Volume 43 - Issue 8 - February 22, 2024
State of Kansas
Legislative Administrative Services
Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced
The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced February 8th – February 14th 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 2758, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to the armed forces of the United States; clarifying the definition of armed forces; updating the definition thereof to include the space force; amending K.S.A. 44-706, 48-3401 and 65-1116 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 48-3407, 48-3408, 48-3601 and 65-6129 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2759, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; modifying the definition of veteran and disabled veteran; creating a common definition for veteran and disabled veteran; clarifying disability evaluations for benefits granted to disabled veterans; amending K.S.A. 8-160, 8-243, 8-1324, 73-201, 73-230, 73-1222 and 73-1239 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 32-934, 48-3601, 50-676, 75-3740 and 79-4502 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2760, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to the transfer of powers, duties and functions of the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office; establishing the Kansas office of veterans services; amending K.S.A. 21-6630, 39-923, 65-1732, 65-2418, 73-209, 73-210, 73-230, 73-1209, 73-1210a, 73-1211, 73-1217, 73-1218, 73-1222, 73-1223, 73-1225, 73-1231, 73-1232, 73-1233, 73-1234, 73-1235, 73-1236, 73-1238, 73-1239, 73-1241, 73-1242, 73-1243, 75-3370, 75-4362, 76-6b05, 76-1904, 76-1904a, 76-1906, 76-1908, 76-1927, 76-1928, 76-1929, 76-1931, 76-1932, 76-1935, 76-1935a, 76-1936, 76-1939, 76-1941, 76-1951, 76-1952, 76-1953, 76-1954, 76-1955, 76-1956, 76-1957, 76-1958 and 79-3221k and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 32-934, 74- 2012, 75-3740 and 77-440 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 73-1208d, 73-1208e and 73-1208f, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2761, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to veterans benefits; prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefit fees, by Committee on Veterans and Military.
HB 2762, AN ACT concerning the division of vehicles; relating to drivers’ licenses and identification cards; providing for digital drivers’ licenses and digital identification cards and regulating the use therefor, by Committee on Transportation.
HB 2763, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income tax; providing a tax credit for the sale and distribution of ethanol blends for motor vehicle fuels, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2764, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income, privilege and premium tax credits; establishing a credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities; establishing a child tax credit; increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable; relating to sales and compensating use tax; providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities; amending K.S.A. 79-32,202a and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2765, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to exemptions; providing an exemption for period products, diapers and incontinence products; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2766, AN ACT concerning real property; relating to certain lands and military installations; creating the Kansas land and military installation protection act; prohibiting foreign principals from countries of concern from holding any interest in certain real property in this state; prohibiting foreign principals from countries of concern from receiving any economic development program benefits; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 60-4104 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2767, AN ACT concerning the administrative procedure act; relating to service of order or notice; requiring agencies and other entities subject to the administrative procedure act to confirm receipt of service of an order or notice prior to the imposition of fines or penalties; amending K.S.A. 77-531 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.
HB 2768, AN ACT concerning energy; relating to certain electric generation facilities; providing a property tax exemption for new electric generation facilities and new pollution control devices and additions constructed or installed at electric generation facilities; sunsetting the current property tax exemptions for certain existing electric generation facilities; removing the commission’s consideration of a utility assuming the cost of decommissioning, waste disposal and clean up when determining prudent investments; removing the requirement that the state corporation commission disallow cost recovery for certain nuclear facilities that provide excess capacity; amending K.S.A. 66-128g, 66-1,158, 79-257 and 79-258 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 66-128h, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.
