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Track Kansas bills concerning farming, food production, water, public lands, wildlife, and natural resources. Review recent actions, sponsors, legislative sessions, and official source records.

HB 2543HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

Requiring an annual reimbursement to the Kansas department of wildlife and parks for lost revenue from free or discounted hunting and fishing licenses, permits or passes that were established by legislative enactment on or after July 1, 2027.

Latest action: Died on Calendar

Budget & Taxes Agriculture & Natural Resources

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SB 130SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

Amending the Kansas pet animal act to require the Kansas department of agriculture to maintain records of inspections for not less than five years and removing the requirement that the commissioner only apply federal rules and regulations to United States department of agriculture licensed animal distributors and animal breeders.

Latest action: Died in Committee

Agriculture & Natural Resources

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SB 213SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026

Prohibiting nonresidents from hunting migratory waterfowl during certain times and places and increasing fees for migratory waterfowl habitat stamps.

Latest action: Died in House Committee

Agriculture & Natural Resources

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HB 2004HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Senate Substitute for HB 2004 by Committee on Government Efficiency - .Requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations and requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 30, 2026

Budget & Taxes Health

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HB 2164HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Latest action: Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

Education Justice & Public Safety

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HB 2413HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Enhancing the criminal penalty for an offense committed with the intent to commit transnational repression, requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training, providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony, providing that the theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony and providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Latest action: Engrossed on Monday, March 30, 2026

Justice & Public Safety Agriculture & Natural Resources

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HB 2507HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026

Removing the requirement for migratory waterfowl stamps to be validated by a signature across the face of each such stamp and increasing the fees for such stamps, authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to fees, registrations and other charges by the department of wildlife and parks and providing an exception from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act for department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation.

Latest action: Engrossed on Friday, March 27, 2026

Environment & Energy Agriculture & Natural Resources

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HB 2063HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Feb 19, 2026

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.

Latest action: Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

Elections & Government Environment & Energy

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HB 2028HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 11, 2025

Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to report to the house and senate committees on agriculture and natural resources on the impact of limiting out of state waterfowl hunters.

Latest action: No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained

Agriculture & Natural Resources

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SB 211SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Mar 20, 2025

Modifying member appointments to the wildlife and parks commission, authorizing the commission to direct the secretary to develop or report on rules and regulations and allowing members to submit potential rules and regulations to the commission.

Latest action: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

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