SB482 • 2026

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2026-04-10
Official status: Died in Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

What This Bill Does

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

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Bill History

2026-04-10 Senate
Died in Committee
2026-02-05 Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
2026-02-04 Senate
Introduced

Official Summary Text

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 482
By Committee on Judiciary
2-4
AN ACT concerning the residential landlord and tenant act; relating to
dwelling units that are condemned; requiring landlords to return the
security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be
due; amending K.S.A. 58-2562 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 58-2562 is hereby amended to read as follows: 58-
2562. (a) (1) If the dwelling unit or premises are damaged or destroyed by
fire or casualty to an extent that the use and habitability of the dwelling
unit is substantially impaired, the tenant:
(1)(A) May vacate the premises immediately and shall notify the
landlord in writing within five (5) days thereafter of such tenant's intention
to terminate the rental agreement, in which case the rental agreement
terminates as of the date of vacating; or
(2)(B) if continued occupancy is lawful, may vacate any part of the
dwelling unit rendered unusable by the fire or casualty, in which case the
tenant's liability for rent is reduced in proportion to the diminution in the
fair rental value of the dwelling unit.
(b)(2) If the rental agreement is terminated pursuant to this section
subsection, the landlord shall return that portion of the security deposit
recoverable by the tenant under K.S.A. 58-2550, and amendments thereto,
and accounting for rent in the event of either termination of the rental
agreement or apportionment of rent shall occur as of the date of vacating.
(b) If the dwelling unit or premises are condemned due to an action
or inaction by the landlord, the landlord shall return to the tenant:
(1) That portion of the security deposit recoverable by the tenant
under K.S.A. 58-2550, and amendments thereto; and
(2) the total amount of rent that would be due by the tenant through
the end of the rental agreement or two years, whichever is less.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 58-2562 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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