Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2331 - Authorizing the disposition of the unclaimed remains of deceased persons by district coroners and providing exemptions from liability for such actions.
AN ACT concerning the disposition of human remains; creating the crime of aggravated criminal desecration when the offender had the intent to conceal a death or the commission of a crime; authorizing the disposition of the unclaimed remains of deceased persons by district coroners; providing exemptions from liability for actions taken to dispose of such remains; establishing requirements for programs of continuing education for licensed embalmers and funeral directors; authorizing use of the word "crematory"" as part of the business name for businesses owned by the same person who owns a licensed crematory; amending K.S.A. 21-6205, 22a-215, 65-1702, 65-1716 and 65-1769 and repealing the existing sections."
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-07 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-27 | Status | enrolled |
| 2026-03-27 | Latest Action | Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026 |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2099 | HB2099 - 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. | unknown |
| HB 2560 | HB2560 - Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university. | in_committee |
| HB 2042 | HB2042 - Requiring title agents to make their audit reports available for inspection instead of submitting such reports annually, requiring the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance to be $100,000, eliminating the controlled business exemption in certain counties. | in_committee |
| HB 2435 | HB2435 - Substitute for HB 2435 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Authorizing natural gas public utilities to recover certain growth-related investments in the gas system reliability surcharge, increasing the cap on the amount that the monthly fixed charge may be increased for residential customers and reducing the time for the state corporation commission to act on gas system reliability surcharge filings. | enrolled |
| HB 2644 | HB2644 - Requiring a county appraiser to adjust the value of residential and commercial property upon final determination or obtain a fee simple appraisal if the appraised value exceeds 5% increase over three years. | enrolled |
| SB 197 | SB197 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act. | failed |
| SB 30 | SB30 - Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements. | enrolled |
| SB 229 | SB229 - House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law. | in_committee |