Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HCR5010

Introduced
2/5/25  

Caption

Supporting the authorization and funding of the public safety autonomous technologies research, testing, certification and commercialization program and the passage of the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2025 .

Summary

House Concurrent Resolution 5010 is a nonbinding legislative statement expressing Kansas support for federal efforts to expand domestic small uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), or drone, research and development. The resolution backs full authorization and funding of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s public safety autonomous technologies research, testing, certification and commercialization program, which is described as a potential grant program that could help a Kansas research institute develop prototypes and innovations for public safety drone uses. The resolution also endorses the federal National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025, specifically provisions that would restrict or ban acquisition and operation of DJI drones by the federal government, federal grant recipients, and potentially the Department of Defense after a risk determination. The stated purpose is to encourage U.S.-based drone innovation, strengthen domestic supply chains, and support public safety agencies seeking alternatives to Chinese-made drones while maintaining performance and affordability.

Impact

Because HCR 5010 is a concurrent resolution, it does not change Kansas statutes, create regulatory requirements, or appropriate state funds. Its practical effect is to formally communicate the Legislature’s support for federal funding and federal restrictions related to drone procurement, while signaling encouragement for Kansas universities, research institutions, and public safety agencies to participate in domestic UAS development efforts.

Sentiment

The overall sentiment reflected in the resolution is strongly supportive of domestic drone innovation and restrictive of Chinese-made DJI drones. The bill text frames the issue as an urgent public safety and national security concern, and the available context shows no recorded committee opposition, amendments, or votes against it. The resolution appears to have been introduced as a consensus statement in favor of federal action rather than as a contested policy change.

Contention

The main point of contention is the resolution’s explicit criticism of DJI and Chinese Communist Party influence in the drone market, which may be viewed by some as a national security necessity and by others as overly broad or protectionist. Another potential tension is the balance between restricting foreign-made drones and ensuring that state and local public safety agencies still have access to affordable, high-performing equipment. The resolution itself resolves this by urging U.S. innovation and supply-chain development, but it does not address implementation costs or transition challenges in detail.

Companion Bills

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Previously Filed As

KS SB8

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

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 HB2002

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

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 SR1702

A resolution honoring the life, career and trailblazing achievements of Kansas icon Ed Dwight.

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 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 SB6

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

KS SB3

Clarifying the procedures and restrictions on accepting a nomination for an elected office.

Similar Bills

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