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IntroducedJan 21, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 17, 2025
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Signed into LawApr 10, 2025
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.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Apr 10, 2025: Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 42
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurancesponsor
- Eric Turek on behalf of Kansas Insurance DepartmentRequester
Votes
YES: 102
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- B.
- W.
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Osman
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- L.
- Wolf
- Woodard
NO: 20
ABSENT: 3
YES: 124
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 1
OTHER: 0
Actions
- Apr 10, 2025 | Senate
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025
- Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Mar 27, 2025 | Senate
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 39 Nay: 1
- Mar 27, 2025 | House
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 124 Nay: 1
- Mar 19, 2025 | House
- Motion to accede adopted; Representative Sutton, Representative Bergkamp and Representative Neighbor appointed as conferees
- Mar 18, 2025 | Senate
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Senator Dietrich , Senator Fagg and Senator Francisco as conferees
- Mar 17, 2025 | House
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 102 Nay: 20
- Mar 14, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Mar 07, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Insurance
- Mar 03, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Monday, March 3, 2025, 3:30 PM Room 218-N
- Feb 25, 2025 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Insurance
- Feb 19, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Dietrich
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Dietrich was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Titus
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Titus was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 2
- Feb 17, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
- Feb 12, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 9:30 AM Room 546-S
- Feb 11, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 9:30 AM Room 546-S
- Jan 22, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
- Jan 21, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced
Bill Texts
- As introducedPDF
- As Amended by Senate CommitteePDF
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}PDF
- As Amended by House CommitteePDF
- Conference Committee Report - Thu, Mar 27, 2025 - Amendment to SB42PDF
- EnrolledPDF
- Senate Amendment -- Offered by Senator Titus, 02/19/2025PDF
- Senate Amendment -- Offered by Senator Dietrich, 02/19/2025PDF
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- Conference Committee Report Brief - Thu, Mar 27, 2025PDF
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Ed Klumpp, Legislative Liaison, Kansas Sheriff's Association, Kansas Association of Police, Kansas Peace Officers Association (Proponent)
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Lt. Roy Wise, Kansas Highway Patrol (Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Elizabeth Smoller, General Council, Kansas Association of Insurance Agents (Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Eileen Ma, Assistant Revisor, Revisor of Statutes (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Insurance, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Insurance, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Eileen Ma, Office of Revisor (Legal Memo)
- House Committee on Insurance, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Mandy Roe, Department of Insurance (Proponent)
- House Committee on Insurance, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Edward Klumpp, Associations of Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, and Peace Officers (Proponent)
- House Committee on Insurance, Wed, Feb 12, 2025: Testimony by Erik Smith, Kansas Highway Patrol (Proponent)
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Insurance, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Eileen Ma, Office of the Revisor (Amendment)
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Insurance
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance