What new Kansas laws go into effect on July 1, 2025?

5.3.25 – TOPEKA (KSNT) – by: Matthew Self

Kansas lawmakers were busy during the 2025 session of the state’s Legislature, passing numerous new laws set to take effect in the near future.

State residents can expect some changes moving forward now that the 2025 session of the Kansas Legislature has officially wrapped up with Governor Laura Kelly issuing the last bill actions of the year on April 25, 2025. Lawmakers successfully passed more than 120 bills this year, with nearly 100 set to take effect later this summer.

The Highlights

The 2025 session of the Kansas Legislature had no shortage of controversial moments, hotly debated bills, and other interesting occurrences inside the historic statehouse building.

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Several new license plate options also received approval in 2025. These include the National Future Farmers of America (FFA), Route 66 Association of Kansas and much-anticipated blackout-style license plates.

Lawmakers also approved legislation for year-round firework sales in Kansas. Physical retail locations have the option of selling their fireworks for extended periods of time throughout the year while the lighting of fireworks remains restricted.

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Kelly vetoed a total of 19 bills throughout the session. However, only five of her veto decisions were sustained, meaning the bills were effectively blocked by the governor. The Republican supermajority control in the House and Senate proved capable of overturning the majority of the Democrat governor’s vetoes.KHP trooper warns of ‘tire gator’ danger on Kansas highways

Lawmakers successfully pushed through controversial bills like the ‘Help Not Harm Act‘ that adds new restrictions to the use of state funds regarding the promotion of gender transitions and prevents healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to kids whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex. Kelly’s veto of a bill that restricts when advance voting ballots must be returned on the day of the election was also defeated

New laws

27 News checked with the Kansas Department of Legislative Research (KLRD) to find out what bills made it through the Legislature that will have an impact on the lives of Kansans. You can read through the full list of 129 bills passed during this session of the Kansas Legislature, along with the vetoed pieces of legislation, with short descriptions for each below.

Tax and Insurance

Senate Bill 21 – amends the Kansas Parimutuel Racing Act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen’s associations and horsemen’s nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 35 – discontinues the state property tax levies for the Kansas Educational Building Fund and the State Institutions Building Fund and provides for financing from the State General Fund. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 42 – provides for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminates the requirement the Kansas commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requires certain reports be available on the Kansas Insurance Department’s (KID) website among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 44 – declares antisemitism to be against public policy. Also defines antisemitism and antisemitic for purposes of state law. In effect as of May 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 98 – creates a sales tax exemption for qualifying data center projects. Also gives the state another tool to bring jobs and infrastructure to Kansas communities through economic development. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 269 – provides that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retains a certain amount in the Budget Stabilization Fund. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2050 – authorizes the Kansas commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas Register, authorizes the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renames the Kansas Insurance Department to to the Kansas Department of Insurance and other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2062 – provides for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, includes the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and provides for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2107 – provides for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishes a statute of limitations for such claims and requires the Kansas State Corporation Commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2231 – provides an additional personal exemption for head of household tax filers and increases the personal exemption for certain disabled veterans for purposes of income tax. Also modifies the definition of household income for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead refund claims. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2275 – provides countywide retailers’ sales tax authority for Finney, Pawnee, Seward and Jackson Counties. Also provides that countywide retailers’ sales tax apportionment based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until Dec. 31, 2026 and excludes exempt sales of certain custom meat processing services from sales tax exemption certificate requirements. In effect as of May 8, 2025.
House Bill 2304 – requires local governments report certain local economic development incentive program information to the secretary of the Kansas Department of Commerce, define such programs and requires the secretary to post the information on the Economic Development Incentive Program Database. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2334 – enacts the Kansas Protected Cell Captive Insurance Company Act. Also provides for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance company and updates certain terms, requirements and conditions of the Captive Insurance Act among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2371 – amends the Kansas Revised Limited Liability Company Act, the Business Entity Transactions Act and the Business Entity Standard Treatment Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Elections

