Volume 43 - Issue 6 - February 8, 2024
State of Kansas
Legislative Administrative Services
Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced
The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced January 25th – January 31st during the 2024 session of the Kansas Legislature. Full text of bills, bill tracking, and other information may be accessed at http://www.kslegislature.org/li/.
House Bills
HB 2597, AN ACT concerning public utilities; relating to the state corporation commission; extending the timelines for the state corporation commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for electric generating or transmission facilities; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 66-1239 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.
HB 2598, AN ACT concerning real estate; relating to brokers and salespersons and real estate transactions; authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders; prohibiting dealing in assignable contracts for the purchase or sale of or options on real estate or improvements thereon for certain residential housing; providing that certain violations thereof are subject to penalties and remedies under the Kansas consumer protection act; amending K.S.A. 58-3065 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 58-3062 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2599, AN ACT concerning the open records act; relating to charges for public records requested thereunder; prohibiting charges for electronic copies and determinations of whether a record exists; limiting charges for employee time required to make records available; amending K.S.A. 45-219 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.
HB 2600, AN ACT concerning education; establishing a grant program to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost and the feminine hygiene product grant fund; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, for the department of education, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.
HB 2601, AN ACT concerning driving; relating to driving under the influence; requiring certain persons on a third or subsequent conviction thereof to participate in a multidisciplinary model of services for substance use disorders; amending K.S.A. 8-1567 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2602, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; authorizing expungement of an adjudication if the person has not been convicted or adjudicated of an offense in the past two years; amending K.S.A. 38-2312 and repealing the existing section, by None.
HB 2603, AN ACT concerning elections; establishing the citizens’ election oversight board; authorizing such board to review, investigate and report on citizen complaints on the conduct of elections and election procedures; providing for the membership, powers and duties thereof, by Representatives Howerton and Underhill.
HB 2604, AN ACT concerning civil procedure for limited actions; relating to the small claims procedure act; increasing the maximum dollar amount of a small claim thereunder; amending K.S.A. 61-2703 and 61-2706 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2605, AN ACT concerning the board of indigents’ defense services; relating to appointed counsel; increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel; amending K.S.A. 22-4507 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2606, AN ACT concerning seizure and forfeiture of property; relating to the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act; specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the act; requiring courts to make a finding that forfeiture is not excessive; restricting actions prior to commencement of forfeiture proceedings; requiring probable cause affidavit filing and review to commence forfeiture proceedings; increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property to clear and convincing evidence; authorizing courts to order payment of attorney fees and costs for certain claimants; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 60-4104, 60-4106, 60-4107, 60-4109, 60-4111, 60-4112, 60-4113, 60-4116 and 60-4117 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2607, AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to the Kansas department of agriculture; the Kansas pesticide law; the Kansas chemigation safety law; requiring supervision and training for uncertified applicators; clarifying definition of governmental agency; requiring applicants to file certificates of liability insurance in lieu of bonds, letters of credit or proof of an escrow; government agency certification for pesticide applications in the sodium cyanide predator control category; requiring direct supervision of registered pest control technicians by a certified commercial applicator when applying restricted use pesticides; expanding applicability of the current civil penalty provisions to any person or entity that violates the Kansas pesticide law; adding additional categories of qualification for certification and licensing; updating private applicator certificate requirements; allowing the secretary to establish a training program for initial certification of private applicators as an alternative to a written examination; requiring additional information in statements of service or contracts; government agencies to maintain records relating to each application of pesticide made by such government agency; applying the same criminal penalty to certified private applicators as other persons for violations of the Kansas pesticide law; removing the secretary’s authority to deny, suspend, revoke or modify a permit if an applicant, registrant or permit holder has been convicted or pled guilty to a state or federal felony; amending K.S.A. 2-2438a, 2-2440, 2-2440b, 2-2440e, 2-2443a, 2-2444a, 2-2445a, 2-2446, 2-2448, 2-2449, 2-2450, 2-2455, 2-2461, 2-2467a and 2-3310 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
HB 2608, AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to animal health; poultry disease control; authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act; establishing an annual participation fee not to exceed $50 for participation in the national poultry improvement plan; a certification fee not to exceed $50 for persons performing testing and diagnostic services; a testing fee not to exceed $100 per visit to each location participating in the plan; allowing the commissioner to revoke any national plan hatchery or U.S. pullorum-typhoid clean designation for failure to pay the annual plan participation fee within a 60-day grace period; amending K.S.A. 2-910, 2-912, 2-914 and 2-915 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
HB 2609, AN ACT concerning property tax; relating to exemptions; extending the property tax exemption for pollution control devices and peak load plants of independent power producers and certain electric public utility property; amending K.S.A. 79-257 and 79-258 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2610, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to the determination of Kansas adjusted gross income; providing a subtraction modification for sales of property subject to eminent domain; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2611, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to tourism; increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism appointed by the governor and updating the house committee assignment required for house members from the committee on agriculture and natural resources to the committee on commerce, labor and economic development; reducing the required allocation of funds from the department of commerce’s matching grant program for the promotion of tourism to public and nonprofit entities and removing the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 32-1410 and 32-1420 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2612, AN ACT concerning education; relating to school district accreditation; requiring school districts to be in compliance with all state laws and rules and regulations to be accredited; requiring school districts to notify parents in writing if the school district is not accredited; requiring the state board to establish a process to challenge a determination of school district compliance with state laws and rules and regulations; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 72-5170 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.
