State legislature
Official Kansas bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes tied back to the Legislature's own records.
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This bill extends the time period during which a state fund pays county clerks for printing and mailing costs related to taxpayer notifications through calendar year 2029.
This bill requires the Department of Health and Environment to check if hospitals follow rules about helping patients choose family members or friends to care for them after leaving the hospital.
This bill creates a new tax on electricity used to charge electric vehicles at public charging stations to help pay for road repairs.
This bill creates a new income tax credit for eligible disabled veterans based on their property taxes and ends an existing sales tax break for certain military purchases.
This bill moves certain security officers at the Department of Corrections into the Kansas Police and Firemen's retirement system starting July 1, 2025, and lets them buy credit for past work.
This bill changes state law to include certain juvenile corrections officers and other staff with regular inmate contact in the definition of security officer for KPERS retirement purposes.
This bill makes it illegal to perform or help pay for an abortion unless a pregnant woman's life is in danger, while allowing private citizens to sue violators.
This bill prohibits abortion procedures in Kansas, creates new felony crimes for performing abortions or destroying fertilized embryos during artificial insemination, and sets specific exceptions.
This bill lowers the property tax rate for school districts, increases the amount of home value exempt from this specific state levy, and moves money between state funds based on these changes.
This bill creates a new state fund to give money back to gas stations that sell more high-ethanol fuel than they did the year before.
This bill removes the state sales tax charge for certain cable, community antenna, and television services in Kansas.
This bill removes state property taxes for specific items like off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles, small personal trailers, and marine equipment starting in tax years after December 31, 2025.
This bill requires advance voting ballots to be received by election officials no later than the time polls close on Election Day, with an exception for mailed ballots postmarked by that time and received within three days.
This law makes it a crime to use force, threats, or physical blocks to stop people from attending religious services in Kansas and allows victims to sue for money.
This bill would let county commissioners appoint someone to fill a local government job if no one runs for it in an election.
This bill creates a new crime that makes it illegal to intimidate, threaten, or coerce an election official to stop them from working or as punishment for their work.
This bill creates a tax credit to help Kansas firefighters pay for medical tests that check for cancer caused by their job.
This bill removes a city's legal power to create planning and zoning rules for land located up to three miles outside its borders.
This bill proposes requiring all people in Kansas to be at least 18 years old to get married and removes rules that allowed younger teens to marry with special permission.
This law fixes conflicts between different versions of state statutes and updates rules for courts to handle unpaid traffic tickets, including how driving privileges are suspended or restricted.
This bill would let the state corporation commission change how much profit electric utilities can make based on whether their average customer rates went up or down.
This bill allows Kansas school districts to hire chaplains or accept them as volunteers to support students without requiring a teacher license, while banning those convicted of sex offenses.
Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces.
This bill creates an income tax credit and sales tax exemption to encourage film, video, and digital media projects in Kansas.
This bill requires electric utilities to prove they used a fair competitive bidding process before the state can permit certain new high-voltage power lines.
This bill creates a process for voters to stop certain property tax increases by signing petitions and extends funding for taxpayer notification costs.
This bill proposed letting Kansas taxpayers subtract military pay from their taxable income and keep senior tax benefits even if their home value rises above $350,000.
This bill allows insurers to file travel insurance covering sickness, accidents, disability, or death under accident and health laws instead of only inland marine laws.
This bill creates a new online system to check if cars in Kansas have the required liability insurance.
This bill removes the rule requiring the insurance commissioner to send certain reports to the governor and updates who counts as a 'person' under state insurance enforcement laws.
This bill updates the rules that allow state officials to deny, suspend, or revoke licenses for insurance agents and public adjusters who break laws or act dishonestly.
This bill requires the Kansas legislature to approve any national heritage area or historic trail that extends beyond federal land in the state, as well as any use of state money or property for these designations.
This bill repeals a state law that restricted how cities can regulate political signs during certain times around election days.
This bill requires the governor to appoint a replacement with the same political party as the previous officeholder if the state treasurer or insurance commissioner leaves, subject to Senate confirmation.
This bill requires the Kansas Legislature to select three candidates from a list of nominees, after which the Governor must appoint one of them to temporarily fill vacancies for U.S. Senator, State Treasurer, or Commissioner of Insurance.
This bill changes income rules to allow more seniors in Kansas with household incomes up to $28,000 starting in tax year 2025 to qualify for a refundable state income tax credit based on their property taxes.
Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as a member of a health care sharing ministry.
This bill sets rules for how Kansas appoints, pays, and controls delegates if they are sent to a national convention that proposes changes to the U.S. Constitution.
This bill requires businesses and government employers to use a specific system to check if workers are allowed to work in the U.S. and stops them from getting tax breaks for paying unauthorized workers.
This bill creates a state fund to give money to certain public schools so they can provide free feminine hygiene products to students.
This bill creates an agreement between states to let licensed dietitians work in multiple places using their home state license without needing separate licenses for each one.
This bill creates a new law to license and regulate professional art therapists in Kansas.
This bill proposes to remove the sales tax on feminine hygiene products and diapers in Kansas.
This bill changes Kansas law so that people who rent their homes can apply for certain property tax refunds if they meet specific age, disability, or income requirements starting with the 2025 tax year.
This bill changes Kansas law to set a time limit for how long a court can allow a child to stay in a secure facility and removes the option for courts to extend that time.
Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of personal property and services, sales of personal property and purchases of construction materials and services for not-for-profit animal shelters and rescue network managers licensed under the Kansas pet animal act.
This bill creates a tax credit for Kansas taxpayers who make verified contributions to eligible child care providers or nonprofit intermediaries.
This bill requires that when appraisers use past home sales to determine property value, they must only look at homes sold in the same subdivision or township, or the closest-located one if necessary.
This bill limits property taxes on homes owned by people aged 65 and older to the tax amount from a specific base year.
Substitute for HB 2081 by Committee on Taxation - Providing a sales tax exemption for community pharmacies serving medically underserved individuals and families.
This bill changes spending limits and provides funding to the Abstracters' Board of Examiners, the Board of Accountancy, and the State Bank Commissioner for fiscal years ending in 2025, 2026, and 2027.
This bill creates a property tax exemption for new energy storage systems starting January 1, 2025 or 2026, while removing them from the general commercial machinery and equipment tax break.
This bill adds wagering losses to the list of expenses Kansas taxpayers can subtract from their income if they choose to itemize deductions starting in tax year 2025.
This bill proposes changing how extra interest is calculated for some Kansas public employee retirement accounts by lowering the return threshold and increasing the share of returns given as a credit.
This bill allows certain non-Kansas insurance companies to sell specific types of coverage, including vehicle dealer liability policies, while requiring agents to inform customers about the risks involved.
This bill stops credit card companies from charging fees on the tax or tip parts of a purchase if merchants report those amounts correctly.
This bill creates a program for eligible Kansas employers to help workers save money in special bank accounts and offers tax credits to those employers.
This bill requires that discharged inmates be offered a chance to register to vote and directs state agencies and high schools to provide voter registration services.
This bill allows victims of childhood abuse to access official reports about their cases if those reports were confirmed, and it extends the time limit for filing lawsuits regarding damages from childhood sexual abuse.
This bill updates Kansas law to allow electronic cigarettes to be sold through cigarette vending machines and sets new licensing rules for those who operate them.