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Bill Title Status Sponsor
SB 260 SB260 - Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.
2025-2026 | Senate
enacted Senate Committee on Ways and Means
HB 2505 HB2505 - Providing an exception for Kansas department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Will Carpenter
SB 184 SB184 - Amending the Kansas drycleaner environmental response act to modify the penalties for violations of the act, the required deductible rate for corrective actions, the environmental surcharge rate, the solvent fee and the delinquency penalty related to environmental surcharges and solvent fees.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
SB 407 SB407 - Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to hazardous waste monitoring and permit application fees by the Kansas department of health and environment.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB 2375 HB2375 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Appropriations
HB 2790 HB2790 - Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2757 HB2757 - Repealing or discontinuing certain income tax credit incentives, extending the income tax credit for angel investors and aviation-related employment and providing expanded options in the high performance tax credit program for tax credit transfers.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
HB 2063 HB2063 - Establishing various conservation funds, allocating state moneys for conservation, requiring reports to the governor and legislature, and authorizing fund transfers and providing for the use of such funds by the Kansas department of agriculture and the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.
2025-2026 | House
failed House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget
HB 2363 HB2363 - Requiring the board of county commissioners or the city governing body to refer the proposed creation of a conservation easement to the appropriate planning commission for review and recommendation; providing the board of county commissioners or the city shall approve or deny the creation of conservation easements.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget
HB 2752 HB2752 - Setting standards for patient and caregiver identification cards to ensure legal access to medical cannabis, establishing the Kansas medical cannabis agency within the department of health and environment and removing cannabis from the Kansas uniform controlled substances act.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Health and Human Services
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
in_committee House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB 2567 HB2567 - Enacting the safe battery collection and recycling stewardship act and prohibiting the sale of covered batteries or battery-containing products unless the producer is part of a battery stewardship organization with an approved plan.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB 2673 HB2673 - Establishing the positive learning environment act to provide for certain rights for teachers and require school districts to adopt school management plans to address behavioral infractions by students.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on K-12 Education Budget
HB 2674 HB2674 - Prohibiting certain products that contain intentionally added PFAS and requiring disclosure of information and the testing of products that contain intentionally added PFAS and are sold, offered for sale, distributed or distributed for sale in this state.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Lauren Bohi
HB 2439 HB2439 - Enacting the Kansas geoengineering and weather modification prohibition act, prohibiting geoengieering and weather modification activities, providing criminal penalties for violations of the act and assigning enforcement and reporting authority to the department of health and environment.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2045 HB2045 - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Insurance
HB 2085 HB2085 - Extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Water
HB 2088 HB2088 - Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
HB 2249 HB2249 - Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Health and Human Services
HB 2307 HB2307 - Transferring the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the department of health and environment to the Kansas council on developmental disabilities.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Health and Human Services
SB 36 SB36 - Increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts and providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts.
2025-2026 | Senate
enacted Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
HB 2268 HB2268 - Prohibiting nonresidents from hunting migratory waterfowl during certain times and places and increasing fees for migratory waterfowl habitat stamps.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2399 HB2399 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2339 HB2339 - Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and authorizing the secretary to administer the fund.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
HB 2216 HB2216 - Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to create an informational video describing abortion laws in Kansas.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Health and Human Services
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