HB 2613, AN ACT concerning the attorney general; relating to the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) program; creating the position of statewide drug abuse resistance education educator and providing for the duties and responsibilities thereof; establishing the drug abuse resistance education fund and providing funding for such fund through an annual transfer of state moneys; amending K.S.A. 38-2101 and 75-721 and repealing the existing sections, by Representative Essex.
HB 2614, AN ACT concerning administrative rules and regulations; requiring state agencies to provide notice of revocation thereof; removing certain abolished or inactive state agencies from the five-year state agency review requirement; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 77-426 and 77-440 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Elections.
HB 2615, AN ACT concerning the publication of state laws and rules and regulations; relating to the publishing, printing and distributing thereof; removing state printer from timeline requirements for printing session laws; providing statewide elected officials and legislators to receive statute books and supplements upon request; requiring all administrative rules and regulations to be published electronically and eliminating the printing of volumes and supplements thereof; providing for the authenticating, preparing of searchable base and setting of prices of administrative rules and regulations by the secretary of state; amending K.S.A. 45-315, 77-165, 77-423, 77-429 and 77-435 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 77-138 and 77-430 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 77-424 and 77-428 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 77-430a and 77-431, by Committee on Elections.
HB 2616, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to the qualifications of poll workers; prohibiting the disqualification of certain individuals as poll workers on the basis of residency or registered voter status, by Committee on Elections.
HB 2617, AN ACT concerning state governmental ethics; relating to members of the legislature; prohibiting voting on certain legislative matters in which a member has a special interest; amending K.S.A. 46-214a and 46-288 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Elections.
HB 2618, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to the election crime of false representation of an election official; requiring specific intent of the offender as an element of such criminal offense; amending K.S.A. 25-2438 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Elections.
HB 2619, AN ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas deferred retirement option program act; expanding such program membership to all members of the Kansas public employees retirement system; amending K.S.A. 74-4986m and 74-4986o and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-4986l, 74-4986n and 74-4986p and repealing the existing sections, by Representatives Penn and Williams, K.
HB 2620, AN ACT concerning public utilities; relating to the state corporation commission; extending the timelines for the state corporation commission to make a determination regarding rate-making treatment for electric generating or transmission facilities; establishing a rebuttable presumption that a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit shall not be retired; prohibiting the commission from authorizing the retirement of such an electric generating unit unless the utility overcomes such presumption with sufficient evidence; requiring the commission to report annually on requests to retire such units; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 66-1239 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.
HB 2621, AN ACT concerning public utilities; relating to eminent domain; prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar facilities; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 66-104 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.
HB 2622, AN ACT amending the Kansas indoor clean air act; prohibiting smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility; amending K.S.A. 21-6110 and repealing the existing section, by Representatives Donohoe, Buehler, Carlin, Carr, Highberger, Howe, Humphries, Lewis, Minnix, Neelly, Pickert, Ruiz, S., Schlingensiepen, Seiwert and Waggoner.
