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Track 1,486 bills from the Kansas 2013 legislative session. 483 bills have passed. View Kansas House of Representatives and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (1486)
Amending provisions relating to offender registration.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Sponsor: Melanie Meier
Constitutional Amendment providing authority to the legislature to limit valuation increases for certain residential property owned by a person 65 years of age or older for property tax purposes.
Sponsor: Virgil Peck
Removing redbelly and smooth earth snakes from the nongame and endangered species conservation act.
Sponsor: Robert Olson
Women's Reproductive Health Awareness Week.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Change in terminology; "best interests of the child" to "least detrimental alternative for the child".
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Firearms; administration of concealed carry license applications by certain law enforcement agencies.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Transparency and accountability act.
Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton
School districts; requiring storm shelters for certain construction projects.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Property exempt from taxation; community service organizations providing humanitarian services.
Sponsor: Taxation
Authorizing an annual audit of the KUSF administrator.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
Personal financial literacy program as a requirement for high school graduation.
Sponsor: Education
Water supply district authorization to issue refund for general obligation bonds.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Tax credits for community service contributions; youth apprenticeship and entrepreneurship.
Sponsor: Commerce
Amending Rules 1306, 1902, 1905, 2507, 2902 and 3703 of the Rules of the House of Representatives relating to voting.
Sponsor: John Rubin
House Substitute for SB 226 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Fireworks; regulation thereof.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Election campaign finance; removing certain limitations to contributions made during legislative sessions.
Sponsor: Appropriations
School finance; amendments to certain weightings.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Cremation; priority of decedent's fully paid prearranged cremation plan.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas apology and disclosure of unanticipated medical outcomes and medical errors act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Exemption for federal home loan bank in certain insolvency proceedings involving insurance companies.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Substitute for SB 298 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation – Concerning the elimination of Kansas mortgage registration fee; modification of recording fees; creating register of deeds, county clerk and county treasurer technology funds.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Legislators; per diem pay; limitation.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Sales tax exemption for assistance league of Wichita.
Sponsor: Taxation
Uniform Consumer Credit Code: Installment loans.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
School districts; transportation of non-resident pupils.
Sponsor: Ron Highland
Water; creating the sustainable drinking water source protection fund and fee; authorizing Kansas water office to execute certain contracts and issue revenue bonds; repealing K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 82a-953a.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Prohibiting minors' access to a tanning device.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Mobile telecommunications devices identification system and the Kansas bureau of investigation.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Vehicle liens; centralized filing.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to issuance of certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Enacting the fourth amendment preservation and protection act of 2014.
Sponsor: Brett Hildabrand
Prohibiting governmental entities from purchasing aircraft unless such aircraft has been manufactured, assembled and sold in Kansas; excluding purchases for military purposes.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Specifying duties of last mortgagee or assignee of record of mortgage relating to entry of satisfaction of mortgage.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Tax levy for rural housing incentive districts.
Sponsor: Commerce
Domestic relations; child custody. residency and parenting plans; child support.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Property taxation; defining commercial and industrial machinery and equipment; motor vehicles, members of mility service and active guard and reservists.
Sponsor: Taxation
Rules of evidence; clarifying application of timely objection rule.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating provisions relating to the Kansas bureau of investigation's DNA database; amending the crime of interference with judicial process; concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision; concerning expungement of driving under the influence and criminal refusal convictions; concerning trials, conduct of jury after case is submitted.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to medicaid eligibility requirements.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Relating to the Kansas uniform securities act.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Uniform trust code changes concerning an anti-lapse statute and creditor claims against settlors.
Sponsor: Judiciary
University of Kansas; medical student loan act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Elections; promotions of candidates or propositions on public property; prohibitions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
House Substitute for SB 273 by Committee on Transportation - Regulation of commercial motor vehicles; exemption from rules and regulations of the Kansas corporation commission.
Sponsor: Transportation
Severance tax return and payment dates; sales tax authority for Rooks county; property tax exemptions for certain donations of land to the state and for amateur-built aircraft; sales tax exemptions for surface mining equipment and certain charitable organizations.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Protecting religious freedom regarding marriage.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Substitute for HB 2430 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
State child death review board.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Appellate rules for death penalty cases and rules for motions attacking sentences.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas protection against voter suppression act.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Sentencing of certain persons to mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 50 years ("hard 50").
Sponsor: Terry Bruce
Expansion of rural opportunity zones; private business employment.
Sponsor: Jim Kelly
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; allowing the governor to appoint supreme court justices and court of appeals judges, subject to senate confirmation, with lifetime terms; abolishing the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Senate Substitute for HB 2446 by Committee on Judiciary - Courts; allocating moneys from driver's license fees to judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund; allowing chief justice to authorize expenditures from court trustee operations fund in certain judicial districts; time limits for court decisions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Increasing penalties for certain right-of-way violations.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Kansas protection against voter suppression act.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Applicability of graduated sanctions for violation of probation or postrelease supervision.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight
Renaming the court of tax appeals to the board of tax appeals; salary and removal of members; powers of the board.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Sales tax exemption for business property construction.
Sponsor: Taxation
Sales and compensating use tax; distribution of revenues.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Amending the physician assistant licensure act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Supreme Court review of errors in capital murder cases.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Abolishing the court of appeals; establishing the court of criminal appeals and the court of civil appeals; changing appellate court jurisdiction.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Retirement system for judges; reducing retirement age of a judge to age 65 on and after August 31, 2014.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Making application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States with respect to states' rights.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Clubs and drinking establishments, other; purchase from alcoholic and wine distributors.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Predetermination of property classification.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Establishing procedures for identifying state surplus real estate and the disposition thereof; also authorizing certain Emporia State University and University of Kansas real estate transfers.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Amending Joint Rule 3 of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives 2013-2014 relating to conference committee procedure.
Sponsor: John Rubin
Decreasing corporate income surtax and eliminating certain income tax credits.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
State owned and operated casino; north central Kansas gaming zone; Geary county.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Reporting of adult care home resident deaths.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Senate Substitute for HB 2389 by Committee on Judiciary - Crimes and criminal procedure; mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person; RICO; warrants; discharge of certain persons; appeals.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to substance abuse services.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Kansas expanded lottery act; racetrack gaming, amendments.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Income tax treatment of net operating loss carryback on the sale of certain hotels.
Sponsor: Taxation
Relating to substance abuse services.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Elections; municipalities; primary and general elections; date change; partisan.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Concerning utilities and approval of the construction of electric transmission lines.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Constitutional amendment to expressly reserve certain powers to the state of Kansas, and to the citizens of Kansas.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Amending the percentage amount that is deposited into the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund from 12.41% to 6%; allowing counties to access funds.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Uniform consumer credit code, definition of "loan".
Sponsor: Ways and Means
National day of the cowboy.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Child abuse investigations; department for children and families workers; training requirements.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Substitute for SB 214 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs--Bottle rockets; wholesale; transport out of state; registration; restrictions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School sports head injury prevention act.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Distribution of certain license application fees and fines from DUI and related offenses to community corrections and court services.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Indexing the minimum wage to the CPI.
Sponsor: Valdenia Winn
Racetrack gaming facilities; electronic gaming facility income distribution.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Requiring health insurers to provide a copy of the insurance policy or contract before an applicant is required to pay a premium.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Income tax credit for alternative fueled motor vehicle property expenditures; defining liquified and compressed natural gas as alternative fuel; increasing the credit for alternative fuel fueling stations.
Sponsor: Taxation
Property tax exemption for certain new automobile manufacturing property.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Abolishing the death penalty; creating the crime of aggravated murder.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Prohibiting the use of drones by law enforcement.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Senate Substitute for HB 2387 by Committee on Judiciary - Sentencing of certain persons to mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 25 years ("hard 25") or 50 years ("hard 50").
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas explosives safety act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program; elimination of program.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Renewable and alternative fuels and income tax credits.
Sponsor: Taxation
Making application to the U.S. congress to call a constitutional convention.
Sponsor: Brett Hildabrand
Issuing $1,500,000,000 of pension obligation bonds to finance a portion of the unfunded actuarial liability of KPERS.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Kansas public employee retirement system; military service discharge; return to employment.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Municipalities; elections; odd-numbered years; cities; school districts by district.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
House Substitute for SB 231 - Concerning valuation and appeals; renaming the state court of tax appeals; timing of decisions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Concerning license plates and placards for persons with disability; penalties.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Tax liens upon personal property.
Sponsor: Taxation
Loans by pooled money investment board to local taxing subdivisions for payment of refund of taxes.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Enacting the Kansas Fair Tax Act of 2013.
Sponsor: Taxation
Appropriations for DD waiver for FY 2014 and 2015.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Attorney general; open government unit.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Relating to the secretary of health and environment; office of laboratory services.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Providing homestead property tax refunds for renters.
Sponsor: Tom Sawyer
Earned income tax credit increased.
Sponsor: Julie Menghini
State corporation commission; relating to the promulgation of rules and regulations concerning horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Sponsor: Utilities
Reducing corporate income tax rates based on selected actual corporation income tax state general fund receipts computation.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Enacting the corporate education tax credit scholarship program act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Kansas turnpike authority, speed based tolls.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
A resolution indicating the legislature's intention not to expand medicaid services in Kansas.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Health information technology act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to stays of mortgage foreclosure proceedings against servicemembers.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Member elections and retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments under KPERS act of 2015.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Adding certain agricultural production NAICS subsectors to the definition of "qualified firm" for purposes of the high performance incentive program.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Allowing court reporters licensed in another state to take depositions in Kansas.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Kansas dental board; licensure of dental practitioners.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Community developmental disability organizations; performance of functional assessments.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to marriage licenses.
Sponsor: Kevin Jones
Requiring prevailing wage for public works projects.
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Relating to the open meetings act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
School finance; amendments to certain weightings.
Sponsor: Education
Computation of amount of personal property tax on motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Amending definitions related to agricultural corporations and repealing certain agricultural corporation statutes.
Sponsor: Taxation
Civil action for damages for criminal act; trespass and liability.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Property tax exemption and classification for property used for bed and breakfast purposes.
Sponsor: Taxation
Remittance credits for sales and use tax collection services provided by retailers.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Allowing the board of regents to charge KAN-ED program user fees.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Authorizing use of a crossbow by all hunters during big game archery season.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to court fees and costs; judicial branch surcharge fund.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Mortgage registration fees; verification of indebtedness.
Sponsor: Taxation
Political action committees; legislative leadership.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas employment first initiative act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Kansas employment first initiative act amendments.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to court-appointed special advocates.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Lottery, gaming, parimutuel winnings, debt set off; child support.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Revising article 10 of the Kansas constitution; establishing a redistricting commission.
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Sales tax authority for Ellis county.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Relating to eyewitness identifications.
Sponsor: David Haley
Credit card surcharge exemption for certain educational institutions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Investment standards and divestment procedures for KPERS related to Iran.
Sponsor: Taxation
Three-year phase in of cost-of-living adjustment for certain retired members of KPERS.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Criminal code; gambling; raffles excluded.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Fluoride in water; cities other local units; disclosures.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Providing for the issuance of the honor and remembered license plate.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Establishing a safety corridor program.
Sponsor: Transportation
Relating to low-profit limited liability companies.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Use of public funds to promote sustainable development.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Open meetings; definition.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Ethics commission; fees.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Maximum benefits increased for certain members of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Kansas Buy American Act.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
State corporation commission; relating to the promulgation of rules and regulations concerning horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Establishing a program for drug screening for cash assistance recipients.
Sponsor: Kasha Kelley
Highway advertising; permitting spot zoning.
Sponsor: Transportation
Enacting the Kansas reads to success act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Prohibiting the use of common core standards.
