Committee Bill Hearings

January 29, 2026

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Committee	Chamber	Bill	Short Title	Time	Room	Status
Transportation	Senate	SB367	Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks.	08:30 AM	546-S	Past
Transportation	Senate	SB366	Designating a bridge on I-135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge.	08:30 AM	546-S	Past
Public Health and Welfare	Senate	HB2223	Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.	08:30 AM	142-S	Past
Appropriations	House	HB2463	Creating the rural health transformation fund, prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program, crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund and making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies.	09:00 AM	112-N	Past
Appropriations	House	HB2555	Requiring grant applications, expenditure information, reports and other documentation concerning the rural health transformation program to be presented and provided to the state finance council, house of representatives committee on appropriations, senate committee on ways and means and legislative budget committee.	09:00 AM	112-N	Past
Water	House	HB2477	Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes.	09:00 AM	218-N	Past
Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications	House	HB2544	Establishing the relocation reimbursement assistance fund to provide reimbursement assistance to communications service providers that are required to relocate facilities located in the public right-of-way pursuant to an order or directive of a municipality.	09:00 AM	582-N	Past
Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications	House	HB2180	Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.	09:00 AM	582-N	Past
Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications	House	HB2483	Enacting the transparency and reform of utility expenditures act.	09:00 AM	582-N	Past
Federal and State Affairs	House	HB2501	Providing for immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement.	09:00 AM	346-S	Past
Local Government, Transparency and Ethics	Senate	SB396	Reorganizing the Clearwater cemetery district in Sedgwick county to remove Ohio township.	09:30 AM	142-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	SB360	Enacting the Kansas consumer prescription protection and accountability act and providing for regulation and registration of pharmacy benefits managers.	09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Government Efficiency	Senate	SB387	Requiring school districts to verify the household gross earned income of each student who qualifies for free meals under the national school lunch program and requiring legislative authorization to receive special assistance payments under federal law.	09:30 AM	144-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	SB316	Authorizing the state bank commissioner to establish a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of Kansas to provide charitable consumer financial education initiatives in Kansas.	09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate			09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	SCR1617	Proposing to amend section 13 of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require a simple majority for passage of a resolution to ratify any amendment to the constitution of the United States or to make any application for congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the constitution of the United States.	10:30 AM	144-S	Past
Utilities	Senate	SB379	Authorizing the state 911 board to establish a statewide program for emergency medical dispatch and telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation, medical direction and quality assurance services.	01:30 PM	548-S	Past
Health and Human Services	House	HB2157	Expanding pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of COVID-19.	01:30 PM	112-N	Past
Education	House	HB2486	Requiring children to be toilet trained to enroll in and attend kindergarten in any public school and providing certain exceptions thereto.	01:30 PM	218-N	Past
Education	House	HB2487	Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program.	01:30 PM	218-N	Past
Education	House	HB2485	Authorizing the chief executive officer of the state board of regents to negotiate and settle any repayment obligations arising under any scholarship, grant or other financial aid program administered by the board and prohibiting the payment of additional funds to any student who is subject to repayment obligations under such financial aid programs.	01:30 PM	218-N	Past
Commerce	Senate	SB334	Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state approval.	01:30 PM	159-S	Past
Judiciary	House	HB2536	Requiring proposed guardians for certain adults who have a cognitive impairment or are diagnosed with a neurological condition to complete training approved by the secretary for aging and disability services prior to appointment as a guardian.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past
Judiciary	House	HB2529	Modifying procedures for the citizen petition process to impanel a citizen grand jury under the Kansas code of criminal procedure, limiting criminal liability for good faith conduct by the person who initiates such petitions and any person who signs such petitions and prohibiting diversion agreements related to a true bill of indictment found by a citizen grand jury.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past
Elections	House	HCR5021	Amending article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require voters to present photographic identification at the time of voting.	03:30 PM	218-N	Past
Elections	House	HB2448	Requiring citizenship status be listed on driver's licenses.	03:30 PM	218-N	Past
Judiciary	House	HB2351	Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to appraise or arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past