Committee Bill Hearings

March 05, 2026

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Committee	Chamber	Bill	Short Title	Time	Room	Status
Agriculture and Natural Resources	Senate	HB2511	Permitting moneys received from agricultural production on a state-owned property to be used for the management of all state-owned properties.	08:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Agriculture and Natural Resources	Senate	HB2505	Providing an exception for Kansas department of wildlife and parks records regarding the location of any species that is threatened, endangered or in need of conservation from the disclosure requirements of the Kansas open records act.	08:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Public Health and Welfare	Senate			08:30 AM	142-S	Scheduled
Transportation	Senate	HB2615	Designating a portion of U.S. highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for U.S. highway 75.	08:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Transportation	Senate	HB2542	Designating a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway.	08:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	House	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.	09:00 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	House	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.	09:00 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	House	SB356	Providing federal firearms licensees immunity from civil liability for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement.	09:00 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	HB2590	Enacting the Kansas community property trust act to authorize the use of community property trusts during the marriage of settlor spouses and amending the Kansas uniform trust code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorize the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand, restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration.	09:30 AM	546-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	Senate	HB2652	Requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a decision has not been entered and filed within six months of submission and a list of cases in which a petition for review has not been granted or denied within six months of submission.	10:30 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Judiciary	Senate	HB2593	Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.	10:30 AM	346-S	Scheduled
Ways and Means	Senate	HB2393	Authorizing the supreme court to impose a charge to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel through June 30, 2030.	10:30 AM	548-S	Scheduled
Ways and Means	Senate	HB2237	Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.	10:30 AM	548-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	HB2622	Modifying the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements.	10:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	HB2711	Modifying and updating procedures for dissolution of cities of the third class.	10:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	HB2733	Requiring any person who is candidate or who has been elected to certain offices shall be and must remain a resident of the state or the appropriate district.	10:30 AM	144-S	Scheduled
Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs	Senate			12:00 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs	Senate	HB2627	Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.	12:00 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs	Senate	HB2626	Expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses.	12:00 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs	Senate			12:00 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Commerce	Senate	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.	01:30 PM	159-S	Scheduled
Health and Human Services	House	SB448	Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.	01:30 PM	112-N	Scheduled
Health and Human Services	House	SB328	Permitting a pharmacist to distribute pre-measured doses of epinephrine to a school for emergency medication kits.	01:30 PM	112-N	Scheduled
Education	Senate	SB438	Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility program, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.	01:30 PM	144-S	Scheduled
Commerce	Senate	HB2700	Establishing the Kansas right-to-repair act to provide the right for persons who purchase or lease digital electronic equipment to obtain the legal authorization and necessary documentation and parts from original equipment manufacturers to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.	01:30 PM	159-S	Scheduled
Taxation	House	HB2599	Exempting minor-owned businesses from paying sales tax on the first $10,000 of sales from tangible personal property sold each calendar year and from local taxes, licenses, permits and other local government permissions.	03:30 PM	346-S	Scheduled