(Feb. 17, 2026) – Today, the House took final votes on the following bills:
House Bill 2540 exempts contingent deferred annuities from certain requirements of the Standard Nonforfeiture Law for Individual Deferred Annuities Act and authorizes the commissioner of insurance to establish nonforfeiture benefits for such contingent deferred annuities through rules and regulations. The bill passed on a vote of 122-0.
House Bill 2622 modifies the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements. The bill passed on a vote of 121-1.
House Bill 2711, Modifying and updating procedures for dissolution of cities of the third class. The bill passed on a vote of 122-0.
House Bill 2733, 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. The bill passed on a vote of 122-0.
House Bill 2615, 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. The bill passed on a vote of 123-0.
These bills will now go to the Senate.
House Sub for Senate Bill 281, Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes. The bill passed on a vote of 75-48. This bill will now go back to the Senate for a motion to concur which would make it law, or a motion to non-concur which would send it to a conference committee.
HCR 5031, Ratifying and providing for the continuation of the state of disaster emergency declaration issued on February 9, 2026, for Douglas, Johnson and Wyandotte counties. The resolution was adopted on a vote of 121-2.
Today, the House is schedule to debate late into the evening, on the following bills
House Bill 2605, Designating a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the deputy sheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway.
House Bill 2491, Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.
House Bill 2451, Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.
House Bill 2453, Requiring applications for advance voting ballots be filed by the 14th day prior to election day, that advance voting in person be completed by 12:00 p.m. on the Sunday prior to election day, extending the time for transmittal of advance voting ballots to 22 days prior to an election and ending the time for voter registration at 23 days prior to election day.
House Bill 2214, Enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters.
House Bill 2220, Permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over city residence districts to reduce the maximum speed limit to 25 miles per hour without an engineering and traffic investigation.
House Bill 2412, Increasing the criminal penalties for endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age.
House Bill 2364, Prohibiting certain health insurers from requiring cost-sharing for nonopioid prescription drugs or providing less favorable coverage for such drug than that for opioid or narcotic prescription drugs for the treatment of pain.
House Bill 2393, Authorizing the supreme court to impose a charge to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel through June 30, 2030
House Bill 2444, Providing that jail credit when consecutive sentences are imposed shall not apply to more than one case, creating special sentencing rules when a felony is committed by certain offenders while on probation, parole or postrelease supervision for a prior felony and requiring secured minimum bonds for certain defendants who commit a new felony while on probation, parole, postrelease supervision or bond for a prior felony unless the court makes certain findings
House Bill 2610, Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance
House Bill 2537, Increasing the penalties for the crime of sexual extortion when an offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 18 years of age or a dependent adult, creating the crimes of aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm and aggravated sexual extortion causing death and requiring the attorney general to prepare and provide educational materials and information concerning such crimes
House Bill 2613, Providing for the crime victims compensation board to establish fees chargeable for conducting examinations of persons who may be victims of sexual assault and authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations to administer such fees and to use moneys in the crime victims compensation fund for the payment of such fees
House Bill 2518, Increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of the crime of breach of privacy and modifying the culpable mental state required to commit such crime
House Bill 2747, Specifying that courts shall consider certain factors in determining whether a prior violation of law is comparable to any act described in certain driving under the influence crimes when calculating a person's criminal history score under the Kansas sentencing guidelines act. Further amended and recommended for final vote.
House Bill 2614, Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the crime victims compensation board
House Bill 2536, 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
House Bill 2501, 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
House Bill 2504, Prohibiting cities and counties from restricting the discretion of landlords not to rent residential or commercial property on grounds including prospective tenants receipt of housing assistance or eviction or criminal history, and permitting cities and counties to prohibit discrimination by landlords on the basis of receipt of veterans benefits
House Bill 2560, Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university
House Bill 2374, Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds.
House Bill 2604, Including gross vehicle weight in the definitions for classes of commercial motor vehicles for drivers' license purposes and modifying the definition of commercial motor vehicle and creating a definition of air mile and gross vehicle weight in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.
House Bill 2594, Modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any videotape, photograph, film or image of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity by removing the connection to breach of privacy and describing the content of the videotape, photograph, film or image
House Bill 2591, Authorizing financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of an adult account holder to a designated agency, notify any adult designated as a trusted contact by such account holder of suspected financial exploitation and place a temporary hold on certain transactions or disbursements.
House Bill 2497, Prohibiting the assessment of a prepayment penalty against any party more than six months after the execution of a note evidencing a home loan made primarily for personal, family or household purposes secured by a real estate mortgage.
House Bill 2590, 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.
House Bill 2606, Modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.
House Bill 2408, Providing that leased ground owned by a county-recognized community land trust shall be considered as a factor in determining fair market value for property tax purposes.
House Bill 2437, Authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, removing individuals disqualified for voting from such records and providing an open records request exemption for certain information related to such records.
House Bill 2477, 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.
House Bill 2462, Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt rules and regulations that allow for the direct and indirect potable reuse of treated wastewater.
House Bill 2460, Providing an exception to the Kansas Open Records Act that authorizes members of the legislature to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership. The bill was further amended and recommended for final vote.
House Bill 2511, Permitting moneys received from agricultural production on a state-owned property to be used for the management of all state-owned properties.
House Bill 2489, Requiring school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and maintain supplies of naloxone in each school.
House Bill 2485, 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.
House Bill 2663, Modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals for school district at-risk accountability plans.
Sub for House Bill 2530, Providing for the transferability of credentials earned through ACT workkeys career readiness assessments towards a degree.
House Bill 2555, 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.
House Bill 2368, Providing for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.
House Bill 2562, Permitting the issuance of a special license plate or permanent or temporary placard for a person with a disability based on documentation of satisfactory proof of disability from a physical therapist.
House Bill 2672, Removing certain terms relating to individuals with intellectual disabilities.
House Bill 2737, Enacting the taxpayer agreement act to provide for an alternative method of tax increment financing of municipal economic development projects through taxpayer agreements.
House Bill 2700, 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.
House Bill 2481, Removing the two-bedroom requirement to qualify as hotel, motel or tourist court requiring collection of tax from all such qualifying rentals.
House Bill 2602, 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.
House Bill 2603, Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities.
House Bill 2507, Removing the requirement for migratory waterfowl stamps to be validated by a signature across the face of each such stamp and increasing the fees for such stamps.
House Bill 2505, 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.
House Bill 2729, Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act.
House Bill 2727, Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made.
House Bill 2635, Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care.
House Bill 2553, Providing for the PBS Kansas distinctive license plate.
House Bill 2585, Providing for the delta waterfowl distinctive license plate.