HB 2769, AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to public schools and school districts; requiring schools and school districts to participate in federal meal programs for students; providing for reimbursement for free meals provided to students; including calculation of reimbursement for all public schools and school districts, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2770, AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families; creating the Kansas food and financial literacy grant program for local service providers to develop food and financial literacy materials for food assistance applicants and recipients; requiring grantees to distribute and make available free materials and training opportunities for such applicants and recipients; establishing the Kansas food and financial literacy grant program fund, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2771, AN ACT concerning commerce; relating to the secretary of commerce; creating the healthy food site grant program and fund; directing the secretary to award grants for the establishment of food retail or food system enterprises within one mile of a school in a designated food desert in an urban area; requiring grantees to improve community access to healthy food therein, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2772, AN ACT concerning children and minors; establishing the Kansas Indian child welfare act; providing additional requirements for child custody proceedings involving Indian children; defining terms used in such act; granting jurisdiction over proceedings that involved an Indian child to such child’s Indian tribe; requiring the secretary to notify Indian tribes if a proceeding involves an Indian child, to seek placement of an Indian child with an Indian custodian or person committed to such child’s culture; declaring standards for proceedings involving an Indian child; providing for notice requirement of such proceedings; identifying when to notify and duties of the United States secretary of the interior, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2773, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to exemptions; providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by the boys’ and girls’ club of Topeka; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2774, AN ACT creating the Kansas workforce pathway act; establishing the office of workforce pathways within the department of commerce and the Kansas council on workforce pathways; providing for a system for linking and analyzing data and statistics concerning Kansas workforce; providing for a free, searchable public online registry of educational and occupational credentials and restricting the release of personally identifiable information therefrom; prescribing procedures to prevent data breaches and providing funding therefor, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2775, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to fees assessed by the department of commerce for applications by businesses for certain economic development incentive programs; providing for a fee based on a certain percentage of the total incentive package within a specified range instead of a flat fee; amending K.S.A. 74-50,225 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2776, 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, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2777, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to patient care facilities; prohibiting the state fire marshal and the marshal’s representatives from wearing or operating a body camera during an on-site inspection at a patient care facility, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2778, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to dieticians; enacting the dietician compact to provide interstate practice privileges, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2779, AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; related to optometry; modifying certain provisions of the optometry law related to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements; amending K.S.A. 65-1501, 65-1501a, 65-1509a, 65-1512 and 74-1504 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 65-1514 and 74-1505, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2780, AN ACT concerning civil actions; relating to compensation for certain persons convicted and subsequently imprisoned for one or more crimes that such person did not commit; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 60-5004 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2781, AN ACT concerning the crime victims compensation board; relating to claims for compensation; allowing compensation for criminally injurious conduct; increasing the amount of awards and increasing the amount that can be transferred from the crime victims compensation fund to the crime victims assistance fund in each fiscal year; amending K.S.A. 75-752 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-7305 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2782, AN ACT concerning criminal procedure; relating to execution of death sentences; requiring the secretary of corrections to select the method of carrying out a sentence of death by hypoxia; requiring the district court to send the secretary a warrant commanding the secretary to proceed to carry out a sentence of death within 30 days after judgment is final; amending K.S.A. 21-6619, 22-4001 and 22-4013 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
HB 2783, AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; prohibiting any state agency, city or county from regulating or restricting the use or sale of motor vehicles based on the energy source used; allowing the state agency, city or county to establish motor vehicle purchase policies for such state agency, city or county, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2784, AN ACT concerning adult care homes; relating to continuing care retirement communities; transferring authority for certification of such facilities from the Kansas insurance department to the Kansas department for aging and disability services; lowering the nursing facility provider assessment for such facilities; amending K.S.A. 39-923, 40-2231, 40-2232, 40-2233, 40-2234, 40-2235 and 40-2238 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 39-936 and 75-7435 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2785, AN ACT concerning state agencies; relating to early childhood; consolidating the children’s cabinet and other child services under the Kansas office of early childhood; transferring the administration of child care facility licensing, child care subsidy and the parents as teachers program to the office; establishing the children’s cabinet as a division in the office; amending K.S.A. 38-1901, 38-2103, 65-503, 65-504, 65-508, 65-512, 65-531, 72-4162, 72-4163, 72-4164 and 72-4166 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 65-516 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.
HB 2786, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to international trade; establishing the Kansas-Ireland trade commission to advance, promote and encourage business and other mutually beneficial activities between Kansas and Ireland; creating the Kansas-Ireland trade commission fund, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2787, AN ACT concerning property and casualty insurance; relating to the Kansas insurance guaranty association act; updating certain definitions, terms and conditions thereto; establishing continuity of guaranty fund coverage when a policy is transferred from one insurer to another and of guaranty fund coverage related to cybersecurity insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to reduce the number of members of the association’s board of directors; amending K.S.A. 40-2903, 40-2905, 40-2906 and 40-2910 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.
