TOPEKA, Kan. — When Panasonic moved to build a sprawling battery factory in Johnson County, it confirmed with federal officials the site was environmentally safe. And the company convinced Kansas to provide hundreds of millions in financial incentives. But Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is proposing new legislation that would have also required the Japanese company to convince a council of state leaders that its foreign status didn’t post a security risk to Kansas or the United States. Kobach wants state lawmakers to approve a bill banning by default all foreign ownership or leasing of th…