Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate 2025 Bills & Legislation (Page 2)

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Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB49

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
2/17/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Requiring that each attendance center needs assessment be conducted by the local board of education and include input from board members, teachers, school site councils and school administrators and that board members receive certain state assessment data and identify allocations of money in the school district budget and budget summary.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB494

Introduced
2/5/26  
Expanding the definition of stalking to include more technology-based methods, requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies for making primary aggressor assessments when responding to domestic violence calls and requiring a prosecutor to affirm such assessment was completed, prohibiting public agencies from charging fees to victims of domestic violence for public records, allowing evidence of other domestic violence offenses to be admissible in a criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a domestic violence offense, adding certain contact to options for protection from abuse or stalking orders and allowing lifetime extensions of protection from abuse orders for victims of domestic battery.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB491

Introduced
2/5/26  
Refer
2/6/26  
Refer
2/19/26  
Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB495

Introduced
2/6/26  
Enacting the motor vehicle right to repair act.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB492

Introduced
2/5/26  
Requiring law enforcement agencies to share records with other law enforcement agencies about law enforcement officers related to criminal conduct or conduct giving rise to licensing or certification sanctions.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB496

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Refer
2/19/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to provide annual training on freedom of speech, association and exercise of religion to certain individuals based on materials, programs and procedures developed by the state board of regents, in consultation with the attorney general, requiring the state board of regents to confirm that each such institution has complied with training requirements and authorizing the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB499

Introduced
2/9/26  
Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB497

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Report Pass
2/18/26  
Refer
2/19/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Engrossed
3/6/26  
Adding kratom to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming amendments to the definition of fentanyl-related controlled substance in the criminal code.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB50

Introduced
1/21/25  
Refer
1/22/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Report Pass
3/3/25  
Enrolled
4/10/25  
Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and reducing the number of audits required for such program.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB506

Introduced
2/11/26  
Increasing the penalty for a second or subsequent adjudication of criminal use of weapons and modifying the penalties for the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and the length of the ban on possessing a weapon for certain felons.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB503

Introduced
2/10/26  
Removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and firearm barrel length qualification requirement.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB498

Introduced
2/6/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Report Pass
2/16/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Providing income tax credits for the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel and expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and discontinuing income tax credits for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, environmental compliance, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB500

Introduced
2/9/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Creating the Kansas public employees retirement system cost-of-living adjustment commission, prescribing powers and duties of the commission and establishing procedures of the legislature relating to the annual cost-of-living adjustment rate recommended by the commission.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB512

Introduced
2/16/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Removing the eight-week return to work expectation from the definition of temporary unemployment, excluding payments under compliant employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans from the definition of wages and removing the negative debt write-off and forgiveness mechanism that conditionally moved employers to rate groups N11 for three years and the related option to avoid a negative debt write-off through voluntary contributions.
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Kansas Senate Bill SB509

Introduced
2/12/26  
Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Sheridan county for the purpose of financing the costs of constructing a jail and law enforcement center.