HB 2623, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; updating the veterans claims assistance program to include references to veterans affairs medical centers and cross-accreditation requirements; amending K.S.A. 73-1234 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2624, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to disabled veterans; requiring that federal disability determinations be probative; prohibiting state agencies and municipalities from reconsidering a veteran’s disability determination, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2625, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to disabled veterans; prescribing documentation requirements to determine eligibility for benefits derived from a service-connected disability. , by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2626, AN ACT concerning cemeteries; authorizing the disorganization of the Clearwater cemetery district; conveying certain real property and transferring assets and other property of such district, by Representative Bergkamp.
HB 2627, AN ACT concerning public assistance; reorganizing sections of the public assistance statute; updating cross references; amending K.S.A. 39-757 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 39-709 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Welfare Reform.
HB 2628, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to child fatality records; requiring the secretary for children and families to release certain information related to a child fatality when criminal charges are filed with a court alleging that a person caused such fatality; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 38-2212 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2629, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to the state child death review board; replacing sudden infant death with sudden unexplained infant death; requiring the secretary for health and environment to provide a death certificate to the state child death review board; listing requirements for notification of a deceased child; increasing the number of members appointed by the state board of healing arts to the state child death review board; allowing for compensation for board members; providing for the disclosure of certain records to certain persons for securing grants; directing that records be kept for 15 years after a case is closed; amending K.S.A. 22a-242, 22a-243 and 22a-244 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2630, AN ACT concerning the rules of evidence; relating to extrinsic policies affecting admissibility; evidence of other crimes or civil wrongs; allowing evidence of previous domestic violence offenses to be admitted during a prosecution of a domestic violence offense; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 60-455 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2631, AN ACT concerning roads and highways; relating to tolls on turnpike projects; directing the Kansas turnpike authority to establish a toll exemption program for current members of the armed forces whose orders direct a permanent place of duty within Kansas, by Representatives Butler, Blex, Bloom, Buehler, Collins, Dodson, M., Ellis, Goddard, Hill, Howe, Howerton, T. Johnson, McDonald, Miller, D., Neelly, Penn, Poskin, Proctor, Ruiz, S., Sanders, Schlingensiepen, Smith, C., Thompson, Turk, Underhill and White.
HB 2632, AN ACT concerning the law enforcement memorial advisory committee; expanding the membership thereof; amending K.S.A. 75-2251 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2633, AN ACT concerning water; relating to the certification of operators of water supply systems and wastewater treatment facilities; providing for additional sources of revenue for the water program management fund; requiring fees for operator certification examinations to not exceed the cost of such examinations; eliminating the ability of the secretary of health and environment to certify operators through a correspondence course rather than classroom instruction; amending K.S.A. 65-166b, 65-4513 and 65-4514 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 65-4506, by Committee on Water.
HB 2634, AN ACT concerning water; relating to groundwater management districts; providing an additional corrective control provision for the chief engineer to consider when issuing orders of designations for local enhance management areas and intensive groundwater use control areas; amending K.S.A. 82a-1038 and 82a-1041 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Water.
HB 2635, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to exemptions; establishing a property tax exemption for homestead property of certain disabled veterans, by Representative Ohaebosim.
HB 2636, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to the homestead property tax refund act; including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims; amending K.S.A. 79-4501, 79-4511 and 79-4522 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-4502, 79-4508 and 79-4509 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2637, AN ACT concerning hospitals; relating to rural emergency hospital licensure; expanding eligibility to facilities that meet criteria between January 2015 and December 2020; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 65-484 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2638, AN ACT concerning real property; relating to the conveyance thereof; requiring the attorney general to investigate such conveyances; prohibiting the conveyance of title to certain real property to foreign adversaries and establishing criminal penalties for violations therefor, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
HB 2639, AN ACT concerning the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings; authorizing exceptions if the court makes certain findings on the record; defining hearing under the code; amending K.S.A. 38-2353 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 38-2302 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2640, AN ACT concerning research at Kansas public postsecondary educational institutions; creating the Kansas strategic research act; establishing the Kansas strategic research fund; making transfers to such fund; prescribing guidelines for the expenditure of moneys credited thereto and the powers, duties and functions of the state board of regents; requiring annual reports to certain committees of the legislature, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2641, AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; requiring boards of education of school districts to adopt policies and procedures to prohibit students’ use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours; allowing the use under certain circumstances, by Committee on Education.