HB 2788, AN ACT concerning government transparency; requiring cities and counties to report certain local economic development incentive program information to the secretary of commerce; defining such programs; requiring the secretary of commerce to post such information on the economic development incentive program database maintained by the secretary and requiring certain other changes to that database regarding the presentation of search results; providing for a summary report by the secretary of commerce to summarize economic development incentive program data from the several statutorily-required reports on such programs; directing the secretary of administration to include on the Kansas taxpayer transparency act website certain information concerning grants, grant awardees and grant applications; amending K.S.A. 74-72,123 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 74-50,226 and 74-50,227 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2789, AN ACT concerning abortion; establishing the pregnancy compassion program and the pregnancy compassion public awareness program; providing services that promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies; establishing requirements and penalties for failure to fulfill program contract requirements; promoting public awareness of such services; establishing the pregnancy compassion fund; making transfers to such fund; prescribing guidelines for the expenditure of moneys credited thereto; relating to license plates; establishing a fee on the In God We Trust license plate and the choose life license plate and using such fees to provide additional revenue for the alternatives to abortion program; amending K.S.A. 8-1,160 and 8-1,183 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2790, AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to professional employer organizations; transferring registration requirements, related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for such organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of labor; requiring the filing of initial and renewal registration applications, reports, financial statements and other assurance documents with the secretary; providing for fees to be submitted to the secretary and granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund; ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law; amending K.S.A. 44-1702, 44-1704, 44-1705, 44-1706, 44-1708, 44-1709 and 44-1710 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.
HB 2791, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to healthcare of minors; enacting the forbidding abusive child transitions act; prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating a child whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex; authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments; restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning; prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children; authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such treatments; amending K.S.A. 65-2837 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 65-1120 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2792, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to transgender care services; prohibiting gender transition surgeries on minors; authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such surgeries; adopting a standard of care for gender transition care services; amending K.S.A. 65-2837 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2793, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to children and minors; prohibiting a healthcare provider from performing a healthcare service on a minor patient without parental consent; repealing K.S.A. 38-123 and 65-2892a, by Committee on Health and Human Services.
HB 2794, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to sales tax exemptions; providing an exemption for pet shelters and rescue network managers; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2795, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to tax levy rates; requiring notices to be sent on forms provided by the director of accounts and reports; granting taxing subdivisions the option to hold hearings on the same day and at the same location as other taxing subdivisions within a county; excluding the state mandated 20 mills levied by a school district from the revenue neutral rate; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-2988 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2796, AN ACT concerning income tax; relating to the apportionment of income; providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor; requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact; amending K.S.A. 79-3269, 79-3271, 79-3279, 79-3287, 79-4301 and 79-4302 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 79-3280, 79-3281, 79-3282, 79-3283 and 79-3284, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2797, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; providing for full transferability of tax credits for investments in certain qualified business facilities; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-32,160a and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2798, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income and privilege taxes; providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor; establishing for deductions from income when using the single sales factor and receipts factor; providing for the decrease in corporate income tax rates; amending K.S.A. 79-1129 and 79-3279 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-32,110 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2799, AN ACT concerning roads and highways; designating a portion of United States highway 281 in Russell county as the first responders memorial highway; redesignating a portion of the American Legion memorial highway; amending K.S.A. 68-1011 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2800, AN ACT concerning conservation districts; relating to the financing of operating conservation districts; increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts; providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts; amending K.S.A. 2-1907c and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2801, AN ACT concerning the regulation of consumable material and electronic cigarettes; requiring manufacturers to submit certifications regarding the status of products to the director of alcoholic beverage control of the department of revenue; establishing fines and criminal penalties for violations thereto, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2802, AN ACT making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for state agencies; authorizing certain transfers, capital improvement projects and fees, imposing certain restrictions and limitations, and directing or authorizing certain receipts, disbursements, procedures and acts incidental to the foregoing; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 2-223, 12-1775a, 12-5256, 65-180, 74-50,107, 74-99b34, 76-775, 76-7,107, 79-2959, 79-2964, 79-2989, 79-3425i, 79-34,171 and 82a-955 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Appropriations.
House Resolutions
HR 6038, A RESOLUTION recognizing and thanking the Kansas Mission of Mercy volunteers for their continued generosity in providing free dental care to citizens of Kansas, by Representative Howe.
Senate Bills
SB 486, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to fees assessed by the department of commerce for applications by businesses for certain economic development incentive programs; providing for a fee based on a certain percentage of the total incentive package within a specified range instead of a flat fee; amending K.S.A. 74-50,225 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce.
