Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2115

Introduced
1/28/25  

Caption

Authorizing municipalities to prohibit their employees from carrying concealed handguns in municipal buildings.

Impact

This bill will significantly alter the existing framework of firearm regulations in public spaces, particularly focusing on municipal governance. By giving authority to local governments, HB2115 could lead to a patchwork of regulations concerning concealed carry laws across Kansas. Proponents argue that such local control would enhance public safety by ensuring that each municipality can enact policies tailored to their specific requirements based on safety assessments, while opponents may view it as a restriction of gun rights and a potential inconsistency in law enforcement from one jurisdiction to another.

Summary

House Bill 2115 seeks to amend current laws regarding the carrying of concealed handguns in municipal buildings within Kansas. The bill empowers municipalities to set regulations that would prohibit their employees from carrying concealed handguns while on the premises of municipal buildings. This legislative action aims to allow local governments to implement more stringent security measures as deemed necessary for the safety and protection of their staff and the public.

Contention

Notable points of contention surrounding HB2115 include the balance between gun rights advocates who argue for individual freedoms versus those advocating for public safety. Supporters of the bill assert that allowing municipalities to restrict firearm carry will help protect local employees and citizens within government buildings. In contrast, critics see it as an infringement on the Second Amendment rights, and express concerns that varying regulations could confuse law-abiding gun owners about their rights when traveling between different municipalities.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.