HB 2642, AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; relating to the regulation of dentists; Kansas dental board; requiring a dentist to establish a bona fide relationship with a patient before providing dental services; prohibiting dental service contracts that limit a patient’s ability to file a complaint with the board; updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act; amending K.S.A. 65-1430 and 65-1467 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2643, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to laser hair removal; creating the laser hair removal act; restricting the practice thereof to certain medical professionals, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2644, AN ACT concerning the state board of regents; relating to certain scholarship programs administered by the board; establishing uniform interest rate provisions for scholarship programs that include repayment obligations as a condition of receipt of such financial assistance; authorizing the board to recover the costs of collecting such repayment obligations; authorizing the board to charge fees to cover the costs of administering scholarship, grant and other financial assistance programs; amending K.S.A. 74-3260, 74-3267, 74-3272, 74-3295, 74-32,104, 74-32,116, 74-32,135, 74-32,153, 74-32,154 and 74-32,223 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-32,276 and 74-32,286 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Education.
HB 2645, AN ACT concerning postsecondary education; relating to the nursing service scholarship program; removing limits on the amount of scholarship awards and the number of scholarships; removing the requirement to obtain a sponsor; modifying the terms and conditions for interest accrual on repayment obligations; abolishing the nursing service scholarship review committee; amending K.S.A. 74-3292, 74-3293, 74-3294, 74-3295, 74-3296, 74-3297 and 74-3298 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 74-3299, by Committee on Education.
HB 2646, AN ACT concerning postsecondary education; relating to the Kansas hero’s scholarship act; modifying the financial limitations on the award of scholarships under the act; expanding the eligibility requirements for a scholarship; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 75-4364 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.
HB 2647, AN ACT concerning rural communities in Kansas; creating the Kansas rural downtown revitalization act; establishing the rural downtown revitalization fund; making transfers to such fund; prescribing guidelines for the expenditure of moneys credited thereto and the duties of the department of commerce and the director of Kansas main street; requiring annual reports to certain committees of the legislature, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2648, AN ACT concerning administrative rules and regulations; requirements for adoption of rules and regulations; relating to economic impact statements; requiring legislative ratification for certain rules and regulations; requiring the director of the budget to review an agency’s determination of implementation and compliance costs and disapprove proposed rules and regulations with incomplete or inaccurate economic impact statements; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 77-415, 77-416 and 77-420 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2649, AN ACT concerning the attorney general; requiring the attorney general to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees regarding coordinated law enforcement agency training on missing and murdered indigenous persons; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 75-774 and repealing the existing section, by Representative Haswood.
HB 2650, AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; requiring each school district to submit annually to the state board of education an at-risk student accountability plan and show longitudinal academic improvement in certain student subgroups and students identified as eligible for at-risk programs and services; revising the definition of evidence-based instruction relating to the provision of at-risk programs and services; removing the requirement that the state board of education approve and publish a list of evidence-based at-risk educational programs; requiring the state board of education to publish an online guidance resource for at-risk educational programs; prohibiting the state board of education from revising curriculum standards in English language arts and mathematics until 75% of all students achieve academic proficiency; requiring school districts to be in compliance with all state laws and rules and regulations to maintain accreditation; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 72-5153 and 72-5170 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.
HB 2651, AN ACT concerning agriculture; relating to farm tenancies; requiring a third party that causes damage to crops or land to notify the landowner of such damage, request documentation of existing tenants of such land and to reimburse such landowner and any such tenant in accordance with the existing land lease agreement, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2652, AN ACT requiring the display of the national motto in public buildings, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2653, AN ACT concerning children and families; relating to orders of child support; providing for child support for unborn children from the date of conception; amending K.S.A. 20-165, 23-2205 and 23-3001 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2654, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sentencing; calculation of confinement; excluding certain types of incarceration time from the allowance of time against a person’s criminal sentence; amending K.S.A. 21-6615 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2655, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sentencing; requiring automated expungement of certain records; sealing such records from public view and limiting disclosure thereof; amending K.S.A. 21-6614 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2656, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes involving motor vehicles; creating the crime of engaging in a street stunt and providing criminal penalties therefor; adding engaging in a street stunt to the list of crimes included in fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer; amending K.S.A. 8-1568 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
HB 2657, AN ACT concerning the Kansas state fair board; relating to membership thereof; requiring at least one member to be a resident of Reno county; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-520a and repealing the existing section, by Representatives Waggoner, Murphy, Probst and Seiwert.
