Kansas / State / 2025-2026 Regular Session
2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Chapter 97 Rewrote the definition of disabled veteran across the Kansas code at once
Amended the parallel definitions of veteran and disabled veteran in at least K.S.A. 8-160 (licence plate), 32-934 (hunting and fishing licence), 73-201 (public employment preference), 73-230 (disabled veteran business preference) and 79-4502 (homestead refunds), in each case adding the space force to the list of services and adding the groups and individuals listed under 38 C.F.R. 3.7. That regulation recognises the WASPs, certain Merchant Marine service and other civilian groups given veteran status retroactively, so the amendment quietly brought those people inside five Kansas programmes on the same day. Tracked because the percentage in each section did not change and a reader comparing figures would see nothing move, while the population reached did.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, House
- In committee Done, House Health and Human Services, then Senate Public Health and Welfare
- Passed one chamber Done, House
- Passed both chambers Done, House adopted the conference report
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- House Committee on Federal and State Affairs
What it touches
- K.S.A. 8-160
- K.S.A. 32-934
- K.S.A. 73-201
- K.S.A. 73-230
- K.S.A. 79-4502
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Official record
Read 2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Chapter 97 on the jurisdiction's own record