Bills & Legislation

Prohibiting school employment contracts from excluding documentation of disciplinary actions or behavioral corrective actions taken with regard to an employee.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Requiring certain school district employees to receive training in seizure recognition and related first aid.

Pat PetteyDemocrat

Granting the attorney general concurrent authority to prosecute any crimes related to schools.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting discrimination by financial services companies on the basis of social credit score and requiring registered investment advisers to obtain written consent from clients prior to investing client moneys in mutual funds, equity funds, companies and financial institutions that engage in ideological boycotts.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Requiring school district budget forms and summaries to include all expenditures of bond proceeds.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.

Establishing a property tax valuation appeal process to the board of county commissioners for certain residential and commercial real property and providing for the purchase of the property by the county under certain conditions.

Patrick SchmidtDemocrat

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to request a waiver from the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services to end participation in certain expenditure authorities under the KanCare demonstration.

Renee EricksonRepublican

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue licenses for the sale of alcoholic liquor to persons convicted of a felony if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Adam ThomasRepublican

Prohibiting the denial of coverage for the refilling of prescription topical eye medication.

William CliffordRepublican

Requiring that a haircare plan is part of the case plan for a child in custody of the secretary for children and family services and requiring the secretary to offer training on culturally competent haircare to caregivers.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Modifying uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.

Requiring immediate notification of a report of abuse or neglect to a law enforcement agency and providing for law enforcement agencies to request resources from the secretary for children and families.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Imposing term limits on members of the legislature but allowing additional terms conditioned on the vote in the next primary election.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Authorizing each school district to include a teacher representative as a nonvoting member of such district's board of education.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Requiring school districts to provide certain information on school district annual budget forms.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Establishing certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Tory Marie BlewRepublican

Limiting contributions under the campaign finance act made to political committees for the purpose of independent contributions and requiring the accounting, reporting and auditing of such independent contributions.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Authorizing school districts to request and receive an applicant teacher’s employment files from another school district if such teacher was previously employed by such other school district and establishing which school district is responsible for and the custodian of teacher employment files that are records under the Kansas open records act.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Enacting the responsible gun ownership act to establish the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Amending the Kansas pet animal act to require the Kansas department of agriculture to maintain records of inspections for not less than five years and removing the requirement that the commissioner only apply federal rules and regulations to United States department of agriculture licensed animal distributors and animal breeders.

Requiring the state corporation commission to establish and enforce a code of conduct and agricultural mitigation protocol for the development, operation and decommissioning of certain large energy facilities.

Raising the mandatory retirement age for magistrate judges regularly admitted to practice law who serve in counties with a population of 10,000 or fewer people.

Elaine BowersRepublican

Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers.

Imposing unilateral annexation restrictions on cities and expanding the causes of action for landowners to challenge such annexations.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Providing state general funds for school meals programs and prohibiting local boards from collecting money for such meals.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Prohibiting the use of an electronic communications device while operating a motor vehicle and providing penalties for violations thereof.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Imposing conditional term limits on members of the legislature and requiring nomination for office by petition after such term limits have run.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Requiring each member of a municipal governing body whose district territory includes land being acquired to approve the exercise of eminent domain for such acquisition when such land is to be used for a recreational project.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Enacting the Kansas bullion depository act to authorize the state treasurer to establish, administer or contract for the administration of bullion depositories and allowing for state moneys to be deposited in such bullion depositories and invested in specie legal tender.

Michael MurphyRepublican

Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.

William CliffordRepublican

Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.

Including operating a motor vehicle at a speed of 35 miles per hour over the posted speed limit under the crime of reckless driving.

Providing a sales tax exemption for period products, diapers and incontinence products.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Prohibiting cities and counties from requiring land as part of a right-of-way as a condition for issuing a building permit unless the property owner consents and is paid fair compensation.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.

Requiring the state 911 board to establish requirements for 911 telecommunicators to receive training and continuous education in telecommunicator-cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Providing a remittance credit to retailers for the collection of sales and compensating use tax.

Permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency when applying for nondriver identification cards and eliminating fees for homeless veterans to obtain birth certificates for purposes of nondriver identification card applications.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.

Pat PetteyDemocrat

Clarifying the identifying information in mandatory reports of abuse or neglect of children and increasing the penalty for failing to report such abuse or neglect.

Doug ShaneRepublican

Creating the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) educator position.

Claeys, J.R.

Enacting the fair chance housing and homelessness reduction act to limit the use of past evictions and rental arrears to deny applicants from renting a home.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

Providing for the rounding of final transaction amount for sales tax purposes if payment is made with cash.

Renaming the medication donation program providing for the registration of qualifying centers to accept, administer, supply or dispense certain donated drugs or devices.

Authorizing the terramation of dead human bodies in the state of Kansas and requiring all terramations to be performed by licensed terramatory operators.

Increasing the tax on electronic cigarettes and crediting the revenue to the children's initiative fund.