House Concurrent Resolutions
HCR 5023, A PROPOSITION to amend section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas; lowering the minimum age for qualified electors to vote in elections in this state from 18 to 16 years, by Representatives Clayton, Carlin, Hougland, McDonald, Melton, Meyer and Woodard.
HCR 5024, A PROPOSITION to amend article 14 of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section thereto; reserving to the people of Kansas the power of initiative, by Representative Dodson.
Senate Bills
SB 397, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to title insurance, title agents and title insurers; eliminating annual controlled business reporting requirements; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 40-2404 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 398, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to the powers, duties and responsibilities of the commissioner of insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees; requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register; amending K.S.A. 40-205a, 40-218, 40-252, 40-2,133, 40-504, 40-956, 40-22a04, 40-2604, 40-2702, 40-3213, 40-3304, 40-3812, 40-3813, 40-4103, 40-4116, 40-4323, 40-4334, 40-4503, 40-5003 and 40-5509 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 40-3823, 40-3824, 40-4209, 40-4302 and 40-4903 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 40-3217, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 399, AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; relating to vehicle dealers and salvage vehicle dealers; requiring that monthly reports be filed on the 25th day of the month; amending K.S.A. 8-2408 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Transportation.
SB 400, AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; relating to distinctive license plates; providing for the sporting Kansas City license plate, by Committee on Transportation.
SB 401, AN ACT concerning education; relating to instruction; requiring critical thinking to be integrated into elementary and secondary instruction, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 402, AN ACT concerning railroads; relating to crew size; prohibiting crew size requirements for class II and class III railroads, by Committee on Transportation.
SB 403, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to exemptions; providing for a sales tax exemption for be able, inc.; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 404, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases; permitting the use of expedited partner therapy for the treatment thereof, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 405, AN ACT concerning the Kansas uniform securities act; relating to violations thereof; holding a control person liable for the violations committed by an individual subject to discipline under the act unless the control person was unaware and could not have reasonably have known of the violations of such individual; amending K.S.A. 17-12a412, 17-12a603 and 17-12a604 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 406, AN ACT concerning financial institutions; enacting the Kansas money transmission act; relating to the electronic transmission of money; oversight thereof by the state bank commissioner; establishing powers, duties and responsibilities of the state bank commissioner; licensing and renewal processes; penalties; repealing K.S.A. 9-508, 9-509, 9-510, 9-510a, 9-511, 9-513, 9-513a, 9-513b, 9-513c, 9-513d, 9-513e and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 9-512, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 407, AN ACT concerning education; relating to the state board of education; authorizing teaching licenses for individuals who complete an alternative teacher certification program, by Committee on Education.
SB 408, AN ACT concerning transportation; relating to driver training; changing requirements to allow driving school instructors to hold a valid driver’s license from any state; amending K.S.A. 8-276 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 409, AN ACT concerning discrimination; relating to the Kansas act against discrimination; prohibiting county or city legislation that would modify the established classes of individuals protected from discrimination under such act; amending K.S.A. 44-1001, 44-1002 and 44-1015 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 410, AN ACT concerning roads and highways; designating a portion of United States highway 69 as the Ken W Brock memorial highway, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 411, AN ACT concerning state audits; abolishing the division of legislative post audit and the legislative post audit committee; creating the office of state auditor and providing for the powers and duties thereof; providing for the election of the state auditor and term of office; enacting the state audit act; amending K.S.A. 25-101, 25-101a, 25-213a and 25-4001 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 25-213 and 75-3101a and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 46-1101, 46-1102, 46-1103, 46-1104, 46-1106, 46-1108, 46-1109, 46-1112, 46-1113, 46-1114, 46-1115, 46-1116, 46-1117, 46-1118, 46-1119, 46-1120, 46-1120a, 46-1122, 46-1123, 46-1125, 46-1126, 46-1127, 46-1128, 46-1129, 46-1135, 46-1136 and 46-1137, by Senator Olson.