Sponsor: Education
Creating the office of inspector general.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Nurse aide trainees; criminal history record information check; before the start of school.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Relating to reporting abuse, neglect or exploitation of certain persons.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amendments to Kansas pet animal act; allowing animal shelters and rescue networks to be licensing agents for pet animal foster homes and to host mobile adoption events; changing inspection schedules.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
School finance; use of capital outlay funds.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Clarifying the duties, responsibilities and authority of the attorney general.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Providing for public disclosure and economic efficiency in publicly funded contracts and economic development agreements.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Amending the provisions of the nongame and endangered species conservation act.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
The resolution for a constitutional amendment shall be published on the official website of the secretary of state's office and the state of Kansas, not in each county newspaper.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Concerning the regulation of motor carriers; authority to conduct spot checks.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Alcoholic liquor: licensee citizenship; art organizations, complimentary drinks; clubs and drinking establishments, pitchers; coupons for drinks.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Adult care homes; staffing; inspections; admissions; reporting; penalties.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Arlen Siegfreid
Enacting the food sales tax refund.
Sponsor: Tom Sawyer
Creating the coalition of innovative districts act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Awarding of high school diplomas to certain persons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Alcoholic beverages; expanding the privileges of retailer's licensees.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Creating the school district budget law.
Sponsor: Education
Relating to trespass and liability exceptions.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Substitute for HB 2307 by Committee on Education – School districts; human sexuality education; policies and procedures.
Sponsor: Education
Substitute for SB 165 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation – Concerning relief from property taxation for property destroyed by disaster; agreements to pay tax by county boards.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Health insurance; requires use of any willing provider pharmacy to fill prescriptions.
Sponsor: Ed Trimmer
Vital statistics; concerning death and unborn child death certificates.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Personal and family protection act; retired law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Technical professions; ethical marketing of profession services; state, local government clients.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Water; dams; definition; exemption from permit requirements; inspection costs and penalties.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Telepharmacy; University of Kansas school of pharmacy; under served areas.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Income tax deduction for armed service members on active duty.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Enhancing the penalties for possessing altered driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Member elections, retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments and interest credits and annuity interest rate changes under KPERS act of 2015.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Substitute for SB 202 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation -- Creating a sales tax exemption for certain agricultural production firms.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Creating the Kansas public charter school act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Amending definitions relating to agricultural corporations and repealing certain agricultural corporation statutes.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Local governments; investment of idle funds; changes.
Sponsor: Insurance
Amending the crimes of assault and battery against a law enforcement officer to include animal control officers and firefighters.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Property and conservation easements.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Removing the authority to receive certain federal aid for educational purposes.
Sponsor: Education
Standards for use of graywater.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Prohibiting an abortion of an unborn human individual with a detectable fetal heartbeat.
Sponsor: Pete DeGraaf
Local ad valorem tax reduction fund; transfers to; distributions to political subdivisions
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Length of regular legislative session in odd-numbered years.
Sponsor: David Haley
Providing food sales tax refunds and homestead property tax refunds for renters.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Personal and family protection act; amendments.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Personal and family protection act; public and private buildings; amendments.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Interest credits and annuity interest rate changes under KPERS act of 2015.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Limiting nuisance actions against certain agricultural activities.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Voter identification; deleting requirement of proof of citizenship and provision of free certified birth certificate by secretary of KDHE.
Sponsor: Gail Finney
Allowing prison-made goods to continue to be sold in Kansas.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to the qualifications of the secretary of corrections.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Public officials; term limits on senators and representatives.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Domestic relations; relating to divorce; service of process.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Substitute HB 2262 by Committee on Appropriations - Amending the percentage amount that is deposited into the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund from 12.41% to 8.25%.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Energy; relating to wind turbine siting setback requirements.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund. Allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Creating the Kansas public charter school act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Providing for Kansas income tax credit for certain adoption expenses.
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Counties; abatement of nuisances; procedure; disposition of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Education
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Requiring employment of Kansas workers for certain state contracts and tax benefits.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
School finance litigation; burden of proof.
Sponsor: Education Budget
School districts; establishing celebrate freedom week and related curriculum.
Sponsor: Kelly Meigs
Requiring employment of Kansas workers for certain state contracts and tax benefits.
Sponsor: Anna Tietze
Income tax, credits, high performance incentive program; subtraction modifications, certain expenses related to living donor organ donations.
Sponsor: Taxation
State, municipalities; contracts for construction materials and other goods and merchandise; specification limitations.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Prescription monitoring program advisory committee; membership.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
School districts; prohibiting the use of Carnegie units for purposes of determining graduation requirements.
Sponsor: Education
School finance; amending base state aid per pupil; increasing state prescribed percentage for local option budget for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Governmental ethics; local units of government; rural water district exclusion.
Sponsor: Elections
Renewable energy portfolio standards.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Relating to the determination of paternity.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Capital improvement projects for various state agencies.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Investments by local governments; inflation protection.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Repealing the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
School districts; bullying policies.
Sponsor: Education
Senate Substitute for HB 2195 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, and FY 2016 for various agencies, capital improvement projects.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Cannabis compassion and care act.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Constitutional amendment adding the economic freedom amendment prohibiting the transfer to the federal government of ownership interests in entities formed under Kansas law.
Sponsor: Commerce
Establishing agreed local management areas.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Amendments to the Kansas Expanded Lottery Act; race track gaming; other.
Sponsor: Robert Grant
School districts; accounting for KPERS employer contributions as part of state aid to schools.
Sponsor: Education
Air quality fee fund and the transfer of permit fees.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Municipalities; bond election; notice and ballot requirements.
Sponsor: Education
Requiring an election to authorize expenditures for school finance litigation.
Sponsor: Education
Allowing individual taxpayers to claim a deduction for net operating losses.
Sponsor: Taxation
Kansas Buy American Act.
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Personal and family protection act; authorizing the carrying of concealed handguns in public buildings.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Providing an income tax deduction for certain long-term care premiums.
Sponsor: Taxation
State partnership health insurance exchange.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Local health department; prohibition of accreditation requirements.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Governmental ethics; campaign finance; increased donation, contribution and gift amounts.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Amending the expiration date of net excess generation credit.
Sponsor: Utilities
Economic development; investments in telecommunications machinery and equipment.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Enacting the school district special needs scholarship program.
Sponsor: Education
Abortion; prohibiting abortions performed solely because of the gender of the unborn child.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Municipalities; elections; partisan; fall, odd-numbered years.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
House Substitute for SB 147 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources – Amending the powers and duties of the Kansas department of agriculture division of conservation and the state conservation commission.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Sales tax exemption for materials and services purchased by contractors for construction and remodeling of state properties and facilities.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Vital statistics; unborn child death certificate.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School districts; course of instruction; science.
Sponsor: Education
Reno county commissioners; term limits.
Sponsor: Local Government
Racing and gaming commission; compensation of members.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Open records act; disclosure of names of concealed carry licensees prohibited.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Health insurance for firefighters and law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Repealing the restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Elections; voter identification; affidavit in lieu of photo identification.
Sponsor: Elections
Elections; term limits; attorney general, secretary of state
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Prohibiting the use of unmanned aerial luminaries.
Sponsor: Local Government
Taxation of watercraft.
Sponsor: Taxation
Substitute for HB 2246 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Peer review for certain licensed technical professions.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Public adjusters licensing act; definitions.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Providing authority for a school district to adopt a local activities budget.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
School finance; use of capital outlay funds.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Juvenile justice authority; new community based services and residential care.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
A resolution to stop Kansas participation in the expansion of medicaid services.
Sponsor: Appropriations
KPERS; working after retirement limitations and adjusting definition of compensation for purposes of computing final average salary.
Sponsor: Education
Campaign finance; permitted uses of campaign funds; increased exemption amount for certain candidates; contributor information; lobbyist filings.
Sponsor: Appropriations
House Substitute for SB 167 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Juvenile justice authority; new community based service alternatives; new residential services levels; establishment of performance measures and payment methodologies.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Establishing the personal financial literacy incentive program.
Sponsor: Education
Pharmacists; loan forgiveness.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Health insurance; mandate lite health benefit plans; specially designed policies.
Sponsor: Dan Hawkins
Allowing boards of county commissioners to exempt severed minerals from ad valorem taxation.
Sponsor: Taxation
School districts; adoption of plan to address bullying.
Sponsor: Education
School finance; amount of tax levy authorized to finance ancillary school facilities.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Authorizing transfer from the expanded lottery act revenues fund to the department of education for KPERS employer contributions for school districts.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Municipalities; elections; odd-numbered years; non-partisan.
Sponsor: Elections
Kansas indoor clean air act; smoking permitted certain premises.
Sponsor: Randy Garber
Medical care facilities, licensure and renewal of licenses.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Water pollution control permits and creating the water program management fund.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Amending provisions relating to the law enforcement powers of juvenile justice authority officers.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Municipalities; elections; partisan; fall, even-numbered years.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Campaign finance; relating to schools and question submitted elections.
Sponsor: Elections
School districts; capital improvements.
Sponsor: Education
Agriculture; changing the definition of "on-farm retail sales of milk or milk products."
Sponsor: Agriculture
Enacting the protective parent reform act.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Prescription monitoring program and other programs serving pharmacists and non-pharmacists; user fees.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Providing authority for a school district to adopt an extracurricular school activities budget.
Sponsor: Education
Legislature; job protection for persons elected or appointed to the state legislature.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Kansas expanded lottery act; minimum investment; electronic gaming machine revenue distribution.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Veterans benefit lottery game; disposition of net profits; veterans benefit lottery game fund and national guard benefit lottery game fund established.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amending provisions relating to municipal appearance bonds.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Requiring 65% of state moneys received by school districts to be expended for instruction.
Sponsor: Education
State treasurer, insurance commissioner; term limits.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Advanced practice registered nurses scope of practice and prescribing authority.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Income tax credit for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment.
Sponsor: Taxation
Requiring radon testing for residential home sales.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Amendments to the Kansas offender registration act.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Offices of the governor and lieutenant governor; vacancy.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Making name and substantive changes regarding the Kansas department for children and families and the Kansas department for aging and disabilities services consistent with E.R.O. 41.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Creating the Kansas children's internet protection act.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Constitutional amendment; raffles by nonprofit organizations.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Utilities; cooperatives and distributions to members.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
Special city and county highway fund; county equalization and adjustment fund; apportionment, timing.
Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit
Sales and compensating use tax; distribution of revenues.
Sponsor: Taxation
Eligibility of applicants for assistance to transportation systems.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Board of barbering; establishing a process whereby a licensed cosmetologist may become a licensed barber; if licensed barber owns a cosmetology services salon, the board of barbering would inspect such salon.
Sponsor: Tom Sloan
Qualifications for resident fees for military personnel and veterans.
Sponsor: Education Budget
Licensure as an addictions counselor or licensed clinical addictions counselor by the department for aging and disability services; exemptions.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Enforcement of support orders; income withholding.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Repealing a $500,000 transfer from highway patrol training center fund to the state general fund.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Elections; local government candidates.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Substitute HB 2166 by Committee on Judiciary -- Relating to the medical assistance recovery program.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Repealers; postsecondary education scholarship provisions.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Senate Substitute for Senate Substitute for HB 2141 by Committee on Ethics and Elections -- Municipal elections; fall, odd-numbered years; vacancies by party district conventions.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Employment security law; eligibility for certain benefits, abolish Employment Security Advisory Council, notice requirements.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Immigration; enforcement of federal immigration laws; determination of citizenship; cooperative agreements; validity of certain contracts; eligibility for certain public benefits; effect of immigration status on criminal appearance bonds.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Annual basketball game between division I universities of the state.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Raffles; regulation; administrator of charitable gaming, department of revenue.
Sponsor: Jacob LaTurner
Misdemeanor possession of a firearm during commission of certain misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Counties; abatement of nuisances, procedure; disposition of vehicle.
Sponsor: Local Government
Electric cooperative refund to members on death.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2231 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Lobbying; use of public funds prohibited.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Constitutional amendment concerning school finance; suitable provision for finance determined by the legislature.
Sponsor: Education
Postsecondary education; tuition and fees for aliens.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Consolidation of cities and counties; dual majority vote.
