The Kansas House Committee on Elections has introduced HB 2224. It lowers the number of signatures needed to qualify a party from 2% of the last gubernatorial vote, to 1%. It also expands the period to collect those signatures from six months to one year. Green Party activists in Kansas are responsible for getting this bill introduced.

Bills to lower the number of signatures for independent candidates or new parties, or to lower the vote test for a party to remain on the ballot, are now pending in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.