Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB519

Introduced
2/25/26  

Caption

Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

Impact

With the passage of SB519, eligible agritourism operations will benefit from reduced regulatory oversight, theoretically making it easier for these businesses to operate and attract visitors. This could potentially encourage more agritourism initiatives, thereby boosting local economies through increased agricultural activity and tourism-related revenue. The bill’s impact on state laws could signify a shift toward a more business-friendly approach in the agricultural sector, aligning state interests with agritourism promotion.

Summary

SB519 aims to amend the Kansas Agritourism Protection Act by exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement. The bill specifies that no city or county shall enforce any regulations such as building codes or health and safety ordinances on nonpublic registered agritourism locations. This legislative measure is intended to promote agritourism activities by reducing bureaucratic barriers that may impede agricultural businesses from hosting the public on their lands for recreational or educational purposes.

Contention

However, the bill is not without its controversies. Opponents may argue that exempting agritourism operations from local regulations could compromise public safety and welfare. By removing local regulatory authority, there are concerns that activities occurring on these agritourism sites may lack necessary oversight, which could lead to environmental and health issues. The debate may center around the balance between promoting business operations and ensuring community safety and regulatory compliance.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

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 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 SB6

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

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 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 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 HB2002

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

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Similar Bills

MS SB2264

Agritourism activity; amend provisions pertaining to.

MS HB1295

Agritourism activity; revise definition of and clarify posting of signage for liability purposes.

NJ A198

Provides limited civil liability immunity to farmers hosting agritourism activities.

NM HB521

Agritourism Promotion Act

UT HB0559

Local Agritourism Ordinance Amendments

NV SB55

Establishes provisions relating to agricultural tourism. (BDR 18-508)

KS HB2111

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.

CA ACR167

World Agritourism Day.