Roll Call Votes
How Kansas legislators voted on key bills
House Conference Committee Report not adopted - Yea: 59 Nay: 63
SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB487 — Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act, providing for a petition to determine that an offender is indigent and authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for a violation of the act involving nonpayment of a fee.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 29 Nay: 10
SB462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 86 Nay: 37
SB462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
SB435 — Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the office of the state treasurer, authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund, modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments and the KPERS board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board, requiring newly affiliated KP&F employers to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service and repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 35 Nay: 4
SB418 — Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB412 — Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee's estate assets.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 37 Nay: 2
SB403 — Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 29 Nay: 11
SB391 — Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 37 Nay: 3
SB382 — Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher, providing for special education state aid reimbursement for certain qualified teachers, authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB380 — Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB374 — Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.
House Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 87 Nay: 37
SB368 — Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.
Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 9
SB368 — Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 29 Nay: 10
SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 87 Nay: 37
SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
SB356 — Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 38 Nay: 1
SB353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge, a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge, a portion of interstate 35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway, a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for interstate 35.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
SB260 — Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB232 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 88 Nay: 34
SB229 — House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 74 Nay: 49
SB197 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB480 — Reviving repealed statutes related to estates of absentees and requiring nonresident fiduciaries to appoint an agent residing in this state.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 32 Nay: 7
SB459 — Removing the prisoner review board from the supervision of the secretary of corrections, changing the appointing authority and creating qualifications for the members of the board and requiring parole hearings to be postponed if proper notice of the public comment session is not made to the victim.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 117 Nay: 5
SB418 — Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB408 — Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 39 Nay: 0
SB398 — Requiring a proponent to demonstrate that it is more likely than not that certain specialized knowledge will help the trier of fact to understand evidence before certain qualified witnesses may testify.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 83 Nay: 40
SB382 — Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher, providing for special education state aid reimbursement for certain qualified teachers, authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities and authorizing foreign exchange students who reside with a host family to enroll in and attend the resident school district of the host family.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0
SB380 — Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 121 Nay: 0
SB374 — Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0
SB361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 105 Nay: 19
SB356 — Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0
SB271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0
SB435 — Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for the office of the state treasurer, authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund, modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments and the KPERS board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board, requiring newly affiliated KP&F employers to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service and repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 125 Nay: 0
SB412 — Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee's estate assets.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 76 Nay: 48
SB391 — Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 32 Nay: 8
SB375 — Enacting the proxy advisor transparency act, requiring proxy advisors to make certain disclosures when recommending an action against company management, authorizing the attorney general to investigate and take enforcement actions against violators and establishing a private right of action for a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 33 Nay: 7
SB325 — Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds and authorizing county treasurers to charge certain increased fees for vehicle registration transactions.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 98 Nay: 27
SB260 — Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 108 Nay: 17
SB232 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 102 Nay: 20
SB403 — Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.
Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
SB364 — Requiring the department of wildlife and parks to offer a discounted resident senior combination hunting and fishing license to residents of Kansas who are 65 years of age or older and increasing the maximum age to qualify for the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license and decreasing the maximum fee and removing the expiration of such license.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 123 Nay: 0
SB353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 109 Nay: 12
SB325 — Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds and authorizing county treasurers to charge certain increased fees for vehicle registration transactions.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 122 Nay: 0
SB321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge, a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge, a portion of interstate 35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway, a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for interstate 35.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 22 Nay: 18
SB254 — Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 122 Nay: 0
HB2719 — Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government, adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act and requiring an agency submit a proposed rule and regulation to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations prior to presentation of a bill to the legislature for ratification.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 120 Nay: 1
HB2647 — Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to establish a statewide conduit system for fiber optic transmissions of broadband connections.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2647 — Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to establish a statewide conduit system for fiber optic transmissions of broadband connections.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 123 Nay: 0
HB2615 — Designating a portion of United States highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for United States highway 75.
Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2615 — Designating a portion of United States highway 75 as the Brig Gen George H Wark memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the purple heart/combat wounded veterans highway for United States highway 75.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 119 Nay: 3
HB2595 — Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 101 Nay: 21
HB2602 — Establishing requirements for a portable benefit plan for independent contractors, determining types of contributions to such plans and providing a subtraction modification for Kansas income tax purposes.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 122 Nay: 0
HB2571 — Senate Substitute for HB 2571 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Increasing the cost threshold for when a county shall use the public bidding process in awarding a construction contract.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 85 Nay: 37
HB2444 — Providing that jail credit when consecutive sentences are imposed shall not apply to more than one case, creating special sentencing rules when a felony is committed by certain offenders while on probation, parole or postrelease supervision for a prior felony and requiring secured minimum bonds for certain defendants who commit a new felony while on probation, parole, postrelease supervision or bond for a prior felony unless the court makes certain findings.
House Emergency Final Action - Adopted as amended by Required 2/3 Majority - Yea: 84 Nay: 40
SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.
House EFA Subject to Amendment and Debate - Amendment by Representative Carpenter, B. was adopted. - Yea: 77 Nay: 41
SCR1603 — Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
SB524 — Requiring banks to enter into a written agreement with the state treasurer to be a depository of public moneys, increasing the market value of securities necessary to secure the deposit of public moneys, providing procedures for when a depository fails to follow the requirements of the state treasurer, modifying certain definitions, authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method, creating the public moneys fee fund and providing exceptions to the public moneys pooled method if accounts are subject to conflicting federal law.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 34 Nay: 6
SB521 — Providing for income tax credits for payment of employee's child care related expenses and certain employer contributions to expand community child care availability.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
SB517 — Expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
SB454 — Enhancing the criminal penalty for committing certain crimes in the context of transnational repression and requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 21 Nay: 19
SB393 — Authorizing any county or city to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages 23 hours a day, seven days a week for the duration of the FIFA 2026 world cup.
