Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2648 - Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act.
AN ACT concerning consumer protection; relating to electronic communications; enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act; requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements; prohibiting a person or business from falsely identifying such person's or business's name or telephone number on telephone caller identification systems; prohibiting the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations; making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act; authorizing the attorney general to enforce violations of the act; providing for civil penalties and private civil actions against violators of the act.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-02-04 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-02-04 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions |
| 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. | in_committee |
| HB 2331 | HB2331 - Authorizing the disposition of the unclaimed remains of deceased persons by district coroners and providing exemptions from liability for such actions. | enrolled |
| 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 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 |
| 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 92 | SB92 - Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application. | in_committee |