Sponsor: Local Government
Removing the secretary of labor's role of taking assignment of wage claims.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Logan county; election of board of commissioners.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Abolishing the death penalty; creating the crime of aggravated murder.
Sponsor: Judiciary
State constitutional amendment; human life amendment.
Sponsor: Randy Garber
Capital improvement projects for various state agencies.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Municipalities; cities, school districts; community colleges; other; partisan elections.
Sponsor: Elections
School districts; transportation of nonresident pupils.
Sponsor: Education Budget
Alcoholic beverages; expanding the privileges of retailer's licensees.
Sponsor: Taxation
Alcoholic beverages; amending requirements for licensure.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Encouraging KDOT to make engineering decisions based upon professional findings.
Sponsor: Transportation
Senate Substitute for HB 2155 by Committee on Pubic Health and Welfare – Community developmental disability organizations; eligibility determination, needs assessment and case management.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Repealers; report on medically underserved areas of the state.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Amending private remedies under the Kansas consumer protection act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Civil procedure; electronic service of process.
Sponsor: Judiciary
School districts; bullying policies.
Sponsor: Education
Creating the Kansas business workers and community partnership act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Massage therapist licensure act.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Creating a preference to businesses owned by disabled veterans for state contracts.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Senate Substitute for HB 2154 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Cosmetology; relating to licensure and renewal.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Property taxation; appeals of classification or valuation of property; protest payments.
Sponsor: Taxation
House Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Taxation – Reduction to state income tax rates based on selected actual state general fund receipts computations; distribution of revenues from sales and compensating use tax; reduction of itemized deductions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Interest on judgments in civil actions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Civil procedure, commercial property liens; state construction registry, notice of commencement and notice of furnishings.
Sponsor: Commerce
Pharmacy technicians; requirements for registration.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Imposing well spacing requirements for future points of diversion of water.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Campaign finance; transfer of campaign money to another candidacy.
Sponsor: Elections
Prohibiting employers from requiring employees to divulge social media content.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Increasing penalties for certain right-of-way violations.
Sponsor: Transportation
Alcoholic liquor; authorizing the production and transportation of homemade fermented beverages.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Open records act; not-for profit organization; amendments.
Sponsor: Steven Brunk
Uniform vital statistics act; certificate of birth relating in stillbirth.
Sponsor: Robert Olson
Relating to official misconduct.
Sponsor: Brett Hildabrand
Concerning the National Defense Authorization Act.
Sponsor: Brett Hildabrand
Unused medications act; donating entities.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Senate Substitute for HB 2145 by Committee on Ways and Means -- University of Kansas; medical student loan act. Adding general surgery and obstetrics and gynecology to the definition of approved postgraduate residency training program.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Disaster reimbursement fund; adjutant general.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Public Employee Freedom Act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Relating to court fees and costs; judiciary technology fund.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to judges; authority of supreme court.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Supplemental appropriation for FY 2012, FY 2013 and FY 2014 for various state agencies.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
School district; redefining at-risk pupil.
Sponsor: Education
Economic freedom amendment.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Certain cash rebates on sales or leases of new motor vehicles not subject to sales taxation.
Sponsor: Taxation
Regulated entities and activities including cemeteries and agreements relating thereto and certain city and county licenses.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Senate Substitute for HB 2140 by Committee on Education – Carrying of concealed handguns by law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Education
Crimes, definition of firearm; antique firearms excluded.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Personal and family protection act; licensure requirements for certain officers.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Agriculture; agricultural chemical registration; pesticide business liability insurance; repeal of the Kansas agricultural liming materials act.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Substitute for HB 2056 - by Committee on Taxation - Permitted use of tax information in certain tax actions and proceedings; tax warrants.
Sponsor: Taxation
Determination of Kansas adjusted gross income for certain subchapter S corporations.
Sponsor: Taxation
State plan for comprehensive treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Veteran service organizations, electronic gaming machines.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Motor-vehicle fuel; relating to retail pump labeling requirements.
Sponsor: Commerce
Amending the crime of promotion to minors of material harmful to minors.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas dental board; licensure of dental practitioners.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Repealing certain educational statutes concerning USD land transfers and higher education loan and grant programs.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Debt setoff; collection assistance fee.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Retention of 6.3% sales tax rate, reduction in individual income tax rates and elimination of certain deductions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Fire districts; multiple counties; detachment procedures.
Sponsor: Tom Sloan
Relating to certain addresses to the legislature.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Architects and engineers; immunity from liability in negligence under certain circumstances.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Relating to the HCBS I/DD waiver.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Constitutional amendment limiting terms of legislators to 12 consecutive years.
Sponsor: Virgil Peck
Civil Procedure: remote claims on commercial property; state construction registry.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
State court of tax appeals; filing fees; telephone hearings; terms of judges; initial pleadings.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Establishing the veterans benefit lottery game fund.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Real estate brokers and salespersons; licensing requirements; sales transaction requirements.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Mortgage registration fees; verification of indebtedness.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Extending PEAK benefit term for companies with agreements entered into prior to 2013.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Substitute for SB45 for Committee on Elections--Campaign finance; reporting requirements threshold raised; transfer of campaign funds; other.
Sponsor: Elections
School districts; requirements for identification of and provision of services to students with dyslexia.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Authorizing the sale or exchange of Emporia State University property.
Sponsor: Legislative Educational Planning
Elections; petition circulators.
Sponsor: Elections
Urging congress to amend the U.S. constitution to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
Sponsor: Tom Holland
Kansas death with dignity act.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Property tax exemption for health clubs.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Vaccinations; exemption based on conscience or personal belief.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Supplemental appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013 and FY 2014 for various state agencies.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Amending the crime of burglary to include intent to commit various domestic offenses.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Exchange of real estate by the university of Kansas and the Kansas university endowment association.
Sponsor: Legislative Educational Planning
Specifying responsibility for payment of the mortgage registration fee.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
County treasurers; term of office starting date.
Sponsor: Elections
Kansas expanded lottery act; south central Kansas gaming zone restrictions.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Grand juries.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Utilities and contracting for renewable energy.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Amendments pertaining to the board of technical professions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Sales tax, food sales tax refund, excluding certain confined persons; Homestead property tax refund, excluding certain confined persons, computation of refund; earned income credit.
Sponsor: Taxation
Kansas death with dignity act.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Time limits for decisions by courts.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Streams, dams and obstructions; chief engineer, division of water resources duties; counties, authority.
Sponsor: Local Government
State use law; purchases by municipalities; committee sunset date and chairperson selection.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Voter identification requirement.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Cities; experience requirements for plumbers, electricians and certain mechanical contractors.
Sponsor: Brian Weber
Distribution of sales and use tax revenue; funding streams to the state water plan fund.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Commission on emergency planning and response, membership.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; changing the membership of the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Exemption from personal property taxes for motor vehicles of active guard and reservists.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Insurance; risk-based capital requirements; investments by insurance companies; acceptable security deposits; authorizing Kansas state fair to purchase certain insurance coverage; procedure for return of certain premiums.
Sponsor: Insurance
Publication of delinquent personal property tax statements.
Sponsor: Local Government
Preservation of historic properties; cities and counties.
Sponsor: Local Government
Contract negotiations for certain professional employees.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2051 by Committee on Natural Resources -- Enacting the state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife act.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Cities; qualifications and rehabilitation of abandoned property.
Sponsor: Local Government
Senate Substitute for HB 2037 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Secretary of administration; duties of director of accounts and reports transferred.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Physical therapists; evaluation and treatment of patients.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Governor appoints supreme court justices, senate confirms; nominating commission membership amended; lifetime appointment, subject to removal for cause.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Elections; voter identification requirement.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 22 by Committee on Education - Enacting the corporate education tax credit scholarship program act.
Sponsor: Education
Enacting the cannabis compassion and care act.
Sponsor: David Haley
Requiring the collection and publication of district attorney criminal and juvenile offender caseload data.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Commission on judicial performance; sunset in 2017; docket fees reduced.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Student electronic privacy at public and private postsecondary educational institutions.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Racial profiling data collection and reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Income tax credit for property taxes paid on homestead damaged by natural disaster.
Sponsor: Brandon Whipple
Board of nursing; assistant attorneys general.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Municipalities; solid waste collection; limitations.
Sponsor: Local Government
Appraisal of property for taxation purposes; appeals; changes.
Sponsor: Taxation
Requiring the completion of a boater safety education course.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Relating to eligibility requirements for the Kansas program of medical assistance.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Certain deductions from wages authorized.
Sponsor: Commerce
Alcohol Control Act: tastings, civil fines.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations
Information technology audits.
Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit
Telecommunications; alternative technology and carrier of last resort.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
Kansas electric transmission authority board members.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Establishing the Kansas equine education and promotion board.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Economic development financing; eligible project costs for certain TIF and CID districts; bond repayment requirements; clarifying tax status of certain property.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Senate Substitute for HB 2077 - by Committee on Federal and State Affairs concerning alcoholic beverages; club and drinking establishments; samples; employees; other.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Imposing school attendance and minimum grade point average requirements upon certain drivers.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Kansas employer e-verify accountability act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Requiring retailers to obtain identification from purchasers of pre-paid mobile communication devices.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Substitute for SB 36 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Alcoholic liquor; clubs and drinking establishments; samples; taxation; employment standards for servers; other.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Legislators; lobbying restrictions; nepotism restrictions.
Sponsor: Jacob LaTurner
Amending the statute of limitations for prosecution of sexually violent offenses where the victim is under 18 years of age.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Governmental ethics commission; membership expanded.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Community defense act; sexually oriented businesses.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Law enforcement agency payment rate to health care providers for persons in custody.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Fair elections act; secretary of state; prohibitions of contributions to and endorsement of other elected officials.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Amending the crime of identity theft.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Requiring the Kansas water office to formulate a plan to address water-related issues.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Energy and Environmental Policy
Department of health and environment; local environmental protection programs.
Sponsor: Legislative Budget
Credit card surcharge exemption for certain educational institutions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 18 by Committee on Judiciary -Relating to disputes involving church congregations.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Prohibiting outside employment of certain state officials.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Senate Substitute for HB 2058 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation – Sales tax exemption for purchases for construction materials for Wichita children's home, the beacon, inc. and reaching out from within, inc.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Cities and counties; solid waste disposal areas; restrictions.
Sponsor: Local Government
Hunting and fishing licenses; exemptions for disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Uniform consumer credit code and payday loans.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Elections; advance voting; deceased voter.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Uniform consumer credit code and payday loans.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Relating to reassignment of judge of the district court positions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Governmental ethics; two year restriction on lobbying by former state officers or employees.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Sales tax exemption for purchase by and on behalf of Jackson county fair association.
Sponsor: Taxation
Prohibiting employers from requiring employees to divulge social media content.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Unlawful possession of prescription-only drugs.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Alcoholic beverages; employment standards for persons serving alcoholic beverages.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; providing for direct partisan election of supreme court justices and court of appeals judges; abolishing the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Judiciary
State constitutional amendment; term limits; legislators.
Sponsor: Jacob LaTurner
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; allowing the governor to appoint supreme court justices and court of appeals judges, subject to senate confirmation; abolishing the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Amending the statute of limitations for prosecution of sexually violent offenses where the victime is under 18 years of age.
Sponsor: Gail Finney
School districts; finance; amendments to funding formula.
Sponsor: Steven Huebert
Substitute HB 2027 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Contract negotiations for certain professional employees.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; changing the membership of the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; allowing the governor to appoint supreme court justices and court of appeals judges, subject to senate confirmation; abolishing the supreme court nominating commission.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Open meetings; minutes required; open records; charges limited.
Sponsor: Jacob LaTurner
Racial profiling data collection and reporting requirements
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Court of appeals judges; direct partisan election.
Sponsor: Judiciary
County elections commissioners; appointment by county commission.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Business entities; restricting the use of an acquired entity's name by an acquiring entity.
Sponsor: Gail Finney
Retaining students from grade-level promotion if not proficient on the reading state assessment for grade three.
