The Kansas Department of Insurance will mandate the use of SLIP+ for reporting and payment of all surplus lines premium taxes in the state, with the requirement taking effect April 1, 2026.
Kansas becomes the eighth state outside of Florida to adopt the platform, joining Colorado, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming, which all came aboard in 2025. Alabama and Montana joined SLIP+ in January 2026.
The platform, also known as the Surplus Lines Information Portal, was developed by the Florida Surplus Lines Service Office (FSLSO) to improve transparency and efficiency for brokers and regulators.
According to FSLSO, the underlying Surplus Lines Automation Suite was originally developed in Florida in 2003, with the legacy SLIP system supporting electronic filings across multiple states for nearly two decades. SLIP+ launched in October 2024 as the next-generation version of the platform.
Under the new mandate, surplus lines brokers and independently procured coverage filers must report policy data through SLIP+ for all Kansas policies effective January 1, 2026, or later. The requirement also covers subsequent endorsements to those policies.
A 3% surplus lines tax and a 0.175% SLIP+ transaction fee will apply to all policies effective on or after January 1, 2026, including any subsequent endorsements. Both the tax and transaction fee are credited pro-rata for return premium, cancellation, or reversal transactions.
Policies and endorsements with effective dates before January 1, 2026, will not incur the SLIP+ transaction fee, though the surplus lines tax still applies.
Filers will also need to submit any previously unreported Kansas surplus lines policies, endorsements, audits, or cancellations with effective dates of January 1, 2024, or later through the platform.
The move comes amid continued expansion in the surplus lines market. Premium volume across the 15 stamping office states reached $90.3 billion through year-end 2025, a 7.8% increase from the prior year.
Item counts also rose 14.1% during the same period, reflecting the increasing transaction volume that platforms like SLIP+ are built to manage.
Tiffany Andersen, director of SLIP+ Client Services, said the organization aims to provide guidance and support to brokers and filers during the transition. She added that the team is "focused on being a hands-on partner throughout this process."
Mark Shealy, executive director of FSLSO, noted that the platform's expansion allows for consistency in surplus lines filing across multiple states. He said the addition of Kansas "further extends the SLIP+ footprint" and supports the goal of simplifying compliance for agents and regulators.
