Bills & Legislation

Requiring rural water districts to award certain contracts through a public letting process.

Timothy JohnsonRepublican

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of manufactured homes mobile homes and modular homes and materials and services used by a contractor when constructing or remodeling affordable housing for certain organizations.

Requiring the secretary of commerce and the secretary of wildlife and parks to jointly conduct a feasibility study regarding a potential state purchase of acorns resort and the designation of such location as a state park or the incorporation of such location into the existing Milford state park in Geary county.

Providing a property tax exemption for real property owned by a not-for-profit organization and used to provide affordable housing.

Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Providing that motorcycle license plates shall contain a combination of not fewer than six letters or numerals.

Smith, A.

Providing that the law enforcement officers memorial advisory committee may receive requests from a Kansas law enforcement agency for the Kansas highway patrol and the Kansas bureau of investigation to provide temporary personal and other assistance in support of funeral services honoring law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty in the service of the state.

Modifying criminal sentencing rules applicable in multiple conviction cases where consecutive sentences may be imposed by the sentencing judge and the sentence for the primary crime is a nonprison sentence.

Providing limitations and restrictions on releasing a person charged with a crime upon the person's own recognizance.

Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy.

Designating the official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.

Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave.

Dan OsmanDemocrat

Creating the Kansas task force on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to study such technologies and make recommendations to the legislature.

Enacting the safe battery collection and recycling stewardship act and prohibiting the sale of covered batteries or battery-containing products unless the producer is part of a battery stewardship organization with an approved plan.

Enacting the every body can move act to mandate the coverage and payment for prosthetic and orthotic devices in health insurance policies.

Angela StiensRepublican

Requiring that employees of the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf be paid at same rate of compensation that is paid to a teacher employed by USD 233, Olathe, in the current school year.

Permitting certain healthcare providers to complete health assessments for children enrolled at day care facilities.

Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey real property valued at $5,000,000 or less without further legislative authorization and requiring the submission of an annual report listing any such real property sales to the legislature.

Angelina RoeserRepublican

Removing the presumption that leased land shall be classified as land devoted to agricultural use for property tax purposes.

Prohibiting certain terms in a contract between a health insurer and a dentist and requiring that reviews, audits or investigations of healthcare providers concerning healthcare provider claims be completed within six months.

Providing for the pheasants forever and quail forever distinctive license plates.

Mandating insurance coverage of pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) and pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS).

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Labette county for the purpose of providing financial support to fire departments located in the county.

Dan GoddardRepublican

Increasing the personal needs allowance for residents receiving long-term care in a medicaid-approved nursing facility.

Requiring a valid upland game bird stamp prior to taking any upland game bird in this state, except on private land, establishing the upland game bird restoration fund and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to use moneys from such fund for the procurement and release of upland game birds.

Shawn ChaunceyRepublican

Increasing certain municipal court fee assessments and crediting such increase to the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and training fund and the crime victims assistance fund.

Enacting the Kansas rural business growth program act, providing a premium tax credit to incentivize capital investment in rural areas and establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of incentivizing such investment.

Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.

Establishing an impaired provider program, expanding the grounds for disciplinary action against a licensee and providing for the reinstatement of a revoked license under the Kansas nurse practice act.

Permitting a licensed chiropractor to evaluate and provide written clearance to a school athlete who has been removed from a sport competition or practice session pursuant to the school sports head injury prevention act.

Modifying procedures for the citizen petition process to impanel a citizen grand jury under the Kansas code of criminal procedure, limiting criminal liability for good faith conduct by the person who initiates such petitions and any person who signs such petitions and prohibiting diversion agreements related to a true bill of indictment found by a citizen grand jury.

Establishing restrictions on the use of step therapy protocols by health insurance plans.

Prohibiting the use of remote ballot boxes for the return of advance voting ballots.

Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican

Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with Kansas universities or colleges, authorizing state educational institutions to affiliate with accredited independent institutions and providing procedures for such affiliations.

Steven K. HoweRepublican

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Leavenworth county for the purposes of furnishing, equipping, improving and maintaining county-supported emergency management operations.

Timothy JohnsonRepublican

Providing for the qualifications of regular and provisional appraisers and allowing for the appointment of such appraisers to serve as county appraisers.

Designating the first Tuesday in May as precinct committee person awareness day.

Requiring treasurers of candidates and persons who support or oppose constitutional amendments to report lists of small donors names and addresses to the public disclosure commission and providing that such lists shall not be part of any report required to be made public.

Prohibiting healthcare providers from prescribing medication, administering diagnostic tests or conducting ongoing behavioral health treatments to minors except in certain circumstances.

Requiring each school district board of education to allocate membership association dues to individual board members and prohibiting the payment of such dues if a board member elects not to join such membership association.

Establishing the addiction counselor apprentice license and setting fees for such license.

Requiring persons convicted of or given diversion agreements for driving under the influence offenses to attend victim impact panel programs.

Creating the Kansas public employees retirement system cost-of-living adjustment commission, prescribing powers and duties of the commission and establishing procedures of the legislature relating to the annual cost-of-living adjustment rate recommended by the commission.

Classifying crimes related to driving under the influence and driving a commercial vehicle under the influence as person crimes.

Authorizing counties to adopt resolutions to regulate activities on or within navigable rivers and adding navigable rivers to the crime of criminal trespass.

Allowing a nonpartisan candidate to include such candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with such candidate's name.

Requiring the director of property valuation to conduct a review or audit of the appraisal and apportionment of the valuation of the property of any public utility when the total appraised value of property of such public utility in this state decreased more than 5% and a governmental body requests such review or audit.

Requiring the county election officer to call a special election to fill a vacancy within the governing body of a municipality if the position remains vacant after 60 days.

Clarifying the signature verification requirements for advance voting ballot envelopes and providing for the repeal of advance voting statutes, except where advance voting is required by federal law, if a state or federal court issues a final order or judgment which is not subject to appeal invalidating such signature verification requirements.