Senate Concurred with amendments - Yea: 31 Nay: 9
SB366 — House Substitute for Senate Bill 366 by Committee on Transportation - Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties thereof and permitting the display of certain lighting in road construction zones by vehicles and trailers engaged in highway construction and maintenance operations.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 38 Nay: 2
SB329 — Requiring the county appraiser to submit a single property appraisal report at the valuation appeal hearing before the regular division of the state board of tax appeals.
House Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 77 Nay: 47
SB254 — Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
HB2781 — Authorizing the state historical society to acquire the junior officers' quarters at Fort Dodge and provide for the use, preservation, improvement, control and maintenance thereof.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 33 Nay: 7
HB2769 — Requiring members of governing bodies of subordinate service taxing areas to be residents of such taxing areas.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2767 — Establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2762 — Modifying the crime of unlawful sexual relations to describe who is a person in a position of authority for a school.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
HB2760 — Enacting the esthetics licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for estheticians.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2747 — Specifying that courts shall consider certain factors in determining whether a prior violation of law is comparable to any act described in certain driving under the influence crimes when calculating a person's criminal history score under the Kansas sentencing guidelines act.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 39 Nay: 1
HB2739 — Relating to housing code requirements, removing the definition of apartment houses from chapter 31 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, providing requirements for adoption of the international fire code, 2024 edition, and providing that certain state accessibility standards are not applicable to moderate income housing program and Kansas investor tax credit housing act projects.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 121 Nay: 3
HB2737 — Enacting the taxpayer agreement act to provide for an alternative method of tax increment financing of municipal economic development projects through taxpayer agreements.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 37 Nay: 3
HB2731 — Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9
HB2729 — Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9
HB2727 — Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2719 — Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government, adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act and requiring an agency submit a proposed rule and regulation to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations prior to presentation of a bill to the legislature for ratification.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2700 — Establishing the Kansas digital right-to-repair act to provide the right for persons who purchase digital electronic equipment to obtain the legal authorization and necessary documentation and parts from original equipment manufacturers to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2653 — Requiring the secretary of corrections to assist inmates with obtaining identification and employment-related documentation prior to release from custody.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2651 — Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed - Yea: 36 Nay: 4
HB2644 — Requiring a county appraiser to adjust the value of personal property mobile homes, residential and commercial property upon final determination or obtain a fee simple appraisal if the appraised value exceeds 5% increase over five years.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2639 — Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria and treatment provided at such centers and transferring moneys from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund for use at such centers.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2627 — Expanding permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and eligible spouses.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2626 — Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a registry kiosk of Kansas military forces killed in action or who died of wounds incurred during active duty to be placed within the state capitol, enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters, establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses and permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and such members’ eligible spouses.
House Concurred with amendments - Yea: 124 Nay: 0
HB2622 — Modifying the municipal lease-purchase protest petition requirements.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2618 — Requiring the state board of education to report to the legislature on federal moneys received by the state, ending certain educational reporting requirements and applying expiration dates to other educational reporting requirements.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2613 — Providing for the crime victims compensation board to establish fees chargeable for conducting examinations of persons who may be victims of sexual assault, authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations to administer such fees and to use moneys in the crime victims compensation fund for the payment of such fees and allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the board.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2606 — Modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act.
Senate Final Action - Passed - Yea: 29 Nay: 11
HB2603 — Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2602 — Establishing requirements for a portable benefit plan for independent contractors, determining types of contributions to such plans and providing a subtraction modification for Kansas income tax purposes.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2601 — Establishing a registry for child abuse and neglect to be maintained by the secretary for children and families, providing for registration and expungement processes that include administrative hearings and opportunities for subsequent appeals, requiring reports of abuse or neglect to include information regarding a custody dispute concerning the child who is the subject of the report and directing the secretary to submit a report to the legislature on such information.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 36 Nay: 4
HB2596 — Permitting the secretary of corrections to enter into certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility under the prison-made goods act.
Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 34 Nay: 6
HB2595 — Substitute for HB 2595 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act, providing stipends to law students who meet certain requirements and agree to practice law in rural areas and providing loan forgiveness to lawyers who meet certain requirements and practice law in rural areas.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2594 — Modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity by changing the connection to breach of privacy and describing the content of the image, video or other recording.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 23 Nay: 17
HB2593 — Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2591 — Authorizing financial institutions to report suspected financial exploitation of an adult account holder to a designated agency, notify any adult designated as a trusted contact by such account holder of suspected financial exploitation and place a temporary hold on certain transactions or disbursements. Enacting the virtual currency kiosk consumer protection act, providing definitions, and establishing requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators. Prohibiting the office of the state bank commissioner or any other state agency from becoming a receiver for a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution that becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy. Providing that earned wage access service registrants are subject to the Kansas financial institutions information security act, and eliminating certain stipulations relating to the payment of negotiable instruments on Saturday afternoons or holidays.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2590 — Enacting the Kansas community property trust act to authorize the use of community property trusts during the marriage of settlor spouses and amending the Kansas uniform trust code to allow trustees to reimburse settlors of grantor trusts, authorize the use of designated representatives for trusts and permit the terms of a governing instrument to expand, restrict or eliminate certain general rules applicable to fiduciaries, trusts and trust administration.
Senate Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0
HB2587 — Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.