Kansas transportation laws

What Kansas has enacted on transportation, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Kansas is one of 41 states that enacted a transportation law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

Bills in scope
7bills in scope
Past committee
1past committee
Most recent action
10 April 2026most recent action

Transportation laws enacted in Kansas

One transportation law enacted in the Kansas Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.

  • HB 2122Increasing 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.Enacted 10 April 2025

    Truck size, weight and road use

Transportation in Kansas, by topic

Transportation bills in Kansas

The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.

1Enacted

6Introduced or inactive

7 bills in scope

Introduced or inactive

6

HB 2262Permitting micro utility trucks to be operated on certain highways and streets and providing conditions for such operation.Dead
HB 2469Expanding the income tax credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures to allow credits against certain premium taxes, privilege fees and privilege taxes and allowing the transfer of unused credits to any individual or entity subject to such taxes.Dead

What it would do: Expands the railroad track maintenance tax credit to apply against premium taxes, privilege fees, and financial institution privilege taxes in addition to income tax, and allows unused credits to be transferred to any individual or entity subject to these taxes for up to five years.

HB 2583Requiring commercial motor vehicle drivers to possess certain identification documents and proficiency of the English language while operating a commercial motor vehicle and establishing fines and penalties for violations thereof.Dead

What it would do: Requires commercial motor vehicle drivers in Kansas to possess valid identification documents and demonstrate English language proficiency while operating. Establishes class B misdemeanor penalties for violations and civil penalties for employers, with fines directed to the human trafficking victim assistance fund.

HB 2604Including gross vehicle weight in the definitions for classes of commercial motor vehicles for drivers' license purposes and modifying the definition of commercial motor vehicle and creating a definition of air mile and gross vehicle weight in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.Dead

What it would do: Modifies commercial motor vehicle classifications for driver's license purposes to include gross vehicle weight alongside gross vehicle weight rating. Adds definitions of air mile and gross vehicle weight to the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.

HB 2606Modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.Dead

What it would do: Modifies the definition of 'conviction' in Kansas's uniform commercial drivers' license act to include an unvacated adjudication of guilt, determination of law violation, forfeiture of bail, plea of guilty or nolo contendere, payment of fine or court cost, or violation of release conditions, regardless of penalty suspension or probation.

SB 95Providing that the legislature may approve the creation of port authorities by enactment of a bill and authorizing the governing body of the unified government of Wyandotte county and Kansas City, Kansas, to create a port authority.Dead

What it would do: Authorizes the governing body of the unified government of Wyandotte county and Kansas City, Kansas to create a port authority and amends K.S.A. 12-3402 to allow the legislature to approve port authority creation by enacted bill rather than concurrent resolution.

Bill titles link to the Kansas Legislature's own page.

What LawSignals covers

What counts as transportation legislation

In scope: Motor carriers and commercial drivers; truck size, weight and road use; truck and fleet emissions; hazardous materials transport; freight rail; ports, maritime and freight corridors; warehouses and delivery; and autonomous trucks and delivery devices.

Questions

Does Kansas have a transportation law?

Yes. Kansas enacted 1 transportation law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them HB 2122. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.

What does Kansas legislate on most in transportation?

Truck size, weight and road use (3 bills), Motor carriers and commercial drivers (3 bills) and Freight rail (1 bill).

Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?

No. Which bills count as Transportation bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.

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