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Roll Call Votes

How Kansas legislators voted on key bills

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House Conference Committee Report not adopted - Yea: 59 Nay: 63

SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.

Mar 26, 2026HouseFailed
59 Yea63 Nay3 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 86 Nay: 37

SB462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.

Mar 26, 2026HousePassed
86 Yea37 Nay2 Absent

House Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 87 Nay: 37

SB368 — Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Mar 26, 2026HousePassed
87 Yea37 Nay1 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 87 Nay: 37

SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.

Mar 26, 2026HousePassed
87 Yea37 Nay1 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 88 Nay: 34

SB229 — House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.

Mar 26, 2026HousePassed
88 Yea34 Nay3 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 74 Nay: 49

SB197 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.

Mar 26, 2026HousePassed
74 Yea49 Nay2 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 117 Nay: 5

SB418 — Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
117 Yea5 Nay3 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 83 Nay: 40

SB382 — Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher, providing for special education state aid reimbursement for certain qualified teachers, authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
83 Yea40 Nay2 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0

SB380 — Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
125 Yea0 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 121 Nay: 0

SB374 — Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
121 Yea0 Nay4 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0

SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
125 Yea0 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 105 Nay: 19

SB356 — Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
105 Yea19 Nay1 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0

SB271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.

Mar 25, 2026HousePassed
125 Yea0 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0

SB435 — Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the office of the state treasurer, authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund, modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments and the KPERS board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board, requiring newly affiliated KP&F employers to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service and repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials.

Mar 24, 2026HousePassed
125 Yea0 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0

SB412 — Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee's estate assets.

Mar 24, 2026HousePassed
125 Yea0 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 76 Nay: 48

SB391 — Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.

Mar 24, 2026HousePassed
76 Yea48 Nay1 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 98 Nay: 27

SB260 — Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.

Mar 24, 2026HousePassed
98 Yea27 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 108 Nay: 17

SB232 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Mar 24, 2026HousePassed
108 Yea17 Nay

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 102 Nay: 20

SB403 — Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
102 Yea20 Nay3 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 123 Nay: 0

SB353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 109 Nay: 12

SB325 — Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds and authorizing county treasurers to charge certain increased fees for vehicle registration transactions.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
109 Yea12 Nay4 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

SB321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge, a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge, a portion of interstate 35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway, a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for interstate 35.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay3 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

HB2719 — Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government, adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act and requiring an agency submit a proposed rule and regulation to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations prior to presentation of a bill to the legislature for ratification.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay3 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 120 Nay: 1

HB2647 — Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to establish a statewide conduit system for fiber optic transmissions of broadband connections.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
120 Yea1 Nay4 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 123 Nay: 0

HB2615 — Designating a portion of United States highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for United States highway 75.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 119 Nay: 3

HB2595 — Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas.

Mar 23, 2026HousePassed
119 Yea3 Nay3 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 101 Nay: 21

HB2602 — Establishing requirements for a portable benefit plan for independent contractors, determining types of contributions to such plans and providing a subtraction modification for Kansas income tax purposes.

Mar 22, 2026HousePassed
101 Yea21 Nay3 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

HB2571 — Senate Substitute for HB 2571 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Increasing the cost threshold for when a county shall use the public bidding process in awarding a construction contract.

Mar 22, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay3 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 85 Nay: 37

HB2444 — Providing that jail credit when consecutive sentences are imposed shall not apply to more than one case, creating special sentencing rules when a felony is committed by certain offenders while on probation, parole or postrelease supervision for a prior felony and requiring secured minimum bonds for certain defendants who commit a new felony while on probation, parole, postrelease supervision or bond for a prior felony unless the court makes certain findings.

Mar 22, 2026HousePassed
85 Yea37 Nay3 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Adopted as amended by Required 2/3 Majority - Yea: 84 Nay: 40

SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.

Mar 18, 2026HousePassed
84 Yea40 Nay1 Absent

House EFA Subject to Amendment and Debate - Amendment by Representative Carpenter, B. was adopted. - Yea: 77 Nay: 41

SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.

Mar 18, 2026HousePassed
77 Yea41 Nay7 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 77 Nay: 47

SB254 — Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

Mar 18, 2026HousePassed
77 Yea47 Nay1 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 121 Nay: 3

HB2737 — Enacting the taxpayer agreement act to provide for an alternative method of tax increment financing of municipal economic development projects through taxpayer agreements.

Mar 18, 2026HousePassed
121 Yea3 Nay1 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

HB2622 — Modifying the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements.

