Kansas SB 100: Prohibiting ownership in certain real property in this state by foreign individuals and entities.

Bill Text

Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 100
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
1-29
AN ACT concerning housing; relating to denial of housing or other
adverse actions against tenants or prospective tenants on the basis of
past evictions or rental arrears; prohibiting the reporting of evictions or
rental arrears information by consumer reporting agencies or the use of
such information by landlords for adverse action against tenants after
three years from the date of the evictions or rental arrears; requiring
consumer reporting agencies to provide an opportunity for individuals
to explain any record of evictions or rental arrears; enacting the Kansas
fair chance housing and homelessness reduction act; amending K.S.A.
2024 Supp. 50-626 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. Sections 1 through 4, and amendments thereto, shall
be known and may be cited as the Kansas fair chance housing and
homelessness reduction act.
New Sec. 2. As used in sections 1 through 4, and amendments
thereto:
(a) "Adverse action" means a denial or cancellation of, an increase in
any charge for or any other adverse or unfavorable change in the terms of a
rental agreement applied for by a consumer, offered to a consumer or
previously entered into by a consumer for a dwelling unit.
(b) "Consumer" means an individual.
(c) "Consumer report" means any written, oral or other
communication of any information by a consumer reporting agency
bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing, credit capacity,
character, general reputation, personal characteristics, eviction history,
rental arrears or other residential or tenant history or mode of living that is
used or expected to be used or collected, in whole or in part, for the
purpose of serving as a factor in establishing the consumer's eligibility for:
(1) Credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal, family or
household purposes;
(2) employment purposes;
(3) renting a dwelling unit from a landlord as a tenant; or
(4) other purposes as permitted by federal or state law.
(d) "Consumer reporting agency" means any person that for monetary
fees, dues or on a cooperative nonprofit basis, regularly engages, in whole
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or in part, in the practice of assembling or evaluating consumer credit
information or other information on consumers for the purpose of
furnishing consumer reports to third parties and uses any means or facility
of interstate commerce for the purpose of preparing or furnishing
consumer reports. "Consumer reporting agency" includes any consumer
reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a
nationwide basis, reseller or specialty consumer reporting agency.
(e) "Consumer reporting agency that compiles and maintains files on
consumers on a nationwide basis" means a consumer reporting agency that
regularly engages in the practice of assembling or evaluating, and
maintaining, for the purpose of furnishing consumer reports to third parties
bearing on a consumer's credit worthiness, credit standing or credit
capacity, each of the following data regarding consumers residing
nationwide:
(1) Public record information; and
(2) credit account information from persons who furnish such
information regularly and in the ordinary course of business.
(f) "Dwelling unit" means a structure or the part of a structure that is
used as a home, residence or sleeping place by one person who maintains a
household or by two or more persons who maintain a common household.
"Dwelling unit" does not include real property used to accommodate a
manufactured home or mobile home, unless such manufactured home or
mobile home is rented or leased by the landlord.
(g) "File" when used in connection with information on any
consumer, means all of the information on the consumer recorded and
retained by a consumer reporting agency regardless of how the
information is stored.
(h) "Landlord" means the owner, lessor or sublessor of a dwelling
unit, or the building of which it is a part, and the manager of the premises.
(i) "Owner" means one or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom
is vested all or part of the:
(1) Legal title to property; or
(2) beneficial ownership and a right to prevent use and enjoyment of
the premises, including a mortgagee in possession.
(j) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited
liability company, business trust, estate, cooperative, association or other
for-profit or nonprofit entity. "Person" does not include any governmental
agency or other governmental entity.
(k) "Premises" means a dwelling unit, and the structure of which it is
a part, and facilities and appurtenances therein and grounds, areas and
facilities held out for the use of tenants generally or the use of which is
promised to the tenant.
(l) "Rental agreement" means all agreements whether written or