Kansas SB 248: Providing sales tax exemptions for certain food and food ingredients and for the construction or repair of buildings used for human habitation by the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf and repealing the state rate reduction for sales of certain food and food ingredients.

Bill Text

Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 248
By Committee on Judiciary
2-7
AN ACT concerning criminal history record information; providing
criminal history record information for hemp producers to the state fire
marshal; authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency
to receive more criminal history records; updating criminal history
record language related to the state bank commissioner; amending
K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 2-3906, 9-555, 9-565, 9-2411, 22-4714 and 75-7b01
and repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 2-3906 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 2-3906. (a) The Kansas department of agriculture, in consultation
with the governor and attorney general, shall submit a plan to the United
States department of agriculture under which the Kansas department of
agriculture will monitor and regulate the commercial production of
industrial hemp within the state in accordance with 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq.
and any rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
(b) Such plan shall include the following:
(1) A procedure to maintain relevant information regarding land on
which industrial hemp is produced, including a legal description of the
land, for a period of not less than three calendar years;
(2) a procedure for testing, using post-decarboxylation or other
similarly reliable methods, the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration
levels of industrial hemp produced;
(3) a procedure for the effective disposal of industrial hemp and hemp
products that are found to be in violation of this act;
(4) any licensing requirements or other rules and regulations deemed
necessary by the Kansas department of agriculture for the proper
monitoring and regulation of industrial hemp cultivation and production
for commercial purposes, including, but not limited to:
(A) Fees for licenses, license renewals and other necessary expenses
to defray the cost of implementing and operating the plan on an ongoing
basis; and
(B) standards for authorized seed or clone plants;
(5) a procedure for the creation of documentation that any person in
possession of unprocessed industrial hemp may use to prove to any law
enforcement officer that such industrial hemp was lawfully grown under
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this section;
(6) a procedure for conducting annual inspections of, at a minimum, a
random sample of hemp producers to verify that industrial hemp is not
produced in violation of this act; and
(7) any other procedures necessary to meet the requirements set forth
in 7 U.S.C. § 1621 et seq. and any rules and regulations adopted
thereunder.
(c) (1) A hemp producer who negligently violates this section or any
rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall not be subject to any state or
local criminal enforcement action, but shall comply with the following
corrective actions as applicable:
(A) A reasonable date by which the hemp producer shall correct the
negligent violation; and
(B) a requirement that the hemp producer shall periodically report to
the Kansas department of agriculture on the hemp producer's compliance
with this section and rules and regulations adopted hereunder, for a period
of not less than the next two calendar years.
(2) A hemp producer who negligently violates this section or any
rules and regulations adopted hereunder three times in a five-year period
shall be ineligible to produce industrial hemp for a period of five years
beginning on the date of the third violation.
(3) The Kansas department of agriculture shall immediately report
any violation by a hemp producer with a greater culpable mental state than
negligence to the attorney general and such hemp producer shall not be
subject to the exemption in subsection (c)(1).
(d) Any individual otherwise eligible to become a licensed hemp
producer shall not be eligible to produce industrial hemp if such individual
has submitted any materially false information in any application to
become a licensed hemp producer.
(e) (1) The department state fire marshal shall require, as a
qualification for initial or continuing licensure, all individuals seeking a
license or license renewal as a hemp producer under this section to be
fingerprinted and to submit to a state and national criminal history record
check in accordance with K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 22-4714, and amendments
thereto. The state fire marshal may fix and collect a fee in an amount
necessary to reimburse the agency for the costs and fees associated with
processing the fingerprints.
(2) An individual who has been convicted of a felony violation of
article 57 of chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments
thereto, or a substantially similar offense in another jurisdiction, within the
immediately preceding 10 years, shall be disqualified from initial or
continuing licensure as a hemp producer under this section.
(3) The individual seeking a license or lice