Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2117

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/7/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/5/25  
Enrolled
3/21/25  

Caption

Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record.

Summary

HB 2117 makes a series of mostly technical changes to Kansas business-entity filing laws. It revises the process for a business trust to withdraw from doing business in Kansas by requiring a certificate of dissolution or withdrawal filed with the secretary of state and payment of the applicable fee, while preserving the trust’s ability to wind up affairs and handle litigation for a limited period after withdrawal. The bill also requires foreign corporations to use a secretary of state-prescribed form when reporting mergers, consolidations, or certain amendments to articles of incorporation, and it updates filing language to reflect that form-based process. The bill further expands the list of entities allowed to participate in transactions under the Kansas business entity transactions act by removing the exclusion for professional corporations and professional LLCs. It also changes resident-agent filing rules by making certain contact information submitted with a resignation not public, while separately making other registered-agent information a public record as reflected in the bill’s caption and related amendments. In addition, it modifies limited partnership filing requirements and fee provisions, including the documents subject to filing fees and the application/recording fee structure for domestic and foreign limited partnerships.

Impact

HB 2117 amends several sections of the Kansas Statutes Annotated governing business trusts, foreign corporations, resident agents, and limited partnerships, and repeals the prior versions of those provisions. The practical effect is to standardize and update filing procedures with the secretary of state, adjust fee-related requirements, and clarify what information is public versus nonpublic in registered-agent filings. It also broadens transactional authority for professional service entities under the business entity transactions act, affecting professional corporations and professional limited liability companies.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have been broadly supported and noncontroversial. It passed the House overwhelmingly, 118-1, and later passed the Senate on the consent calendar 39-0, which suggests general agreement that the measure was a routine administrative update rather than a major policy change. The absence of committee transcript discussion in the provided materials also points to limited visible opposition.

Contention

No major substantive controversy is evident in the available record. The only likely areas of interest are the public-records change for resident-agent information, the fee and filing requirement changes for business trusts and limited partnerships, and the expansion allowing professional corporations and professional LLCs to participate in business entity transactions. Any concerns would likely come from affected business filers, registered agents, or privacy advocates, but the recorded votes indicate those issues did not generate significant opposition.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

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 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 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 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 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 HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS SB6

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

KS SCR1601

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

KS HB2002

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

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