(April 11, 2025) – The House and Senate began running Conference Committee Reports on final bill packages that have been assembled.
The Conference Committee Reports receiving votes in the final two days of legislative session include:
CCR on House Bill 2045 relates to licensure of day care facilities, child-care homes and child-care centers; reducing license fees and training requirements; creates a process for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements; authorizes the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the director of Early Childhood to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child-care facility availability and capacity; establishes the Kansas Office of Early Childhood and the director of Early Childhood; transfers administration of day care licensing, parent education programs and the Child Care Subsidy Program to the Kansas Office of Early Childhood; creates the Day Care Facilities and Child-Care Resource and Referral Agencies Licensing Fee Fund and the Day Care Criminal Background and Fingerprinting Fund; defining youth development programs. The CCR passed on a vote of 30-10 in the Senate and 99-23 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on HB 2335 provides for the hunter nation's distinctive license plate. The CCR passed on a vote of 39-1 in the Senate and 98-24 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 24 relates to the Kansas Promise Scholarship Program; expands the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in such program; increases the maximum appropriation for such program. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 76-48 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on HB 2125, property taxation; relates to tax levies and tax statements; modifies the deadline for mailing tax statements to taxpayers to be earlier than the current deadline; modifies the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk; provides for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget; relates to the revenue neutral rate; modifies the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice; extends reimbursement from the Taxpayer Notification Costs Fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar year 2026; prohibits a filing fee when a previous appeal remains pending before the Board of Tax Appeals; authorizes the continuation of the 20-mill statewide property tax levy for schools. The CCR passed on a vote of 39-1 in the Senate and 122-0 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on HB 2275, sales and compensating use tax; relates to city and countywide retailers' sales tax; provides countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Finney County for the purpose of financing the construction or remodeling of a courthouse, jail, law enforcement center facility or other county administrative facility, for Pawnee County for the purpose of health care services and furnishing and equipping county-supported public safety operations, for Seward County for the purpose of financing the costs of roadway and bridge construction, maintenance and improvement in the county and for Jackson County for the purpose of supporting hospital services in the county; provides that countywide retailers' sales tax apportionment based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until Dec. 31, 2026; relates to exemptions; excluding the exempt sales of certain custom meat processing services from exemption certificate requirements. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 117-5 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 237 amends the Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act. The bill would authorize Kansas law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the Act. The bill would require, upon an investigation’s conclusion, investigative reports to be submitted to the attorney general, regardless of whether any local action was taken as a result of the investigation. The CCR passed on a vote of 38-2 in the Senate and 121-3 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 204 requires the sealing of certain records relating to case information, warrants and subpoenas in certain criminal and juvenile cases; requires the sealing of certain records relating to case information, warrants and subpoenas in certain criminal and juvenile cases; and amends law concerning the selection of attorney members of county law library boards of trustees and fees that may be used for enhancing and facilitating the functions of the district court in the county. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 124-0 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 186 amends criminal procedure laws related to the availability of probable cause information, issuance of search warrants, setting bond for persons charged with certain sex offenses, forfeiture of appearance bonds and the regulation of compensated sureties. The bill also revises the Kansas Criminal Code definition of certain sex crimes to include conduct related to artificially generated visual depictions and define related terms. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 124-0 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 156 increases the reimbursement limit for inmate claims paid by the secretary of corrections. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 120-4 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on HB 2231, income taxation; relates to personal exemptions; provides an additional personal exemption for head of household tax filers; increases the personal exemption for certain disabled veterans; relates to homestead property tax refund claims; modifies the definition of household income relating to income and privilege taxes; provides for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor; provides for the apportionment pursuant to the three-factor test of a manufacturer who sells alcoholic liquor; requires the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact; establishes deductions from income when using the single sales factor and receipts factor; provides for the decrease in corporate income tax rates; determines when sales other than tangible personal property are made in the state; excludes sales of a unitary business group of electric and natural gas public utilities; relates to property taxation; provides exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers. The CCR passed on a vote of 40-0 in the Senate and 118-4 in the House. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on HB 2289, the Kansas Affordable Housing Tax Credit Act; discontines such credit for qualified developments receiving a 4 percent federal tax credit; limits the aggregate amount of such credit and discontinues such credit after qualified allocation plan year 2028; relates to the Kansas Housing Investor Tax Credit; provides for transferability of credits from the year that the credit was originally issued. The CCR passed the Senate on a vote of 33-7 and the House on a vote of 98-23. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
CCR on SB 98 provides a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas, the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements; prohibits public utilities from authorizing discounted economic development electric rates for customers that construct new or expanded facilities that are data centers; requires qualified data centers to be reviewed and approved by the Kansas Intelligence Fusion Center prior to awarding public financial assistance or benefits. The CCR passed the Senate on a vote of 26-8 and the House on a vote of 85-37. It now goes to Governor Laura Kelly.
The final conference committee reports saw the legislature adjourn mid-day on April 11, a historically short, 89-day session. The legislature is slated to return on Jan. 12, 2026.