Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
6 instruments in Kansas. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the disabled veteran income tax exemption from $2,250 to $2,320.
Amended K.S.A. 79-32,121(b) so a veteran honorably discharged and in receipt of VA compensation at the 100% rate for a permanent disability gets an additional Kansas exemption of $2,320 for tax year 2025 and after, matching the per-dependent exemption, where it had been $2,250 since tax year 2023. Chapter 112 of the same session, House Bill 2382, had amended the section two weeks earlier without touching the figure, so the revisor prints both versions: 79-32,121 still reads $2,250 and 79-32,121b reads $2,320. The Department of Revenue applies $2,320 on the 2025 Form K-40. Tracked because the copy a reader finds first is the stale one.
▲Expands benefitsMeasures household income for the property tax freeze by Kansas AGI, which counts less retirement income.
Amended K.S.A. 79-4508a to provide that for tax year 2025 and all tax years thereafter, household income means the total Kansas adjusted gross income of all persons of the household. Before this the claim used the much broader definition in 79-4502(a), which counted the gross amount of any pension or annuity, all dividends and interest whether or not in adjusted gross income, workers compensation, loss-of-time insurance and up to half of social security. Moving to Kansas AGI is a substantial loosening for a household living on retirement income, and a veteran who was over the limit under the old definition may be under it now. Tracked because the change is invisible in the published income figure, which did not move: the same dollar limit now admits more people.
▲Expands benefitsAdds the Space Force and the groups recognized under 38 C.F.R. 3.7 to the Kansas veteran definitions.
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.
▲Expands benefitsLets a Guard member pass unused educational assistance to a dependent.
Amended the Kansas national guard educational assistance act to add a definition of "dependent" as an individual registered as an eligible dependent of the sponsoring guard member in the defense enrollment eligibility reporting system, and to let a member pass unused benefit to that dependent. Before this the assistance was usable only by the member. Tracked because it changes the calculation a serving member makes about whether to spend their own remaining hours, and because guidance written before the 2025 session describes the programme as member-only.
▲Expands benefitsExempts up to $24,000 a year of purchases by a 100% or totally disabled veteran from Kansas sales tax.
Enacted K.S.A. 79-3606h, exempting from Kansas retailers’ sales tax all sales of tangible personal property and services to a Kansas resident honorably discharged from active service whom VA certifies at 100% disability or deems totally disabled or unemployable, where the disability is permanent. Capped at $24,000 of qualifying sales per year per eligible person, with motor vehicles, alcohol, tobacco and vaping products carved out and nothing for the production of income. A spouse or authorised household member may purchase on the veteran’s behalf, and a surviving spouse continues until remarriage. Governor Kelly vetoed the bill and both chambers overrode the veto. The act took effect July 1, 2024 but wrote the exemption itself to begin July 1, 2026, so guidance published in between describes it in the future tense. Tracked because the two-year gap between enactment and operation is exactly the window in which a veteran is told a benefit exists and finds it does not yet.
▲Expands benefitsRefunds a 50% disabled veteran or a person 65 or older the growth in property tax over the base year.
Enacted K.S.A. 79-4508a, a second and uncapped homestead refund that pays the difference between the current property tax bill and the bill for the claimant’s base year. Claimants are a disabled veteran rated 50% or more, or a person 65 or older. Household income must be at or under $50,000, indexed annually thereafter by the federal cost-of-living adjustment, and the base-year appraised value of the homestead must be $350,000 or less. Anyone who would have been eligible before 2021 has a base year deemed to be 2021, so no freeze runs deeper than that. Section 48 of the same act amended 79-4509 to exempt this claim from the $700 ceiling that caps the older homestead refund. Tracked because the new claim is worth nothing in its first year and grows every year after, so the correct choice between it and the older refund changes over time and no source states the crossover.
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