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HOUSE BILL No. 2481
AN ACT concerning tourism; relating to the FIFA 2026 world cup; prohibiting limitations
by municipalities on the regulation of short-term rentals or vacation properties during
the period of May 15, 2026, through July 25, 2026, and requiring municipalities to
process applications for such permits within 15 calendar days; modifying the
definition of transient guest for purposes of a transient guest tax for the period of
May 15, 2026, through July 25, 2026; authorizing any city or county to allow the sale
of alcoholic beverages 23 hours a day, seven days a week for the duration of the FIFA
2026 world cup; amending K.S.A. 12-1692 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. (a) No municipality shall adopt, administer or
enforce any ordinance, resolution, regulation or other code or law that
limits the number of issuances of permits or other municipal
authorizations required by such municipality for the operation of short-
term rentals or vacation units or properties during the period
commencing on May 15, 2026, and continuing through July 25, 2026,
or that limits the duration of any short-term rentals or vacation units or
properties during such period. During such period, all completed
applications to a municipality required for authorization to operate a
short-term rental or vacation unit or property shall be processed by the
municipality and a response issued to the applicant within 15 calendar
days. If a municipality fails to process and issue a response within 15
calendar days of such an application's submission to the municipality,
the application shall be deemed approved and no additional regulation
or code requirement by the municipality as a condition of approval of
the application shall be permitted.
(b) From May 15, 2026, through July 25, 2026, "transient guest"
as defined in K.S.A. 12-1692, and amendments thereto, shall include a
person who, as a guest and during all or any portion of such period,
occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court, one or more
individual rooms within a dwelling or residential unit that is offered as
a place of accommodation or such a dwelling or residential unit in
whole or in part. "Transient guest" shall not include a person who is a
permanent guest or who has entered into or enters into a contract for
such occupation or accommodation for more than 28 consecutive days
within such period, if the contract is intended for long-term or
permanent occupancy.
(c) As used in this section:
(1) "Municipality" means any city, county or unified government
or agency, department or other division of a city, county or unified
government; and
(2) "short-term rental or vacation unit or property" means any
dwelling or residential unit that is offered as a place of accommodation,
either as one or more individual rooms within such dwelling or
residential unit or as such dwelling or residential unit in whole or in
part, during all or any portion of the period of May 15, 2026, through
July 25, 2026.
New Sec. 2. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 41-712,
41-2614, 41-2653, 41-2704 and 41-2911, and amendments thereto, for
the duration of the FIFA 2026 world cup commencing on June 11,
2026, and continuing through July 19, 2026, any entity licensed under
the Kansas liquor control act, the club and drinking establishment act or
the Kansas cereal malt beverage act that is authorized to sell alcoholic
liquor or cereal malt beverage in the original package or for
consumption on the premises may sell alcoholic liquor or cereal malt
beverage in accordance with the applicable statutes and rules and
regulations governing the sale of such alcoholic liquor or cereal malt
beverage by such licensee between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
on the immediately following day if such entity is located in a city or
the unincorporated area of a county that has elected to allow sales of
alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage pursuant to this section in
accordance with subsection (b).
(b) The board of county commissioners of any county may, by
resolution, or the governing body of any city may, by ordinance, elect
to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor or cereal malt beverage as
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described in subsection (a). Upon the adoption of any such resolution
or ordinance, the clerk of such county or city shall submit a copy of
such resolution or ordinance to the director of alcoholic beverage
control.
(c) As used in this section, "FIFA 2026 world cup" means the
international soccer tournament conducted every four years that is
organized by the fédération internationale de football association and
set to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico in 2026.
(d) The provisions of this section shall expire from and after July
20, 2026.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 12-1692 is hereby amended to read as follows: 12-
1692. As used in this act , the following words and phrases shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them herein:
(a) "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation,
joint venture or other association of persons;
(b) "hotel, motel or tourist court" means any structure or building
which that contains rooms furnished for the purposes of providing
lodging, which that may or may not also provide meals, entertainment
or various other personal services to transient guests, and which is kept,
used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public as a place where
sleeping accommodations are sought for pay or compensation by
transient or permanent guests and having more than two bedrooms
furnished for the accommodation of such guests;
(c) "transient guest" means, except as provided for the period from
May 15, 2026, through July 25, 2026, by section 1, and amendments
thereto, a person who occupies a room in a hotel, motel or tourist court
for not more than 28 consecutive days;
(d) "business" means any person engaged in the business of
renting, leasing or letting living quarters, sleeping accommodations,
rooms or a part thereof in connection with any motel, hotel or tourist
court;
(e) "convention and tourism promotion" means: (1) Activities to
attract visitors into the community through marketing efforts, including
advertising, directed to at least one of the five basic convention and
tourism market segments consisting of group tours, pleasure travelers,
association meetings and conventions, trade shows and corporate
meetings and travel; and (2) support of those activities and
organizations which that encourage increased lodging facility
occupancy; and
(f) "accommodations broker" means any business which that
maintains an inventory of two or more rooms in one or more locations
which that are offered for pay to a person or persons for not more than
28 consecutive days.
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Sec. 4. K.S.A. 12-1692 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the HOUSE, and was
adopted by that body
HOUSE adopted
Conference Committee Report
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the SENATE
as amended
SENATE adopted
Conference Committee Report
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED
Governor.