SB 412, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sentencing; providing that the supervision term in certain multiple conviction cases will be based on the longest supervision term imposed for any of the crimes; amending K.S.A. 21-6819 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 413, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to controlled substances; specifying penalties for unlawful distribution of controlled substances with respect to material containing any quantity of a fentanyl-related controlled substance when distributed by weight or dosage unit; amending K.S.A. 21-5705 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 414, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to controlled substances; increasing penalties for unlawful distribution of controlled substances with respect to material containing any quantity of a fentanyl-related controlled substance; creating a special sentencing rule for such unlawful distribution thereof; amending K.S.A. 21-5705 and 21-6805 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 415, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; creating the crime of organized retail crime and providing criminal penalties for violation thereof; relating to theft; increasing penalties for theft of certain property; relating to the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act; including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity; relating to the attorney general; authorizing the attorney general to prosecute crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties; amending K.S.A. 21-5801 and 21-6328 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 75-702 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 416, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to juvenile offenders; the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; prohibiting fines, fees and costs from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile’s parent, guardian or custodian; amending K.S.A. 12-16,119, 20-3129, 21-6609, 22-4905, 28-170, 28-170a, 28-176, 38-2306, 38-2312, 38-2315, 38-2317, 38-2328, 38-2331, 38-2346, 38-2348, 38-2360, 38-2361, 38-2362, 38-2369, 38-2373, 38-2384, 38-2389, 38-2396, 38-2399 and 75-724 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 28-177 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 20-167, 38-2314, 38-2319, 38-2321, 38-2322 and 38-2324, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 417, AN ACT repealing K.S.A. 32-840; removing the secretary of wildlife and park’s authority to exercise the right of eminent domain, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
SB 418, AN ACT concerning courts; requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a decision has not been entered and filed within six months of submission and a list of cases in which a petition for review has not been granted or denied within six months of submission; amending K.S.A. 20-3301 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 419, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to aggravated endangering a child; increasing the criminal penalties in certain environments associated with fentanyl-related controlled substances or when bodily harm to the child results; amending K.S.A. 21-5601 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 420, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes involving violations of personal rights; eliminating the element of concealment from the crime of breach of privacy related to installing or using a device to photograph or record another identifiable person under or through the clothing being worn by that other person or another identifiable person who is nude or in a state of undress; amending K.S.A. 21-6101 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 421, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to exemptions; providing a sales tax exemption for exploration place, inc.; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Senators Blasi, Alley, Erickson, Fagg, Faust-Goudeau, Kerschen, Masterson, Petersen and Ware.
SB 422, AN ACT concerning electric public utilities; relating to net metering; increasing the system-wide capacity limit for facilities subject to net metering; requiring such facilities to be appropriately sized based on the customer’s expected load; establishing requirements for exporting power to a utility from a facility subject to net metering; amending K.S.A. 66-1264, 66-1265, 66-1266 and 66-1267 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Utilities.
SB 423, AN ACT concerning insurance; reducing the number of board members appointed by the commissioner on certain insurance-related governing boards and the frequency of the meetings of the committee on surety bonds and insurance; amending K.S.A. 40-2102, 40-2109, 40-3116, 40-3413, 65-34,126 and 75-4101 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 424, AN ACT concerning the Kansas plane coordinate system act; providing for geographic positions or locations of points within the state of Kansas; amending K.S.A. 58-20a01, 58-20a02, 58-20a03, 58-20a04, 58-20a05 and 58-20a07 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 58-20a06, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 425, AN ACT concerning children and families; relating to orders of child support; providing for child support for unborn children from the date of conception; amending K.S.A. 20-165, 23-2205 and 23-3001 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 426, AN ACT concerning traffic regulations; relating to unlawful passing of stationary authorized emergency vehicle; increasing penalties for certain violations; creating a crime for injuring or causing death of certain authorized emergency vehicle operators and providing a penalty therefor; amending K.S.A. 8-1530, 8-2116 and 8-2118 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Transportation.
SB 427, AN ACT concerning education; relating to boards of education; requiring school districts to publicly list the names and email addresses of current board members; authorizing local school board members to add new items to board meeting discussions, ask questions or engage in discussion with members of the public and access school property; authorizing members of the public to address school boards at board meetings; authorizing payment of annual dues to any not-for-profit organization that provides services to member school districts; amending K.S.A. 72-1145 and 72-1416 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 72-1138 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Education.
SB 428, AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; boards of education; requiring attendance center needs assessments to be conducted by the board and include input from board members, teachers, school site councils and administrators; requiring that board members receive certain state assessment data; identifying allocations of moneys in the district budget and budget summary; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 72-1163 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.