Sponsor: Steven Huebert
Local ad valorem tax reduction fund; transfers to; distributions to political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
State aid for capital improvements and capital outlay for school districts.
Sponsor: Steven Huebert
Creating the Kansas commission on judicial appointments; specifying Senate confirmation procedure for judicial appointments.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Physician assistants; exempt license.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Substitute HB 2001 by Committee on Veterans, Military and Homeland Security--Military service members; Kansas national guard educational assistance act.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Relating to restricted driving privileges in lieu of suspension.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Business entities; restricting the use of an acquired entity's name by an acquiring entity.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
FHSU President Hammond's retirement.
Sponsor: Sue Boldra
Regulation of commercial vehicles.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Amendments to statutes regulating abortions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Sales tax exemption for helping hands humane society, inc.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Enacting the SUCCESS act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Prohibiting referral fees between realtors
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Property taxation; recording of mineral interests.
Sponsor: Taxation
Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Sponsor: Commerce
Plant protection; live plant dealer's licenses.
Sponsor: Appropriations
State employees; abolishing longevity bonus payments.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Firearms; possession on certain government property.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Plant protection; live plant dealer's licenses.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Relating to the state child death review board.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Driver's license examiners.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Enacting the Kansas fair tax of 2013 revised.
Sponsor: John Rubin
Weights and measures; controlling authority of certificates of conformance issued by certain institutes and authorized laboratories.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Schools; financing; educational goals; school finance litigation; capital outlay; supplemental general state aid; funding thereof; K-12 student performance commission; teacher licensure; innovative school districts; transportation weighting; at-risk pupils; Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act; Kansas tort claims act.
Sponsor: Calendar and Printing
EPA Emission Standards and the Primacy of States.
Sponsor: Transportation
Constitutional amendment establishing the budget stabilization fund and the disaster relief fund in the state treasury; transfers to and from such funds.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Memorializing the life of Representative Mike Peterson.
Sponsor: Stan Frownfelter
Health insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States and prescribing duties and responsibilities therefor.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Prohibiting insurance companies from canceling property and casualty policies due to claims from natural disasters.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Allowing program credits earned by an inmate to be published on the department of corrections website.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Court of appeals judges to be nominated by the supreme court nominating commission and appointed by the governor.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Creating the mineral production education fund, crediting 20% of remainder from oil and gas tax into such fund. Moneys expended on education funding. Abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund. Allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Prudential Spirit of Community award recipients.
Sponsor: James Todd
Substitute for HB 2763 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Making appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, and June 30, 2016, for the university of Kansas; expansion and development of the state seismic monitoring network.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Kansas expanded lottery act; no electronic gaming machines at parimutuel licensee locations in south central Kansas gaming zone.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity in the Kansas act against discrimination.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Ten-year limit on property tax exemption for renewable energy resources or technologies.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Exempting the Armourdale renewal association, Armourdale optimist club and share the bear, inc. from sales taxation.
Sponsor: Taxation
Changing interest credit amounts and retirement annuities under KPERS act of 2015, and membership in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for security officers of the department of corrections.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Increasing criminal penalties for residential burglary.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Removing extension district taxing authority.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Sales tax exemption for county councils on aging.
Sponsor: Taxation
Excluding corporal punishment from the crimes of battery, domestic battery, endangering a child and abuse of a child.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Alcoholic beverages; designating certain areas for consumption of alcoholic beverages in public.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Requiring county appraisers to follow policies, procedures and guidelines of the director of property valuation in classifying commercial and industrial machinery and equipment.
Sponsor: Taxation
Regulating the possession of weapons; municipalities; other.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Kansas housing loan guarantee program.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Riley county law enforcement director; elected.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Sales tax exemption for friends of hospice of Jefferson county.
Sponsor: Taxation
Membership in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for security officers of the department of corrections.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Sales tax authority for Rooks county for constructing or remodeling a jail facility.
Sponsor: Taxation
Sharing increased sales tax revenue arising from future changes in federal law with local government to reduce property taxes.
Sponsor: Taxation
Authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for water projects instead of the Kansas water office; state finance council approval required.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Registration of operators of assisted living, residential health care, home plus or adult day care facilities.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Substitute for SB394 by Committee on Judiciary--Enacting the foster parents' bill of rights act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Predetermination of health insurance benefits
Sponsor: Appropriations
Health insurance for certain emergency personnel employed by cities or counties.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Bad faith assertions of patent infringement.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Establishing the Kansas legislature paper-free task force.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Extending the alternative calculation for the local option budget under the school finance formula.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Weights and measures; controlling authority of certificates of conformance issued by certain institutes and authorized laboratories.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Regulation of the possession of weapons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Parentage, right of biological father to be part of the divorce or annulment proceedings.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Enabling active business recruitment through PEAK.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
City annexations; county approval of some annexations.
Sponsor: Taxation
State geographic information systems officer.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Transparency and accountability in legislative meetings act.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Defendants have statutory right to counsel at every hearing before a judge of the district court, rather than at every stage of the proceedings.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
State use law; extending the committee for 5 years; allowing municipalities to use the products and services.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Unclaimed property act and hearings.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions
Workplace bullying, abuse and harassment; policies for state employees.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Abolishing longevity bonus payments; authorizing an annual $300 payment for classified state employees and certain state officers and an annual $150 payment for regular classified part-time employees and members of the legislature.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas expanded lottery act; racetrack gaming.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Schools; financing and instruction thereof.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Authorizing a new capital outlay tax levy; when.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Elections; resignation from office upon receiving campaign donations for another office or filing for another officer.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Providing for a property tax averaging payment plan.
Sponsor: Taxation
Education; funding for capital outlay and supplemental general state aid.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Enacting the Kansas employee credit consideration act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Driver's license examiners.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Providing for alternative teacher licensure.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Roads and highways; traffic control in Stafford county.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Legislators per diem compensation would be based on 80% of the average K-12 teachers salary; eliminating annualization of certain compensation by legislators in determination of benefits and contributors.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Establishing the capitol meditation room.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Kansas department for children and families; photograph of a recipient on the public assistance card.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Unlawful registration of a motor vehicle; fines and penalties.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Obesity prevention and management task force.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Amendments to Kansas expanded lottery act and racetrack gaming; Kansas agricultural opportunity act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amendments to the school district finance and quality performance act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Valuation of land devoted to agricultural use.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Uniform controlled substances act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Sales tax exemption for Wichita children's home.
Sponsor: Taxation
Requiring 180-day wait before re-employment for retirement eligibility.
Sponsor: Taxation
Enacting the SUCCESS act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Tax lien on property voluntarily transferred.
Sponsor: Taxation
Allowing jurors to take notes for personal use during trial.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Regulated scrap metal; crime of theft and related sentencing provisions; regulation of scrap metal dealers, including unlawful acts and penalties.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Establishing requirements and fiduciary duties for pharmacy benefits managers.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Campaign finance; reporting requirements threshold raised; transfer of campaign funds; other.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Facilitating tax exemptions for certain donations of land or easements to the state.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Allowing retail sale of electric generation.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Filing false complaints against a law enforcement officer.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Transportable physician orders for patient preferences.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Removing affirmative defense to promotion to minors of material harmful to minors for public, private or parochial schools.
Sponsor: Judiciary
State building projects; negotiating committees; alternative procurement.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Amending the Kansas expanded lottery act provisions relating to racetrack gaming facilities.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Constitutional amendment establishing the budget stabilization fund and the disaster relief fund in the state treasury; transfers to and from such funds.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United States and prescribing duties and responsibilities therefor.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Repealing the sunset on the Kansas taxpayer transparency act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Real-time explanation of health care benefits act.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Vehicles exempt from motor carrier rules and regulations.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Providing additional lump sum retirement benefit options under KPERS.
Sponsor: Taxation
Annexation; resolution approving; compliance.
Sponsor: Taxation
Restricting the use of images obtained from the use of unmanned vehicles or aircraft.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Creating the mobile communications devices identification system.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Taxpayer empowerment, accountability and transparency in state contracting act.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Criminalizing hunting without written permission of the landowner and removing requirements to post or mark land for hunting purposes.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Certain sex crimes, where the offender is over 18 and the victim is under 14, which currently have a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years could be increased to 35 if aggravating circumstances found.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Increasing civil penalties in the water appropriation act and creating a criminal penalty for sprinkling irrigation water on highways.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Unmanned aerial vehicle regulation act.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Domestic relations; divorce; division of property; maintenance.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Supporting the development of passenger rail service in Kansas.
Sponsor: Transportation
Education; funding for capital outlay and supplemental general state aid.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
State child death review board.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Enacting the Kansas tax weight-loss act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Repealing the renewable energy standards act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Salary increase for classified employees; abolishing longevity bonus for all state employees.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Capping the franchise fee at 5%.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Establishing the capitol meditation room.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Homeowner association lien; notice requirements.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amending statutes concerning dangerous regulated animals.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Sales tax exemption for required textbooks.
Sponsor: Taxation
Legislative meetings and the transparency and accountability act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Mobile telecommunications devices identification system and the Kansas bureau of investigation.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Insurance
Substitute for Substitute for HB 2721 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the business entity standard treatment act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Authorizing the governor to enter into the great plains interstate fire compact.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Allocating moneys from driver's license fees to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Commercial real estate broker lien act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Advanced practice registered nurses scope of practice and prescribing authority.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Prohibiting the state court of tax appeals from charging filing fees to municipalities and political subdivisions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Providing postsecondary career technical education performance-based funding.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Creating the Johnson county community college go pro now program to provide high school students with an accelerated four-year, opportunity to receive a high school diploma, associate degree from Johnson county community college, and bachelor's degree from a state educational institution; appropriations for FY 2014 and FY 2015.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Urging Congress to provide for the prompt payment of disability compensation to U.S. Veterans.
Sponsor: John Alcala
Local governments; investment of idle funds; changes.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Recognizing gold and silver bullion coins issued by the federal government as legal tender in Kansas, and providing Kansas income tax deduction and sales tax exemption.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Horizontal and vertical well crude oil production income tax credit.
Sponsor: Taxation
Senate Substitute for HB 2693 by Committee on Transportation - Providing for testing by community colleges for commercial driver's licenses; entities serving as driver's licenses examiners.
Sponsor: Transportation
Amending which convictions are counted for driving while license canceled, suspended or revoked.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Prohibiting parole offices within 1,000 feet of any child care facility.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Amendments to the Kansas pet animal act.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Amendments to the Kansas pet animal act.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Sexually violent predators; reimbursement for costs incurred by counties.
Sponsor: Judiciary
State contracts; access to negotiated bid contracts by certified businesses; preference for business owned by disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Creating the Kansas educational opportunity act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Ten year limit on property tax exemption for renewable energy resources or technologies.
Sponsor: Taxation
Regulated scrap metal; crime of theft and related sentencing provisions; regulation of scrap metal dealers, including unlawful acts and penalties.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Enacting the continued access to community pharmacy act.
Sponsor: Insurance
Substitute for HB 2722 by Committee on Taxation - Concerning rural housing incentive districts; disallowing use of certain real property tax proceeds to pay bonds.
Sponsor: Taxation
Removing vehicles weighing 26,000 pounds or less from definition of commercial vehicle; property tax; refunds.
Sponsor: Transportation
Adoptions.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Parentage; establishing a putative father registry.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Relating to disclosure of contents of communication while in electronic storage.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Allocating moneys from driver's license fees to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Creating the crimes of abandonment of a human corpse; failing to summon assistance.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
State constitutional amendment; raffles by non-profit organizations.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Establishing the local food and farm task force.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Designating a portion of K-161 highway as the ancient Indians' traders trail.
Sponsor: Transportation
School districts; requiring storm shelters for certain construction projects.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Including a presumption in the definition of land devoted to agricultural use.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Removing sunset and certain limitations on property tax disaster abatement.
