Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2028 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/16/2025

                            Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2028
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Requested by Representative Corbet
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AN ACT concerning wildlife; licenses; requiring the Kansas department of 
wildlife and parks to offer discounted resident senior combination 
hunting and fishing passes to residents of this state who are 65 years of 
age or older; removing the expiration date for Kansas kids lifetime 
combination hunting and fishing licenses; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 
32-9,101 and repealing the existing section; reviving and amending 
K.S.A. 32-9,100 and repealing the revived section; also repealing 
K.S.A. 32-9,100, as amended by section 64 of chapter 7 of the 2023 
Session Laws of Kansas.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 32-9,100 is hereby revived and amended to read as 
follows: 32-9,100. On and after January 1, 2013 July 1, 2020, the Kansas 
department of wildlife, and parks and tourism shall offer a resident senior 
combination hunting and fishing pass to residents of this state who are 65 
years of age or more. The fee for such pass shall be an amount not to 
exceed 
1
/8 the fee for a general combination lifetime hunting and fishing 
license. The provisions of this section shall expire on June 30, 2020.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-9,101 is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 32-9,101. (a) (1) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall issue 
and make available a Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and 
fishing license to any child who is a resident, as defined in K.S.A. 32-701, 
and amendments thereto, and:
(A) Five years of age or younger, upon payment of a license fee that 
shall not exceed $300; or
(B) six or seven years of age, upon payment of a license fee that shall 
not exceed $500.
(2) Such license fee may be paid on behalf of such child.
(b) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall report annually to the 
house of representatives agriculture and natural resources budget 
committee and the senate committee on agriculture and natural resources, 
or the successor of such committees, on the number of such Kansas kids 
lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses issued by the Kansas 
department of wildlife and parks.
(c) The provisions of this section shall expire on July 1, 2032.
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Sec. 3. K.S.A. 32-9,100, as revived and amended by section 1 of this 
act, K.S.A. 32-9,100, as amended by section 64 of chapter 7 of the 2023 
Session Laws of Kansas, and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-9,101 are hereby 
repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
publication in the Kansas register.
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