SB 487, AN ACT concerning emergency communication services; relating to the Kansas 911 act; authorizing counties to contract with other counties to share services of 911 public safety answering points; authorizing distributions of 911 fee moneys to counties for such purposes; amending K.S.A. 12-5364, 12-5368, 12-5374, 12-5375 and 12-5377 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 488, AN ACT concerning the attorney general; relating to the office of the inspector general and the powers, duties and responsibilities thereof; expanding the power of the inspector general to investigate and audit all state cash, food and health assistance programs; amending K.S.A. 75-7427 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 489, AN ACT concerning children and families; relating to incarcerated expectant mothers; directing the department of corrections to establish a correctional center nursery; requiring the secretary of corrections to establish correctional nursery center policies and procedures; relating to the Kansas family law code; amending the factors considered in determination of legal custody, residency or parenting time; relating to the revised Kansas code for care of children; amending K.S.A. 23-3203 and 38-2276 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 38-2202 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 38-2202a, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 490, AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; related to optometry; modifying certain provisions of the optometry law related to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements; amending K.S.A. 65-1501, 65-1501a, 65-1509a, 65-1512 and 74-1504 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 65-1514 and 74-1505, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 491, AN ACT concerning criminal history and record checks; relating to the Kansas bureau of investigation; standardizing fingerprinting requirements and making conforming amendments across statutes that authorize fingerprinting; defining people to be fingerprinted; amending K.S.A. 2-3901, 2-3902, 2-3906, 2-3907, 2-3911, 7-127, 8-2,142, 9-508, 9-509, 9-513e, 9-1719, 9-1722, 9-2201, 9-2209, 9-2301, 9-2302, 12-1,120, 12-1679, 16a-6-104, 17-2234, 19-826, 39-969, 39-970, 39-2009, 40-5502, 40-5504, 41-311b, 46-1103, 46-3301, 65-503, 65-1501a, 65-1505, 65-1696, 65-2401, 65-2402, 65-2802, 65-2839a, 65-28,129, 65-2901, 65-3503, 65-4209, 65-5117, 73-1210a, 74-1112, 74-2113, 74-4905, 74-50,182, 74-50,184, 74-5605, 74-5607, 74-7511, 74-8704, 74-8705, 74-8763, 74-8769, 74-8803, 74-8805, 74-8806, 74-9802, 74-9804, 74-9805, 75-712, 75-7b01, 75-7b04, 75-7b21, 75-7e01, 75-7e03, 75-3707e, 75-4315d, 75-5133c, 75-5156, 75-53,105, 75-5609a and 75-7241 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 40-4905, 40-5505, 41-102, 50-6,126, 50-1128, 58-3035, 58-3039, 58-4102, 58-4127, 58-4703, 58-4709, 65-516, 65-1120, 65-1626, 65-2924, 65-3407, 65-6129, 74-5602, 74-8702, 74-8802, 74-8804, 75-7c02, 75-7c05, 75-5393a, 75-5393c and 75-5397f and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 492, AN ACT concerning alcoholic beverages; removing the prohibition on transportation of alcoholic beverages in opened containers and on drinking or consuming alcoholic liquor inside vehicles while on the public streets, alleys, roads or highways; amending K.S.A. 8-257, 8-1026, 8-2106, 8-2204, 12-4509, 21-5918 and 21-6602 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 41-719 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 8-1599, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 493, AN ACT concerning driving; relating to ignition interlock devices; requiring manufacturers of such devices to pay fees to the highway patrol for the administration of the ignition interlock program; creating the IID fee program fund; amending K.S.A. 8-1016 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 494, AN ACT concerning adoption; relating to the expenses thereof; enacting the adoption savings account act; allowing individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions; providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts; requiring the secretary of revenue to adopt certain rules and regulations; granting nonexclusive marketing authority to the state treasurer; establishing addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas income tax act; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 495, AN ACT concerning financial institutions; relating to the Kansas mortgage business act; uniform consumer credit code; pertaining to certain definitions, terms and conditions contained