New Kansas laws taking effect July 1, 2025

98 laws take effect July 1, 2025.

Of the 286 bills enacted since 2025, 286 have an effective date and 0 don't yet (pending). A law here takes effect that day by its main provisions; parts of a staggered act may take effect on other dates.

Updated Nov 1, 2026 at 5:06 p.m. EST.

Government (23)

  • HB 2027 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Reorganizing subsections of the public assistance statute

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 26).

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  • HB 2060 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 72).

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  • HB 2069 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 81).

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  • HB 2092 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 9).

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  • HB 2134 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 89).

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  • HB 2160 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 70).

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  • HB 2166 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 17).

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  • HB 2169 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain nonresidential property located in Johnson county

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 96).

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  • HB 2215 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Modifying the definition of public-private partnership to increase the allowable cost-share limit for expenditures by the department of corrections on certain correctional institution construction projects

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 28).

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  • HB 2217 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 108).

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  • HB 2238 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Directing legislative administrative services to prepare all committee minutes

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 23).

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  • HB 2261 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing that Kansas highway patrols officers majors are to be within the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and a superintendent, assistant superintendent or major shall be returned to a rank with permanent status not lower than the rank held when the officer was appointed to such respective position

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 2).

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  • HB 2284 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Directing the department of administration to adopt written policies governing the negotiated procurement of managed care organizations to provide state medicaid services pursuant to a contract with the Kansas program of medical assistance

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 106).

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  • HB 2291 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Creating the regulatory relief division within the office of the attorney general and establishing the general regulatory sandbox program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 107).

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  • HB 2304 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring local governments to report certain local economic development incentive program information to the secretary of commerce, defining such programs, requiring the secretary of commerce to post such information on the economic development incentive program database maintained by the secretary and requiring certain search result presentation and report formats.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 54).

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  • SB 104 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Granting the Shawnee county board of county commissioners the discretion to create a citizens commission on local government

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 31).

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  • SB 13 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 29).

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  • SB 166 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Enacting the fostering competitive career opportunities act to remove postsecondary degree requirements from state employment considerations

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 12).

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  • SB 204 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county and requiring the case, warrant and subpoena information be sealed in criminal and juvenile offender cases

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 121).

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  • SB 241 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 74).

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  • SB 29 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for SB 29 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Removing the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 115).

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  • SB 64 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 88).

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  • SB 7 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing the statutory limits on bonds issued by a township based on township population and purpose of the bond issuance

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 3).

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Finance (11)

  • HB 2050 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas register, authorizing the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, renaming the office of the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, securities division, renaming the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, assistant commissioner, securities division and eliminating the requirement of senate confirmation for appointees to such position, requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers and authorizing such nonadmitted insurers to transact business in Kansas with vehicle dealers and to provide excess coverage insurance on Kansas risks

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 87).

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  • HB 2107 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishing a statute of limitations for such claims and requiring the state corporation commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 53).

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  • HB 2117 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 10).

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  • HB 2118 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 56).

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  • HB 2152 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for HB 2152 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Mandating financial institutions to secure governmental unit deposits in excess of the amount insured or guaranteed by the FDIC by utilizing a public moneys pooled method of securities, prohibiting investment advisers that execute bids for the investment of public moneys from managing moneys directly from such bid, allowing governmental unit deposits to be invested at a rate agreed upon by the governmental unit and the financial institution, requiring certification from a governmental unit that deposits in the municipal investment pool fund were first offered to a financial institution in the preceding year and allowing financial institutions to file complaints upon the failure to comply

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 41).

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  • HB 2334 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Enacting the Kansas protected cell captive insurance company act, providing for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance company and updating certain terms, requirements and conditions of the captive insurance act, reducing insurance company premium tax rates, creating parity between the insurance agent and public adjuster licensing requirements, authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register not later than December 1 of the current year

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 99).

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  • HB 2371 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 95).

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  • SB 139 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 78).

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  • SB 21 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 92).

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  • SB 42 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 94).

