Kris Kobach

More than 100 news laws are taking effect in Kansas this month. Here's a review of some of them.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach alleged that the Olathe, Shawnee Mission, and Kansas City, Kansas, school districts are violating federal law by not properly notifying parents of their students’ gender identity.

Attorney General Kris Kobach instructed the Kansas Department of Revenue, which houses the division of motor vehicles, not to make gender marker changes while the issue is in litigation.

The Kansas Court of Appeals decision reverses a district court order that prohibited transgender people from changing driver's licenses to reflect their gender identity.

A group of Kansas women say the "pregnancy exclusion" in the state’s Natural Death Act violates the Kansas Constitution.

Legal complaints against adult sites are mounting in Kansas as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether age verification laws are constitutional.

Under the state-federal partnership, an unspecified number of KBI agents would receive ICE training allowing them to issue immigration detainers, serve warrants for some immigration violations and arrest people allegedly in the U.S. without authorization.

Although noncitizens don’t vote and aren’t eligible for federal social services programs, they still use resources in the community. Because Census results are used to allocate federal and state resources, smaller counted populations mean less money for municipalities and states.

A judge blocked access to federally subsidized health insurance for people brought to the country illegally as children. Immigrant rights groups say that can ultimately cost more in tax and health care dollars.

The two packages were received about a half-hour apart at Memorial Hall, a building adjacent to the Capitol that houses both the secretary of state and attorney general offices. Authorities said they weren’t sure if the same person sent both packages.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is leading a multi-state federal lawsuit against a Biden administration executive order from 2021, which asks federal agencies to help register U.S. citizens to vote.

The rulings from Kansas and Missouri federal judges put on hold the federal government helping many of the intended borrowers ease their loan repayment burdens starting July 1. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach had led lawsuits from several GOP states.