Prohibiting cities and counties from restricting the discretion of landlords not to rent residential or commercial property on grounds including prospective tenants receipt of housing assistance or eviction or criminal history, and permitting cities and counties to prohibit discrimination by landlords on the basis of receipt of veterans benefits.

Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2504
By Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Requested by Mark Tomb, on behalf of the Kansas Association of Realtors
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AN ACT concerning housing; relating to landlords and tenants; prohibiting
cities and counties from restricting a landlord's discretion to not rent
residential housing or commercial rental property to a prospective
tenant on grounds that the prospective tenant's income source includes
housing assistance program funds or consideration of the tenant's credit
reports or other income-qualifying information or eviction, criminal or
property damage history; permitting a landlord to set the amount of a
security deposit or refuse to extend a right of first refusal; permitting
cities or counties to prohibit discrimination by a landlord against a
tenant or prospective tenant solely on the basis that the tenant or
prospective tenant receives veterans benefits.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) No city or county shall adopt, maintain or enforce any
ordinance or resolution that:
(1) Prohibits a landlord from refusing to lease or rent a privately
owned, single-family or multiple-unit residential or commercial rental
property to a prospective tenant because the prospective tenant's lawful
source of income to pay rent includes funding from a federal or other
housing assistance program;
(2) restricts a landlord's ability to use or consider income-qualifying
methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction or criminal or property
damage history according to such landlord's own customarily applied
criteria or prohibits a landlord from requesting such information for the
purpose of determining whether to rent or lease a property to a prospective
tenant;
(3) limits the amount of a security deposit that a landlord may require
from a prospective tenant; or
(4) requires that a tenant automatically receive the right of first
refusal.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a city or
county from adopting, maintaining or enforcing an ordinance or resolution
that prohibits a landlord from discriminating against a tenant or
prospective tenant solely on the basis that such tenant is a recipient of
veterans benefits.
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Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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