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Kansas
Topeka · Senate & House of Representatives · recently active
Administrative rules are cited to the Kansas Administrative Regulations.
| Bill | Title | Status | Momentum | Last action | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2501 | Senate Substitute for HB 2501 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement, removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and shotgun barrel length qualification requirements and providing enhanced penalties for certain felonies committed while using a firearm suppressor or short-barrel shotgun. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 21, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 2509 | Allowing licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests, adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, adding an advanced practice registered nurse position to the board of governors of the healthcare stabilization fund and requiring advance practice registered nurses to maintain professional liability insurance as a condition of active licensure. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 21, 2026 | 4 |
| SB 353 | Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 21, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 2485 | Authorizing the chief executive officer of the board of regents to negotiate and settle repayment obligations arising under financial aid programs administered by the board, providing requirements for agreements between postsecondary educational institutions and school districts for postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools, directing the governor to approve short-term workforce training programs for Pell grant eligibility, modifying requirements under the every child can read act and prohibiting Kansas promise scholarship awards for remedial hours. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 356 | House Substitute for SB 356 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission. | Enacted | 83 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2497 | Prohibiting the assessment of a prepayment penalty against any party more than six months after the execution of a note evidencing a home loan made primarily for personal, family or household purposes secured by a real estate mortgage. | Enacted | 83 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2482 | Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider. | Enacted | 83 | Jan 21, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 2507 | Removing the requirement for migratory waterfowl stamps to be validated by a signature across the face of each such stamp and increasing the fees for such stamps, authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to fees, registrations and other charges by the department of wildlife and parks and providing an exception from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act for department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation. | Enacted | 83 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2511 | Permitting moneys received from agricultural production on a state-owned property to be used for the management of all state-owned properties. | Enacted | 81 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| SB 358 | Requiring individuals convicted of certain felonies to be held without bond in the county jail until sentencing. | Enacted | 81 | Jan 21, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 2487 | Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program. | Enacted | 80 | Jan 21, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 348 | Exempting any electric public utility that is a not-for-profit wholly owned subsidiary of an electric cooperative public utility from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission. | Enacted | 80 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| HCR 5022 | Making application to the congress of the United States to call a convention of the states to establish term limits for members of congress. | Passed First Chamber | 56 | Jan 21, 2026 | 3 |
| HB 2493 | Requiring a person transmitting or delivering a ballot on behalf of another voter to include such person's driver's license number in the written statement on the ballot envelope. | Reported from Committee | 40 | Jan 21, 2026 | 1 |
| HB 2486 | Requiring children to be toilet trained to enroll in and attend kindergarten in any public school and providing certain exceptions thereto. | Reported from Committee | 40 | Jan 21, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 2481 | During the period of the FIFA 2026 world cup, prohibiting certain limitations by municipalities on short-term rental or vacation properties and requiring timely rental permit processing, modifying the definition of transient guest for transient guest tax purposes and authorizing expanded sales of alcoholic beverages by cities and counties. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 20, 2026 | 5 |
| HB 2479 | Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age. | Enacted | 84 | Jan 20, 2026 | 4 |
| HB 2478 | Requiring that advanced practice registered nurses and registered nurse anesthetists submit to a criminal history check upon application for a nursing license. | Enacted | 80 | Jan 20, 2026 | 2 |
| HB 2477 | Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes. | Enacted | 79 | Jan 20, 2026 | 2 |
| SB 344 | Authorizing animal shelters to place certain animals needing treatment or care in foster homes and requiring shelters to display photographs of animals at a location other than the shelter during a holding period. | Passed First Chamber | 55 | Jan 20, 2026 | 3 |