Mar 18, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB487 — Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act, providing for a petition to determine that an offender is indigent and authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for a violation of the act involving nonpayment of a fee.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB480 — Reviving repealed statutes related to estates of absentees and requiring nonresident fiduciaries to appoint an agent residing in this state.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 84 Nay: 40

SB462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
84 Yea40 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB459 — Removing the prisoner review board from the supervision of the secretary of corrections, changing the appointing authority and creating qualifications for the members of the board and requiring parole hearings to be postponed if proper notice of the public comment session is not made to the victim.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB434 — House Substitute for SB 434 by Committee on Taxation - Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals and discontinuing the sales tax exemption for purchases made by certain qualifying military veterans.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 121 Nay: 3

SB425 — Increasing the maximum annual registration fee limit for seed retailers and wholesalers and authorizing a late fee for registrations renewed after the registration deadline.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
121 Yea3 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 97 Nay: 27

SB418 — Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
97 Yea27 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB408 — Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 124 Nay: 0

SB398 — Requiring a proponent to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that certain specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand evidence before certain qualified witnesses may testify.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
124 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 75 Nay: 49

SB391 — Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
75 Yea49 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 122 Nay: 2

SB380 — Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea2 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 84 Nay: 40

SB375 — Enacting the proxy advisor transparency act, requiring proxy advisors to make certain disclosures when recommending an action against company management, authorizing the attorney general to investigate and take enforcement actions against violators and establishing a private right of action for a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
84 Yea40 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 116 Nay: 8

SB374 — Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
116 Yea8 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 101 Nay: 23

SB364 — Requiring the department of wildlife and parks to offer a discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing license to residents of Kansas who are 65 years of age or older and increasing the maximum age to qualify for the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license and decreasing the maximum fee and removing the expiration of such license.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
101 Yea23 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 81 Nay: 43

SB334 — Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
81 Yea43 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 110 Nay: 14

SB260 — Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
110 Yea14 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 123 Nay: 1

SB232 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea1 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 116 Nay: 8

HB2773 — Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
116 Yea8 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 113 Nay: 11

HB2036 — Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces.

Mar 17, 2026HousePassed
113 Yea11 Nay1 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 121 Nay: 2

SB473 — Authorizing Audubon of Kansas to convey certain property in Wabaunsee county and requiring any deeds or conveyances related to such property be reviewed and approved by the state historical society.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
121 Yea2 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 123 Nay: 0

SB427 — Clarifying that the chairperson and vice chairperson of the senate committee on confirmation oversight shall have access to review tax information from the department of revenue and Kansas bureau of investigation background checks on persons appointed to state offices who are subject to senate confirmation.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 122 Nay: 1

SB396 — Reorganizing the Clearwater cemetery district in Sedgwick county to remove Ohio township.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea1 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 111 Nay: 12

SB382 — Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher, providing for special education state aid reimbursement for certain qualified teachers, authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
111 Yea12 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 116 Nay: 7

SB366 — House Substitute for Senate Bill 366 by Committee on Transportation - Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties thereof and permitting the display of certain lighting in road construction zones by vehicles and trailers engaged in highway construction and maintenance operations.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
116 Yea7 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 114 Nay: 9

SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
114 Yea9 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 109 Nay: 14

SB358 — Requiring individuals convicted of certain felonies to be held without bond in the county jail until sentencing.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
109 Yea14 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 123 Nay: 0

SB321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge, a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge, a portion of interstate 35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway, a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for interstate 35.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended - Yea: 111 Nay: 12

HB2798 — Substitute for HB 2798 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
111 Yea12 Nay2 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 79 Nay: 41

HB2793 — Enacting the Kansas sports authority act to establish a sports authority to provide for the construction, financing and management of certain sports facilities and sports facility infrastructure and create venues for professional sports and other events.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
79 Yea41 Nay5 Absent

House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 76 Nay: 44

HB2468 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the aggregate tax credit limit on the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
76 Yea44 Nay5 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 118 Nay: 2

HB2212 — Senate Substitute for HB 2212 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing the governor to make a declaration of need for enhanced public safety and security for an extraordinary event and providing certain powers to the governor during a period of such declaration.

Mar 16, 2026HousePassed
118 Yea2 Nay5 Absent

House Motion to withdraw from Committee on Veterans and Military not adopted - Yea: 36 Nay: 86

HB2188 — Enacting the defend the guard act to prescribe when the Kansas national guard may be released from the state for active duty combat.

Mar 16, 2026HouseFailed
36 Yea86 Nay3 Absent

House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Boatman was rejected - Yea: 33 Nay: 84

SB358 — Requiring individuals convicted of certain felonies to be held without bond in the county jail until sentencing.

Mar 15, 2026HouseFailed
33 Yea84 Nay8 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 117 Nay: 1

HB2781 — Authorizing the state historical society to acquire the junior officers' quarters at Fort Dodge and provide for the use, preservation, improvement, control and maintenance thereof.

Mar 15, 2026HousePassed
117 Yea1 Nay7 Absent

House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Sawyer Clayton was rejected - Yea: 37 Nay: 78

SCR1616 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax assessed value increases for real property in any subclass and personal property classified as mobile homes.

