Firearms Bills

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Bill Title Status Sponsor
SB 133 SB133 - Enacting the responsible gun ownership act to establish the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Sen. Cindy Holscher
SB 209 SB209 - Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation
SB 43 SB43 - Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 498 SB498 - Providing income tax credits for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel and expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and discontinuing income tax credits for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, environmental compliance, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement.
2025-2026 | Senate
in_committee Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation
SB 503 SB503 - Removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and firearm barrel length qualification requirement.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 506 SB506 - Increasing the penalty for a second or subsequent adjudication of criminal use of weapons and modifying the penalties for the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and the length of the ban on possessing a weapon for certain felons.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 74 SB74 - Providing a refundable income tax credit for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation
SB 82 SB82 - Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit.
2025-2026 | Senate
enacted Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
HB 2329 HB2329 - Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
HB 2501 HB2501 - Senate Substitute for HB 2501 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement, removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and shotgun barrel length qualification requirements and providing enhanced penalties for certain felonies committed while using a firearm suppressor or short-barrel shotgun.
2025-2026 | House
enacted House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 356 SB356 - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.
2025-2026 | Senate
enacted Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2778 HB2778 - Removing the current exception to the criminal use of weapons statute that allows any individual over the age of 21 or with a provisional license to possess a concealed handgun in or on school property or grounds or at any regularly scheduled school-sponsored activity or event if not otherwise prohibited under either federal or state law.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
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
SB 137 SB137 - Authorizing the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act to a licensed firearm dealer.
2025-2026 | Senate
enacted Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2379 HB2379 - Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a Kansas voluntary do-not-sell firearms list to prevent the purchase of firearms by any person who voluntarily registers to be placed on the list.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2381 HB2381 - Establishing the safe and secure firearm detection program in the office of the attorney general, providing for certain entities to use firearm detection software, establishing the safe and secure firearm detection fund and transferring funds from the state general fund to support the program.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Appropriations
HB 2391 HB2391 - Prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun in the state capitol and providing exceptions for law enforcement and members of the military.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2325 HB2325 - Authorizing judges to commit juvenile offenders to detention for technical violations of probation, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and increasing criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
HB 2104 HB2104 - Standardizing firearm safety programs in school districts.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Patrick Penn
HB 2324 HB2324 - Increasing the criminal penalty for possessing or refusing to surrender any firearm in or on any school property or grounds.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
HB 2196 HB2196 - Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Barbara Ballard
HB 2198 HB2198 - Enacting the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee Rep. Barbara Ballard
HB 2200 HB2200 - Creating a traffic infraction for not securely storing a firearm in an unattended vehicle, providing exceptions and penalties therefor and requiring the office of the attorney general to conduct a secure storage of firearms educational campaign and create materials therefor.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Transportation
HB 2167 HB2167 - Requiring firearms and stun guns to be stored in locked containers, establishing crimes for failure to store such weapons where a person under 18 years of age has access to such weapons and creating more severe penalties for firearms with large-capacity magazines.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
HB 2115 HB2115 - Authorizing municipalities to prohibit their employees from carrying concealed handguns in municipal buildings.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Local Government
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