SB 391

                            SENATE BILL No. 391
AN ACT concerning private rental housing; prohibiting cities and counties from adopting
   or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to
   tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher
   program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a
   landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
    Section 1. (a) No city or county shall adopt or enforce any
ordinance or resolution that:
    (1) Prohibits landlords from refusing to lease privately owned
single-family or multi-unit residential property or commercial property
to a person because such person's source of income to pay rent on such
property consists, in whole or in part, of a financial payment or
consideration from or through the housing choice voucher program, or
any successor program, authorized by chapter 8 of title 42 of the United
States code, or any other housing assistance program in which
participation by a landlord is voluntary;
    (2) restricts a landlord's ability to use or consider income-
qualifying methods, credit scores, credit reports, eviction history,
property damage history or criminal history or to request such
information when done to determine whether to lease a property to a
prospective tenant according to such landlord's customarily applied
criteria in making such determinations;
    (3) limits the amount of a security deposit a landlord may require
to lease a property to a prospective tenant; or
    (4) requires landlords to grant an automatic right of first refusal to
tenants.
    (b) Any ordinance or resolution prohibited by subsection (a) that
was adopted prior to July 1, 2026, shall be null and void.
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   Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
SENATE, and passed that body
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SENATE adopted
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                                                         President of the Senate.
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                                                         Secretary of the Senate.
Passed the HOUSE
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HOUSE adopted
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                                                          Speaker of the House.
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                                                    Chief Clerk of the House.
APPROVED _____________________________
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                                                                      Governor.