Sponsor: Taxation
Writ of habeas corpus; abuser of the writ; restrictions on successive petitions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Regarding compulsory school attendance; crime of truancy; material change in circumstances in residential custody.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Uniform power of attorney act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Public speech protection act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Clarifying the culpability required for violations of the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Enacting the public service protection act.
Sponsor: Commerce
Homestead property tax refund for completely disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Enacting the Kansas public employees pension forfeiture act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Secretary of health and environment and land spreading of drilling waste.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Unifying the Kansas soldiers' home and the Kansas veterans' home into the Kansas veterans care center.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Property tax; classification of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment as personal property; reclassification of property upon termination of IRB tax exemption; use of independent appraisers to appraiser certain complex property; motor vehicles, members of military; mortgage registration tax phase out and replacement with fees; county clerk technology fund; county treasurer technology fund.
Sponsor: Taxation
Designating a portion of United States highway 160 as the Harper county veterans memorial highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Removing the requirement of a hunter safety course to obtain a hunting license for people who have a permit to carry a firearm concealed.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School districts; health and human sexuality education; policies and procedures.
Sponsor: Education
Substitute for HB 2615 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Workers compensation assigned risk pool.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Personnel rules and regulations; job duty leave.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Creating temporary visitor's driver's license.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Custody, visitation and residency of a child with certain relatives.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Criminal offense with domestic violence designation; electronic monitoring.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Authorizing parole officers to carry firearms in the performance of their duties.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Residential property tax exemption for disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Expungment of driving under the influence convictions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Domestic case management.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Senate Substitute for HB 2616 by Committee on Commerce - Secretary of labor directed to study state enforcement of OSHA standards.
Sponsor: Commerce
Removing the exemption from continuing education requirements for pre-need funeral insurance agents.
Sponsor: Insurance
Prescribing curriculum standards; establishing an advisory council on curriculum content standards; limiting certain student and teacher data collection.
Sponsor: Education
Enacting the elevator safety act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Tax credits for community service contributions; youth apprenticeship and entrepreneurship.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Creating the student data privacy act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Requiring annual reporting by the executive director of the Kansas commission on veterans affairs.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Exempting certain public entities from provisions of the personal and family protection act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Requiring health insurers to provide coverage for telemedicine mental health services.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Domestic battery; mandating domestic violence offender assessment upon first conviction.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amendments to the Kansas pet animal act.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Educational building fund; regents bonding authority.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Pharmacy audit integrity act amendments.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Increasing the rate of taxation upon cigarettes and tobacco products.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Board of healing arts functions and duties, physician assistants licensure act and podiatry act.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Providing penalties and procedures for members of legislature who have positive test under the drug screen program.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Requires American flags displayed at government buildings be manufactured in the United Sates.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
State civil service board; transferred from the department of administration to the office of administrative hearings.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Public assistance recipients; state-issued photo identification card.
Sponsor: Valdenia Winn
Amending the powers and duties of the Kansas department of agriculture division of conservation and the state conservation commission.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Expungement of petitions for protection from stalking orders.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Appropriations for I/DD waiver for FY 2014 and FY 2015.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Removing the requirement that certain member funds at the Kansas soldiers' home and Kansas veterans' home be deposited with the state treasurer.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Allowing the use of leashed dogs to track dead or wounded big game.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Kansas lottery; sale of tickets; advertising.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School district agreements for consolidation of administrative services.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to asbestos-related liability.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Supporting implementation of information technology education opportunities in Kansas schools.
Sponsor: Education
Limiting recovery of attorney fees to claims for property damage.
Sponsor: Insurance
Establishing the Kansas legislature award for teaching excellence program.
Sponsor: Education
School finance; phase out of school facilities weighting and transfer of funds to supplemental general state aid.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
County law library.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Prohibiting the use of state aid by public postsecondary educational institutions to support certain academic entities that are academically boycotting certain countries in which certain institutions of higher education are located.
Sponsor: James Todd
Specifying the duties of the state fire marshal relating to regional emergency response teams for hazardous materials and search and rescue incidents.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Substitute for HB 2633 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Juvenile offenders; youth residential centers and services; risk assessment; raising the age for prosecution as an adult; sentencing; good time credits.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Sales tax holiday which provides sales tax exemption for certain purchases of school supplies, computers and clothing.
Sponsor: Larry Powell
Requiring school districts and nonpublic schools to release student records.
Sponsor: Education
Workers compensation insurance experience ratings.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Office of the ombudsman concerning child abuse; established.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Patient protection act; prohibited provisions in certain agreements.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
State valuation and assessment of complex industrial property by the director of property valuation.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Alcoholic beverages; certain licensure qualifications and privileges.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Lien filings against public officials; prohibitions; notice; criminal penalties.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Increasing the fine for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle; creating the highway workers and police officers relief fund.
Sponsor: Transportation
Income tax deduction for net gain on the sale of certain horses, cattle or livestock; income tax credit for expenditures to make dwelling or facility accessible for persons with a disability.
Sponsor: Taxation
Benefit corporations.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Bonnie Huy memorial highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Authorizing the commercial use of address lists derived from public records so long as no names or other personally identifiable information is included.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Elections; certain crimes; electioneering.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
County special road and bridge fund mill levy; rate increase; protect petition.
Sponsor: Taxation
Relating to district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to the issuance of stillbirth and unborn child's death certificates.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Authorizing land purchases by the state; amending process state uses to address seized wildlife; increasing the number of allowable hunter education deferrals.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Requiring fingerprinting and background checks for real estate appraiser licenses.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Alcoholic beverages; microbreweries eligible for manufacturer's license.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School sports head injury prevention act; definition of health care provider.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Statewide assessments for accredited nonpublic schools.
Sponsor: Allan Rothlisberg
Sales tax exemption for the epilepsy foundation of Missouri and Kansas.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Campaign finance; city party committees authorized.
Sponsor: Elections
Insurance; prohibiting dental benefits from being reduced based solely upon where the insured seeks dental care.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Domestic case management.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Smoking regulations; casino exemption deleted.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Motor vehicle salvage title acquisition by insurance company.
Sponsor: Transportation
Mail ballot election act; exclude tax levies and bond issues.
Sponsor: Elections
Workers compensation; selection of examining health care provider.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Relating to district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Limiting the ROZ tax credit to persons employed in for profit businesses.
Sponsor: Commerce
Wildlife, parks and tourism authorized to purchase land in Cherokee county.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Enacting the student data accessibility, transparency and accountability act.
Sponsor: Education
Providing for a program of charity health care.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Senate Substitute for HB 2588 by Committee on Judiciary - Concerning children and minors; relating to children in need of care; placement in juvenile detention facilities; permanent custodians; relating to juvenile offenders; alternative adjudication; youth residential centers and services; risk assessment; sentencing; good time credits.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Judicial lobbyists prohibited.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Allowing certain disabled veterans to park without charge in certain parking spaces in public parking garages that employ parking attendants.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Kansas minimum wage law; minimum wage increase.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Electric utility uniform billing standards.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Juvenile offenders; youth residential center III; cost study; services and programming; establishment of performance measures and payment methodologies.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Repealing the revised Kansas code for care of children; enacting the Kansas code for minors.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amending the crimes of battery against a mental health employee and traffic in contraband in a care and treatment facility.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to zoning of county airports.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Motor vehicle property tax exemption for disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Substitute for HB 2661 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Siting of electric transmission lines; notice and hearing requirements.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Substitute for HB 2614 by Committee on Taxation – Concerning property valuation and appeals; renaming the state court of tax appeals; timing of decisions; removal of members.
Sponsor: Taxation
Practice of pharmacy; filling and refilling of prescriptions.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Wildlife, parks and tourism authorized to purchase land in Pottawatomie county.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Concerning relief from property taxation for property destroyed by disaster; agreements to pay tax by county boards.
Sponsor: Mike Petersen
Establishing the community defense act.
Sponsor: Tom Arpke
Administrative proceedings; notice of hearing requirements.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amending procedures relating to a defendant's competency to stand trial.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Food service programs; students; meals; accounts.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Requiring judicial review of release of mentally competent defendants.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Licensure of pharmacists and registration of pharmacy interns by board of pharmacy.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Constitutional amendment relating to appointment of supreme court justices; requiring the supreme court nominating commission to submit all qualified applicants to the governor.
Sponsor: Taxation
Authorizing the state of Kansas to pay the death gratuity benefit to the designated survivor of a Kansas service member during a federal government shutdown and providing for reimbursement to the state..
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Designating the junction of interstate highway 635 and metropolitan avenue as the Bonnie Sharp interchange.
Sponsor: Transportation
Kansas explosive safety act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Liquefied petroleum motor-fuel computation conversion for certain fuels, tax rates.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Enacting the energy efficiency investment act.
Sponsor: Utilities
Appropriations for I/DD waiver waiting list for FY 2015 through 2018.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Making driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards renewable every eight years.
Sponsor: Taxation
Navigator background check act.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Establishing the community defense act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Eliminating prohibition on certain investments in business operations in Sudan by the Kansas public employees retirement system.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Discrimination based on employment status prohibited.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Changing penalties for certain taxpayers who file incorrect returns under Kansas income tax act; income modifications; sales tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Requiring certain inmates to be confined in administrative segregation and separated from other inmates.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Requiring the corporation commission to study the SPP's integrated market program.
Sponsor: Utilities
Relating to the crimes of assault, battery and unlawful interference; creating the crime of unlawful interference with a health care provider.
Sponsor: Susan Concannon
Fire districts detachment of territory.
Sponsor: Tom Sloan
Protecting surface property owners' rights.
Sponsor: Commerce
School districts; health and human sexuality education; policies and procedures.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Provision of continuing care for incapacitated and terminally-ill persons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Second Health Care Freedom Act.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Computation of retirement benefits when a state officer or employee is placed on furlough or has reduction in compensation.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Refunding sales tax paid upon certain sales of motor vehicles.
Sponsor: Taxation
Providing for the use and storage of epinephrine auto-injectors by certain authorized entities.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Disabled access tax credit.
Sponsor: Taxation
Open records act; definitions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Domestic relations; prohibition of case management process.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Alcoholic beverages; expanding the eligibility and privileges of retailer's licensees.
Sponsor: Taxation
Extending sunset date on certain agriculture fees from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2019.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget
Repeal of the atmospheric mercury deposition monitoring network.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Giving landowner right of first refusal for antlers of deer illegally shot on landowner's property.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: John Rubin
Expression of apology by health care provider not admissible as evidence in a malpractice case.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Prohibition on the application of 2,4-D and related pesticides during certain times of the year.
Sponsor: Commerce
Concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to surety regulation, appearance bonds and unlawful sexual relations.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Foresight 2020 strategic plan.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Making license plates for disabled veterans available for motorcycles.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Claims against the state; 2013 joint committee recommendations.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State
Election law; candidates for state public office; length of residency; moving during election cycle.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Kansas Real Estate Appraisal Board; licensee fingerprinting and criminal background checks.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Creating an exemption from food establishment licensing for churches.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Designating Kansas gold star family day.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Repealing section 16 of article 15 of the Kansas constitution.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Repealing the prohibition on marriage between two persons of the same gender.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Enacting the Kansas reinvestment program act.
Sponsor: Commerce
Interest on judgments in civil actions.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Advanced practice registered nurses scope of practice and prescribing authority.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas money transmitter act concerning change of controlling interest and notification.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions
School districts; reporting of students who are not lawfully present in the United States.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Criminal procedure; speedy trial; mandatory stay of mandate for certain appeals.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Allowing the Sedgwick county regional forensic science center to receive forfeited firearms for forensic science purposes.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to ballot language statements.
Sponsor: Elections
Providing for the Kansas horse council license plate.
Sponsor: Transportation
Authorizing the executive director of the Kansas commission on veterans affairs to oversee the Kansas soldiers' home and the Kansas veterans' home.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Alcoholic beverages; microbreweries limit on production removed.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Mistreatment of an elder person or dependent adult.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas power of attorney act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Domestic relations; Kansas family law code; child support guidelines.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Substitute for SB 343 by Committee on Ethics and Elections - Governmental ethics; public funds used for lobbying.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Drug screening and substance abuse treatment programs for certain government officers and employees.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Requiring the corporation commission to study the SPP's integrated market program.
