What changed in Kansas
Insurance law does not sit still, but most guides are written once and left alone. Repealed programs and retired forms keep circulating for years. This is what actually changed inKansas, when, and where to verify it.
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July 1, 2024
Crash reportingLeaving the scene of a fatal crash became a far heavier felony — Levi's law
HB 2665 (L. 2024, ch. 51) rewrote the penalty ladder in K.S.A. 8-1602 for a driver who does not stop and perform the duties K.S.A. 8-1602 through 8-1604 require. Where a driver who knew or reasonably should have known the accident caused injury or death and left anyway faced a severity level 5 person felony, that is now a severity level 4 person felony, and a new subsection makes it a severity level 3 person felony when more than one person died. The act names the amendments Levi's law. The act also closed a gap in the same ladder: damage of exactly $1,000 used to fall between "less than $1,000" and "in excess of $1,000" and so fit neither tier. It now reads "$1,000 or more".
2024 HB 2665, enrolled — an act relating to violations of the uniform act regulating traffic on highwaysJanuary 1, 2017
Minimum coverageThe property damage minimum went from $10,000 to $25,000 — Kansas has not been 25/50/10 since 2016
HB 2446 (L. 2016, ch. 72) amended K.S.A. 40-3107(e) so that every motor vehicle liability policy issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2017 carries a property damage limit of not less than $25,000, up from $10,000. The bodily injury limits of $25,000 per person and $50,000 per accident were left alone, so the state went from 25/50/10 to 25/50/25 in one step. Guides that still list Kansas at 25/50/10 are quoting a limit that stopped applying to new and renewed policies nearly a decade ago. The same act added K.S.A. 40-3107(j), which directs a legislative interim study committee — beginning with the 2026 interim period and at least every 10 years thereafter, subject to authorization by the Legislative Coordinating Council — to study whether all three minimum limits should be adjusted.
2016 HB 2446, enrolled — increasing minimum policy limit for property damage
What this list does and does not cover
Recorded here: changes to the rules this site tracks for Kansas — liability minimums, SR-22 and proof-of-insurance requirements, penalties for driving uninsured, the fault system, what a lapse costs, new-resident deadlines and crash reporting. Each entry names the session law or statute that made the change and the date it took effect, not the date it was signed.
Not recorded: rate filings, individual insurer decisions, court rulings that do not change the text of the law, and changes to rules outside those seven subjects. A short list does not mean a quiet legislature — it means little moved in the parts of Kansas law a driver has to comply with.
A change that has passed but has not yet taken effect is not shown as current anywhere on this site. It sits on the Kansas pages as a dated pending value and replaces the current figure on the morning it comes into force. You can see every pending change across the country at the top of the national change feed, and the sources behind the Kansas figures on its statute index.