Volume 44 - Issue 5 - January 30, 2025

State of Kansas

Legislative Administrative Services

Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced

The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced January 20 – January 24 during the 2025 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 2035, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to classification of land devoted to agricultural use; including trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-1476 and repealing the existing section, by Representative Proctor.

HB 2036, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to Kansas adjusted gross income; providing a subtraction modification for amounts received as compensation for serving in the armed forces; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Representative Proctor.

HB 2037, 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 the house members of the council from the committee on agriculture and natural resources to the committee on commerce, labor and economic development; equalizing the allocation of funds from the department of commerce’s matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and removing the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-1410 and 32-1420 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2038, AN ACT concerning economic development; enacting the Kansas film and digital media production development act; establishing an income tax credit and sales tax exemption program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing film, video or digital production in Kansas; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2039, AN ACT concerning healthcare; relating to the Kansas credentialing act; amending definitions to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies; amending K.S.A. 65-5101 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Health and Human Services.

HB 2040, AN ACT concerning the state corporation commission; relating to electric transmission line siting permits; extending the time in which the commission shall make a final order on an electric transmission line siting application; amending K.S.A. 66-1,178 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.

HB 2041, AN ACT concerning electric transmission lines; relating to the state corporation commission; requiring an electric public utility to include that a competitive bid process was completed for the proposed electric transmission line in an application for a siting permit; requiring the commission to issue an order whether a competitive bid process was completed for a proposed electric transmission line to permit such line; amending K.S.A. 66-1,178 and 66-1,180 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications.

HB 2042, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to title insurance; requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually; requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner to be $100,000; eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties; amending K.S.A. 40-1139 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-1137 and 40-2404 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2043, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to unfair and deceptive acts or practices; requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days; authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2404 and 40-4909 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2044, AN ACT concerning insurance; requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and not contain funds collected or held on behalf of multiple payors and disclose to the commissioner of insurance any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to chapter 9 or chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code; amending K.S.A. 40-3807 and 40-3809 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2045, AN ACT concerning insurance; reducing the number of board members appointed by the commissioner on certain insurance-related 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 and 75-4101 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2046, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to travel insurance; authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2,239 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2047, AN ACT concerning motor vehicle liability insurance; providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance; amending K.S.A. 8-173 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2048, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to the powers, duties and responsibilities of the commissioner; eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor; removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law; amending K.S.A. 40-108 and 40-2253 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2,125 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2049, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to licensing requirements for insurance agents and public adjusters; pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal; amending K.S.A. 40-5510 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-4909 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2050, 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 certain 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, 40-3814, 40-4103, 40-4116, 40-4323, 40-4334, 40-4503, 40-5003 and 40-5509 and K.S.A. 2024 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 Insurance.

HB 2051, AN ACT concerning national land designations; requiring legislative approval of any designation of a national heritage area or national historic trail in the state of Kansas or the inclusion of certain property within any such designation; prohibiting state funding of any national heritage area or national historic trail unless such funding is first approved by the legislature of the state of Kansas, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2052, AN ACT concerning firearms; relating to the possession thereof; updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun; requiring a license be surrendered to the attorney general upon suspension or revocation of such license; providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license; prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed; amending K.S.A. 75-7c07 and 75-7c22 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-7c04, 75-7c05 and 75-7c08 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2053, AN ACT concerning elections; eliminating restrictions on municipal regulation of political signs during certain periods of time around election days; repealing K.S.A. 25-2711, by Committee on Local Government.

HB 2054, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to campaign contribution limits; increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions; eliminating such limits on contributions to party committees; amending K.S.A. 25-4153 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Elections.

HB 2055, AN ACT concerning certain state offices; relating to the filling of a vacancy in the offices of the state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance; requiring appointment of a person of the same political party as the incumbent; requiring senate confirmation of such appointment; amending K.S.A. 25-101b and 40-106 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Elections.

HB 2056, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to nominations for elected office; specifying the procedures for accepting a nomination for an elected office based on the form of nomination used; imposing restrictions on using multiple nomination procedures; amending K.S.A. 25-302, 25-304 and 25-306 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Elections.