Mar 11, 2026HouseFailed
37 Yea78 Nay9 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 118 Nay: 0

SB435 — Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the office of the state treasurer, authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund, modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments and the KPERS board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board, requiring newly affiliated KP&F employers to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service and repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
118 Yea0 Nay6 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 101 Nay: 18

SB430 — Permitting licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
101 Yea18 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 105 Nay: 13

SB403 — Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
105 Yea13 Nay6 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 114 Nay: 4

SB353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
114 Yea4 Nay6 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 105 Nay: 13

SB325 — Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds and authorizing county treasurers to charge certain increased fees for vehicle registration transactions.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
105 Yea13 Nay6 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 119 Nay: 0

SB271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
119 Yea0 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Substitute passed as amended - Yea: 85 Nay: 36

SB229 — House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
83 Yea36 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 117 Nay: 1

HB2788 — Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
117 Yea1 Nay6 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 94 Nay: 25

HB2769 — Requiring members of governing bodies of subordinate service taxing areas to be residents of such taxing areas.

Mar 11, 2026HousePassed
94 Yea25 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

SB412 — Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee's estate assets.

Mar 10, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

SB410 — Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.

Mar 10, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

SB331 — Eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays.

Mar 10, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 122 Nay: 0

SB300 — Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy.

Mar 10, 2026HousePassed
122 Yea0 Nay2 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 123 Nay: 0

SB445 — Providing that the law enforcement officers memorial advisory committee may receive requests for the Kansas highway patrol and the Kansas bureau of investigation to provide temporary personal and other assistance in support of funeral services honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the service of the state.

Mar 9, 2026HousePassed
123 Yea0 Nay1 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 87 Nay: 36

SB368 — Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.

Mar 9, 2026HousePassed
87 Yea36 Nay1 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 113 Nay: 10

HB2332 — Establishing a seal for the house of representatives and a seal for the senate and providing for the custody and use of each.

Mar 9, 2026HousePassed
113 Yea10 Nay1 Absent

House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 84 Nay: 39

HB2299 — Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB2299 by Committee on Education - Providing that certain statutory references to accredited nonpublic schools mean nonpublic schools accredited by the state board of education, requiring that schools accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency shall have the same rights as schools accredited by the state board, requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during the school day and prohibiting employees of a school district from using social media to communicate with students for official school purposes.

Mar 9, 2026HousePassed
84 Yea39 Nay1 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 84 Nay: 34

SB335 — Requiring public construction contracts to include a mutual waiver of consequential damages.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
84 Yea34 Nay6 Absent

House Committee of the Whole - Ruling of the chair was sustained - Yea: 78 Nay: 34

SB335 — Requiring public construction contracts to include a mutual waiver of consequential damages.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
78 Yea34 Nay12 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 87 Nay: 32

SB299 — Requiring the supreme court nominating commission to release certain records under the Kansas open records act.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
87 Yea32 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 107 Nay: 11

SB33 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 33 by Committee on Taxation - Providing that countywide retailers' sales tax is apportioned based on total assessed valuations of the county and cities within the county rather than property taxes levied.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
107 Yea11 Nay6 Absent

House Final Action - Adopted - Yea: 99 Nay: 20

HR6033 — Approving the gaming compact with the Wyandotte Nation.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
99 Yea20 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 115 Nay: 3

HB2767 — Establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
115 Yea3 Nay6 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 108 Nay: 11

HB2712 — Increasing the authority for a countywide retailers' sales tax and providing for the dedicated apportionment of special purpose tax revenues up to 2%, limiting special purpose city and countywide retailers' sales taxes to 10 years and requiring certain reporting to the department of revenue for administration of such tax.

Mar 4, 2026HousePassed
108 Yea11 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 119 Nay: 0

HB2644 — Requiring a county appraiser to adjust the value of personal property mobile homes, residential and commercial property upon final determination or obtain a fee simple appraisal if the appraised value exceeds 5% increase over five years.

Mar 3, 2026HousePassed
119 Yea0 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 118 Nay: 1

HB2513 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.

Mar 3, 2026HousePassed
118 Yea1 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Substitute passed as amended - Yea: 85 Nay: 34

HB2427 — Substitute for HB 2427 by Committee on Appropriations - Establishing the positions of the senate fiscal integrity auditor appointed by the president of the senate and the house of representatives fiscal integrity auditor appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, providing for the duties of such fiscal integrity auditors including access to the state fiscal technology systems and software and reports and recommendations to certain legislative committees.

Mar 3, 2026HousePassed
85 Yea34 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Passed - Yea: 119 Nay: 0

SB348 — Exempting any electric public utility that is a not-for-profit wholly owned subsidiary of an electric cooperative public utility from the jurisdiction of the state corporation commission.

Mar 2, 2026HousePassed
119 Yea0 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended - Yea: 82 Nay: 38

SB197 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.

Feb 25, 2026HousePassed
82 Yea38 Nay5 Absent

House Emergency Final Action - Adopted - Yea: 120 Nay: 0

HCR5033 — Ratifying and providing for the continuation of the state of disaster emergency declaration issued on February 24, 2026, for certain counties.

Feb 25, 2026HousePassed
120 Yea0 Nay5 Absent

House Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 76 Nay: 45

HB2745 — Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years.

Feb 25, 2026HousePassed
76 Yea45 Nay4 Absent