Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB242

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Refer
2/20/25  

Caption

Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2100

Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, indemnifying KPERS with respect to actions taken in compliance with such act, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.

KS HB2454

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of construction materials by a contractor for a not-for-profit corporation operating a theater.

KS HB2154

Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.

KS SB88

Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission, establishing the utilities regulation division in the office of the attorney general, requiring such division to represent and protect the collective interests of utility customers in utility rate-related proceedings and exempting the state corporation commission from the open meetings act.

KS HB2493

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.

KS HB2573

Requiring certain libraries that have budgets approved by taxing subdivisions to be subject to the revenue neutral rate independent of the taxing subdivision.

KS HB2508

Authorizing a transfer of state general fund moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund in fiscal year 2025 and all fiscal years thereafter, requiring political subdivisions to credit all such moneys to residential property taxpayers in the form of a rebate and providing a formula for such rebate amount.

KS HB2662

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of construction materials by a contractor for the Kansas fairgrounds foundation.

KS HB2715

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register.

KS SB398

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and requiring the publication of such fees in the Kansas register.

Similar Bills

WV SB543

Clarifying oversight by Attorney General of political subdivision’s hiring of private attorney under contingency fee or contract to sue

TX HB2826

Relating to procurement of a contingent fee contract for legal services by certain governmental entities.

TX SB28

Relating to procurement of a contingent fee contract for legal services by a state agency or political subdivision.

KS HB2228

Senate Substitute for HB 2228 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.

CA AB1091

Health Care Consolidation and Contracting Fairness Act of 2023.

CA AB690

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CA AB506

Pets: sales of dogs, cats, and rabbits.

CA AB931

State Bar Act: consumer legal funding.