Roll Call Votes
How Kansas legislators voted on key bills
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB65 — Specifying when boards of directors for irrigation districts of 35,000 or more acres may conduct board member elections by mail ballot and establishing the terms for such members.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB55 — Prohibiting the assignment of benefits under certain property and casualty insurance contracts and defining such assignment of benefits as an unfair method of competition and unfair or deceptive act or practice.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB30 — Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements.
Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 overridden
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB98 — Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB98 — Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB82 — Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB24 — Expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas promise scholarship program and increasing the maximum annual appropriation limit.
Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto all line items overridden
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto Secs. a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 sustained
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB156 — Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB79 — Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB14 — Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB14 — Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB5 — Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB5 — Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB156 — Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB64 — Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB50 — Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and reducing the number of audits required for such program.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB42 — Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB42 — Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB35 — Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB30 — Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB24 — Expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas promise scholarship program and increasing the maximum annual appropriation limit.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB21 — Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB21 — Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB114 — Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB114 — Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB64 — Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB50 — Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and reducing the number of audits required for such program.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB44 — Declaring antisemitism and antisemitic acts to be against public policy and establishing a statutory definition of such terms.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB44 — Declaring antisemitism and antisemitic acts to be against public policy and establishing a statutory definition of such terms.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB35 — Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.
Concurred with amendments in conference
SB18 — Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Motion to override veto prevailed
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB117 — Expanding the property tax exemption for Strother field airport property.
Consent Calendar Passed
SB146 — Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services and the city of Osawatomie to execute and record an amendment to the original deed for conveyance of certain real property in Miami county that amends the reversionary interest of the state of Kansas to July 1, 2046.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB44 — Declaring antisemitism and antisemitic acts to be against public policy and establishing a statutory definition of such terms.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB39 — Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB35 — Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB1 — Exempting the state of Kansas from daylight saving time but providing for moving to permanent daylight saving time upon an act of Congress requiring such move.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB157 — Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer, warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and remission if the defendant is returned to custody in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB156 — Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB104 — Granting the Shawnee county board of county commissioners the discretion to create a citizens commission on local government.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB97 — Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB89 — Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB79 — Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.
Concurred with amendments
SB78 — Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibiting accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and providing a cause of action for violations thereof.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB77 — Requiring state agencies to provide notice of revocation of administrative rules and regulations to the public and removing abolished and inactive state agencies from the agency review requirement.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB69 — Extending the time period for eligibility for the loan repayment program and the income tax credit for rural opportunity zones, adding down payment assistance and child care reimbursement as program benefit options and expanding eligibility for the income tax credit.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB64 — Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB30 — Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactment of a bill and providing for notice to agencies and the legislature and a procedure for legislative review of such occupational licensing requirements.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB14 — Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB13 — Eliminating requirements for filings, registrations and licenses related to labor organizations, educational facility agreements, annual tax reports, river bank easements and bonded warehousemen with the secretary of state.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB114 — Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB58 — Modifying the requirements and allocations for multi-year flex accounts.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB36 — Increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts and providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB14 — Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB105 — Requiring the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.
Conference Committee Report was adopted
SB105 — Requiring the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB78 — Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to regularly review and update accreditation policies, prohibiting accrediting agencies from compelling such institutions to violate state law and providing a cause of action for violations thereof.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB50 — Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and reducing the number of audits required for such program.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB42 — Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate fiduciary accounts for individual payors and prohibiting the commingling of funds held on behalf of multiple payors, requiring the disclosure to the commissioner of insurance of any bankruptcy petition filed by or on behalf of such administrator pursuant to the United State bankruptcy code, requiring title agents to make their reports available for inspection upon request of the commissioner of insurance instead of submitting such reports annually, standardizing the amount of surety bonds filed with the commissioner of insurance at $100,000 and eliminating the small business exemption in certain counties.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB32 — Reducing insurance company premium tax rates and discontinuing remittance and crediting of a portion of the premium tax to the insurance department service regulation fund.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB28 — Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB27 — Eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor and removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law.
Concurred with amendments
SB6 — Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.
Concurred with amendments
SB5 — Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB24 — Expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas promise scholarship program and increasing the maximum annual appropriation limit.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB23 — Requiring agents and insurers to respond to inquiries from the commissioner of insurance within 14 calendar days and authorizing certain rebate pilot programs to exceed one year in duration.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB6 — Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB5 — Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB82 — Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB14 — Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
Final Action - Passed
SB8 — Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights.
Concurred with amendments in conference
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Committee of the Whole - Amendment by <a href="/li/b2025_26/members/rep_miller_silas_1/"> Representative Miller</a> was rejected
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Committee of the Whole - Amendment by <a href="/li/b2025_26/members/rep_meyer_heather_1/"> Representative Meyer</a> was rejected
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.
Final Action - Passed
SB128 — Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-client privilege while working under the supervision of such attorney.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB121 — Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.
Final Action - Passed
SB117 — Expanding the property tax exemption for Strother field airport property.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB114 — Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB157 — Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer, warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and remission if the defendant is returned to custody in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium.
Final Action - Passed
SB156 — Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB105 — Requiring the governor to appoint a person to fill vacancies in the offices of United States senator, state treasurer and commissioner of insurance from a list of names approved by the legislature.
Consent Calendar Passed
SB104 — Granting the Shawnee county board of county commissioners the discretion to create a citizens commission on local government.
Final Action - Passed
SB98 — Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements.
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
SB97 — Requiring vehicle dealers to apply for a dealer inventory-only title for certain used nonhighway vehicles that a vehicle dealer obtains.
Consent Calendar Passed
SB92 — Extending the time in which the state corporation commission shall make a final order on a transmission line siting application.
Emergency Final Action - Passed
SB89 — Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee per visit to each location participating in the plan.
Final Action - Passed
SB88 — Requiring the state long-term care ombudsman and regional ombudsman to receive training in memory care.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB87 — Expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program, increasing the amount of the tax credit for contributions made pursuant to such program and providing for aggregate tax credit limit increases under certain conditions.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB85 — Directing the secretary for children and families to review and compare data for public assistance program eligibility.
Final Action - Passed
SB82 — Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care.
Final Action - Passed as amended
SB79 — Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.