Bills & Legislation

Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Russell county for the purpose of financing costs of attendance centers or other school district facilities.

Elaine BowersRepublican

Allowing an itemized deduction for certain losses from wagering transactions for individuals for income tax purposes.

Requiring counties to purchase homesteads at the appraised values set by county appraisers upon applications made by the owners under certain conditions.

Virgil PeckRepublican

Providing for the preceptor income tax incentive act, establishing an income tax credit for nursing home administrators, registered nurses and registered dietitians that serve as a community-based faculty preceptor in adult care homes and medical care facilities by providing personalized instruction, training and supervision for students.

Stephen OwensRepublican

Changing the membership of the judicial council to have one resident lawyer from each judicial district instead of four resident lawyers.

Kellie WarrenRepublican

Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Excluding social security payments from household income and increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead claims.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.

Rick BillingerRepublican

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by the Johnson county Christmas bureau association.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Enacting the prescription drug cost and affordability review act to establish the prescription drug pricing board and prescription drug affordability stakeholder council to review the cost of prescription medications and establish upper payment limits for certain prescription drugs.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices.

Claeys, Joseph

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.

Michael FaggRepublican

Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Requiring any person convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death or register under the Kansas offender registration act for 15 years.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child.

Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness.

Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Providing for a homestead property tax exemption for certain veterans and former law enforcement officers with service-connected disabilities.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Designating Kansas as a purple heart state, requiring the governor to proclaim August 7 of each year as purple heart day and urging veterans organizations to plan special activities in observance thereof.

Larry AlleyRepublican

Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of violations of such prohibition.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and prohibiting income tax deductions for wages and remuneration paid to unauthorized aliens.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Establishing the property tax task force that shall study the property tax system in Kansas and develop recommendations and suggest improvements to law.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Providing that payment of special assessments for years other than the year being redeemed is not required for purposes of partial redemption of homesteads with delinquent property taxes.

David HaleyDemocrat

Limiting the amount of fees, taxes and other charges on a utility bill assessed by a board of public utilities.

David HaleyDemocrat

Enacting the conscientious right to refuse act to prohibit discrimination against individuals who refuse medical care and creating a civil cause of action based on such discrimination and revoking the authority of the secretary of health and environment to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release.

Stephen OwensRepublican

Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.

Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.

Doug ShaneRepublican

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

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Enacting the Kansas medical loss ratios for dental healthcare services plans act.

Amending the Kansas indoor clear air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility and amending the definition of smoking to include the use of an electronic cigarette and smoking marijuana.

Mike ThompsonRepublican

Enacting the abolish abortion Kansas act to make all abortions subject to criminal prosecution for violation of Alexa's law and to remove certain exceptions to the cause of action for the wrongful death of an unborn child when such death is caused by an abortion.

William CliffordRepublican

Providing that any lease or easement involving commercial wind or solar electric generation resources shall not be in force and effect until the board of county commissioners of the affected county approves the commercial wind or solar electric generation project.

Authorizing the secretary of health and environment to license nuclear fusion systems, establishing such licensure fee and authorizing the secretary to impose late fees for any expired radiation protection and control license.

Elaine BowersRepublican

Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Authorizing the state corporation commission to make recommendations regarding energy efficiency standards for buildings.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Excepting haulers of grain and certain other agricultural goods from gross weight limitations for vehicles.

Virgil PeckRepublican

Prohibiting mobile home park landlords from limiting a tenant's access to communications and video services.

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Marci FranciscoDemocrat

Prohibiting electric public utilities from recovering from ratepayers the costs associated with electric vehicle charging stations and requiring electric public utilities to establish electric vehicle charging service rate schedules.

Requiring school district bond elections and other tax levy question submitted elections be held only on primary or general election dates and only permitting one such bond election to be conducted each calendar year.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting discriminatory practices on the basis of religion at public educational institutions and authorizing the attorney general to investigate violations and assess civil penalties under the Kansas act against discrimination.

Stephen OwensRepublican