CHAPTER 152
Senate Bill No. 391*
An Act concerning private rental housing; prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord’s ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) No city or county shall adopt or enforce any ordinance or resolution that:
(1) Prohibits landlords from refusing to lease privately owned single-family or multi-unit residential property or commercial property to a person because such person’s source of income to pay rent on such property consists, in whole or in part, of a financial payment or consideration from or through the housing choice voucher program, or any successor program, authorized by chapter 8 of title 42 of the United States code, or any other housing assistance program in which participation by a landlord is voluntary;
(2) restricts a landlord’s ability to use or consider income-qualifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction history, property damage history or criminal history or to request such information when done to determine whether to lease a property to a prospective tenant according to such landlord’s customarily applied criteria in making such determinations;
(3) limits the amount of a security deposit a landlord may require to lease a property to a prospective tenant; or
(4) requires landlords to grant an automatic right of first refusal to tenants.
(b) Any ordinance or resolution prohibited by subsection (a) that was adopted prior to July 1, 2026, shall be null and void.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book.
Governor’s veto overridden.
(See Messages from the Governor)
CERTIFICATE
In accordance with K.S.A. 45-304, it is certified that Senate Bill 391 was not approved by the Governor on April 8, 2026; was returned by objections and approved on April 9, 2026 by two-thirds of the members elected to the Senate notwithstanding the objections of the governor; was reconsidered by the House of Representatives and was approved on April 10, 2026, by two-thirds of the members elected to the House, notwithstanding the objections, the bill did pass and shall become law.
This certificate is made this 10th day of April, 2026 by the Chief Clerk and Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President and Secretary of the Senate.
Daniel R. Hawkins
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Susan W. Kannarr
Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives
Ty Masterson
President of the Senate
Corey Carnahan
Secretary of the Senate