Senate Bill 2 – validates the May 21, 2024 special election results for the bond issuance question submitted by the Board of Education of USD 200 in Greeley County. In effect as of March 27, 2025.
Senate Bill 4 – requires the return of advance voting ballots by 7 p.m. on the day of the election. In effect as of Jan. 1, 2026. Lawmakers defeated the governor’s veto.
Senate Bill 5 – prohibits the use of funds provided by the U.S. government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the Kansas Legislature. In effect as of May 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Senate Bill 6 – prohibits the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections. In effect as of April 10, 2025.
House Bill 2016 – includes private online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from voter registration books. Also prohibits the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents as poll workers by county election officers on the basis of residency or registration. The bill modifies the requirements for soliciting registered voters to apply for an advance voting ballot. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2022 – requires special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a Primary or General Election. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2054 – increases the limits on certain campaign contributions under the Campaign Finance Act. In effect as of April 10, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2056 – requires a person listed on a certificate of nomination for a minor political party to accept such nomination by a notarized declaration and prohibits such person from becoming a candidate for another political party. Also makes changes regarding the crime of false representation of an election official. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2206 – renames the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission to the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission, defines terms in the Campaign Finance Act, requires the filing of statements of independent expenditures, prohibits agreements requiring contributions in the name of another and requires the termination of unused campaign finance accounts. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

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Firearms

Senate Bill 137 – authorizes the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms under the Kansas Standard Asset Seizure and Forfeiture Act to a licensed firearm dealer. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2052 – updates cross references in the Personal and Family Protection Act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requires the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, provides for a transition from a provisional license to a standard licenses and prohibits the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requires such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Corrections and Law Enforcement

Substitute for Senate Bill 54 – limits discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requires reporting of such agreements to courts. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 156 – increases the reimbursement amount the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) may make to compensate inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 186 – protects Kansans by combating online sexual crimes and strengthens protections for survivors of sexual assault, among other related public safety issues. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 204 – creates a new process for the appointment of trustees to county law libraries. Senate Bill 204 also requires that certain sensitive information about cases, warrants and subpoenas in criminal and juvenile cases be kept confidential to protect the privacy of Kansans. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 237 – authorizes law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act. In effect as of July, 2025.
House Bill 2155 – specifies that sheriffs have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails. In effect as of May 1, 2025.
House Bill 2166 – continues in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the Open Records Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2182 – prohibits a sheriff from charging a fee for service of process for proceedings under the Protection from Abuse Act and the Protection from Stalking, Sexual Assault or Human Trafficking Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2215 – modifies the definition of public-private partnership to increase the allowable cost-share limit for expenditures by the KDOC on certain correctional institution projects. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2061 – includes aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2261 – provides that Kansas Highway Patrol officers and majors are to be within the unclassified service under the Kansas Civil Service Act. Also provides that a superintendent, assistant superintendent or major shall be returned to a rank with permanent status not lower than the rank held when the officer was appointed to such respective position. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2342 – authorizes the Kansas attorney general and the Kansas State Gaming Agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updates criminal history record language related to the Kansas state bank commissioner and requires the secretary of the Kansas Department of Labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information among other changes. In effect as of May 1, 2025.

Child Care

Senate Bill 135 – provides precedence of child-related orders issued under the Protection from Abuse Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2027 – reorganizes subsections of the Public Assistance statute. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2045 – reduces certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creates a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizes the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2075 – determines when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requires the secretary to provide support to such law enforcement officers. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2311 – prohibits the secretary of the DCF from adopting and enforcing policies for placement, custody and appointment of a custodian that may conflict with sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity and creates a right of action for violations. In effect as of May 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2359 – enacts the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act and the Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship and Other Protective Arrangements Act. In effect as of Jan. 1, 2026.

