Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2735 |
HB2735 - Enacting the patient's right to save act to establish shared savings programs and providing for the duties and requirements of such programs. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2677 |
HB2677 - Mandating health insurance plans to provide coverage and payment for hearing aids for children under the age of 18. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Steven K. Howe |
| HB 2684 |
HB2684 - Providing price limits and other requirements for health benefits covering prescription insulin drugs and establishing the insulin affordability program for the uninsured. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2709 |
HB2709 - Requiring examination and licensure of home inspectors in the same manner as general contractors and providing that home inspectors obtain liability insurance coverage as required for general contractors. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Shawn Chauncey |
| HB 2646 |
HB2646 - Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees and requiring mandatory counseling concerning the benefits claims process. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Veterans and Military |
| HB 2648 |
HB2648 - Enacting the social media and telecommunications fraud accountability act, requiring social media platforms to exercise reasonable care in preventing the dissemination of fraudulent advertisements, prohibiting falsely identifying names or numbers on telephone caller ID systems and the unauthorized use of a bank name in electronic advertisements or solicitations and making violations of the act an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas consumer protection act. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions |
| HB 2657 |
HB2657 - Prohibiting social medial platforms from allowing children under 16 years of age to create, maintain or access an account unless the platform has obtained verified parental consent. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Legislative Modernization |
| HB 2668 |
HB2668 - Mandating health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Alexis Simmons |
| HB 2671 |
HB2671 - Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on K-12 Education Budget |
| HB 2247 |
HB2247 - Prohibiting certain terms in a contract between a health insurer and a dentist and requiring that reviews, audits or investigations of healthcare providers be completed within six months. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2351 |
HB2351 - Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to appraise or arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2598 |
HB2598 - Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Dan Osman |
| HB 2549 |
HB2549 - Mandating insurance coverage of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS). 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2556 |
HB2556 - Prohibiting certain terms in a contract between a health insurer and a dentist and requiring that reviews, audits or investigations of healthcare providers concerning healthcare provider claims be completed within six months. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2566 |
HB2566 - Enacting the every body can move act to mandate the coverage and payment for prosthetic and orthotic devices in health insurance policies. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Angela Stiens |
| HB 2430 |
HB2430 - Enacting the insurance savings account act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas income tax act. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Adam Smith |
| HB 2461 |
HB2461 - Prohibiting public adjusters from negotiating for or effectuating the settlement of any insurance claim relating to residential lines of insurance. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2526 |
HB2526 - Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2454 |
HB2454 - Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to accept partial payments and to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Rep. Cyndi Howerton |
| SB 186 |
SB186 - Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required. 2025-2026 | Senate
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enacted | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2039 |
HB2039 - Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be authorized upon the order of a healthcare professional, permitting certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requiring entities that control automated external defibrillators to register the device with the emergency medical services board. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2050 |
HB2050 - Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas register, authorizing the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, renaming the office of the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, securities division, renaming the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, assistant commissioner, securities division and eliminating the requirement of senate confirmation for appointees to such position, requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers and authorizing such nonadmitted insurers to transact business in Kansas with vehicle dealers and to provide excess coverage insurance on Kansas risks. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Insurance |
| HB 2118 |
HB2118 - Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2334 |
HB2334 - Enacting the Kansas protected cell captive insurance company act, providing for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance company and updating certain terms, requirements and conditions of the captive insurance act, reducing insurance company premium tax rates, creating parity between the insurance agent and public adjuster licensing requirements, authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register not later than December 1 of the current year. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Insurance |
| SB 105 |
SB105 - Requiring the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature. 2025-2026 | Senate
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enrolled | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |