Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB30: Providing for occupational licensing annual reports by agencies to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations and requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by the legislature by ratification
Status: Chaptered, April 9, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning labor and employment; relating to occupational licensing; providing for occupational licensing annual reports by agencies to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations; requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by the legislature by ratification.
From the enrolled text, March 27, 2026:
AN ACT concerning labor and employment; relating to occupational licensing; providing for occupational licensing annual reports by agencies to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations; requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by the legislature by ratification. Section 1. For purposes of sections 1 through 3, and amendments thereto: (a) "Agency" means any department, bureau, division, board, authority, agency, commission or institution of the executive branch of state government. "Agency" does not include the behavioral sciences regulatory board, board of examiners in optometry, board of nursing, Kansas dental board, state board of healing arts or state board of pharmacy. (b) "Material change" means a modification that significantly affects the nature, scope, value or fundamental aspects of the occupational license that is sufficiently important to influence duties, decisions, rights or obligations of the licensee or license applicant. (c) "Occupational license" means a nontransferable and exclusive authorization in law in which the legislature, or an agency as authorized by the legislature, establishes the personal qualifications necessary to engage in, and the rules and regulations that govern, any occupation or profession. "Occupational license" does not include an occupational license regulated by the behavioral sciences regulatory board, board of examiners in optometry, board of nursing, Kansas dental board, state …