therein; modifying consumer loan finance charges and repayment terms; record requirements; credit card surcharge; definition of earnings and days; increasing the threshold for certain consumer loans and leases; origination fees for non-real estate transactions; clarifying license requirements to make supervised loans; exempting supervised loan license form filing notifications; transferring mortgage provisions contained in the Kansas consumer credit code to the Kansas mortgage business act; clarifying entities exempt for licensing; amending K.S.A. 9-2201, 9-2202, 9-2203, 9-2208, 9-2209, 9-2212, 9-2216, 9-2216a, 9-2220, 16-207, 16-207d, 16a-1-101, 16a-1-102, 16a-1-103, 16a-1-104, 16a-1-107, 16a-1-108, 16a-1-109, 16a-1-201, 16a-1-202, 16a-1-301, 16a-2-103, 16a-2-104, 16a-2-201, 16a-2-202, 16a-2-301, 16a-2-302, 16a-2-303, 16a-2-304, 16a-2-308, 16a-2-309, 16a-2-310, 16a-2-401, 16a-2-402, 16a-2-403, 16a-2-404, 16a-2-501, 16a-2-502, 16a-2-504, 16a-2-505, 16a-2-506, 16a-2-507, 16a-2-508, 16a-2-510, 16a-3-201, 16a-3-202, 16a-3-203, 16a-3-204, 16a-3-205, 16a-3-206, 16a-3-208, 16a-3-209, 16a-3-301, 16a-3-302, 16a-3-303, 16a-3-304, 16a-3-305, 16a-3-306, 16a-3-307, 16a-3-308, 16a-3-309, 16a-3-402, 16a-3-403, 16a-3-404, 16a-3-405, 16a-4-102, 16a-4-104, 16a-4-105, 16a-4-106, 16a-4-107, 16a-4-108, 16a-4-109, 16a-4-110, 16a-4-111, 16a-4-112, 16a-4-201, 16a-4-202, 16a-4-203, 16a-4-301, 16a-4-304, 16a-5-103, 16a-5-107, 16a-5-108, 16a-5-111, 16a-5-201, 16a-5-203, 16a-5-301, 16a-6-104, 16a-6-105, 16a-6-106, 16a-6-108, 16a-6-109, 16a-6-110, 16a-6-111, 16a-6-112, 16a-6-113, 16a-6-115, 16a-6-201, 16a-6-202, 16a-6-203, 16a-6-401, 16a-6-403 and 40-1209 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 16a-1-303, 16a-2-101, 16a-2-102, 16a-2-303a, 16a-2-307, 16a-3-101, 16a-3-102, 16a-3-203a, 16a-3-207, 16a-3-308a, 16a-4-101, 16a-4-103, 16a-5-101, 16a-5-102, 16a-5-110, 16a-5-112, 16a-6-101, 16a-6-102, 16a-6-117, 16a-6-402, 16a-6-404, 16a-6-405, 16a-6-406, 16a-6-407, 16a-6-408, 16a-6-409, 16a-6-410, 16a-6-414, 16a-9-101 and 16a-9-102, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.
SB 496, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the practice of naturopathy; licensure and regulation of naturopathic doctors; expanding the scope of practice of naturopathic doctors; specifying continuing education requirements; increasing the amount of required professional liability insurance; amending K.S.A. 65-7201, 65-7205, 65-7207, 65-7208, 65-7209, 65-7214 and 65-7217 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 65-1626, 65-4101 and 65-7202 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 497, AN ACT concerning economic development; establishing the Pike reservoir project district act; providing for the construction of a dam and a lake in Bourbon county, residential and commercial property development and water resource development therein; authorizing the establishment of a governing board for the project and the establishment of real property tax and sales tax increment financing districts for the purpose of financing the project costs; creating the Pike reservoir district sales tax fund and the Pike reservoir district sales tax refund fund; authorizing the creation of a special district fund for the purpose of paying project costs; authorizing the issuance of special obligation bonds and pay-as-you-go financing to pay project costs, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 498, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income, privilege and premium tax credits; establishing a credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities; establishing a child tax credit; increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable; relating to sales and compensating use tax; providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities; amending K.S.A. 79-32,202a and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 499, AN ACT concerning the department of health and environment; establishing the prevention of maternal mortality grant program within the department of health and environment; establishing the prevention of maternal mortality grant program fund and making transfers thereto; providing competitive grants to programs for the prevention of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.
SB 500, AN ACT concerning drivers’ licenses; authorizing certain individuals to be eligible for restricted driving privileges; permitting individuals with restricted driving privileges to drive to and from dropping off or picking up children from school or child care; amending K.S.A. 8-286 and 8-2110 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.
