Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2168

Introduced

1/30/25

Refer

1/30/25

Report Pass

2/13/25

Engrossed

2/19/25

Refer

2/20/25

Report Pass

3/6/25

Enrolled

4/10/25

Passed

4/10/25

Caption

Extending the amount of time required for reports to be filed with the state historical society for certain United States public land surveys from 30 to 90 days.

Summary

HB2168 amends Kansas law governing reference and restoration reports for United States public land survey corners and related accessories. The bill extends the deadline for land surveyors to file required reports with the secretary of the state historical society and the relevant county office from 30 days to 90 days in three places: when a survey originates from a public land survey corner, when a corner may be altered or destroyed by an activity, and when a restoration report is filed after that activity is completed. The bill keeps the existing reporting framework in place. Surveyors must still file reference reports and restoration reports, pay filing fees set by the state historical society, and may use electronic filing and retrieval if authorized. It also preserves penalties for noncompliance, including possible suspension or revocation of a surveyor’s license, and a class C misdemeanor for failing to have a qualified surveyor establish required reference points. Revenue from filing and retrieval fees continues to be remitted to the state treasurer, with most of the money credited to a newly created land survey fee fund used to administer the program.

Impact

HB2168 changes K.S.A. 58-2011 by lengthening filing deadlines for survey-related reports from 30 to 90 days, affecting licensed land surveyors, county survey offices, and the Kansas State Historical Society. It does not alter the underlying duty to document, preserve, and restore public land survey corners, but it gives surveyors more time to complete and submit required paperwork. The bill also maintains the fee structure and fund administration tied to these filings, while continuing to authorize enforcement through licensing discipline and misdemeanor penalties.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have been broadly supported and moved with strong bipartisan approval. It passed the House 102-17, the Senate 37-3, and both chambers later adopted the conference committee report unanimously or near-unanimously, indicating general agreement that the filing deadline should be extended. The vote margins suggest the measure was viewed as a practical administrative adjustment rather than a controversial policy change.

Contention

There is little evidence of major controversy in the available record, and no committee transcript excerpts were provided. Any disagreement likely centered on whether extending the filing deadline from 30 to 90 days might reduce promptness in preserving survey records versus whether the longer period better reflects real-world surveying and reporting timelines. The small number of dissenting votes suggests only limited concern, probably from members wary of loosening compliance deadlines or changing enforcement expectations for surveyors.

Latest KS HB2168 Activity

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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 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 SB8

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

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 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.

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

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 SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS SB6

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

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