Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2454 - Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to accept partial payments and to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing.
AN ACT concerning the residential landlord and tenant act; requiring landlords to accept full or partial payment amounts and to consider certain income of a tenant or prospective tenant when demonstrating income as a condition of qualifying for housing; providing that violations of such requirements shall be deemed to be a deceptive or unconscionable act or practice under the provisions of the Kansas consumer protection act and subject to the remedies and enforcement provisions of such act.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-01-16 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-01-16 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| 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 2357 | HB2357 - Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in eviction actions in which the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act. | in_committee |
| HB 2481 | HB2481 - Replacing the two-bedroom requirement with a one-bedroom requirement to qualify as hotel, motel or tourist court requiring collection of tax from all such qualifying rentals, prohibiting certain limitations by municipalities on short-term rental or vacation properties during the period of May 15, 2026, through July 25, 2026, and modifying the definition of transient guest for such period. | unknown |
| SB 391 | SB391 - 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. | in_committee |
| SB 418 | SB418 - 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. | 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 2043 | HB2043 - 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. | in_committee |
| HB 2044 | HB2044 - 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. | in_committee |