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State Government

Substitute for Senate Bill 9 – prohibits foreign organizations from acquiring interests in real estate in proximity to military installations, state agencies and local government. Also known as the ‘Move Over’ law. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 13 – eliminates requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the Kansas Secretary of State (SOS). In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 14 – provides for continuous state budgets until amended, lapses or eliminated by the Kansas Legislature, temporary reallocations and establishes conditions and limitations. In effect as of May 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Senate Bill 77 – requires state agencies to provide notice of revocation of administrative rules and regulations to the public and removes abolished and inactive state agencies from the agency review requirement. In effect as of April 10, 2025.
Senate Bill 105 – requires the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of U.S. senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the Kansas Legislature. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
Senate Bill 166 – enacts the Fostering Competitive Career Opportunities Act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2007 – reconciles multiple amendments to certain statutes dealing with the 2025 legislative session. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2037 – increases the membership of the Kansas Council on Travel and Tourism and updates the House Legislative Committee assignment required for council members appointed from the House. Also equalizes the allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and removes the restriction on the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2092 – sets the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the Kansas secretary of state. Also limits the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminates a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2106 – bans contributions from foreign nationals for the support or defeat of a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2118 – requires any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers. Also provides that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2134 – amends the Kansas Open Records Act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempts certain records, among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2217 – expands the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs. Also grants the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2221 – abolishes the KDOC Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Fund and creates the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Fund. Also transfers the cash and liabilities from the abolished fund to the new fund. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2238 – directs legislative administrative services to prepare all committee minutes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2240 – requires legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program. Also increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual disabilities and authorizes the Legislative Coordinating Council to act on agency requests when the Kansas Legislature is not in session. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2242 – authorizes the governor to accept requests of concurrent jurisdiction from the federal government in certain circumstances. In effect as of April 24, 2025.
House Bill 2291 – creates the regulatory relief division within the Kansas Office of the Attorney General and establishes the General Regulatory Sandbox Program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Substitute for House Bill 2313 – prohibits the use of artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek and other artificial intelligence platforms controlled by a country of concern on state-owned devices and on any state network and the use of genetic sequencers or operational software for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2338 – authorizes the Kansas Board of Cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishes criteria therefor. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Local Government

Senate Bill 7 – increases the statutory limits on bonds issued by a township based on township population and purpose of the bond issuance. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 104 – grants the Shawnee County Board of County Commissioners the discretion to create a Citizens Commission on Local Government. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2060 – provides for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2088 – requires local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requires the KDHE to issue a response to an applicant’s submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2101 – prohibits municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2125 – authorizes certain local governments to submit local sales tax proposals to voters for various projects. In effect as of May 8, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2145 – establishes the Butler County Fair Board to consist of 15 members, provides for the appointment of members to the board and allows up to five members of the board to be appointed from the county at large. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2160 – enacts the Municipal Employee Whistleblower Act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2169 – provides for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the U.S. Army for owners of certain nonresidential property located in Johnson County. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

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Transportation

Senate Bill 8 – requires drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 97 – requires vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used non-highway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2020 – requires a quarterly report from the director of the Kansas Division of Vehicles listing the names, addresses and alien registration numbers of certain noncitizens who have been issued a driver’s license during such quarter. In effect as of April 17, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2030 – excludes dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the Vehicle Dealers and Manufacturers Licensing Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2031 – provides that driving school instructors and motorcycle instructors may possess a driver’s license a motorcycle driver’s license from any state. In effect as of April 17, 2025.
House Bill 2122 – increases the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles, trucks and electric motorcycles and distributes the fees to the State Highway Fund along with the Special City and County Highway Fund. Also modifies the threshold limit for allowing quarterly payments of certain truck and truck tractor annual vehicle registration fees among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2168 – extends the amount of time required for reports to be filed with the Kansas State Historical Society for certain U.S. public land surveys from 30 to 90 days. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2201 – provides for the FFA, Route 66 Association of Kansas and blackout distinctive license plates. Also creates the License Plate Replacement Fund and modifies requirements for the issuance and production of license plates among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2222 – requires ignition interlock device manufacturers to pay fees to the state for the administration of the Ignition Interlock Program. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2263 – designates a future interchange on K-10 highway as the Kris Norton Memorial Interchange, a portion of K-5 highway as the Rep. Marvin S. Robinson Memorial Highway and a portion of U.S. Highway 160 as the CPL Monte Wayne Forrest Memorial Highway. Also designates a portion of U.S. Highway 77 as the POW MIA Memorial Highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 in Clay County as the POW MIA Memorial Bridge and redesignates a current portion of the Harry Darby Memorial Highway for Interstate Highway 635. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2289 – modifies certain requirements for the production and issuance of license plates. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Education

