Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
unknown | Schmoe |
| HB 2413 |
HB2413 - Providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Schwertfeger |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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enrolled | Committee on Agriculture |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Government Efficiency |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
enrolled | Committee on Agriculture |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
|
enrolled | Committee on Water |
| SB 344 |
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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2476 |
HB2476 - Permitting federal pesticide warning or labeling requirements to satisfy any state pesticide warning or labeling requirements. 2025-2026 | House
|
failed | Committee on Agriculture |
| SB 519 |
SB519 - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Federal |
| SB 465 |
SB465 - Including limited liability partnerships as an entity required to obtain county approval to establish a dairy or swine production facility. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2682 |
HB2682 - Enacting the Kansas organic waste land application accountability act and authorizing the department of health and environment to regulate the land application of biosolids and organic waste materials, except when applied by a bona fide farmer conducting normal farming operations on land owned or leased by such farmer. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2693 |
HB2693 - Prohibiting certain applications of swine waste, establishing setback rules and requiring applicators to prevent nuisance conditions. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2578 |
HB2578 - Creating a definition for antique farm vehicle to permit owners of such vehicles to register as an antique vehicle, directing the division of vehicles to design a decal for such vehicles and exempting such registered vehicles from the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Transportation |
| SB 428 |
SB428 - Requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding, data use agreement 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Government Efficiency |
| HB 2340 |
HB2340 - Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain property located in Johnson county. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Commerce |
| HB 2028 |
HB2028 - Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to report to the house and senate committees on agriculture and natural resources on the impact of limiting out of state waterfowl hunters. 2025-2026 | House
|
vetoed | Committee on Federal |
| HB 2012 |
HB2012 - Substitute for HB 2012 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing the ethanol grant program fund and transferring an amount of not to exceed $5,000,000 from the state general fund to the ethanol grant program fund each July 1 beginning in 2026. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| SB 130 |
SB130 - Amending the Kansas pet animal act to require the Kansas department of agriculture to maintain records of inspections for not less than five years and removing the requirement that the commissioner only apply federal rules and regulations to United States department of agriculture licensed animal distributors and animal breeders. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2153 |
HB2153 - Specifying when boards of directors for irrigation districts of 35,000 or more acres may conduct board member elections by mail ballot and establishing the terms for such members. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Water |
| HB 2345 |
HB2345 - Creating the Kansas office of natural resources within the executive branch and transferring certain duties of the Kansas water office, and the department of agriculture, division of conservation and division of water resources to such office. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Water |
| HB 2253 |
HB2253 - Making the theft of livestock or implements of husbandry a severity level 5, nonperson felony. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| SB 235 |
SB235 - Making it unlawful to sell, offer for sale, use or distribute certain seeds coated with a pesticide that contains a neonicotinoid unless otherwise ordered by the governor. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Agriculture |
| HB 2230 |
HB2230 - Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Reavis |