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Bill Title Status Sponsor
HB 2017 HB2017 - Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2018 HB2018 - Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages.
2025-2026 | House
enrolled House Committee on Elections
HB 2019 HB2019 - Authorizing the board of county commissioners to appoint a person to fill a vacancy in a county-elected office when no candidate runs for such office.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2023 HB2023 - Creating the election crime of interference with an election official.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2053 HB2053 - Repealing restrictions on municipal regulation of political signs during certain periods of time around election days.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Local Government
HB 2091 HB2091 - Requiring discharged inmates be offered the opportunity to register to vote and requiring the secretary of state to develop a voter registration program that offers voter registration services through certain state agencies and accredited high schools.
2025-2026 | House
failed Rep. Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
HB 2130 HB2130 - Authorizing retirement and disability benefits under KPERS, KP&F and the retirement system for judges to be paid on either a biweekly or monthly basis at the option of a member or recipient.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions
HB 2143 HB2143 - Requiring the secretary of state to enter into agreements with credit rating agencies for the release of certain information that can be used to verify the citizenship of persons registered to vote in this state.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
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
failed House Committee on Water
HB 2190 HB2190 - Declaring the even-numbered year general election day as a legal public holiday.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2257 HB2257 - Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.
2025-2026 | House
failed Rep. Barbara Ballard
HB 2258 HB2258 - Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in those counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county.
2025-2026 | House
failed Rep. Barbara Ballard
HB 2269 HB2269 - Requiring the election commissioners in the four largest counties to designate at least three advance voting sites as determined by the board of county commissioners and providing for in-person advance voting 20 days prior to an election in such counties.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2385 HB2385 - Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Taxation
HB 2396 HB2396 - Senate Substitute for HB 2396 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Authorizing the use of a protest petition to limit funding of a taxing jurisdiction by property tax revenues exceeding a certain amount, providing for a protest petition notice to be sent to taxpayers and modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Taxation
HB 2438 HB2438 - Imposing restrictions on websites that can accept and transmit voter registration applications.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Elections
HB 2446 HB2446 - Deleting the requirement that the name of treasurers be listed in attributions for political advertising.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Elections
HB 2448 HB2448 - Requiring citizenship status be listed on driver's licenses.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Elections
HB 2449 HB2449 - Authorizing the removal of a voter from voter registration rolls if such voter is issued a driver's license by another state and requiring attestation on voter registration form that obtaining a foreign driver's license constitutes a change in residency for voting purposes.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2451 HB2451 - Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Elections
HB 2453 HB2453 - Requiring applications for advance voting ballots be filed by the 14th day prior to election day, that advance voting in person be completed by 12:00 p.m. on the Sunday prior to election day, extending the time for transmittal of advance voting ballots to 22 days prior to an election and ending the time for voter registration at 23 days prior to election day.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Elections
HB 2490 HB2490 - Clarifying the signature verification requirements for advance voting ballot envelopes and providing for the repeal of advance voting statutes, except where advance voting is required by federal law, if a state or federal court issues a final order or judgment which is not subject to appeal invalidating such signature verification requirements.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2492 HB2492 - Requiring the county election officer to call a special election to fill a vacancy within the governing body of a municipality if the position remains vacant after 60 days.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2494 HB2494 - Allowing a nonpartisan candidate to include such candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with such candidate's name.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Elections
HB 2503 HB2503 - Repealing the mail ballot election act.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Allen Reavis
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