charge fee for each license, permit, stamp or other issue of the department of wildlife and parks to an amount of not to exceed $2.00 and, in the case of each migratory waterfowl habitat stamp, an amount of not to exceed $1.00.

Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction.

Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes.

Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions.

Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.