HB 2057, AN ACT concerning the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance; relating to the filling of vacancies in such offices; requiring the appointment of a person of the same political party as the incumbent; requiring the legislature to nominate three persons for consideration for such appointment and that the governor appoint one of the nominated persons; establishing the joint committee on vacancy appointments; amending K.S.A. 25-101b and 40-106 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 25-318, by Committee on Elections.

HB 2058, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; providing for an increased amount of income for eligibility of individuals for the selective assistance for effective senior relief credit; amending K.S.A. 79-32,263 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2059, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to Kansas adjusted gross income; providing a subtraction modification for amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as a member of a health care sharing ministry; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2060, AN ACT concerning information technology; relating to the information technology executive council; requiring certain reports to be given to the joint committee on information technology; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-7203 and 75-7245 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Joint Committee on Information Technology.

HB 2061, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility; defining a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services to include aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires; amending K.S.A. 21-5818 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2062, 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 Judiciary.

HB 2063, AN ACT concerning natural resources; relating to state moneys for conservation; establishing the state conservation fund, the working lands conservation fund, the wildlife conservation fund and the Kansas outdoors fund; providing for the use of moneys in such funds by the Kansas department of agriculture and the Kansas department of wildlife and parks; requiring that certain reports regarding such funds be made to the governor and the legislature; authorizing a transfer from the state general fund to the state conservation fund; authorizing transfers from the state conservation fund to the working lands conservation fund, wildlife conservation fund and the Kansas outdoors fund, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget.

HB 2064, AN ACT concerning the department of health and environment; relating to solid waste disposal; removing the current solid waste permit exception for the disposal of solid waste generated by drilling oil and gas wells through the practice of land-spreading; amending K.S.A. 65-3407c and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

HB 2065, AN ACT concerning conventions under article V of the constitution of the United States; providing for the appointment and qualifications of delegates; prescribing the duties and responsibilities thereof; providing penalties for violations, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2066, AN ACT concerning employment; prohibiting the employment of unauthorized aliens by business entities and public employers; requiring use and registration of the e-verify program; prohibiting the deduction of certain wages and remuneration to unauthorized aliens; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2067, AN ACT concerning education; establishing a grant program and the feminine hygiene product grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, for the department of education, by Representatives Poskin, Carlin, Featherston, Hoye, McDonald, Meyer, Neighbor, Ruiz, S., Clayton, Simmons, Wikle and Woodard.

HB 2068, AN ACT concerning the practice of cosmetology; enacting the cosmetologist licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for cosmetologists, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2069, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to school psychologists; enacting the school psychologist compact to provide interstate practice privileges, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2070, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to dietitians; enacting the dietitian compact to provide interstate practice privileges, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2071, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to healthcare of minors; enacting the help not harm act; prohibiting healthcare providers from treating a child whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex; authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers 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; requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatments; adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians; amending K.S.A. 65-2837 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Health and Human Services.

HB 2072, AN ACT concerning the behavioral sciences regulatory board; relating to the powers, duties and functions thereof; enacting the art therapist licensure act; providing for the regulation and licensing of professional art therapists; amending K.S.A. 74-7507 and 74-7508 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.

HB 2073, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to exemptions; providing an exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Representatives Clayton, Paige, Carlin, Carr, Featherston, Haskins, Hoye, Martinez, McDonald, Melton, Meyer, Miller, S., Mosley, Neighbor, Oropeza, Osman, Poskin, Ruiz, S., Sawyer, Simmons, Stogsdill, Vaughn, Weigel, Wikle, Winn and Woodard.

HB 2074, 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. 2024 Supp. 79-4502, 79-4508 and 79-4509 and repealing the existing sections, by Representatives Clayton, Paige, Carlin, Carmichael, Carr, Featherston, Haskins, Hoye, Martinez, McDonald, Meyer, Miller, S., Mosley, Neighbor, Oropeza, Osman, Ruiz, S., Sawyer, Simmons, Stogsdill, Wikle, Winn and Woodard.

HB 2075, AN ACT concerning minors; relating to the revised Kansas code for care of children; requiring that a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months of such child’s removal from such child’s home; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 38-2264 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.

HB 2076, AN ACT concerning minors; relating to the revised Kansas code for care of children; reducing the number of days that a custodian may be authorized by the court to place a child in custody of the secretary in a secure facility; eliminating the option for a court to extend the period of authorization for a custodian to place a child in custody of the secretary in a secure facility; amending K.S.A. 38-2260 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.

