Committee Bill Hearings

February 11, 2026

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Committee	Chamber	Bill	Short Title	Time	Room	Status
Agriculture and Natural Resources	Senate	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.	08:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Transportation	Senate	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.	08:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Transportation	Senate	SB353	Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.	08:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Public Health and Welfare	Senate	SB430	Permitting licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests.	08:30 AM	142-S	Scheduled
Financial Institutions and Pensions	House	HB2649	Establishing the Kansas empowerment savings program, authorizing certain employees to contribute to individual retirement accounts through an automatic payroll deduction and providing powers, duties, functions and responsibilities of the Kansas empowerment savings program board of trustees within the state treasurer's office concerning such program.	09:00 AM	582-N	Canceled
Federal and State Affairs	House	HB2573	Amending statutes concerning the Kansas board of accountancy; relating to licensure requirements for certified public accountants.	09:00 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	House	HB2568	Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to fees, registrations and other charges by the department of wildlife and parks.	09:00 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	SB472	Authorizing the administrator to set and the commissioner of insurance to cause to be published in the Kansas register certain fees and eliminating the 10% credit to the state general fund required of fee funded agencies as reimbursement for certain services provided by the state.	09:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	SB412	Imposing the duty to notify nonparties to a conservatorship of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of the conservatee's estate assets.	09:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	SB410	Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act.	09:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Government Efficiency	Senate	SB363	Requiring the department of health and environment (KDHE) and the Kansas department for children and families to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance and KDHE to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance waivers or exemptions without legislative approval and self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance, limiting retroactive enrollment in medical assistance, immediately terminating eligibility for medical assistance upon confirmation of death of the enrollee, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.	09:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	Senate	SB426	Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act.	10:30 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	Senate	SB415	Making certain violations of the residential landlord and tenant act subject to the remedies and enforcement provisions of the Kansas consumer protection act.	10:30 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	Senate	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.	10:30 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	SB395	Requiring treasurers of candidates and persons who support or oppose constitutional amendments to report lists of small donors' names and addresses to the public disclosure commission and providing that such lists shall not be a part of any report required to be made public.	10:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Health and Human Services	House	HB2765	Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substance.	01:30 PM	112-N	Scheduled
Health and Human Services	House	HB2740	Adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards.	01:30 PM	112-N	Scheduled
Health and Human Services	House	HB2506	Establishing the addiction counselor apprentice license and setting fees for such license.	01:30 PM	112-N	Scheduled
Transportation	House	HB2647	Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to establish a statewide fiber system.	01:30 PM	582-N	Canceled
Transportation	House	HB2716	Permitting a person with a disability to be issued one special license plate for each vehicle owned, registered and operated by such person.	01:30 PM	582-N	Scheduled
Higher Education Budget	House	HB2560	Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university.	01:30 PM	281-N	Scheduled
Education	House	HB2565	Requiring that employees of the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf be paid at same rate of compensation that is paid to a teacher employed by USD 233, Olathe, in the current school year.	01:30 PM	218-N	Scheduled
Corrections and Juvenile Justice	House	HB2655	Authorizing the chief judge of each municipal court to establish a specialty court program and providing for expungement when a person has completed the requirements of such program.	01:30 PM	546-S	Scheduled
Education	Senate	SB381	Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an American civics examination in order to graduate with a high school diploma.	01:30 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Education	Senate	SB384	Extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming applications approved if not approved or denied within 30 days of submission.	01:30 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Transportation	House	HB2617	Providing that motorcycle license plates shall contain a combination of not fewer than six letters or numerals.	01:30 PM	582-N	Scheduled
Child Welfare and Foster Care	House	HB2638	Requiring that a child in custody of the secretary be provided information regarding the child's rights and the secretary maintain confirmation of the child's notification and understanding of such child's rights in child in need of care proceedings.	01:30 PM	152-S	Scheduled
Child Welfare and Foster Care	House	HB2601	Establishing a registry for child abuse and neglect to be maintained by the secretary for children and families and providing for registration and expungement processes that include administrative hearings and opportunities for subsequent appeals.	01:30 PM	152-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	House	HB2651	Authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity at any time after acknowledgment in cases of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that genetic testing results are considered a material mistake of fact.	03:30 PM	582-N	Scheduled
Judiciary	House	HB2609	Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for allowing an adult to receive decision-making assistance from one or more other adults, requirements for decision-making agreements and duties related thereto.	03:30 PM	582-N	Scheduled
K-12 Education Budget	House	HB2320	Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin.	03:30 PM	546-S	Scheduled
Taxation	House	HB2077	Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of personal property and services, sales of personal property and purchases of construction materials and services for not-for-profit animal shelters and rescue network managers licensed under the Kansas pet animal act.	03:30 PM	346-S	Scheduled
Taxation	House	HB2475	Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases made by radical life inc.	03:30 PM	346-S	Scheduled
Taxation	House	HB2388	Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases and sales made by the friends of cedar crest association.	03:30 PM	346-S	Scheduled
Insurance	House	HB2564	Providing for the election of alternative payment methods by a dental provider and allowing such payment method to remain in force for the duration of a contract with a dental benefit plan.	03:30 PM	218-N	Scheduled