Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: SB344 - Authorizing animal shelters to place certain animals needing treatment or care in foster homes and requiring shelters to display photographs of animals at a location other than the shelter during a holding period.
AN ACT concerning animals; relating to the pet animal act; authorizing animal shelters to move neonate animals needing treatment or care to a foster home; requiring shelters to display photographs of animals at a location other than the shelter during a holding period; requiring records of inspections to be maintained by the department of agriculture division of animal health for not less than five years; amending K.S.A. 47-1709 and 47-1710 and repealing the existing sections.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-20 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-11 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-03-11 | Latest Action | Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2114 | 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. | enrolled |
| HB 2158 | HB2158 - Permitting beekeepers who meet certain requirements to sell packaged honey and honeycombs without holding a food establishment or food processing plant license under the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act. | enrolled |
| HB 2413 | HB2413 - Providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony. | enrolled |
| HB 2004 | HB2004 - Senate Substitute for HB 2004 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies. | enrolled |
| HB 2595 | HB2595 - Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas. | enrolled |
| HB 2111 | HB2111 - Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement. | in_committee |
| SB 425 | SB425 - Increasing the maximum annual registration fee limit for seed retailers and wholesalers and authorizing a late fee for registrations renewed after the registration deadline. | enrolled |
| HB 2477 | HB2477 - Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes. | enrolled |