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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2293
3	3	By Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
4	4	Requested by Representative Croft
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6	6	AN ACT concerning infrastructure; relating to drone technology;
7	7	prohibiting the acquisition of critical components of drone technology
8	8	from countries of concern; relating to state contracts; prohibiting state
9	9	agencies from procuring final or finished goods or services from a
10	10	foreign principal.
11	11	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
12	12	Section 1. (a) In addition to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3739, and
13	13	amendments thereto, and any other applicable statutes concerning
14	14	purchases, a governmental agency shall not purchase or acquire any drone
15	15	or any related services, maintenance agreements or equipment, the critical
16	16	components of which were:
17	17	(1) Produced in any country of concern; or
18	18	(2) produced or owned by any foreign principal.
19	19	(b) Any critical components for drones or any related services or
20	20	equipment that were acquired prior to July 1, 2025, and that are not in
21	21	compliance with subsection (a) may continue to be used by the
22	22	governmental agency that acquired such critical components. When a
23	23	governmental agency determines that a critical component must be
24	24	replaced, the governmental agency may use any replacement component
25	25	acquired prior to July 1, 2025, but no new replacement component shall be
26	26	acquired from any foreign principal.
27	27	(c) Any acquisition that is otherwise prohibited under subsection (a)
28	28	or (b) may be completed by a governmental agency if:
29	29	(1) There is no other reasonable means to acquire such critical
30	30	components or of addressing the needs of the governmental agency
31	31	necessitating such acquisition;
32	32	(2) the agreement for such acquisition is approved by the secretary of
33	33	administration after consultation with the adjutant general; and
34	34	(3) failure to acquire such critical components or otherwise address
35	35	the needs of the governmental agency would pose a greater threat to the
36	36	safety and security of this state than that posed by entering into such
37	37	acquisition agreement.
38	38	(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any contract or
39	39	agreement entered into prior to July 1, 2025.
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75	75	Sec. 2. (a) (1) Except as provided by paragraph (2), no state agency
76	76	shall enter into a contract or agreement to procure final or finished goods
77	77	or services from a foreign principal.
78	78	(2) A state agency may enter into a contract or agreement to procure
79	79	final or finished goods or services from a foreign principal if such foreign
80	80	principal:
81	81	(A) Previously received a determination that there are no unresolved
82	82	national security concerns and action under 50 U.S.C. § 4565, as in effect
83	83	on July 1, 2025, that has concluded with respect to a covered transaction,
84	84	if such foreign principal has not undergone a change in control constituting
85	85	a covered control transaction since such determination to conclude action
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87	87	(B) has a national security agreement in effect on July 1, 2025, with
88	88	the committee on foreign investment in the United States, or the United
89	89	States department of defense, under 50 U.S.C. § 4565, as in effect on July
90	90	1, 2025, and maintains such national security agreement.
91	91	(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any contract or
92	92	agreement entered into prior to July 1, 2025.
93	93	Sec. 3. As used in sections 1 and 2, and amendments thereto:
94	94	(a) "Company" means any:
95	95	(1) For-profit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited
96	96	liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust,
97	97	association, sole proprietorship or other organization, including any:
98	98	(A) Subsidiary of such company, a majority ownership interest of
99	99	which is held by such company;
100	100	(B) parent company that holds a majority ownership interest of such
101	101	company; and
102	102	(C) other affiliate or business association of such company whose
103	103	primary purpose is to make a profit; or
104	104	(2) nonprofit organization.
105	105	(b) (1) "Country of concern" means the following:
106	106	(A) People's republic of China, including the Hong Kong special
107	107	administrative region;
108	108	(B) republic of Cuba;
109	109	(C) islamic republic of Iran;
110	110	(D) democratic people's republic of Korea;
111	111	(E) Russian federation; and
112	112	(F) Bolivarian republic of Venezuela.
113	113	(2) "Country of concern" does not include the republic of China
114	114	(Taiwan).
115	115	(c) (1) "Critical component" means those components or
116	116	subcomponents that are:
117	117	(A) Distinct and serviceable articles; and
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161	161	(B) the primary component or subcomponent of an identifiable
162	162	process or subprocess necessary to the recording, storing or transmitting of
163	163	data or any other form of information.
164	164	(2) "Critical component" includes any software installed in a drone.
165	165	(d) "Domicile" means the country where a:
166	166	(1) Company is organized;
167	167	(2) company completes a substantial portion of its business; or
168	168	(3) majority of a company's ownership interest is held.
169	169	(e) "Drone" means an unmanned aircraft that is controlled remotely
170	170	by a human operator or operates autonomously through computer software
171	171	or other programming.
172	172	(f) "Foreign principal" means:
173	173	(1) The government or any official of the government of a country of
174	174	concern;
175	175	(2) any political party, subdivision thereof or any member of a
176	176	political party of a country of concern;
177	177	(3) any corporation, partnership, association, organization or other
178	178	combination of persons organized under the laws of or having its principal
179	179	place of business in a country of concern. "Foreign principal" includes any
180	180	subsidiary owned or wholly controlled by any such entity;
181	181	(4) any agent of or any entity otherwise under the control of a country
182	182	of concern;
183	183	(5) any individual whose residence is in a country of concern and
184	184	who is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States; or
185	185	(6) any individual, entity or combination thereof described in
186	186	paragraphs (1) through (5) that has a controlling interest in any company
187	187	formed for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, transporting or
188	188	selling critical components for drones and related services and equipment.
189	189	(g) "Governmental agency" means the state or any political or taxing
190	190	subdivision of the state or any office, agency or instrumentality thereof.
191	191	(h) "State agency" means any department, authority, bureau, division,
192	192	office or other governmental agency of this state.
193	193	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
194	194	publication in the statute book.
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