SB 179

SB302 - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

SB474 - Enacting the Kansas short-term, limited duration insurance act; establishing definitions, disclosure, premiums, renewal and underwriting requirements relating thereto and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt rules and regulations to implement and oversee the act.

SB369 - Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

SB442 - Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

SB443 - Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

SB444 - Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing cities to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county.

HB2114 - Substitute for HB 2114 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Clarifying which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increasing application fees for a permit to construct, modify or add to a dam, requiring preconstruction permit fees and requiring any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer.

HB2346 - Substitute for HB 2346 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing the Kansas sports tourism grant program administered by the secretary of commerce to provide matching grants to communities for developing and continuing sporting events, providing for funding of such grants from the state economic development initiatives fund or from the state general fund if funds are not available therefrom.

HB2462 - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt rules and regulations that allow for the direct and indirect potable reuse of treated wastewater.

HB2464 - Extending the number of years that new credits may be issued or earned for contributions to graduates of aerospace and aviation-related educational programs and employers of program graduates and extending the tax credits for contributions to the Eisenhower foundation and friends of cedar crest association for three years.

HB2466 - Extending the sunset for the angel investor tax credit to 2029 and providing for a minimum amount of credits for investors in qualified Kansas businesses located in counties with a population of 50,000 or fewer.

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.

Revenue and taxation; increase maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property

Relating to sales tax on construction materials

An Act establishing an income tax on certain entities in the state; and providing for an effective date.

Subtraction Modification - Public Safety Retirement Income

Relating to hotel occupancy tax.

Establishing disaster repair and recovery effort tax credit for taxpayers subject to severance and business privilege tax in certain circumstances