Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB43

Introduced
1/21/25  

Caption

Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed.

Summary

SB 43 amends Kansas’s Personal and Family Protection Act, which governs concealed carry handgun licensing. The bill updates statutory cross-references and eligibility language, clarifies the application and renewal process, and adds a mechanism for a provisional license holder to obtain a standard license upon turning 21. It also requires a licensee whose permit is suspended or revoked to surrender the physical license card or authorization document to the attorney general, with a potential fee for failing to do so after notice. The bill also revises provisions related to law enforcement officers carrying concealed handguns in certain buildings. It prohibits a person of authority for a building from collecting personal information from an off-duty law enforcement officer entering under the statute, and bars requiring that officer to wear identifying items showing law enforcement status or that the officer is armed. The measure retains and clarifies exemptions for retired law enforcement officers, corrections officers, parole officers, and certain military applicants, while preserving background check and training requirements for most applicants.

Impact

SB 43 would amend K.S.A. 75-7c07 and 75-7c22 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 75-7c04, 75-7c05, and 75-7c08, thereby changing the concealed carry licensing framework in Kansas. It affects applicants for concealed handgun licenses, license holders whose licenses are suspended or revoked, provisional license holders transitioning to standard licenses, sheriffs who process applications, and the attorney general who administers the licensing system. It also affects building operators and law enforcement officers by limiting what information may be requested from off-duty officers entering buildings while armed.

Sentiment

Based on the bill text and the absence of recorded committee testimony or votes in the provided materials, the overall sentiment appears procedural and supportive of clarifying existing firearms law rather than introducing a major policy shift. The bill’s caption and structure suggest a technical update with some substantive protections for off-duty law enforcement officers and administrative changes for concealed carry licensing. No opposition or recorded controversy is shown in the provided context.

Contention

The most likely points of contention are the firearms-related provisions, especially the expansion or clarification of concealed carry rights and the limits placed on building authorities when off-duty law enforcement officers enter while armed. Some stakeholders may view the bill as strengthening gun-carry protections and reducing administrative burdens, while others may be concerned about privacy, building security procedures, or the scope of exemptions for law enforcement and retired officers. The surrender requirement for suspended or revoked licenses and the fee for noncompliance may also draw attention as an enforcement mechanism, though the provided materials do not show specific named opponents or supporters.

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 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 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 SB3

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

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 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 SB6

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

KS SB4

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

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