SB 501, AN ACT concerning state agencies; relating to early childhood; consolidating the children’s cabinet and other child services under the Kansas office of early childhood; transferring the administration of child care facility licensing, child care subsidy and the parents as teachers program to the office; establishing the children’s cabinet as a division in the office; amending K.S.A. 38-1901, 38-2103, 65-503, 65-504, 65-508, 65-512, 65-531, 72-4162, 72-4163, 72-4164 and 72-4166 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 65-516 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 502, AN ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; terminating the Kansas public employees retirement system act of 2015; transferring the members of such act to the Kansas public employees retirement system act of 2009; amending K.S.A. 74-4916 and repealing the existing section; also repealing K.S.A. 74-49,301, 74-49,302, 74-49,303, 74-49,304, 74-49,305, 74-49,306, 74-49,307, 74-49,308, 74-49,309, 74-49,310, 74-49,311, 74-49,312, 74-49,313, 74-49,314, 74-49,315, 74-49,316, 74-49,317 and 74-49,318, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 503, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes against public morals; cruelty to animals; increasing the criminal penalties for knowingly and maliciously abandoning any animal in any place without making provisions for the proper care of the animal; amending K.S.A. 21-6412 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 504, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code; prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 38-2302 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 505, AN ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; increasing the retirement benefit multiplier for members who are security officers of the department of corrections; amending K.S.A. 74-4915 and 74-49,205 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 506, AN ACT concerning real property; declaring current restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels on the rooftops of residential properties to be void and unenforceable; allowing homeowners associations to adopt reasonable rules concerning solar panels that do not prohibit rooftop installation, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 507, AN ACT concerning income tax; relating to the apportionment of income; providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor; requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact; amending K.S.A. 79-3269, 79-3271, 79-3279, 79-3287, 79-4301 and 79-4302 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 79-3280, 79-3281, 79-3282, 79-3283 and 79-3284, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 508, AN ACT concerning veterans; relating to forms of identification; permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency when applying for nondriver identification cards; eliminating fees for homeless veterans to obtain birth certificates and nondriver identification cards; amending K.S.A. 8-1324 and 65-2418 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 509, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to tax credits for education expenses; providing an education opportunity tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children not enrolled in public school, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 510, AN ACT concerning cities; requiring cities to reconnect property to the city sewer system upon request of the property owner; amending K.S.A. 12-631 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 511, AN ACT concerning alcoholic liquor; relating to microbreweries; permitting the sale of beer and hard cider manufactured by the licensee to retailers, public venues, clubs, drinking establishments, holders of temporary permits and caterers; allowing the sale of such beer and hard cider in unopened containers to consumers at special events monitored and regulated by the division of alcoholic beverage control; amending K.S.A. 41-308b, 41-1202, and 41-2642 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 41-1201 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 512, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to insurance companies; prohibiting companies from utilizing environmental, social and governance criteria in the process of writing contracts of insurance, indemnity or suretyship; authorizing the attorney general or the county attorney or district attorney where a violation occurred to enforce such prohibition; providing a civil penalty for violations thereof, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 513, AN ACT concerning precious metals; relating to gold and silver bullion and specie; enacting the Kansas specie legal tender act; providing that gold and silver specie is legal tender; authorizing the state treasurer to adopt rules and regulations allowing the use of approved electronic currencies backed by specie legal tender; enacting the Kansas bullion depository act; authorizing the state treasurer to establish, administer or contract for the administration of bullion depositories; allowing state moneys to be deposited in such bullion depositories and invested in specie legal tender; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 75-4209 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 514, AN ACT making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for state agencies; authorizing certain transfers, capital improvement projects and fees, imposing certain restrictions and limitations, and directing or authorizing certain receipts, disbursements, procedures and acts incidental to the foregoing; amending K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 2-223, 12-1775a, 12-5256, 65-180, 74-50,107, 74-99b34, 76-775, 76-7,107, 79-2959, 79-2964, 79-2989, 79-3425i, 79-34,171 and 82a-955 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
SCR 1618, A PROPOSITION to amend section 4 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to recognize the right to bear arms as a fundamental right; clarifying that such right includes the possession and use of ammunition, firearm accessories and firearm components, by Senators Claeys, Alley, Baumgardner, Billinger, Blasi, Bowers, Erickson, Fagg, Gossage, Kerschen, Kloos, Longbine, Masterson, Olson, Peck, Petersen, Pyle, Ryckman, Shallenburger, Steffen, Straub, Thompson and Wilborn.
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