SB391 • 2026

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.

Housing

Vetoed

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Sponsor
Last action: 2026-04-10
Official status: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 85, Nay 38, Absent 2
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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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.

What This Bill Does

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.

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Bill History

2026-04-10 House
Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 85, Nay 38, Absent 2
2026-04-09 Senate
Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 31, Nay 8, Absent 1
2026-04-09 Senate
Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Wednesday, April 8, 2026
2026-04-09 Senate
Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026
2026-03-27 Senate
Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 29, Nay 11
2026-03-25 House
Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 76, Nay 48, Absent 1
2026-03-25 House
Conference committee report now available
2026-03-25 Senate
Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Sen. Mike Thompson , Sen. Tory Marie Blew and Sen. Oletha Faust Goudeau appointed as second conferees
2026-03-24 House
Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Rep. Tom Kessler , Rep. Rebecca Schmoe and Rep. Heather Meyer appointed as second conferees
2026-03-24 House
Conference committee report now available

Official Summary Text

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.

Current Bill Text

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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.
SENATE BILL No. 391—page 2
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
SENATE, and passed that body
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SENATE adopted
Conference Committee Report ________________
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President of the Senate.
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Secretary of the Senate.

Passed the HOUSE
as amended _________________________
HOUSE adopted
Conference Committee Report ________________
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Speaker of the House.
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Chief Clerk of the House.
APPROVED _____________________________
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Governor.