Bills & Legislation

Amending the definition of "psilocybin" in the uniform controlled substances act to exclude the pharmaceutical composition of crystalline polymorph psilocybin and adding crystalline polymorph psilocybin to schedule IV of the uniformed controlled substance act.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Establishing the relocation reimbursement assistance fund to provide reimbursement assistance to communications service providers that are required to relocate facilities located in the public right-of-way pursuant to an order or directive of a municipality.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Establishing various conservation funds, allocating state moneys for conservation, requiring reports to the governor and legislature, and authorizing fund transfers and providing for the use of such funds by the Kansas department of agriculture and the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget

Requiring school districts to obtain parental consent prior to providing certain school-based mental health services to a student.

Megan SteeleRepublican

Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.

Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Establishing the developing veterinary medicine in rural Kansas program within the Kansas department of agriculture and providing financial assistance and support to certain veterinarians practicing in rural communities.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to hazardous waste monitoring and permit application fees by the Kansas department of health and environment.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring certain prior convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to appraise or arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.

Committee on Judiciary

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

Committee on Appropriations

Adding consideration of whether the offender has physical custody of such offender's minor child or is a legal guardian or custodian with physical custody of a minor child to the factors considered for diversions and dispositional departures.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring state agencies to make quarterly reports to the secretary of state with the names and addresses of noncitizens receiving public benefits.

Committee on Elections

Providing that certain natural gas storage facilities shall not be classified as public utilities for property tax purposes.

Committee on Taxation

Providing that under rental agreements governed by the residential landlord tenant act, a landlord is required to accept partial payments and to count certain income when considering a tenant or prospective tenant's qualifications for housing.

Cyndi HowertonRepublican

Providing an exception to KORA that authorizes certain retired KPERS members to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.

Kyle McNortonRepublican

Designating a portion of United States highway 56 as the Bill Tucker memorial highway.

Marty LongRepublican

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

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

Committee on Transportation

Requiring certain 340B entities to report annually to the Kansas department of insurance on certain costs, savings and payments made under the federal 340B drug pricing program.

Committee on Insurance

Authorizing the removal of a voter from voter registration rolls if such voter is issued a driver's license by another state and requiring attestation on voter registration form that obtaining a foreign driver's license constitutes a change in residency for voting purposes.

Committee on Elections

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to revoke a TEFFI charter, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating council.

Joint Committee on Fiduciary Financial Institutions Oversight

Imposing restrictions on websites that can accept and transmit voter registration applications.

Committee on Elections

Requiring the approval of property tax levies and bond issuances by elected bodies or electors.

Committee on Taxation

Enacting the student secular bill of rights to establish statutory protections against religious coercion and discrimination in public schools.

Heather MeyerDemocrat

Requiring that certain written information be provided to patients when a physician or healthcare provider administers or prescribes any medicine or drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion.

Committee on Judiciary

Imposing a fee on each international transaction by a money transmitter by wire, allowing the state bank commissioner to assess penalties for the nonpayment of such fee, providing for the distribution of such fee and penalty moneys, establishing the criminal litigation fund, wire transfer fee fund and prosecutor and law enforcement grant fund and creating a misdemeanor crime of unlawful transmission of a wire transfer and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions

Providing an exception to restrictions on prison-made housing units to allow the secretary of corrections to establish a program for delivering such units into designated areas.

Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Determining food that contains specific color additives to be adulterated.

Kevin SchwertfegerRepublican

Enacting the Kansas geoengineering and weather modification prohibition act, prohibiting geoengieering and weather modification activities, providing criminal penalties for violations of the act and assigning enforcement and reporting authority to the department of health and environment.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Samantha Poetter ParshallRepublican

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

Committee on Insurance

Restricting residential homestead property taxes to not more than the established base of property taxes owed for individuals 65 years of age and older and eliminating the property tax exemption for certain commercial properties used for healthcare when in competition with other non-exempt properties.

Committee on Taxation

Defining the term "gender" to mean biological sex at birth for purposes of statutory construction, directing the division of motor vehicles to invalidate and reissue driver's licenses when necessary when necessary to correct the gender identification on such licenses and directing the office of vital statistics to invalidate and reissue birth certificates when necessary to correct the sex identification on such certificates.

Susan HumphriesRepublican

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes and requiring school districts to report on the amount of screen time that certain students experience during a typical school day.

Sherri BrantleyRepublican

Enhancing adult care home services by providing for adult care home workforce development through scholarships for part-time nursing students and setting minimum education levels for instructors at nursing schools, establishing an intergenerational child care program to enhance the adult care home environment by supporting adult care homes offering child care services through the awarding of grants by the secretary of health and environment and creating the intergenerational child care fund and authorizing the secretary to administer the fund.

Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Allowing hunters who are federally licensed drone operators to use drones to locate wounded or recently deceased deer.

Kevin SchwertfegerRepublican

Requiring any person who is 17 years of age and under to wear a helmet when operating an electric-assisted scooter or electric-assisted bicycle and modifying the definition and operation of electric-assisted scooters to include certain specifications and maximum operating speeds.

Committee on Transportation

Requiring each local board of education of a school district to appoint a nonvoting student representative to such board of education.

Nikki McDonaldDemocrat

Permitting the division of vehicles to contract with an entity to establish and issue a digital proof of drivers' license and digital proof of identification card, regulating the use thereof and providing a fee for such digital proofs of identification.

Committee on Transportation

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

Committee on Judiciary

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

Committee on Elections

Establishing the shelter to home pet rescue act providing for an income tax credit for medical expenses spent on adopted cats and dogs.

Committee on Taxation

Establishing the property tax use value for residential real property, real property used for commercial and industrial purposes and mobile homes used for residential purposes.

Committee on Taxation

Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.

Committee on Appropriations

Prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun in the state capitol and providing exceptions for law enforcement and members of the military.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the safe and secure firearm detection program in the office of the attorney general, providing for certain entities to use firearm detection software, establishing the safe and secure firearm detection fund and transferring funds from the state general fund to support the program.

Committee on Appropriations

Transferring the licensure of on-premise cereal malt beverage retailers and off-premise cereal malt beverage retailers from cities and counties to the alcoholic beverage control division of the department of revenue; allowing continued local licensure by cities or counties.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs