Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB391: Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant
Status: Chaptered, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning private rental housing; prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.
From the enrolled text, April 9, 2026:
AN ACT concerning private rental housing; prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant. Section 1. (a) No city or county shall adopt or enforce any ordinance or resolution that: (1) Prohibits landlords from refusing to lease privately owned single-family or multi-unit residential property or commercial property to a person because such person's source of income to pay rent on such property consists, in whole or in part, of a financial payment or consideration from or through the housing choice voucher program, or any successor program, authorized by chapter 8 of title 42 of the United States code, or any other housing assistance program in which participation by a landlord is voluntary; (2) restricts a landlord's ability to use or consider incomequalifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction history, property damage history or criminal history or to request such information when done to determine whether to lease a property to a prospective tenant according to such landlord's customarily applied criteria in making such determinations; (3) limits the amount of a security deposit a landlord may …