HB 2077, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to sales tax exemptions; providing an exemption for animal shelters and rescue network managers; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2078, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; providing an income tax credit for contributions to a child care provider or intermediary, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2079, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to the valuation of real property; requiring that comparable residential sales occur within the subdivision or township or the closest-located subdivision or township where such property is located; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-503a and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2080, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to residential property; restricting homestead taxes to not more than the established base year amount for individuals 65 years of age and older, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2081, AN ACT relating to taxation; providing a sales tax exemption for community pharmacies that provide services to medically underserved individuals and families; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2082, AN ACT making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, 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. 2024 Supp. 2-223, 12-1775a, 12-5256, 65-180, 74-50,107, 74-99b34, 75-5748, 76-775, 76-7,107, 79-2989, 79-3425i, 79-34,171 and 82a-955 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Appropriations.

HB 2083, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to exemptions; providing a property tax exemption for new energy storage systems; excluding new energy storage systems from the commercial and industrial machinery and equipment exemption; amending K.S.A. 79-223 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-266 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2084, AN ACT concerning income taxation; allowing an itemized deduction for certain wagering losses; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,120 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2085, AN ACT concerning livestock; relating to the department of health and environment; extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years; allowing the secretary to issue permits for terms of less than 10 years, if valid cause exists; amending K.S.A. 65-166a and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Water.

HB 2086, AN ACT relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; pertaining to the Kansas public employees retirement act of 2015; adjusting the investment return threshold for the dividend interest credit calculation and increasing such dividend share to 80%; amending K.S.A. 74-49,306 and 74-49,308 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions.

HB 2087, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to nonadmitted insurers; requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers; authorizing certain nonadmitted insurers to transact business in Kansas with vehicle dealers and to provide excess coverage insurance on Kansas risks; specifying requirements and conditions therefor; amending K.S.A. 8-2405, 40-246b and 40-246e and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Insurance.

HB 2088, AN ACT concerning housing; enacting the fast-track permits act; requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and other required approvals for real estate development; amending K.S.A. 12-752 and 12-759 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2089, AN ACT concerning electronic payment transactions; exempting the portion of a credit card transaction constituting a tax or gratuity from assessment of the fee charged by the card issuer; enacting the consumer inflation reduction and tax fairness act, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2090, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to income and privilege tax incentives for employee savings accounts; establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account program; providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to employee savings accounts established under the program; providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to savings accounts established under the program; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Representatives Poskin, Amyx, Featherston, Haskins, Hoye, Martinez, McDonald, Meyer, Neighbor, Osman, Ruiz, S., Schlingensiepen, Stogsdill, Wikle and Woodard.

HB 2091, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to voter registration; requiring that discharged inmates be offered the opportunity to register to vote; requiring the secretary of state to develop a voter registration program that offers voter registration services through certain state agencies and at each accredited high school; amending K.S.A. 22-3722 and 25-2416 and repealing the existing sections, by Representative Clayton.

HB 2092, AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to professional employer organizations; providing that registrations of such organizations with the secretary of state shall expire on October 15 following issuance; providing an exception therefrom for registrations issued on or after January 1, 2025, that shall expire on October 15, 2026; making the time for filing annual audits by such organizations coincide with the time of renewing of registrations; limiting the means of providing surety by a professional employer organization with insufficient working capital to the provision of a bond and eliminating the market value measure of the sufficiency of such bond; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 44-1704 and 44-1706 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2093, AN ACT concerning childhood abuse or neglect; authorizing victims of childhood abuse or neglect to access records related to substantiated reports or investigations of abuse or neglect; extending the time to file civil actions for recovery of damages caused by childhood sexual abuse; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 38-2212 and 60-523 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.

House Concurrent Resolutions

HCR 5005, A PROPOSITION to amend section 6 of article 6 of the constitution of the state of Kansas; limiting the use of public funds appropriated for elementary or secondary educational purposes for secular public schools and prohibiting public funds from being used for private nonpublic schools, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.

