19 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
7 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Kansas Firearm Legislation
19 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
7 pro-gun bills for this session
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note: Kansas carries over legislation from odd-numbered years to even numbered years without exception
Title: Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
Description: Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: January 18, 2023
Title: Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
Description: Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: January 31, 2023
Title: Creating the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.
Description: Creating the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: January 31, 2023
Title: Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.
Description: Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.
Last Action: Senate Final Action - Passed; Yea: 31 Nay: 8
Last Action Date: March 29, 2023
Title: Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a Kansas voluntary do-not-sell firearms list to prevent the purchase of firearms by any person who voluntarily registers to be placed on the list.
Description: Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a Kansas voluntary do-not-sell firearms list to prevent the purchase of firearms by any person who voluntarily registers to be placed on the list.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 7, 2023
Title: Creating the crime of unlawful storage of any firearm including a rifle, shotgun or machine gun or stun guns and the crime of unlawful storage of a large magazine capacity rifle or shotgun or machine gun where a minor has access.
Description: Creating the crime of unlawful storage of any firearm including a rifle, shotgun or machine gun or stun guns and the crime of unlawful storage of a large magazine capacity rifle or shotgun or machine gun where a minor has access.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
Description: Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Removing state agency fees for concealed-carry licenses.
Description: Removing state agency fees for concealed-carry licenses.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: March 30, 2023
Title: Requiring firearms and stun guns to be stored in locked containers, establishing crimes for failure to store such weapons where a person under 18 years of age has access to such weapons and creating more severe penalties for firearms with large-capacity magazines.
Description: Requiring firearms and stun guns to be stored in locked containers, establishing crimes for failure to store such weapons where a person under 18 years of age has access to such weapons and creating more severe penalties for firearms with large-capacity magazines.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 14, 2023
Title: Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
Description: Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: March 27, 2023
Title: Creating the anti-red flag gun seizure act to prohibit the enforcement of any law, regulation or order that prohibits the possession of a firearm in violation of amendment II to the constitution of the United States.
Description: Creating the anti-red flag gun seizure act to prohibit the enforcement of any law, regulation or order that prohibits the possession of a firearm in violation of amendment II to the constitution of the United States.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 22, 2023
Title: Creating the Kansas gun rights preservation act to prohibit the infringement of Kansas citizens' constitutional right to keep and bear arms by the federal government.
Description: Creating the Kansas gun rights preservation act to prohibit the infringement of Kansas citizens' constitutional right to keep and bear arms by the federal government.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 22, 2023
Title: Prohibiting the prescribing of drugs intended to cause an abortion using telemedicine and restricting the governor's power during a state of emergency to alter such prohibitions.
Description: Prohibiting the prescribing of drugs intended to cause an abortion using telemedicine and restricting the governor's power during a state of emergency to alter such prohibitions.
Last Action: House Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
Last Action Date: March 1, 2023
Title: House Substitute for SB 116 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Regulating samples of spirits distributors, wine distributors and cereal malt beverage distributors, requiring monthly remittance of gallonage taxes regarding special order shipping of wine, permitting rather than requiring that roads be blocked if adequate signage is used for common consumption areas and allowing businesses to sell cereal malt beverages by the drink on Sunday without requiring that 30% of the gross receipts be from food sales.
Description: House Substitute for SB 116 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Regulating samples of spirits distributors, wine distributors and cereal malt beverage distributors, requiring monthly remittance of gallonage taxes regarding special order shipping of wine, permitting rather than requiring that roads be blocked if adequate signage is used for common consumption areas and allowing businesses to sell cereal malt beverages by the drink on Sunday without requiring that 30% of the gross receipts be from food sales.
Last Action: House Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed; Yea: 102 Nay: 21
Last Action Date: March 27, 2023
Title: Creating the responsible gun ownership act and establishing the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.
Description: Creating the responsible gun ownership act and establishing the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: February 2, 2023
Title: Repealing statutes that prohibit, limit and otherwise restrict municipal regulation of firearms.
Description: Repealing statutes that prohibit, limit and otherwise restrict municipal regulation of firearms.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 3, 2023
Title: Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
Description: Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
Last Action: Senate Hearing continuation: Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 10:30 AM Room 144-S
Last Action Date: March 8, 2023
Title: Removing state department fees for concealed-carry licenses.
Description: Removing state department fees for concealed-carry licenses.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Last Action Date: February 15, 2023
Title: Modifying self-defense and use of force provisions related to the initial aggressor standard, changing immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action to an affirmative defense and requiring reporting and publication of certain data related to use of force cases by the Kansas bureau of investigation and the judicial administrator.
Description: Modifying self-defense and use of force provisions related to the initial aggressor standard, changing immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action to an affirmative defense and requiring reporting and publication of certain data related to use of force cases by the Kansas bureau of investigation and the judicial administrator.
Last Action: Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Last Action Date: March 1, 2023