SB 429, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to sales and compensating use tax; reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3603, 79-3603d, 79-3620, 79-3703 and 79-3710 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 430, AN ACT concerning workers compensation; relating to coverage under the act, notice, benefits, liability limitations, definitions, evidentiary standards, hearings, admission of evidence, procedures, settlements and other matters; providing coverage for members of the Kansas national guard under the workers compensation act; limiting reduction to awards for functional impairment on the basis of preexisting impairment to preexisting impairment to the same physical structure as the body part injured; limiting reductions to benefits based on retirement benefits; defining registered mail; requiring a judicial determination of dependency for immediate payment of death benefit; increasing the maximum amount of death benefits; extending the time period for payments to dependent children when in schools; providing for a yearly adjustment to the maximum death benefit to commence in 2027; increasing the minimum weekly payment for permanent total disability; adding certain functional impairment requirements to the determination of permanent total disability; increasing the minimum weekly payment amount for temporary total disability; providing that loss of use of a scheduled member shall be the percentage of functional impairment the employee sustained on account of the injury; reducing the percentage of functional impairment required for eligibility for permanent partial general disability compensation; increasing employers’ maximum liability for permanent total disability, temporary total disability, permanent or temporary partial disability and permanent partial disability and providing for a yearly adjustment in such maximum liability limits to commence in 2027; applying an employer’s credit for voluntary payments of unearned wages to any award; increasing the maximum employer liability for unauthorized medical care; increasing the evidentiary standard for future medical treatment after maximum medical improvement in certain circumstances; limiting proceedings for post-award medical benefits; creating a presumption that no costs or attorney fees be awarded when requests for post-award medical benefits are provided within 30 days; defining money for purposes of the average weekly wage; excluding the first week of employment in the calculation of an employee’s average weekly wage under certain circumstances; allowing payment of certain benefits by electronic funds transfer or payment card; increasing employer liability for expenses of claimant for required examinations; establishing procedures for neutral healthcare examinations and for the exchange of medical reports between parties; providing for the admission of medical reports without necessity of additional foundation subject to compliance with certain procedures; extending deadlines for notice to an employer by an employee of injury; eliminating the three-year deadline for a claimant’s motion to extend time for proceeding to avoid dismissal for lack of prosecution; prohibiting an award from including future medical treatment unless a specified standard of proof is met; clarifying certain language referencing a claimant; providing a procedure for expedited settlement on written stipulations by means of a form established by the director of workers compensation; allowing the record of hearings by digital recording and transcription by either a court reporter or a notary public; providing that certified reporters fees be taxed as costs if no record is taken; providing for the workers compensation fund to implead a principal as a party in a proceeding; providing for certain other changes to the workers compensation act; amending K.S.A. 44-501, 44-508, 44-510b, 44-510c, 44-510d, 44-510e, 44-510f, 44-510h, 44-510k, 44-511, 44-512, 44-515, 44-516, 44-519, 44-520, 44-523, 44-525, 44-526, 44-531, 44-534a, 44-552 and 44-566a and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce.
SB 431, AN ACT concerning the state capitol; directing the capitol preservation committee to approve plans for a memorial honoring the life of Emil Joseph Kapaun, by Senators Blasi, Bowers and Wilborn.
SB 432, AN ACT concerning gaming; relating to sports wagering; prohibiting advertising of sports wagering through internet websites and electronic device applications; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-8785 and repealing the existing section, by Senators Holscher and Peck.
Senate Resolutions
SR 1733, A RESOLUTION affirming the Kansas senate’s unwavering support for free press in the state of Kansas and directing the attorney general to make a report to the body concerning the Colorado bureau of investigation’s inquiry regarding the extent to which the civil rights of any Kansan were violated when certain search warrants were executed in Marion, Kansas, on August 11, 2023, by Senators Sykes, Francisco, Haley, Holscher, Pettey, Reddi and Ware.
SR 1734, A RESOLUTION strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan and reaffirming support for Taiwan’s international participation, by Senators Masterson, Wilborn and Alley.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
SCR 1615, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION rejecting the rates of compensation and salary for members of the Legislature set by the Legislative Compensation Commission, by Senators Tyson, Baumgardner, Doll, Shallenburger, Steffen, Straub and Warren.
SCR 1616, A PROPOSITION to amend section 5 of article 3 of the constitution of the state of Kansas; relating to the selection of supreme court justices; allowing the governor to appoint supreme court justices, subject to senate confirmation; changing the membership of the supreme court nominating commission, by Senator Pyle.
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