Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: SB452 - Including federal law enforcement officers in the definition of law enforcement officer that is used in certain crimes and traffic provisions and clarifying that enforcement of a federal law is covered under the tort claims act.
AN ACT concerning law enforcement; creating the crime of unlawful approach of a first responder and providing penalties therefor; requiring traffic laws that apply to local and state law enforcement to apply to federal law enforcement; including federal law enforcement in the definitions used in the crime of interference with law enforcement; including buildings owned by the United States in the crime of interference with the conduct of public business in public buildings; including enforcement of federal laws and executive orders in the exceptions from liability in the tort claims act; amending K.S.A. 8-1404, 8-2010, 21-5904 and 21-5922 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 8-1102 and 75-6104 and repealing the existing sections.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-17 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-03-17 | Latest Action | Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2773 | HB2773 - Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer. | in_committee |
| SB 358 | SB358 - Requiring individuals convicted of certain felonies to be held without bond in the county jail until sentencing. | enrolled |
| SB 454 | SB454 - Enhancing the criminal penalty for committing certain crimes in the context of transnational repression and requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training. | introduced |
| SB 303 | SB303 - House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing certain sales tax exemptions, imposing sales tax on certain sales of lottery tickets, imposing an excise tax on all sports wagers as a rate of 2% of the amount wagered, creating the property tax relief fund and providing for transfers therefrom to the state school district finance fund and creating the sports wagering privilege tax refund fund. | in_committee |
| HB 2346 | 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. | passed_lower |
| 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. | passed_lower |
| HB 2596 | HB2596 - Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility under the prison-made goods act. | passed_lower |
| HB 2606 | HB2606 - Modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act. | passed_lower |