Kansas Bills & Legislation 2026 — Track Kansas Legislature

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KSBetaSCR 1626House

Passed Chamber

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2026 regular session of the Legislature.

Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2515House

Passed Chamber

Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators, imposing certain limits on virtual currency kiosk transaction amounts and charges and authorizing the attorney general and any law enforcement agency to investigate reports of fraudulent money transmission and report to the state bank commissioner.

Committee on Financial Institutions and PensionsJan 22, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaSB 254House

Vetoed

Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

Committee on Federal and State AffairsFeb 10, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2365House

Introduced

Establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.

Committee on Health and Human ServicesFeb 7, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2651House

Vetoed

Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.

Committee on JudiciaryFeb 3, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2412House

Passed Chamber

Increasing the criminal penalties for endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.

Collins, CollinsJan 12, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2745House

Vetoed

Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.

Committee on TaxationFeb 6, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2018House

Passed Chamber

Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages.

Committee on ElectionsJan 16, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2587House

Vetoed

Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.

Committee on Health and Human ServicesJan 28, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2043House

Passed Chamber

Requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days and authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration.

Committee on InsuranceJan 21, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2049House

Passed Chamber

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

Committee on InsuranceJan 21, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2111House

Passed Chamber

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

Committee on WaterJan 28, 2025Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2513House

Vetoed

Authorizing payment of certain claims against the state, making appropriations therefor and authorizing certain transfers.

Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the StateJan 22, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2535House

Introduced

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Committee on JudiciaryJan 23, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaSB 391House

Vetoed

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.

Committee on Federal and State AffairsJan 27, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2763House

Passed Chamber

Enacting the athletic licensure trainer compact to provide interstate practice privileges for athletic trainers.

Committee on Health and Human ServicesFeb 6, 2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

KSBetaHB 2099House

Introduced

Senate Substitute for HB 2099 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Authorizing the secretary of corrections on behalf of the state of Kansas to convey certain real property located in Leavenworth county, Kansas, to Leavenworth county.

Committee on Local GovernmentJan 27, 2025Updated Apr 9, 2026

KSBetaSB 418House

Introduced

Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.

Rose, MastersonJan 28, 2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

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Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.

Congratulating the 2025 and 2026 Kansas Association of Independent and Religious Schools award recipients.

Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy.

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.

Substitute for HB 2731 by Committee on Welfare Reform - Requiring the department for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations.

Requiring actions challenging the constitutionality of an election statute to be brought in the district court of Shawnee county.

Permitting licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests.

Requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and not contain funds collected or held on behalf of multiple payors and disclose to the commissioner of insurance any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator.

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the aggregate tax credit limit on the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.

recognizing and honoring Thomas Day.

Designating a portion of K-5 highway as the Representative Marvin S Robinson II memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the Harry Darby memorial highway for interstate highway 635.

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2026 regular session of the Legislature.

Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

Establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.

Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.

Increasing the criminal penalties for endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.

Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.

Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages.

Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.

Requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days and authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration.

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

Authorizing payment of certain claims against the state, making appropriations therefor and authorizing certain transfers.

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Enacting the athletic licensure trainer compact to provide interstate practice privileges for athletic trainers.

Senate Substitute for HB 2099 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Authorizing the secretary of corrections on behalf of the state of Kansas to convey certain real property located in Leavenworth county, Kansas, to Leavenworth county.