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  • SB 54 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for SB 54 by Committee on Judiciary - Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requiring reporting of such agreements to courts

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 60).

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Crime (9)

  • HB 2052 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 55).

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  • HB 2061 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Including aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 46).

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  • HB 2075 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requiring that the secretary provide support to such law enforcement officers, the court review involvement in permanency planning and a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months from such child's removal from the and every subsequent hearing 6 months thereafter

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 79).

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  • HB 2109 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Exempting public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 49).

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  • SB 135 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 76).

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  • SB 137 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act to a licensed firearm dealer

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 45).

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  • SB 156 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 119).

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  • SB 186 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 120).

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  • SB 237 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 122).

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Healthcare (8)

  • HB 2039 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be authorized upon the order of a healthcare professional, permitting certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requiring entities that control automated external defibrillators to register the device with the emergency medical services board

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 85).

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  • HB 2249 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 90).

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  • HB 2307 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Transferring the power to authorize and oversee certain activities regarding prenatal and postnatal diagnosed conditions awareness programs from the department of health and environment to the Kansas council on developmental disabilities.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 38).

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  • SB 126 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    House Sub for SB 126 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund, increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances and increasing the annual assessment rate on hospital providers

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 93).

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  • SB 175 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Updating the definition of athletic trainer and providing an exemption for those licensed in another state, District of Columbia, territory or foreign country to practice in Kansas

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 6).

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  • SB 250 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 103).

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  • SB 67 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for SB 67 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing registered nurse anesthetists to prescribe, procure and administer drugs consistent with the registered nurse anesthetist's education and qualifications

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 35).

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  • SB 88 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring the state long-term care ombudsman and regional ombudsman to receive training in memory care

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 5).

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Education (7)

  • HB 2033 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Including programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the international multisensory structured language education council as approved at-risk educational programs

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 105).

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  • HB 2045 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 118).

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  • HB 2102 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Education - Providing for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and correcting federal statutory citations in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 16).

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  • HB 2185 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Updating the Kansas national guard educational assistance act to include dependents of national guard members and the Kansas national guard educational master's for enhanced readiness and global excellence (EMERGE) program to include other advanced degrees

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 15).

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  • HB 2382 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 111).

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  • SB 45 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for SB 45 by Committee on Education - Requiring the state board of education to calculate graduation rates for all school districts for purposes of accreditation using an alternative calculation

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 62).

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  • SB 78 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibiting accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and providing a cause of action for violations thereof

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 14).

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Taxes (7)

  • HB 2062 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 112).

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  • HB 2231 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing an additional personal exemption for head of household tax filers and increasing the personal exemption for certain disabled veterans for purposes of income tax, modifying the definition of household income related to increased property tax homestead refund claims, providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor, providing for the apportionment pursuant to the three-factor test of a manufacturer who sells alcoholic liquor, requiring the use of single sales factor pursuant to the multistate tax compact, establishing deductions from income when using the single sales factor and receipts factor, providing for the decrease in corporate income tax rates, determining when sales other than tangible personal property are made in the state, excluding sales of a unitary business group of electric and natural gas public utilities, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 123).

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  • HB 2289 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 129).

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  • SB 117 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Expanding the property tax exemption for Strother field airport property

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 44).

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  • SB 227 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 77).

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  • SB 269 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain amount in the budget stabilization fund

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 116).

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  • SB 98 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 124).

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Traffic (7)

  • HB 2030 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Excluding dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 58).

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  • HB 2122 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles, trucks and electric motorcycles and distributing the fees to the state highway fund and the special city and county highway fund, modifying the threshold limit for allowing quarterly payments of certain truck and truck tractor annual vehicle registration fees and eliminating the two-quarter grace period for truck or truck tractor owners that have delinquent quarterly payments before certain penalties apply

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 64).

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  • HB 2201 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for the FFA, route 66 association of Kansas and blackout distinctive license plates, creating the license plate replacement fund and modifying requirements for the issuance and production of license plates and the documentation requirements for military license plate applications

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 75).

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  • HB 2222 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring ignition interlock device manufacturers to pay fees to the state for the administration of the ignition interlock program

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 33).

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  • HB 2263 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Designating a future interchange on K-10 highway as the Kris Norton memorial interchange, a portion of K-5 highway as the Rep Marvin S Robinson memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 160 as the CPL Monte Wayne Forrest memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 77 as the POW MIA memorial highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 (026) in Clay county as the POW MIA memorial bridge, and redesignating a current portion of the Harry Darby memorial highway for interstate highway 635

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 101).

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  • SB 8 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 7).

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  • SB 97 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 37).

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Agriculture (6)

  • HB 2145 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Substitute for HB 2145 by Committee on Local Government - Establishing the Butler county fair board to consist of 15 members, providing for the appointment of members to such board and allowing up to five members of such board to be appointed from the county at large

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 11).

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  • HB 2254 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring milk processors to hold payments in trust for milk producers until full payment is received, with funds in escrow considered held in trust

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 24).

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  • HB 2255 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 91).

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  • SB 36 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts and providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 19).

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  • SB 58 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 21).

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  • SB 89 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 36).

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Budget (6)

  • HB 2007 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 125).

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  • HB 2037 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 51).

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  • HB 2101 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Prohibiting municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 42).

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  • HB 2221 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Abolishing the department of corrections alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund, creating the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund and transferring the moneys and liabilities from such abolished fund to the Kansas department for aging and disability services alcohol and drug abuse treatment fund

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 32).

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  • HB 2240 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for HB 2240 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program, increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to act on agency requests when the legislature is not in session

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 110).

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  • SB 35 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 71).

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Elections (5)

  • HB 2016 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Including funeral home online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from the voter registration books; requiring that poll workers be citizens of the United States and live within the state of Kansas; prohibiting the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents who are citizens of the United States as poll workers on the basis of residency or being a registered voter; relating to advance voting ballot applications; modifying the requirements for soliciting registered voters to submit advance voting applications

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 61).

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  • HB 2022 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 82).

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  • HB 2056 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for HB 2056- Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official; requiring that any person nominated for an elected office accept such nomination by signing a notarized statement of acceptance and restricting the number of nominations a person may accept to one nomination per election cycle

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 104).

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  • HB 2106 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Banning contributions from foreign nationals for the support or defeat of a proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 27).

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  • HB 2206 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Renaming the Kansas governmental ethics commission to the Kansas public disclosure commission, defining terms in the campaign finance act, requiring the filing of statements of independent expenditures, prohibiting agreements requiring contributions in the name of another and requiring the termination of unused campaign finance accounts

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 65).

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Defense (2)

  • HB 2280 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Adding a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran and removing the active requirement from military service members for occupational licensure

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 97).

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  • SB 9 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    House Substitute for SB 9 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Prohibiting foreign principals from acquiring interests in real estate in proximity to military installations, state agencies and local government from purchasing drones or critical components of drones from foreign principals or that are manufactured in countries of concern and foreign principals from receiving benefits from economic development programs

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 68).

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Public Lands (2)

  • HB 2085 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 20).

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  • HB 2168 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Extending the amount of time required for reports to be filed with the state historical society for certain United States public land surveys from 30 to 90 days

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 57).

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AI (1)

  • HB 2313 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Senate Substitute for HB 2313 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Prohibiting the use of the artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek and other artificial intelligence platforms controlled by a country of concern on state-owned devices and on any state network and the use of genetic sequencers or operational software used for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary

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    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 84).

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Civil Rights (1)

  • HB 2182 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Prohibiting a sheriff from charging a fee for service of process for proceedings under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 22).

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Housing (1)

  • HB 2088 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 67).

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Other (2)

  • HB 2335 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 127).

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  • HB 2338 · 2025 Regular SessionPublished

    Authorizing the board of cosmetology to issue temporary location and temporary guest artist permits and establishing criteria therefor.

    How we got this date

    Published by the legislature: Effective 7/1/2025; published in the statute book (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, chapter 39).

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