🐝🐝 SB 531: Stops new large data centers (10+ MW) from being built or operated in any county that had a drought emergency in the past three years, with limited exceptions for projects already approved by July 1, 2026.

🐝 SB 530: The bill lets the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services require fingerprint-based state and national criminal checks for people who have direct access to patients, records, property, or data. Certain violent or sexual convictions bar employment; other felonies can bar work for six years with a possible waiver after that.

🐝 SB 529: Requires the Kansas Department of Education to publish a separate building report card for every district-run virtual school so virtual results aren’t mixed with traditional school report cards. Affects KSDE, districts, students, and families.

SR 1729: Commending the 2026 Kansas Superintendent and Principals of the Year.

🐝🐝🐝 HCR 5035: If voters approve, homeowners age 60+ would no longer pay school district property taxes on their primary residence starting with tax year 2027. School districts could lose local revenue unless the state or other sources make up the difference.

🐝🐝 HB 2796: The bill lets 501(c)(3) charities buy and sell many items tax-free in Kansas starting July 1, 2028, lowering nonprofit costs but requiring a $100 registration fee for each exemption certificate.

🐝🐝 HB 2795: Reduces the statewide school property tax from 20 mills to 15 mills over several years, which may lower property tax bills. The bill cuts revenue to the state school finance fund and does not include a replacement funding plan.

🐝🐝 HB 2794: Cuts the statewide required school property tax levy from 20 to 19 mills for 2027–28, then sets each year’s rate to raise the same total revenue as 2027–28 using current property values, with a 15‑mill minimum. Affects homeowners, businesses, school districts, and state school funding.

SB 502: PASS — Final Vote (39 Yes, 0 No, 1 Absent). Lets the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission adopt a set of permanent sports wagering rules. This would let regulators finalize enforceable standards that affect betting companies and Kansas bettors; it takes effect when published in the Kansas Register.

HB 2624: PASS — Final Vote (39 Yes, 0 No, 1 Absent). Gives county commissioners power to dissolve a county fire district when its boundaries no longer include any land, using the same order process used to create districts. Mainly affects county officials and special districts; minimal fiscal impact.

HB 2477: PASS — Final Vote (39 Yes, 0 No, 1 Absent). Requires the Kansas Department of Agriculture to post a public map and full applications for new water diversions and point-of-diversion moves over 300 feet, and to notify landowners within half a mile. Notice duty shifts to the state and may raise scrutiny and admin work.

HB 2788 (bill be passed as amended): Creates oversight task force, moves blind vendor funds

SB 437 (bill be passed): Creates task force to design outcomes-based funding

HB 2622 (bill be passed as amended): Modifying the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements.

HB 2540 (bill be passed): Shifts annuity protections to insurance rules

SB 430 (bill be passed as amended): Allows physical therapists to do limited fingerstick tests

HB 2212 (substitute bill be passed): 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.

HB 2652 (bill be passed as amended): 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.

HB 2769 (bill be passed): Require board members to live inside service taxing areas

HB 2005 (bill be passed as amended): Creates refundable property tax credit for disabled vets

SCR 1616 (resolution be adopted as amended): Caps yearly assessed value growth at 3%

SB 434 (substitute bill be passed): Refundable property tax credit for fully disabled veterans

HB 2645 (bill be passed): Extends college contribution tax credit to 2031

HB 2757 (bill be passed as amended): Ends many income tax credits, extends angel investor credit

HB 2513 (bill be passed as amended): Authorizing payment of certain claims against the state, making appropriations therefor and authorizing certain transfers.