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Kansas Elections & Government Legislation

Track Kansas bills concerning elections, ethics, public administration, government powers, and civic institutions. Review recent actions, sponsors, legislative sessions, and official source records.

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HB 2051HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Requiring legislative approval of any national heritage area or national historic trail in the state of Kansas and prohibiting state funding of any national heritage area or national historic trail unless such funding is first approved by the legislature of the state of Kansas.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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HB 2205HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Prohibiting lobbying for or by foreign adversaries; authorizing the attorney general to file civil lawsuits; providing for civil penalties for violations thereof.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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HB 2417HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Authorizing the state bank commissioner to revoke a TEFFI charter, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating council.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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SB 262SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Requiring government agencies, public utilities and other entities when exercising the power of eminent domain to make a good faith offer for the property prior to filing an eminent domain action, providing the good faith offer, if greater than the appraiser's award, shall be deposited with the court, allowing appeals from that amount, prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain for recreational trails and park and recreational facilities and deleting the power of the legislature to condemn property for economic development.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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SB 3SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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SB 304SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
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.

Latest action: Died in House Committee

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SB 314SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.

Latest action: Died in Committee

Elections & GovernmentLabor & Employment
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SB 392SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
House Substitute for SB 392 by Committee on Elections - Establishing reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices, concerning vacancies in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor, requiring driver's licenses to reflect citizenship status, requiring provisional ballots be provided to persons showing a driver's license reflecting noncitizenship, require state agencies required by federal law to provide voter registration services to provide quarterly reports to the secretary of state listing noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Latest action: Died on House Calendar

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SB 52SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.

Latest action: Died on House Calendar

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SB 90SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2026
Providing for a property tax exemption from local government levies to the extent of the first $100,000 of appraised value for certain owner-occupied homes and authorizing local governments to propose a ballot question to opt out of such property tax exemption.

Latest action: Died in Committee

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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

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HB 2437HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026
Establishing the save Kansas act, authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, imposing restrictions on websites that can accept and transmit voter registration applications, removing individuals disqualified for voting from such records and providing an open records request exemption for certain information related to such records.

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

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SB 232SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026
Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 260SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026
House Subsitute for SB 260 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - 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.

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

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SB 271SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026
Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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SB 435SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 9, 2026
Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the office of the state treasurer, authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund, modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments and the KPERS board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board, requiring newly affiliated KP&F employers to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service and repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026

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HB 2240HouseSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 11, 2025
Senate Substitute for HB 2240 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program, increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to act on agency requests when the legislature is not in session.

Latest action: Law effective July 1, 2025

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SB 14SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2025
Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.

Latest action: Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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SB 5SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Apr 10, 2025
Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.

Latest action: Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Wednesday, March 26, 2025

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SB 4SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Mar 25, 2025
Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.

Latest action: Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea 30, Nay 10

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SCR 1601SenateSession 2025-2026Updated Jan 15, 2025
Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

Latest action: Enrolled and presented to Secretary of State on Wednesday, January 15, 2025

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