Sponsor: Utilities
Campaign finance; reports; required information.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Substitute for HB2541 by Committee on Local Government—plastic bottles and containers; labeling; solid waste landfill restrictions.
Sponsor: Local Government
Campaign finance; legislators, candidates, others may solicit but not accept donations during legislative session.
Sponsor: Elections
Repealing certain unified school district election process validation statutes.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Updating statutory references and making corresponding changes due to Executive Reorganization Order No. 41.
Sponsor: Insurance
Liability for property tax on personal property; sale or abandonment of personal property.
Sponsor: Taxation
Reclassification of property upon termination of IRB tax exemption.
Sponsor: Taxation
Creating the airport development revolving fund.
Sponsor: Transportation
Fire districts detachment of territory.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Patient protection act; prohibited provisions in certain agreements.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Prohibiting the Kansas turnpike authority from charging tolls to persons on motorcycles.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Excavator liability under the underground utilities damage prevention act.
Sponsor: Utilities
Relating to the prohibition on wage garnishment for assigned accounts.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Providing for the Rotary International license plate.
Sponsor: Transportation
Allowing banks, trust companies and savings and loans to claim the expensing deduction for privilege tax filers under the Kansas income tax act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Utilities and the sale of renewable energy.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Net metering excess energy credit and fixed charge.
Sponsor: Utilities
Historic preservation; standing; standard of review.
Sponsor: Judiciary
School district plan addressing child sexual abuse; establishing Erin's law.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Hair braiding; board of cosmetology.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Making the water conservation program part of and supplemental to the Kansas water appropriation act.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations
Court of appeals judges; requiring certain applicant information to be made available to the public.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Repealing the regulation of PCB disposal facilities; making changes to the atmospheric mercury deposition monitoring network and the disposal of plastic bottles, containers and solid waste.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Relating to battery; interference with law enforcement.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Urging Congress to oppose the President's climate action plan.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Providing cost-of-living adjustment increase for certain KPERS retirants.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Requiring school districts to adopt school safety and security policies and plans.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas uniform common interest owners bill of rights act, election of board of directors; other.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Relating to the podiatry act.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
School districts; transfer of funds from capital improvement state aid to supplemental general state aid.
Sponsor: Education
Insurance; examination fee for use of consultants to examine large companies.
Sponsor: Insurance
Enacting the state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife act.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Prohibiting texting while driving; penalties.
Sponsor: Transportation
Rending surrogate parenting contracts unenforceable and creating an unclassified misdemeanor.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Increasing the compensation rate for river sand.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Municipalities; solid waste collection; limitations
Sponsor: Commerce
Extending the alternative calculation for the local option budget under the school finance formula.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Veterans and military matters; military honors fund; death gratuity; disabled veterans preference, state jobs and contracts; schools on military reservations, funding.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Regulation of knives by municipalities.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School districts; enrollment count for kindergarten attendance.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Providing for IP interconnection.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas State Fair--removing Committee on Surety Bonds and Insurance approval requirement from purchasing authority for certain insurance coverage.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Managed care organizations, prompt payment.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Secretary of state; political action committees prohibited.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Emergency medical services amendments.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Repealing outdated provisions relating to the purchase of certain real estate by the department of corrections.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Enacting the municipal communication's network and private telecommunications investment safeguards act.
Sponsor: Commerce
Amendments to statutes regulating abortion.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Allowing victim notification on status change of person confined.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Pack St Clair highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Capital murder; attempt; murder in the first degree; sentencing.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amending the crime of promotion to minors of material harmful to minors.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
State constitutional amendment; legislative session, 60 days even-numbered years.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Casino gambling; Geary county, north central Kansas gaming zone; other.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Political action committees, legislative leadership.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Right of first refusal for incumbent electric transmission owners.
Sponsor: Utilities
Sentencing of certain sex offenders to mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 50 years or imprisonment for life without parole ("Jessica's law").
Sponsor: Brandon Whipple
Insurance; eliminating font and type requirements for certain non-English insurance documents; confidentiality of certain documents; continuation of health insurance for spouse and children of certain emergency personnel and employees of the department of corrections; purchase of certain insurance by the state fair board.
Sponsor: Insurance
Property tax exemption for amateur-built aircraft; local ad valorem property tax relief fund, distribution of revenues.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
War on Poverty, 50th Anniversary.
Sponsor: David Haley
Substitute for HB 2476 by Committee on Appropriations - Insurance department, appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Repealing the review of TeleKansas I.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
National defense authorization act for FY 2012; action by state agencies prohibited.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Enacting the state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Relating to the alcohol or other drug addiction treatment act.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight
Establishing a central filing system for security interests in farm products.
Sponsor: Appropriations
House Substitute for SB 245 by Committee on Appropriations - Education funding; relating to mineral production; creating the mineral production education fund, crediting 20% of remainder from oil and gas tax into such fund, moneys expended on education; abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; concerning school financing sources; proceeds from the tax levied by a school district under authority of K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 72-6431, remitted to the state treasury to the credit of the state school district finance fund not to the district's general fund; making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2017.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Clarifying court orders relating to parents in juvenile offender cases and changing the statute of limitations on certain juvenile offenses.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Judicial branch supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas electric transmission authority; composition of authority and advisory council.
Sponsor: Utilities
Relating to the powers and duties of the state corporation commission; construction of electric transmission lines and certificates of public convenience and necessity.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
Transfer of supervision of person paroled, on probation, assigned to community corrections or under suspended sentence.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Annexation of highway right-of-ways by cities.
Sponsor: Transportation
Sales tax exemption for certain purchases by disabled veterans.
Sponsor: Virgil Peck
Lottery, gaming, parimutuel winnings, debt set off; child support.
Sponsor: Pete DeGraaf
District magistrate judges; jurisdiction; cases on the record; appeals.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Window tinting exemption for certain medical reasons.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Use of video conferencing for arraignment hearings in criminal cases.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Agriculture; extending sunset date on certain agriculture fees from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018; national day of the cowboy; establishing the local food and farm task force.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Utilities and generation of electricity.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Relating to administrative procedure; judicial review.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Increasing the salary of the commissioner of insurance.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Right of first refusal for incumbent electric transmission owners.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Sales tax exemption for food and food ingredients.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Recreation commission; conversion of existing recreation systems.
Sponsor: Local Government
Increasing penalty for assault and battery against a sports official.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Judicial branch supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Substitute for HB 2529 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Insurance department service regulation fund; amount of assessment.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Relating to the podiatry act.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Enacting the Kansas public employees retirement system defined contribution act.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Pharmacists and pharmacies; pharmacy technicians; registration and grounds for denial of registration.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Substitute for HB 2503 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Carrying of concealed handguns by law enforcement officers.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Parking ticket limitation.
Sponsor: Transportation
Sales tax exemption for purchases by Reaching Out From Within, Inc.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Designating a portion of K-7 highway as the SGT David Enzbrenner memorial highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Real-time explanation of health care benefits act.
Sponsor: Jim Denning
Elections; recall of elected officials.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
Sponsor: Commerce
Time limits for decisions by courts.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Substitute for HB 2473 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Regulating the possession of weapons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Assignment of seats in the Senate, 2014.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Sponsor: Steve Fitzgerald
J.C. Harmon High School's 20/20 Leadership Program.
Sponsor: Pat Pettey
Lobbyists defined.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Erie High School's design for NASA's new Orion spacecraft.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
FHSU President Hammond's retirement.
Sponsor: Terry Bruce
Changing the map copy requirement in mining permit application.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Senate Substitute for HB 2197 by Committee on Education -- Kansas state high school activities association; membership of board of directors and executive board.
Sponsor: Education
Allowing for criminal discovery materials to be provided to defendant or defendant's counsel.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Substitute for HB 2424 by Committee on Transportation - Designating the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell interchange; the SGT David Enzbrenner memorial highway; the Pack S Clair highway; the ancient Indian traders trail; the Harper county veterans memorial highway; the Bonnie Huy memorial highway; the Bonnie Sharp memorial interchange.
Sponsor: Transportation
Senate Substitute for HB 2146 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Board of pharmacy; licensure and practice of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Senate Substitute for HB 2378 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing sales tax exemption for sales of certain machinery and equipment used for surface mining activities.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Human trafficking and related crimes; penalties for buying sexual relations; records and reporting by courts; staff secure facility requirements.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Board of technical professions; recodification of professions and scope of practice, other; boiler safety act, deputy inspectors.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Permits for the operation of salvage vehicles no longer required to be prepared in triplicate.
Sponsor: Taxation
Health care compact.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Regulating the possession of weapons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amendments to statutes regulating abortions.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Changing interest credit amounts, member distributions upon termination or death and retirement annuities under the KPERS Act of 2015.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Removing 2015 sunset provision from law requiring ignition interlock device after first test failure or alcohol or drug-related conviction.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Senate Substitute for HB 2101 by Committee on Utilities - Renewable energy; excess energy credits.
Sponsor: Utilities
Requiring court fee for forensic audio and video examination services.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Substitute for HB 2002 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Legislative post audit; financial and security audits.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Amending the crime of mistreatment of a dependent adult; creating the crime of mistreatment of an elder person; amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations; amending provisions relating to appearance bonds and surety regulation; amending violations of the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act; also concerning the attorney general, costs in criminal appeals.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Creating the water program management fund and transferring the air quality fee fund.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Property taxation, sale or abandonment of personal property before taxes paid, liens, appointment of interim appraisers, homesteads destroyed or substantially destroyed by natural disaster, certain agreements by board of county commissioners; privilege tax, deductions; income tax, credits, modification to Kansas adjusted gross income; liquified petroleum motor fuel law, rates of taxation.
Sponsor: Taxation
Medical assistance recovery program; rules and regulations.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations
Optometrists; prohibition against limiting payment for covered services to insurance plan amounts.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Allowing burial of hazardous waste on-site.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Amending the Kansas medicaid fraud control act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Modernizing certain insurance laws to allow use of additional investments.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Spendthrift trusts.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amendments relating to health care provider liability insurance and to companies organized to provide such insurance.
Sponsor: Insurance
Senate Sub for HB 2298 by Committee on Judiciary - Uniform controlled substances act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Special permits, oversized loads, transportation of hay or feed stuffs.
Sponsor: Transportation
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Sponsor: David Haley
Substitute for HB2442 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice--Special sentencing rule for third or subsequent flee and elude cases.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Requiring 60-day wait before re-employment for retirement benefit eligibility.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Senate substitute for HB 2065 by Committee on Judiciary - Relating to district magistrate judges; jurisdiction; appeals.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Venue for crimes committed with an electronic device.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Kansas tort claims act; attorney may appear in small claims action.
Sponsor: Judiciary
City annexation; fire district territory; detachment.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Amending the statutory requirements for a valid hospital lien.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Employment security law; creation of "new employer rate."
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Port authority; creation in Stafford, Kansas.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Grand juries; crimes to consider; amendment of indictment.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Amending statutes related to the Kansas criminal justice information system committee.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Prescription Drug Abuse.
Sponsor: David Haley
Senate substitute for HB 2182 by Committee on Judiciary - Legislative review of open records exceptions.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Senate Substitute for HB 2655 by Committee on Judiciary - Allowing veterans with PTSD to seek mental health treatment upon certain convictions; also amending the crimes of interference with law enforcement and giving a false alarm.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Sponsor: Taxation
Authorizing Department of Administration to sell Landon and Eisenhower state office buildings.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas department for aging and disability services; adult care homes
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations
School crossing guards.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Substitute for HB 2451 by Committee on Transportation - Increasing registration fees for electric vehicles.
Sponsor: Transportation
Senate Substitute for HB 2506 by Committee on Ways and Means - Education; appropriations for FY 2014 and FY 2015 for various state agencies; amendments concerning postsecondary education; amendments to provisions relating to school finance.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Relating to the Kansas revised limited liability company act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Senate Substitute for HB 2023 by Committee on Commerce - enacting the public service benefits protection act.
