Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB 2271 |
HB2271 - Removing the expiration of provisions relating to moving cybersecurity services under the chief information technology officer of each branch of government. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Legislative Modernization |
| SB 205 |
SB205 - Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Judiciary |
| SB 410 |
SB410 - Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance |
| SB 499 |
SB499 - Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| HB 2479 |
HB2479 - Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2518 |
HB2518 - Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2574 |
HB2574 - Removing the expiration on certain cybersecurity requirements, modifying the duties of chief information security officers and cybersecurity programs, requiring assessment of executive branch agency compliance with cybersecurity requirements, providing for consideration of such compliance by the legislature during the budget process and creating the judicial branch technology oversight council. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | Joint Committee on Information Technology |
| HB 2594 |
HB2594 - Modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity by changing the connection to breach of privacy and describing the content of the image, video or other recording. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2696 |
HB2696 - Providing for the modernization of notarization and the notary public process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents and requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2027. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2772 |
HB2772 - Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses; enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | House Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| HB 2183 |
HB2183 - Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit 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, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Judiciary |
| 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 2309 |
HB2309 - Providing for the modernization of notarization and the county register of deeds process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents, requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2026, and allowing any register of deeds to delay filing of real estate documents in the event of suspected fraud for purpose of investigating of the validity of such document. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Legislative Modernization |