Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2557 - Enacting and joining with other states in the interstate compact for the placement of children and authorizing the administration and implementation of the compact.
AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to the adoption and placement of a child among states; enacting the interstate compact for the placement of children; declaring legislative findings for the enactment of the compact; authorizing the administration and implementation of such compact; allowing for supplementary or financial agreements; requiring compliance with the compact and imposing a penalty for noncompliance; repealing K.S.A. 38-1201, 38-1202, 38-1203, 38-1204, 38-1205 and 38-1206.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-27 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-10 | Status | passed_lower |
| 2026-03-10 | Latest Action | Final Action - Passed; Yea: 39 Nay: 1 |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2192 | HB2192 - Limiting or prohibiting work release for people convicted of a second or third offense of domestic battery, requiring an offender convicted of a first offense to undergo a domestic violence offender assessment, excluding certain offenders convicted of a nonperson felony from participation in certified drug abuse treatment programs and authorizing community correctional services officers to complete criminal risk-need assessments for divertees who are committed to such programs. | enrolled |
| HB 2479 | HB2479 - 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. | enrolled |
| SB 356 | SB356 - House Substitute for SB356 by House Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to a firearm owner at the termination of the firearm hold agreement, preempting municipalities from imposing any regulations or additional terms on firearm hold agreements, providing that firearm hold agreements shall not give rise to any inference that the firearm owner lacked legal capacity or fitness to possess a firearm. | enrolled |
| HB 2739 | HB2739 - Relating to housing code requirements, removing the definition of apartment houses from chapter 31 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, providing requirements for adoption of the national fire protection association standards, 2024 edition, and providing that certain state accessibility standards are not applicable to moderate income housing program and Kansas investor tax credit housing act projects. | enrolled |
| HB 2329 | HB2329 - Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services. | enrolled |
| HB 2524 | HB2524 - Permitting the secretary for children and families to license family foster homes when certain persons reside in such home and creating an appeal process for family foster homes when licenses are not granted. | enrolled |
| HB 2539 | HB2539 - Requiring that the members of the Eudora community library district board of directors be elected to such positions. | enrolled |