Sponsor: Commerce
Property tax exemption for certain utility systems located on military installation.
Sponsor: Taxation
Increasing the noneconomic damages cap, changing rules related to expert evidence and repealing statutes pertaining to collateral source benefits.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 40 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Secretary of corrections; including juvenile offenders in the prison-made goods act; authorizing use of correctional industries funds for payment of workers compensation insurance.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Amending the shared work unemployment compensation program; layoff aversion.
Sponsor: Commerce
Kansas medical assistance program; managed care organizations; consent for expansion of certain medicaid services.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Senate Substitute for HB 2482 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the energy efficiency investment act.
Sponsor: Utilities
Secretary of health and environment and air quality standards.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Definition of income for homestead refund and SAFESR eligibility; income tax credits for adoption expenses and expenses to make dwelling or facility accessible to persons with a disability; income tax deductions, self-employment taxes, expenses related to organ donations, net gain on the sale of certain livestock; withholding, non-resident pass-through entity income; Kansas taxpayer transparency act, sunset; sales tax exemptions.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Senate Substitute for HB 2338 by Committee on Ways and Means - Judicial branch; supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations; increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees; annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court operations, chief judge would have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district if such chief judge elected to do so, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation; district court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals; district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies; statutory authority for longevity bonus for judicial branch employees repealed; nonseverability clause.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Kansas expanded lottery act; southeast Kansas gaming zone; privilege fee and investment threshold amount reduced.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Repealer: uniform land sales practices act.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Substitute for HB 2223 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs—Alcoholic beverages; homemade fermented beverages; microbrewery gallonage expanded; liquor license length of citizenship.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Increasing the percentage of unclassified employees allowed to be employed by KPERS from 25% to 50%.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Substitute for HB 2452 by Committee on Transportation - Distinctive license plates; donate life, disabled veterans, rotary international, Kansas horse council, motorcycles.
Sponsor: Transportation
Creating civil liability for acts of terrorism; forfeiture of property related to violations of certain criminal acts.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Substitute for HB 2681 by Committee on Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security - Abolishing the Kansas commission on veterans affairs; creating the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office within the executive branch of government.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Allowing parents to remain anonymous when surrendering an infant under the newborn protection act.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to asbestos-related liability.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Requiring municipalities to vote to increase property tax revenues over previous year; publication.
Sponsor: Taxation
Substitute for HB 2436 by Committee on Vision 2020 - Boards of cosmetology and barbering; agreements on inspectors of dual-licensed facilities.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Santa Fe Trail High School girls' basketball.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
National Middle School of the Year recipient Fort Riley Middle School.
Sponsor: Allan Rothlisberg
Health insurance coverage for qualified professional associations.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
Uniform commercial driver's license act; definition of tank vehicle.
Sponsor: Taxation
Expiration of license plates and placards for individuals with disability.
Sponsor: Taxation
Real property; trespass and liability.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 218 by Committee on Appropriations-Education; relating to the financing and instruction thereof; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2014, and June 30, 2015, for certain agencies.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Return of premiums separate from notice of denial of coverage.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
2014 Boys and Girls Club Kansas Youth of the Year.
Sponsor: Marci Francisco
Public Health Week.
Sponsor: Barbara Bollier
Parkinson's Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Garrett Love
Wichita South High School women's basketball team.
Sponsor: Mike Petersen
American Legion Post 408 Flag Team.
Sponsor: Pete DeGraaf
Amending the duration of a conservation easement.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Urging the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a blue alert system for the state of Kansas.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Marais des Cygnes Valley High School boys’ basketball team.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Public Health Week.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Vehicle identification numbers; penalties; damages.
Sponsor: Transportation
Paola Panther robotics team.
Sponsor: Jene Vickrey
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Insurance; excluding real estate from acceptable security deposits with the commissioner and requiring original handwritten signatures on deposit forms.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Eliminating the 3% limit on controlled shooting area acreage in a county.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Insurance; Risk-based capital requirements.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Defining watercraft for purposes of taxation.
Sponsor: Steven Brunk
State fossils; the tylosaurus and the pteranodon.
Sponsor: Vision 2020
Hoxie High School women's basketball team.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
State constitutional amendment authorizing raffles.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Norton Community High School wrestling team.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
Derby High School athletics and extracurricular activities.
Sponsor: Ty Masterson
Updating the Kansas no-call act.
Sponsor: Utilities
Kansas electric transmission authority and the purpose and composition of the authority.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Parkinson's Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Ronald Ryckman
Olathe Northwest Raven Dance team's third consecutive national title.
Sponsor: Julia Lynn
Urging the President to extend the qualifications for the Women's Army Corps Service Medal.
Sponsor: Melanie Meier
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
Sponsor: Melanie Meier
U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon award recipients.
Sponsor: George Edwards
Amending employment security law regarding disposition of penalty funds and disclosure of confidential information.
Sponsor: Commerce
Requiring certain audit reports to be filed electronically and to be filed only with the department of administration.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Paola Panther robotics team.
Sponsor: Pat Apple
Conduct of dental offices.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Purchasing authority for certain insurance by the state board of regents for state educational institutions.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Establishing the state board of veterinary examiners within the animal health division of the Kansas department of agriculture for a two-year period.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Farm machinery and equipment annual highway permits, commercial drivers’ license.
Sponsor: Transportation
Authorizing postsecondary educational institutions to enter into the state authorization reciprocity agreement to provide distance education.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Municipal recycling services
Sponsor: Appropriations
Release of information in support of arrest warrants and search warrants.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Equity Day at the capitol.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Mars Chocolate North America Day.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Drivers licenses; suspended license for certain drivers who have expired licenses.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
Senate Substitute for HB 2118 by Committee on Natural Resources - Repealing the Kansas nongame and endangered species conservation act.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Property tax exemption for levees.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Relationship with Taiwan and Taiwan's participation in international agreements.
Sponsor: Larry Powell
Relating to restitution or collection of debts owed to the courts.
Sponsor: Judiciary
American Diabetes Association Alert Day.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Special sentencing rule for attempt to commit capital murder.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Master Teachers.
Sponsor: Jeff Longbine
Santa Fe Trail High School women's volleyball team.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Allowing the Sedgwick county regional forensic science center to receive forfeited firearms for forensic science purposes.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Criminal procedure; mental status defenses; notice and procedure.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Senate Substitute for HB 2014 by Committee on Utilities - Repealing the renewable energy act.
Sponsor: Utilities
House Substitute for SB60 by Committee on Judiciary - Certain sex crimes, where the offender is over 18 and the victim is under 14, which currently have a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years could be increased to 35 if aggravating circumstances found.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 19 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice – Amending the crime of aggravated battery, concerning strangulation; conversion of out-of-state misdemeanors in determining an offender's criminal history classification.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
House Sub for SB 403 by Committee on Judiciary – Relating to writ of habeas corpus.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Qualifications for office of sheriff.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Memorializing the life of Glen Deitcher.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Amending the Kansas 911 act.
Sponsor: Utilities
Elections; change of party affiliation.
Sponsor: Elections
Authorizing the secretary of state to grant an easement to the unified government of Wyandotte county.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Victim notification prior to release of certain inmates.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Exemption for Federal Home Loan Bank in certain insolvency proceedings involving insurance companies.
Sponsor: Insurance
Statehouse Architect Barry Greis.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Washburn University School of Nursing's 40th anniversary.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Kidney Awareness Day.
Sponsor: Gail Finney
80th Anniversary of Newman University.
Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors
Emergency medical services board authority to impose fines, investigate and issue subpoenas.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
3i show and Western Kansas Manufacturers Association.
Sponsor: Bud Estes
80th Anniversary of Newman University.
Sponsor: Michael O'Donnell
Kidney Awareness Day.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Relating to assignment of seats of the house of representatives.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Boys and Girls Club National Youth of the Year.
Sponsor: Connie O'Brien
The Honorable Christel E. Marquardt's Retirement.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court, chief judge could elect to have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Small Business Development Center award winners.
Sponsor: Tom Holland
Allowing employees to retain and receive employer contributions for health insurance and provide a tax deduction for premiums paid on individually underwritten privately purchased health insurance policies.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
TRIO Day.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
District court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Resolution encouraging the creation of a Kansas plan for comprehensive treatment of chronic obstruction pulmonary disease.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Hispanic Legislative Day.
Sponsor: Ramon Gonzalez
Urging approval of the Presidential Permit application allowing the construction and operation of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Social Work Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Relationship with Taiwan and Taiwan's participation in international agreements.
Sponsor: James Todd
Blue Ribbon award recipient Mission Trail Elementary School.
Sponsor: Jerry Lunn
Amending the crime of aggravated battery, concerning strangulation.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Substitute for HB2634 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice--School district plan addressing child sexual abuse; establishing Erin's law.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Net metering and excess energy credits.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Board of nursing reinstatement of revoked licenses and reinstatement fee.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Updating provisions relating to DNA collection and DNA evidence.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight
Elections; candidates, withdrawal of names; district convention filling vacancies procedures; other.
Sponsor: Elections
Including juvenile offenders in the prison made goods act.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Government ethics commission; term limits.
Sponsor: Elections
Substitute for HB 2706 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Crimes and punishment; images of children in a state of nudity.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Conversion of out of state misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Authorizes use of correctional industries funds for payment of workers compensation insurance.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Child in need of care code; supervised visits by family members when child is seriously ill or injured.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Repealing the workforce development loan program.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Uniform controlled substances act.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Substitute for HB 2046 by Committee on Transportation – Concerning motor vehicles; relating to golf carts.
Sponsor: Transportation
Blue Ribbon award recipient Mission Trail Elementary School.
Sponsor: Jeff Melcher
230th Anniversary of the Treaty of Paris Ratification and Wyandot Chapter of the Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Strategic Partnership with Republic of Kazakhstan.
Sponsor: Sydney Carlin
Relating to assignment of seats of the House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Strategic Partnership with Republic of Kazakhstan.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
KU Eye and the Department of Ophthalmology's 100th anniversary.
Sponsor: Amanda Grosserode
Landoll Corporation, 50th Anniversary and Ad Astra Award recipient.
Sponsor: Sharon Schwartz
James Chitty's Volunteer Service.
Sponsor: Jim Howell
Parent Teacher Association's 100th Anniversary.
Sponsor: Nancy Lusk
Milken Family Foundation Educator.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
4-H Citizenship in Action leadership conference.
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Israel's beneficial relationship with the United States and State of Kansas.
Sponsor: Forrest Knox
Landoll Corporation, 50th Anniversary and Ad Astra Award recipient.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Cable Telecommunications Horizon Award Program educators.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
National Board Certified Teachers.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Multiple Sclerosis Day.
Sponsor: Sue Boldra
Israel's beneficial relationship with the United States and State of Kansas.
Sponsor: Dennis Hedke
2015 KAMS Graduating Class.
Sponsor: Terry Bruce
Historical Society and Capitol Visitor Center.
Sponsor: Tom Arpke
Sporting Kansas City.
Sponsor: Steve Fitzgerald
Chief Standing Bear Trail.
Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors
10th Anniversary of National Wear Red Day.
Sponsor: Annie Kuether
Commending recipients of the Peter John Loux award for overcoming the difficulties of personal disabilities.
Sponsor: Dave Crum
Assignment of seats in Senate, 2014.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
10th Anniversary of National Wear Red Day.
Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn
Ms. Wheelchair Kansas.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
Increasing driver's license reinstatement fees.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Sales taxation; presumptions relating to nexus.
Sponsor: Taxation
Income tax deduction for certain expenses related to living donor organ donations.
Sponsor: Taxation
Defining "commercial and industrial machinery and equipment."
Sponsor: Taxation
Firearms; preemption of state law relating to the open carrying and transportation of firearms.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Recognizing certain gold and silver coins as legal tender; income tax, modifications; sales tax, exemptions.
