Requiring the Kansas department of wildlife and parks to offer discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing passes to residents of this state who are 65 years of age or older and removing the expiration date for Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses.

As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2502
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Requested by Representative Corbet
1-21
AN ACT concerning wildlife; requiring the Kansas department of wildlife
and parks to offer discounted resident senior combination hunting and
fishing passes to residents of this state who are 65 years of age or older;
increasing the maximum age to qualify for Kansas kids lifetime
combination hunting and fishing licenses and removing the expiration
date for such licenses; amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 32-9,101 and
repealing the existing section; reviving and amending K.S.A. 32-9,100
and repealing the revived section; also repealing K.S.A. 32-9,100, as
amended by section 64 of chapter 7 of the 2023 Session Laws of
Kansas.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 32-9,100 is hereby revived and amended to read as
follows: 32-9,100. (a) On and after January 1, 2013 January 1, 2026 , the
Kansas department of wildlife, and parks and tourism shall offer a resident
senior combination hunting and fishing pass to residents of this state who
are 65 years of age or more. The fee for such pass shall be an amount not
to exceed 1/8 the fee for a general combination lifetime hunting and fishing
license. The provisions of this section shall expire on June 30, 2020.
(b) On or before July 1, 2026, the Kansas department of wildlife
and parks shall convert any existing five-year resident senior fishing,
hunting and combination hunting and fishing licenses sold by the
department after September 11, 2025, but before July 1, 2026, to a
resident senior combination hunting and fishing license.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 32-9,101 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 32-9,101. (a) (1) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall issue
and make available a Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and
fishing license to any child who is a resident, as defined in K.S.A. 32-701,
and amendments thereto, and:
(A) Five years of age or younger, upon payment of a license fee that
shall not exceed $300; or
(B) six or seven through 15 years of age, upon payment of a license
fee that shall not exceed $500 $400.
(2) Such license fee may be paid on behalf of such child.
(b) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall report annually to the
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house of representatives agriculture and natural resources budget
committee and the senate committee on agriculture and natural resources,
or the successor of such committees, on the number of such Kansas kids
lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses issued by the Kansas
department of wildlife and parks.
(c) The provisions of this section shall expire on July 1, 2032.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 32-9,100, as revived and amended by section 1 of this
act, K.S.A. 32-9,100, as amended by section 64 of chapter 7 of the 2023
Session Laws of Kansas, and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 32-9,101 are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
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