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Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Education - Providing for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and correcting federal statutory citations in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.
This bill allows military families to enroll their children in Kansas schools before they actually move here. It also updates a compact between states that helps military kids continue their education when their family moves.
Prohibiting municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program.
This bill prohibits Kansas municipalities from creating a guaranteed income program. This means cities and towns cannot implement programs that provide regular financial assistance to residents.
Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.
This bill sets new deadlines for professional employer organizations (PEOs) to register and renew their status with the Secretary of State. It also changes how PEOs with limited financial resources provide surety bonds.
Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission.
This bill requires local governments to issue building permits within certain deadlines and for the Department of Health and Environment to respond to stormwater runoff notices within 45 days.
Extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years.
This bill extends the time period for water pollution control permits from five years to 10 years. This change applies to permits issued under Kansas' water pollution control permit system.
Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requiring that the secretary provide support to such law enforcement officers, the court review involvement in permanency planning and a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months from such child's removal from the and every subsequent hearing 6 months thereafter.
This bill sets rules for when law enforcement can take a child into custody and requires support for officers. It also ensures courts review permanency planning and hold hearings within certain timeframes.
Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges.
This bill allows professionals like school psychologists, dietitians, cosmetologists, and physicians assistants to practice across state lines without needing separate licenses. This makes it easier for these workers to move or work in multiple states.
Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations.
This bill changes how child support works in Kansas. It says that courts should consider the mother's medical and pregnancy-related expenses when setting up a child support plan for an unborn child. The bill also allows retirement accounts to be used to pay back child support debt.
Including aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility.
This bill updates the definition of a critical infrastructure facility for telecommunications and video services. It now includes aboveground and belowground lines, cables, and wires.
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.
This bill allows certain nonprofit organizations to reimburse their members for expenses related to attending conferences and events. It also provides discounted or free access to entertainment and sporting activities.
Senate Substitute for HB 2056- Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official; requiring that any person nominated for an elected office accept such nomination by signing a notarized statement of acceptance and restricting the number of nominations a person may accept to one nomination per election cycle.
This bill makes it a crime for someone to intentionally mislead an election official. It also requires candidates to accept nominations by signing a statement and limits how many times they can be nominated per election cycle.
Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act.
This bill increases the limits on certain campaign contributions under Kansas' campaign finance act. This means candidates and political committees can accept more money from donors without violating state laws.
Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforcement officer or being armed.
This bill updates Kansas laws about carrying concealed handguns. It changes how people get a license, what happens when someone's license is suspended or revoked, and makes some rules clearer.
Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas register, authorizing the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, renaming the office of the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, securities division, renaming the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, assistant commissioner, securities division and eliminating the requirement of senate confirmation for appointees to such position, requiring the commissioner of insurance to maintain a list of eligible nonadmitted insurers and authorizing such nonadmitted insurers to transact business in Kansas with vehicle dealers and to provide excess coverage insurance on Kansas risks.
This bill gives the insurance commissioner more flexibility to set fees and make changes to certain boards. It also renames some state agencies and allows non-admitted insurers to do business with vehicle dealers and provide extra coverage in Kansas.
Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
This bill extends the time it takes for the State Corporation Commission to make a final decision on applications to build new transmission lines. This means that companies building these lines will have more time before they must receive approval from the state.
Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be authorized upon the order of a healthcare professional, permitting certain ambulance services to offer service for less than 24 hours per day, every day of the year, and requiring entities that control automated external defibrillators to register the device with the emergency medical services board.
This bill updates Kansas laws related to healthcare providers, ambulance services, and automated external defibrillators. It adds maternity centers as healthcare providers, clarifies paramedic activities, and allows some ambulances to operate less than 24 hours a day.
Increasing the membership of the council on travel and tourism, updating the house legislative committee assignment required for council members appointed from the house, and removing provisions requiring allocation of funds from the matching grant program for the promotion of tourism for private, public and nonprofit entities and limiting the percentage of such funds granted to a single entity.
This bill increases the number of members on the Kansas Council on Travel and Tourism. It also updates how House representatives are assigned to the council and removes limits on funds for promoting tourism.
Including programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the international multisensory structured language education council as approved at-risk educational programs.
This bill allows nonprofit organizations accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) to provide approved at-risk educational programs.
Providing that driving school instructors and motorcycle instructors may possess a driver's license or motorcycle driver's license from any state.
This bill allows driving school instructors and motorcycle instructors in Kansas to have a driver's license or motorcycle license from any state.
Excluding dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act.
This bill excludes trailer dealers and manufacturers from certain provisions of a state law regulating vehicle dealers and manufacturers.
Reorganizing subsections of the public assistance statute.
This bill reorganizes parts of Kansas' public assistance law. It doesn't make any changes to what services are available or who can receive them.
Requiring special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election.
This bill requires special elections in Kansas to be held on specific dates: either the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election.
Requiring a quarterly report from the director of the division of vehicles listing the names, addresses and alien registration numbers of certain noncitizens who have been issued a driver's license during such quarter.
This bill requires the Kansas Department of Vehicles to report quarterly the names, addresses, and alien registration numbers of non-citizens who have been issued a driver's license during that quarter.
Including funeral home online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from the voter registration books; requiring that poll workers be citizens of the United States and live within the state of Kansas; prohibiting the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents who are citizens of the United States as poll workers on the basis of residency or being a registered voter; relating to advance voting ballot applications; modifying the requirements for soliciting registered voters to submit advance voting applications.
This bill updates Kansas' voter registration process by removing deceased voters from the rolls using online obituary notices and ensuring poll workers are US citizens living in Kansas. It also allows active military members and their families to work at polls.
Senate Substitute for HCR 5011 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes.
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to limit how much property taxes can increase for real estate and mobile homes. This would set a cap on valuation increases.