HCR 5006, 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 natural and fundamental right; clarifying that such right includes the possession and use of ammunition, firearm accessories and firearm components; making restrictions on such right subject to strict scrutiny, by Representatives Schmoe, Anderson, Awerkamp, Barrett, Barth, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Blex, Bloom, Brantley, Bryce, Buehler, B. Carpenter, W. Carpenter, Chauncey, Collins, Corbet, Delperdang, Droge, Ellis, Estes, Fairchild, Gardner, Goddard, Goetz, Hawkins, Helwig, Hill, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Howe, Howell, Howerton, Humphries, T. Johnson, Kessler, King, Long, McNorton, Minnix, Moser, Neelly, Penn, Pickert, Poetter, Proctor, Rahjes, Rhiley, Roeser, Roth, Sanders, Schwertfeger, Seiwert, Smith, A., Steele, Sutton, Tarwater, Thompson, Turk, Waggoner, Ward, Wasinger, Waymaster, White, Wilborn, Williams, K. and Wolf.

HCR 5007, 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 Representative Clayton.

Senate Bills

SB 40, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to campaign finance; requiring the termination of any candidate campaign account for an elected official who chooses not to be a candidate for such office or who is defeated in a subsequent election, by Senator Shallenburger.

SB 41, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the healthcare provider insurance availability act; adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider; amending K.S.A. 40-3401 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 42, AN ACT concerning motor vehicle liability insurance; providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance; amending K.S.A. 8-173 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.

SB 43, AN ACT concerning firearms; relating to the possession thereof; updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun; requiring a license be surrendered to the attorney general upon suspension or revocation of such license; providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license; prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed; amending K.S.A. 75-7c07 and 75-7c22 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-7c04, 75-7c05 and 75-7c08 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 44, AN ACT concerning education; relating to the Kansas promise scholarship program; expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in such program; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-32,271 and 74-32,274 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Education.

SB 45, AN ACT concerning education; relating to virtual schools; excluding students who transfer to homeschooling or nonaccredited private schools from the alternative calculation of graduation rates for virtual schools; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-3713 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.

SB 46, AN ACT concerning disability services; relating to telecommunications and information access services; establishing the blind information access act; requiring the state librarian to contract with an organization to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled; establishing the blind information access fund; requiring the transfer of moneys from the Kansas universal service fund to provide for such services; amending K.S.A. 66-2010 and repealing the existing section, by Senator Ware.

SB 47, 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. 2024 Supp. 72-1138 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Education.

SB 48, AN ACT concerning education; relating to school district accreditation; requiring school districts to demonstrate improvement in academic performance and be in compliance with federal and state statutes and rules and regulations to achieve or maintain accreditation; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-5170 and repealing the existing section; also repealing K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-5170a, by Committee on Education.

SB 49, 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 and identify allocations of moneys in the district budget and budget summary; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-1163 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.

SB 50, AN ACT concerning education; relating to the state board of regents; establishing uniform interest rate provisions for scholarship programs that include repayment obligations as a condition of receiving a scholarship; authorizing the board to recover the costs of collecting such repayment obligations and to charge fees for the costs of administering scholarship, grant and other financial assistance programs; requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the state board of regents instead of a postsecondary educational institution as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act; amending K.S.A. 74-3260, 74-3267, 74-3272, 74-32,104, 74-32,116, 74-32,135, 74-32,153, 74-32,154 and 74-32,223 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-3295, 74-32,276 and 74-32,286 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Education.

SB 51, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to economic development; providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas, the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce.

SB 52, AN ACT concerning economic development; enacting the Kansas film and digital media production development act; establishing an income tax credit and sales tax exemption program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing film, video or digital production in Kansas; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce.

SB 53, AN ACT concerning county law libraries; relating to the board of trustees thereof; providing that the attorney members of the board in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district; allowing the board to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county; amending K.S.A. 20-3127 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 54, AN ACT concerning the code of civil procedure; relating to litigation funding by third parties; limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party agreements in certain circumstances; requiring reporting of such agreements to the judicial council and a judicial council committee to study third-party agreements; requiring the clerk of the supreme court to develop a form for reports; exempting such reports from the open records act; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 60-226 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 55, AN ACT concerning property and casualty insurance; prohibiting the assignment of benefits therefor; defining such assignment of benefits as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practice; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 40-2404 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.

SB 56, AN ACT concerning alcoholic beverages; authorizing the delivery of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage by licensed retailers, drinking establishments and third-party delivery services to patrons; amending K.S.A. 41-327, 41-2601, 41-2701 and 41-2728 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 41-102 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 57, AN ACT concerning roads and highways; relating to orders to modify or relocate communications or video service facilities for certain road and highway projects; requiring certain state agencies, counties, cities and political subdivisions to reimburse the owner or operator of any such facilities for the costs associated with modifying or relocating such facilities pursuant to any such order; amending K.S.A. 68-402b, 68-415 and 68-2005 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Utilities.

