Bills & Legislation

Providing tenants with relief from use by landlords of old eviction or rental arrears records to deny housing.

Oletha Faust GoudeauDemocrat

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

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Providing for a universal homestead exemption from ad valorem property taxation.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

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.

Committee on Judiciary

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

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

David HaleyDemocrat

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.

Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources

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.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

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

Committee on Judiciary

Increasing the amount of fees retained by the county treasurer, the division of vehicles or a contractor for processing motor vehicle license applications and certificate of titles.

Committee on Transportation

Authorizing a special education pilot program that provides provisional accreditation to a private entity for the purpose of operating a special education teacher training program, allowing such entity to collect data from such program and providing requirements for full accreditation of such program.

Committee on Education

Requiring certain state agencies, counties, cities and political subdivisions to reimburse the owner or operator of communications or video service facilities for the costs to modify or relocate such facilities for certain road and highway projects.

Committee on Utilities

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

Committee on Taxation

Increasing the minimum bail requirements for certain crimes from $50,000 to $100,000 and requiring certain findings to reduce such requirements.

Committee on Judiciary

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

Committee on Judiciary

Requiring managed care organizations to provide an explanation of benefits to KanCare and CHIP enrollees.

Committee on Health and Human Services

Prohibiting unit owners associations from imposing certain restrictions on solar energy conversion systems.

Committee on Local Government

Establishing Erin's law to require school districts to provide training and age-appropriate student instruction on the identification and reporting of signs of child sexual abuse.

Committee on Education

Setting a maximum fee for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Providing a one-time, nonrefundable vehicle registration property tax credit for eligible vehicles.

Ethan CorsonDemocrat

Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Requiring correctional facilities and jails to allow inmates and prisoners to make telephone calls at no cost.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

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

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.

Committee on Transportation

Adding certain third parties who contract with school districts to the definition of special teacher and authorizing special education state aid reimbursement for qualified teachers who provide approved special education or related services to students with an IEP administered by such school district pursuant to a contract.

Committee on Education

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases of personal property and services, sales of personal property and purchases of construction materials and services for not-for-profit animal shelters and rescue network managers licensed under the Kansas pet animal act.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Changing the age for determining when a slot machine is an antique for purposes of exempting such devices from criminal gambling statutes.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

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

Requiring the office of each state officer to keep and maintain records of information concerning all travel locations and expenses of the state officer that were paid or reimbursed by the state during each fiscal year and provide such records of information upon request by a member of the public.

Tim ShallenburgerRepublican

Providing for the election of county appraisers and discontinuing the authority to form appraisal districts with district appraisers.

Committee on Assessment and Taxation

Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Requiring cardiac emergency response plans at all recreational youth facilities, including the placement of automatic external defibrillators.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Establishing requirements for the development, construction, modification, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of certain industrial energy facilities and providing jurisdiction to the state corporation commission to control and permit such development, construction, modification, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of such facilities.

Committee on Utilities

Providing that a person shall not lose eligibility for a homestead property tax refund claim or the selective assistance for effective senior relief (SAFESR) tax credit if the appraised valuation of the homestead subsequently exceeds $350,000 after qualifying in a previous tax year.

Kellie WarrenRepublican

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

Cindy HolscherDemocrat

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

Silas MillerDemocrat

Increasing the mandatory retirement age for certain judges, requiring more years of service prior to receiving a member contribution reduction and increasing the maximum retirement benefit.

Committee on Judiciary

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 a part of any report required to be made public.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing an exception to unauthorized practice of law under the Kansas consumer protection act for an employee of the judicial branch or a district court providing a standard form to a member of the public.

Committee on Judiciary

Prohibiting the use of genetic sequencers or operational software used for genetic analysis that is produced in a foreign adversary.

Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Providing for the use of triple trailers on highways, increasing the allowable gross weight for such vehicle combinations and allowing the use of trailers with dealer license plates.

Committee on Transportation

Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to in-person practice requirements in a dental office owned by a licensee.

Committee on Government Efficiency

Requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding, data use agreement or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies.

Committee on Government Efficiency

Requiring certain cost-sharing assistance be applied toward a covered individual's deductible or annual out-of-pocket limit under the individual's health benefit plan.

Dinah SykesDemocrat

Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility program, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation.

Committee on Education