Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB178

Introduced
2/4/25  

Caption

Requiring certain law enforcement agencies to apply for and enter into agreements with United States immigration and customs enforcement for the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

Summary

SB 178 would require specified Kansas law enforcement agencies to seek and, if offered, enter into agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under section 287(g) of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. Those agreements would authorize designated local officers to assist in enforcing federal immigration laws, subject to the scope and limits stated in each agreement. Agencies that cannot obtain an agreement would have to notify the attorney general and document that they made the request. The bill also creates an enforcement mechanism. If an agency does not timely comply or explain its inability to do so, the attorney general must send notice and give the agency 30 days to come into compliance. If noncompliance continues, the attorney general may sue in Shawnee County District Court for injunctive and other relief, and a prevailing attorney general may recover litigation costs and fees. After a final, nonappealable court decision finding noncompliance, the agency would become ineligible for state grant moneys, including unpaid funds and future awards during the next fiscal year.

Impact

SB 178 would add a new state-law mandate for city police departments, county sheriffs, county police departments, county law enforcement departments, consolidated city-county law enforcement agencies, and other law enforcement departments of taxing political subdivisions. It would require them to apply for ICE cooperation agreements, report failures to the attorney general, and risk litigation and loss of state grant funding if they do not comply. The bill also defines “state grant moneys” broadly to include financial aid, gifts, grants, or other payments from state agencies, whether funded by state or federal revenue.

Sentiment

Based on the bill text and the absence of recorded committee testimony or votes in the provided materials, the measure appears to be framed as a strong immigration-enforcement bill with an enforcement-oriented approach. Its structure suggests support from sponsors favoring closer local-federal cooperation on immigration enforcement, while the lack of discussion records prevents identifying any formal recorded opposition or amendments. The bill’s mandatory language and funding penalties indicate it is likely to be viewed as a high-priority enforcement measure by supporters.

Contention

The main point of contention is likely to be whether Kansas should compel local law enforcement agencies to participate in federal immigration enforcement through ICE agreements. Supporters would likely argue the bill improves cooperation and enforcement consistency, while opponents may object that it imposes a state mandate on local agencies, could strain local resources, and may affect trust between police and immigrant communities. Another likely dispute is the penalty structure, especially the threat of litigation and the loss of state grant moneys for agencies found noncompliant.

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 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 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 HB2002

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

KS SB6

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

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 SB4

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

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