SB 58, AN ACT concerning water; relating to multi-year flex accounts; modifying the requirements for and authorized allocations from such accounts; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 82a-736 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

SB 59, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to sales tax exemptions; providing an exemption for animal shelters and rescue network managers; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 60, AN ACT concerning civil procedure; relating to habeas corpus; prohibiting second and successive motions in certain circumstances; prohibiting claims of ineffective counsel; providing appeals to the supreme court as a matter of right in claims filed by inmates sentenced to death; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 60-1507 and 60-2102 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 61, AN ACT concerning electric public utilities; relating to eminent domain; requiring an electric public utility to pay a landowner’s attorney fees when a party appeals the award of the court appointed appraisers and the landowner prevails; amending K.S.A. 26-509 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 62, 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 Judiciary.

SB 63, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to healthcare of minors; enacting the help not harm act; prohibiting healthcare providers from treating a child whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex; authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers 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; requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatments; adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians; amending K.S.A. 65-2837 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 64, AN ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; adjusting certain internal references; extending the time for filing administrative appeals; updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code; amending K.S.A. 74-4902 and 74-4904 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-49,123 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance.

SB 65, AN ACT concerning irrigation districts; relating to the election of members of the board of directors thereof; specifying when such elections may be conducted by mail ballot; authorizing the board of directors to set the term for such elected members; amending K.S.A. 42-706 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 66, AN ACT concerning governmental ethics; relating to actions of certain local governmental officials affecting the development, construction and operation of major development projects; requiring such local governmental officials to disclose substantial interests in such projects; prohibiting such local governmental officials who have a substantial interest from acting on matters relating to such projects; amending K.S.A. 75-4301a, 75-4303a and 75-4306 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 67, AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; relating to the regulation of nursing; authorizing independent practice authority and the prescribing of drugs by registered nurse anesthetists; prohibiting the performance of an abortion or prescribing of drugs for an abortion thereby; amending K.S.A. 65-1158 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 68, AN ACT making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, 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. 2024 Supp. 2-223, 12-1775a, 12-5256, 65-180, 74-50,107, 74-99b34, 75-5748, 76-775, 76-7,107, 79-2989, 79-3425i, 79-34,171 and 82a-955 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 69, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to rural opportunity zones; extending the time period for eligibility for the loan repayment program and the income tax credit; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 74-50,223 and 79-32,267 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 70, AN ACT concerning open government; relating to the open records act; providing for reasonable fees for electronic copies of records; exempting from disclosure formally closed investigations with no found violations; requiring district attorneys to file reports of violations with the attorney in December instead of January; relating to the open meetings act; determining the membership calculation of subordinate groups; requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe; providing for a five minute deviation to resume an open meeting at the conclusion of executive sessions; amending K.S.A. 45-219, 75-7d01, 75-753, 75-4318 and 75-4319 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 45-221 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 71, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes against public morals; requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual exploitation and requiring the attorney general to approve such programs in consultation with the office of judicial administration; removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations; increasing the penalties for buying sexual relations; removing provisions regarding counting prior convictions for purposes of enhancing penalties; amending K.S.A. 12-4106, 12-4120, 12-4416, 21-5426, 21-6421, 21-6422 and 22-2909 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 72, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to the Kansas housing investor tax credit; providing for transferability of credits from the year that the credit was originally issued; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,313 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 73, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to certifications and tax statements; modifying deadlines for mailing tax statements to taxpayers and certification of levies to the director of property valuation to be earlier than the current deadlines; providing for the county clerk’s use of the previous year’s budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget; amending K.S.A. 79-1806 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-2001 and 79-2930 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 74, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; providing a refundable tax credit for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 75, 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; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.

Senate Resolutions

SR 1704, A RESOLUTION adopting rules for the Senate of the State of Kansas for the terms of the Senators commencing with the 2025 regular session of the Legislature, by Senators Masterson, Blasi and Sykes.

Senate Concurrent Resolutions

SCR 1605, A PROPOSITION to amend article 9 of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section thereto; concerning the power of home rule for counties, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

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