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Updated August 16, 2026

Kansas: US state profile

A snapshot of AI governance activity in Kansas: tracked legislation, enforcement actions, federal political money, and the labor baseline. Ask AGIS for the cross-referenced detail behind any of it.

Labor baseline

Union membership rate: 6.2% (2025). Covered by a union contract: 9%.

2025 annual estimates are 11-month averages excluding October; October 2025 data not collected due to the federal government shutdown. Not strictly comparable with other annual averages. Source.

Legislation

33 AI-related documents tracked.

• KS HB2126: Adopting the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. enacted
  Privacy
• KS HB2690: Requirements for school districts to administer certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations under the student data privacy act. proposed
  Children and minorsEducationPrivacy
• KS SB372: Enacting the civil liability for doxing act to prohibit intentionally publishing another person's personally identifiable information without the consent of the person whose information is published u defunct
  Civil liabilityInput controls: ConsentPrivacy
• KS SB304: Removing the sunset provision in the COVID-19 contact tracing privacy act. defunct
  Privacy
• KS HB2179: Adopting the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. defunct
  Privacy
• KS HB2505: Providing exemptions for college and career readiness assessments under the student data privacy act and the student online personal protection act. proposed
  Children and minorsEducationPrivacy
• KS SB541: Prohibiting a governmental entity or public official from ordering or otherwise requiring a person to wear a face mask as a response to a contagious or infectious disease and from restricting worship defunct
  EducationGovernment study or reportGovernment: judicial and law enforcementPrivacy
• KS HB2020: Providing that the employment status of a driver of a motor carrier does not change as a result of the inclusion of safety improvements on a vehicle and establishing conditions for when a driver is an enacted
  Business services and analyticsTransparencyTransportation
• KS HB2662: Enacting the student safety and awareness act to require school districts to designate a month during the school year as student safety and awareness month and to provide educational programs for stud proposed
  Broadcasting and media productionEducationTransparency
• Providing for the modernization of notarization and the notary public process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents and requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2027. proposed
• Providing for the modernization of notarization and the county register of deeds process with respect to real estate documents for the purpose of mitigation of real estate document-related fraud, requiring the development, implementation and administration of a two-tiered authentication system for notarization of real estate documents, requiring use of a 3D biometric antifraud system by all notaries public by December 31, 2026, and allowing any register of deeds to delay filing of real estate documents in the event of suspected fraud for purpose of investigating of the validity of such document. proposed
  Government support: For R&DLicensing, registration, and certificationPrivacy
• State v. Garrett enacted
• Kansas AI Task Force Law enacted
  ConveningGovernance developmentGovernment study or report
• Kansas State GenAI Policy enacted
  DisclosureGovernance developmentPrivacyTransparency
• KS HB2450: Substitute for HB 2450 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purcha defunct
  Business services and analyticsConstructionData centersEnergy and utilitiesSubsidies
• KS SB545: 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, electricity and certain l defunct
  Business services and analyticsConstructionData centersEnergy and utilitiesSubsidies
• Requiring data centers to be located on land that was zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses or was not zoned on July 1, 2025, to qualify for the sales tax exemption for qualified data centers. proposed
  Data centersEnergy and utilitiesSubsidies
• Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years. proposed
  Data centersEcological harmEnergy and utilities
• 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. enacted
  Business services and analyticsConstructionData centersEnergy and utilitiesPerformance requirementsSubsidies
• Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption. proposed
  Data centersEcological harmEnergy and utilities
• KS HB2559: Relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; regulating the use; of generative artificial intelligence; requiring disclosure that an image or speech has been manipulated ; making it a crime proposed
  Arts, sports, leisure, travel, and lifestyleBroadcasting and media productionCivil liabilityDisclosure: Of AI useSales, retail, and customer relationsTiering: Based on technical characteristicsTransparency
• Enacting the use of artificial intelligence in medical decisions transparency act and requiring that all medical necessity determinations be made by a competent licensed physician or healthcare professional. proposed
  Licensing, registration, and certificationMedicine, life sciences and public healthTiering: Based on riskTransparency
• Opposing the federal preemption of state laws that regulate artificial intelligence. proposed
  Governance developmentGovernment: other applications/unspecified
• Creating the Kansas task force on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to study such technologies and make recommendations to the legislature. proposed
  ConveningGovernment study or reportGovernment: other applications/unspecified
• KS HB2671: Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, bloc proposed
  Children and minorsConsumer goodsDetrimental contentDisclosure: In deploymentHarm to health/safetyInput controls: Use restrictionsPrivacySafetyViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• Making it unlawful for a person to knowingly train artificial intelligence to encourage or support suicide or the unlawful killing of another person, provide emotional support, develop emotional relationships, act as a healthcare professional, simulate humans or encourage isolation. proposed
  Medicine, life sciences and public health
• 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. enacted
  Broadcasting and media productionConveningNetworking and telecommunicationsReliability: Robustness
• KS SB525: Creating the protection against deep fakes act to provide a cause of action for damages arising from the use of generative artificial intelligence to create an image or likeness of another person with defunct
  Arts, sports, leisure, travel, and lifestyleCivil liabilityDetrimental contentPrivacyTiering: Based on technical characteristicsViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• KS SB313: Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee. enacted
  ConveningGovernance developmentGovernment: other applications/unspecifiedTransportation
• KS SB546: Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee. defunct
  ConveningGovernance developmentGovernment: other applications/unspecifiedTransportation
• KS HB2772: Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital proposed
  Arts, sports, leisure, travel, and lifestyleBroadcasting and media productionChildren and minorsCivil liabilityDetrimental contentDisclosure: About inputsDisclosure: Of AI useFinancial lossGovernment support: For R&DInput controls: Data useInput controls: Use restrictionsSafetySubsidiesTiering: Based on riskTransparency
• KS SB499: Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital proposed
  Arts, sports, leisure, travel, and lifestyleBroadcasting and media productionChildren and minorsCivil liabilityDetrimental contentDisclosure: About inputsDisclosure: Of AI useFinancial lossGovernment support: For R&DInput controls: Data useInput controls: Use restrictionsSafetySubsidiesTiering: Based on riskTransparencyTransportation
• KS SB375: Prohibiting the use of generative artificial intelligence to create false representations of candidates in election campaign media or of state officials. defunct
  Broadcasting and media productionTiering: Based on technical characteristics

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Enforcement

No enforcement actions recorded for Kansas. When a state attorney general, a federal agency, or a court takes an action involving an AI system here, it will be listed with the respondent, outcome, and any penalty.

Money

$4,802 in tracked political contributions across 124 records.

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