Substitute Senate Bill 45 – requires the Kansas State Board of Education to calculate graduation rates for all school districts for purposes of accreditation using an alternative calculation. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 50 – establishes uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas Board of Regents that have repayment obligations as a part of the terms and conditions of such programs and authorizes the Kansas Board of Regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment obligations and charge fees for the costs of administering such programs. Also requires eligible students to enter into agreements with the Kansas Board of Regents instead of a postsecondary educational institution as a condition to receiving a grant under the Adult Learner Grant Act. In effect as of April 24, 2025.
Senate Bill 78 – requires postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibits accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and provides a cause of action for violations thereof. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 114 – authorizes nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and makes it unlawful for the Kansas State High School Activities Association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status. In effect as of May 1, 2025.
House Bill 2033 – includes programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council as approved at-risk educational programs. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Substitute for House Bill 2102 – provides for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and corrects federal statutory citations in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2185 – updates the Kansas National Guard Educational Assistance Act to include dependents of National Guard members. Also allows the Kansas National Guard Educational Master’s for Enhanced Readiness and Global Excellence program to include other advanced degrees. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2195 – establishes the Kansas Technical College Operating Grant Fund administered by the Kansas State Board of Regents. In effect as of April 17, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2382 – requires school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizes the Kansas State Board of Education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.

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Finance

Senate Bill 64 – adjusts certain internal KPERS Act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updates provisions relating to compliance with the federal Internal Revenue Code. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 117 – expands the property tax exemption for Strother Field Airport property. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 139 – updates certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the Kansas State Banking Code. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 199 – defines the fireworks sales season for seasonal retailers of consumer fireworks, provides for year-round sales by permanent retailers of consumer fireworks and requires permanent retailers to register with the Kansas State Fire Marshal. Also requires all retail sales or transfers of consumer fireworks to be made at a physical location, creates the license categories of distributor of display fireworks, distributor of pyrotechnic articles and unlimited distributor and limits lawful sale of fireworks that are labeled “For Professional Use Only” to certain license categories. In effect as of April 24, 2025.
Senate Bill 227 – provides for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 241 – provides that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2117 – modifies certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships. Also authorizes professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the Business Entity Transactions Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2152 – mandates financial institutions secure governmental unit deposits in excess of the amount insured or guaranteed by the FDIC by utilizing a public moneys pooled method of securities. Also prohibits investment advisers that execute bids for the investment of public cash from managing the money directly from such bids among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Utilities

House Bill 2040 – extends the time in which the Kansas State Corporation Commission (KCC) shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application. In effect as of April 17, 2025.
House Bill 2109 – exempts public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2110 – eliminates the requirement the State 911 Board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services. Also reschedules the date on which the State 911 Operations Fund, State 911 Grant Fund and State 911 Fund shall be established among other changes. In effect as of April 10, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2149 – requires distributed energy retailers to disclose certain information to residential customers who are offered or seeking to install a distributed energy system. Also requires the Kansas Attorney General to convene an advisory group to develop, approve and periodically revise a standard form for such disclosures and requires publication thereof among other changes. In effect as of May 1, 2025.

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Health

Substitute for Senate Bill 29 – removes the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Senate Bill 63 – enacts the Help Not Harm Act, restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibits healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child’s sex and authorizes a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, among other changes. In effect as of Feb. 20, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Substitute for Senate Bill 67 – authorizes registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe, procure and administer drugs consistent with the registered nurse anesthetist’s education and qualifications. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 79 – directs the secretary for the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) to request a waiver from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance. In effect as of publication in the statute book. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
Senate Bill 88 – requires the state long-term care ombudsman and regional ombudsman to receive training in memory care. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Substitute for Senate Bill 126 – establishes an advance universal newborn screening program. Also provides for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and authorizes the secretary of the KDHE to specify conditions included in newborn screenings among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 175 – updates the definition of athletic trainer and provides an exemption for those licensed in another state, District of Columbia, territory of foreign country to practice in Kansas. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Substitute for Senate Bill 193 – exempts law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonists pursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director. In effect as of April 24, 2025.
Senate Bill 250 – enacts the Right to Try for Individualized Treatments Act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Became law without the governor’s signature.
House Bill 2039 – adds maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the Healthcare Provider Insurance Availability Act and amends definitions in the Kansas Credentialing Act to provide that certain entities provide physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies among other changes. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2069 – enacts the School Psychologist Compact, the Dietitian Compact, the Cosmetology Compact and the Physicians Assistant Compact to provide interstate practice privileges. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2249 – requires the secretary of KDADS to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishes the South Central Regional Mental Health Hospital. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2280 – adds a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran and removes the active requirement from military service members for occupational licensure. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2284 – directs the Kansas Department of Administration (KDA) to adopt written policies governing the negotiated procurement of managed care organizations to provide state Medicaid services pursuant to a contract with the Kansas Program of Medical Assistance. In effect as of July 1, 2025. Lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.
House Bill 2307 – transfers the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the KDHE to the Kansas Council on Developmental Disabilities. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2335 – adds maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the Healthcare Provider Insurance Availability Act. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Real Estate

Senate Bill 194 – provides that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between Jan. 1, 1948 and Dec. 31, 1958 that restrict the use of real property owned by state educational institutions for only single-family residence purposes and contain discriminatory provisions to restrict ownership or tenancy by race are against public policy and therefore void. In effect as of April 3, 2025.
House Bill 2120 – authorizes the Kansas State Board of Regents to sell and convey certain real property in Riley County, Kansas and Douglas County, Nebraska on behalf of Kansas State University and Kansas State University Veterinary Medical Center. In effect as of April 17, 2025.

Water

Senate Bill 58 – modifies the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2085 – extends the expiration of permits issued under the Water Pollution Control Permit System from five to 10 years. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Substitute for House Bill 2172 – establishes the Water Program Task Force to evaluate the state’s water program and funding for such program. Also requires the task force to to establish a water planning work group and submit a report to the Kansas Legislature and governor. In effect as of April 24, 2025.

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Agriculture and Environment

Senate Bill 36 – increases the cap on the amount of cash disbursed by the Kansas Division of Conservation to Conservation Districts and provides an increased matching basis for state cash disbursed to Conservation Districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
Senate Bill 89 – authorizes the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the Poultry Disease Control Act. Also establishes an annual participation fee for participation in the National Poultry Improvement Plan, a certification fee for people performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2254 – requires milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust. In effect as of July 1, 2025.
House Bill 2255 – amends definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requires licenses and education for service company operators and mandates annual device inspections except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators. In effect as of July 1, 2025.

Vetoed bills

Kelly vetoed several bills during this year’s session of the Kansas Legislature, five of which were not overturned. The following bills were vetoed in 2025.

Senate Bill 18 – allows for the hunter nation distinctive license plate.
Senate Bill 24 – expands the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas Promise Scholarship Program and increases the maximum annual appropriation limit.
Senate Bill 79 – directs the secretary for the DCF to request a waiver from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.
House Bill 2028 – revives a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for people who are over the age of 65. Also changes the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and those who are six to 15 to $400. The bill restricts hunting opportunities for out of state waterfowl hunters as well.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2228 – requires that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requires the Kansas attorney general to approve such contracts.

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