The House returns today with 59 Senate-amended bills waiting for concurrence votes—the single largest block of unfinished business heading into the final week before First Adjournment on Friday.

Each vote is binary: concur with the Senate's changes and send the bill to the governor, or nonconcur and add another conference committee to a system already carrying 59 active conferences (34 House-origin, 25 Senate-origin). Every nonconcurrence vote this week tightens a bottleneck that has to clear by Friday.

The concurrence docket spans nearly every major policy area of the session. Among the highest-profile bills awaiting House action:

Immigration and law enforcement. S Sub for HB 2372—authorizing county sheriffs to hold individuals on ICE detainers—passed the Senate 31-9. HB 2444—presumptive prison for nondrug felonies committed while on supervision, plus tighter pretrial bond rules—cleared 35-5.

Elections. HB 2437—requiring twice-yearly voter registration checks against the federal SAVE immigration database—passed 32-8. HB 2569—routing all constitutional challenges to state election laws through Shawnee County District Court—cleared 26-14.

Education and children. S Sub for HB 2402—requiring school boards to evaluate and consider adopting the federal Community Eligibility Provision for free meals—passed 38-2. HB 2601—the statewide child abuse and neglect registry—cleared unanimously. HB 2482—ending the ACT monopoly on state-funded college readiness exams—passed 39-1.

Guns. S Sub for HB 2501—removing state criminal bans on suppressors and short-barrel shotguns while adding sentencing enhancements for their use in felonies—cleared 37-3.

Consumer and business. HB 2700—the Kansas digital right-to-repair act—passed unanimously. HB 2515—virtual currency kiosk consumer protections—also unanimous.

Housing. HB 2357—automatic sealing of eviction case files—passed 33-7. HB 2481—expanding short-term rental taxation and temporarily barring local caps during the FIFA World Cup window—cleared 33-7.

Health. HB 2528—nursing board reform—passed 34-6. HB 2509—adding advanced practice registered nurses to the state malpractice fund—cleared 37-3.

The Senate has its own concurrence docket of 19 bills that the House amended before sending back. Among them: SB 418 (by-right housing development), SB 391 (barring local governments from requiring landlords to accept housing vouchers), SB 462 (public nuisance reform), SB 459 (prisoner review board overhaul), H Sub SB 434 (veterans property tax credit), SB 271 (children's health insurance eligibility expansion), and SB 408 (paternity acknowledgment and child welfare).

Watch for concurrence votes to dominate floor time early in the week. The longer they take, the less runway remains for the budget, General Orders, and conference reports.

Beyond concurrence votes, the House General Orders calendar ("the Line") is stacked with major legislation that hasn't yet received a floor vote.

The must-pass: H Sub for SB 181, the state budget for fiscal year 2027. It needs to clear the House, survive a Senate vote or conference, and reach the governor's desk by Friday. Everything else on the calendar is competing with it for floor time.

Tax policy dominates the Line. H Sub for SB 303 is a multipurpose vehicle: it reduces the school district property tax levy, repeals certain sales tax exemptions, imposes sales tax on lottery ticket purchases, and creates a new 2% privilege tax on sports wagers—all to fund property tax relief through a new dedicated fund. Surrounding it are HB 2005 (veterans property tax credit), HB 2011 (school levy reduction with expanded residential exemption), SB 10 (personal property tax exemption for watercraft and off-road vehicles), SB 52 (Kansas film and digital media tax credit), SB 402 (homestead refund expansion and SAFESR changes), and SB 39 (gold and silver as legal tender with a capital gains subtraction).

Elections. Four House substitutes for Senate election bills sit on the Line: H Sub for SB 65 (restricting mail ballot elections), Sub SB 231 (moving municipal elections to even-numbered years), H Sub for SB 392 (requiring driver's licenses to show citizenship status and noncitizen benefit reporting), and H Sub for SB 394 (signature verification for advance voting ballots). H Sub SB 451 adds campaign finance transparency requirements.

Two constitutional amendments are live on the Line. HCR 5006 would enshrine the right to bear arms as a fundamental right subject to strict scrutiny. HCR 5021 would require voters to present photo ID. A third, SCR 1616—the Senate's 3% property tax assessment cap—is still printed on General Orders despite failing a floor vote in the House earlier this month. It's likely a calendar artifact, but given that its rival, SCR 1603 (the House's rolling-average approach), is awaiting Senate action, the property tax amendment battle is far from settled. Both require two-thirds in both chambers.

Other policy bills on the Line include SB 363 (Medicaid eligibility restrictions and public assistance work requirements), SB 339 (mandatory school recess), SB 372 (app store regulation for minors), SB 452 (unlawful approach of a first responder), and the perennial SB 1 (exempting Kansas from daylight saving time).

There is far more here than five days can absorb. The budget will take priority, and leadership's choices about what else gets floor time will define the session's final output.

Three of the session's biggest storylines carry into the final week unresolved.

HB 2793—Kansas Sports Facilities Authority (Chiefs stadium bill). Confirmed in Senate Commerce, where it was referred last week. The bill touched House Appropriations—an exempt committee—which keeps it alive through First Adjournment. But it needs a Commerce hearing, a committee vote, and a Senate floor vote in five days. Commerce has daily meeting slots at 1:30 p.m. but no hearings posted yet. The House passed it 79-41 with transparency amendments.

SCR 1603—property tax constitutional amendment. The House fundamentally rewrote the Senate's version—replacing a hard 3% assessment cap with an average fair market value approach plus a senior freeze provision—and passed it 85-39, one vote above the two-thirds threshold. The Senate can concur, nonconcur, or let it die. The one-vote House margin makes conference dangerous for both sides: any change requires returning to the House floor, where 84 votes are again needed. The amendment is exempt through Assessment and Taxation.

SB 254—immigration benefits ban. The House adopted the second conference committee report 78-46 last Thursday. The Senate still needs to adopt the same report. This should be straightforward—the bill has had strong Republican support throughout—but it hasn't happened yet.

Conference committees. 59 active conferences (34 House-origin, 25 Senate-origin) represent the session's unresolved disputes. Conference reports can come to the floor at any time and often surface with little warning in the final days. Among the bills in conference: HB 2004, HB 2042, HB 2043, HB 2044, SB 20, SB 22, SB 82, and SB 254.

The Senate's own General Orders also has unfinished business: SB 522 (Kansas Medical Freedom Act), SB 496 (campus free speech), SB 438 (school meals/CEP—a companion to HB 2402 on the House concurrence docket), SB 441 (applied behavior analysis in schools), SB 421 (K-12 student expression protections), SCR 1617 (constitutional amendment on Article V ratification rules), and SB 113 (reckless driving at 35+ mph over the limit). These are Senate-origin bills that survived the non-exempt deadline because they haven't left their chamber of origin.

Four Senate bills crossed to the House and received committee assignments:

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