Sponsor: Taxation
Vehicle registration fees; T-works surcharge.
Sponsor: Taxation
On July 1, 2013, all new hires and state agency attorneys, supervisors and positions that perform information technology functions are unclassified; certain exceptions.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Allowing employees to retain and receive contributions from employers on individual policies and providing an income tax deduction for premiums paid on individually underwritten privately purchased health insurance policies.
Sponsor: Taxation
Volunteer Commission.
Sponsor: Richard Carlson
Relating to a committee to inform the governor that the two houses of the legislature are duly organized and ready to receive communications.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Providing for a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing a message from the Governor.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Earned income tax credit and homestead property tax refunds.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Income tax credit for expenditures to make dwelling or facility accessible for persons with a disability.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Establishing the produced water recycling, storage and transportation equipment investment income tax credit.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Sales tax exemption for sales of certain machinery and equipment used for surface mining activities.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Establishing the Kansas equine education and promotion board.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Income tax credit for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Relating to assignment of seats of the House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Teacher of the year team.
Sponsor: Kasha Kelley
Relating to the organization of the House of Representatives.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Retention of 6.3% sales tax rate, reduction in individual income tax rates and elimination of certain deductions.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
Income tax deductions and modifications and severance tax exemptions; basis of partner's interest and shareholder's stock; statutory clarification.
Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation
49th anniversary of the Piatt plane crash.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Organization of the Senate, 2014.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Resolution amending rules of Senate.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Teacher of the Year team.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Recognizing the Boy Scouts of America for the public service it performs.
Sponsor: Steven Brunk
Urging Congress to adopt the parental rights amendment.
Sponsor: Children and Seniors
Member elections and retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments under KPERS act of 2015.
Sponsor: Pensions and Benefits
Appropriations for FY 2013, FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
Sponsor: Education
Adjournment of the 2013 regular session of the legislative session.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Opposing the elimination of wrestling from the summer olympic games beginning in 2020.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Studying the viability of compressed natural gas as an alternative vehicle fuel.
Sponsor: Transportation
Congratulating and commending Senator Ulysses Lee "Rip" Gooch.
Sponsor: David Haley
State partnership health insurance exchange.
Sponsor: Insurance
Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Repealing certain joint committees and amending related statutes; amending the joint committees on special claims against the state.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Resolution disapproving Governor's executive reorganization order No. 42.
Sponsor: Jim Ward
Income tax deductions and modifications and severance tax exemptions; basis of partner's interest and shareholder's stock; statutory clarification.
Sponsor: Taxation
Congratulating the 2013 University of Kansas women's track and field team on being named NCAA Team Champions.
Sponsor: Marci Francisco
Honoring the lives of the two Topeka Police Officers killed in the line of duty.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Supporting the 200+ years of Judeo-Christian tradition and its open expression the U.S. Military.
Sponsor: Pete DeGraaf
Congratulating Kansas State University on a successful year in inter-collegiate athletics.
Sponsor: Sydney Carlin
Kansas department of agriculture; increasing certain fees; concerning sunsets on various program fees.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Senate Substitute for HB 2391 by Committee on Ways and Means - Creating the joint committee on uniform educational standards oversight.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Updating provisions relating to the Kansas bureau of investigations DNA database.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Recognizing the success of the STARBASE program in Kansas.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Amendments to the Kansas offender registration act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
City annexation of fire district land; double taxation; refund.
Sponsor: Local Government
Congratulating Kansas State University on a successful year in inter-collegiate athletics.
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Senate Substitute for HB 2199 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs; alcoholic liquor; art organizations, complimentary drinks; club and drinking establishments; pitchers; employment standards for servers; samples; drink tax; hotels, coupons; enforcement orders, time limitations; other.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Secretary of State; ballot language statements.
Sponsor: Elections
Supporting the 200+ years of Judeo-Christian tradition and its open expression in the U.S. Military.
Sponsor: Mitch Holmes
Repealers; postsecondary education student loans and tuition grants.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Recognizing the success of the STARBASE program in Kansas.
Sponsor: Annie Kuether
Authorizing the expenditure of unencumbered balances held by school district; removing the cap for contingency reserve fund.
Sponsor: Education
Relating to the employment of retired judges and justices.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Tax credits for community services contributions; youth apprenticeship and entrepreneurship.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; tests; implied consent; administrative hearings.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Forfeiture of property related to violations of certain criminal acts.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Relating to redemption of real property.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Domestic relations; relating to marital property.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Congratulating Wichita State University on a successful year in NCAA inter-collegiate athletics.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Congratulating Wichita State Athletics on their successful year in sports.
Sponsor: Jim Howell
Congratulating Sumner Academy of Arts and Science on being ranked the best high school in Kansas.
Sponsor: Valdenia Winn
Congratulating Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences on being ranked the #1 academic high school in Kansas.
Sponsor: David Haley
Sub for SB 70 by Committee on Transportation – Updating certain motor vehicle definitions.
Sponsor: Transportation
Celebrating Joe Hefner's 90th birthday and thanking him for his service to the Kansas Senate.
Sponsor: Terry Bruce
Congratulating Dylan Thomas York on his 13 year record of perfect school attendance.
Sponsor: Pat Apple
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kansas's bilateral relationship with the Republic of Armenia.
Sponsor: Virgil Weigel
Honoring native Kansan, Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun, Medal of Honor winner.
Sponsor: Mario Goico
Congratulating Ted Ensley on his retirement from the Shawnee County Commission.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Honoring David Miller for his 24 year career as Miami County Attorney.
Sponsor: Pat Apple
Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act.
Sponsor: Commerce
Recognizing the abuse of prescription drugs as a statewide and national problem.
Sponsor: David Haley
Congratulating Emporia State University's debate team on winning the National Debate Tournament and the Cross Examination Debate Association national tournament.
Sponsor: Jeff Longbine
Memorializing the life of Ivan Wyatt.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Congratulating Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten on his retirement.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Congratulating the Hayden Catholic High School Girls' and Boys' soccer teams on their class 4-1A state championships.
Sponsor: Laura Kelly
Public employees relations board; assessment of certain costs.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Combining life insurance with certain additional riders such as specified illness, hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity.
Sponsor: Insurance
Senate Substitute for HB 2043 by Committee on Judiciary - Duties, responsibilities and authority of the attorney general.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Recognizing Mark Allen for his instrumental work in returning Dr. Naismith's original rules of basketball back to Kansas.
Sponsor: Mario Goico
Establishing the workers compensation and employment security boards nominating committee; administrative law judges; appeals board; duties of secretary of health and environment; filing claims; AMA guide; workplace health and safety program.
Sponsor: Commerce
Relating to exercise of religion.
Sponsor: Lance Kinzer
Executive chief information technology officer; office of information technology services.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Establishing the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Drug screening for recipients of cash assistance and unemployment benefits.
Sponsor: Commerce
Substitute for SB 57 by Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture; powers and duties of the department of agriculture relating to poultry improvement plan, stockyards and domesticated deer.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Providing veterans designation on driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards.
Sponsor: Transportation
Health care; stem cell therapy and unused medications.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Career technical education incentive program amendments.
Sponsor: Education
Concerning the regulation of knives.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act, criminal street gangs.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Substitute HB 2207 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources--Amending provisions relating to the regulation and certification of animal feeding facilities.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Creating the coalition of innovative districts act.
Sponsor: Taxation
Authorizing certain licensing boards to accept education, training or experience completed in the military towards licensure in this state.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Substitute HB 2183 by Committee on Health and Human Services - - designation and control of infectious and contagious diseases.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Motor vehicles; counties with multiple registration facilities; additional registration fee.
Sponsor: Transportation
Senate Substitute for HB 2011 by Committee on Transportation -- Educational institution motorcycle license plates; transferability of certain plates.
Sponsor: Transportation
Senate Substitute for HB 2052 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs; concerning firearms; personal and family protection act; concealed handguns in public building; other changes; unlawful discharge of a firearm inside city.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
School finance; military pupil count.
Sponsor: Ward Cassidy
Portable electronics insurance act.
Sponsor: Insurance
Relating to the director of vehicles regulating providers of motor vehicle functions.
Sponsor: Transportation
Canceled warrants.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
School districts; statewide tax levy for public schools; school finance amendments.
Sponsor: Legislative Educational Planning
Open records act; exceptions.
Sponsor: Tom Sloan
Creating a penalty enhancement for the theft or burglary of a firearm.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Substitute HB 2017 by Committee on Judiciary--Relating to appeals from municipal court.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Public policy; certain city ordinances and county resolutions declared void.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Prison-made goods act; prohibiting prisoner production of manufactured or modular homes.
Sponsor: Commerce
Senate Substitute for HB 2093 by Committee on Judiciary - Consumer protection; unconscionable acts; identity theft and fraud.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Telecommunications; regulation by the state corporation commission and distributions from the Kansas universal service fund.
Sponsor: Utilities and Telecommunications
Senate Substitute for HB2167 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Concerning fireworks; regulations thereof.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Property tax exemption; military housing.
Sponsor: Taxation
Increasing the children's advocacy center assessment fee.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 83 by Committee on Taxation - Income tax deductions and modifications; severance tax; sales tax; delinquent tax liabilities.
Sponsor: Taxation
Senate Substitute for HB 2034 by Committee on Judiciary - Repealing outdated provisions relating to the purchase of certain real estate by the department of corrections.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Quality care assessment on skilled nursing care facilities.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Abortion; prohibiting funding for abortion services; amending late-term abortion and woman's-right-to-know statutes.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Open records; requests for criminal justice information; restriction of certain officials' information from publicly accessible records.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Relating to the governor's mental health services planning council.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Substitute for HB 2105 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Employment security law.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Relating to jurors; information disqualifying prospective juror from jury service.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Creating the crime of female genital mutilation and setting the penalty.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Kansas uniform securities act.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions
Adding certain controlled substances as schedule I drugs.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Native Americans; establishing Native American legislative day at the capitol; awarding of high school diplomas.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Contracts between the Kansas turnpike authority and the Kansas department of transportation.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Substitute for HB 2024 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Kansas roofing registration act.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Designating April 4 as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
Sponsor: Melanie Meier
Decreased employer payments to group insurance reserve fund for KPERS plan of death and long-term disability benefits during fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
Sponsor: Appropriations
Secretary of Administration, department of administration; successor; director of accounts and reports, division of accounts and reports.
Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit
School districts; audit by legislative post audit committee.
Sponsor: Education
Legislative Post Audit; periodic audits of the State treasurer and the pooled money investment board.
Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit
Congratulating and commending Kansas State University quarterback Collin Klein for his achievements on and off the football field.
Sponsor: Sydney Carlin
Enacting the equal access act; school employees; professional employees organization.
Sponsor: Education
Relating to restricted driving privileges in lieu of suspension.
Sponsor: Gail Finney
Eligibility of students under the military service scholarship program act.
Sponsor: Legislative Educational Planning
Repealing unnecessary statutes relating to juveniles.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Enacting the Kansas farmers' market promotion act.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Exempting certain aggregate mining operations from department of health and environment regulations.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Relating to drug screening, criminal history record check and fingerprinting of certain persons and employees.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Senate Substitute for HB 2150 by Committee on Commerce – Concerning the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
Sponsor: Commerce
VoIP and IP enabled services.
Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Concerning the requirements to receiving a service grant through the veterans claims assistance program.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Relating to the division of health of the department of health and environment.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Elections; relating to unauthorized voting disclosures.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Limiting nuisance actions against certain agricultural activities.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Abortion; concerning civil actions related to abortion.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Transferring the recognition of county fair associations from the secretary of agriculture to the board of county commissioners.
Sponsor: Agriculture
Insurance; enacting the electronic notice and document act; allows insurer to return premiums to a policyholder separate from the notice of an adverse underwriting decision.
Sponsor: Insurance
Mortgage interest rate cap increase.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Record requirements and civil penalties relating to sales of plastic bulk merchandise containers.
Sponsor: Commerce
Relating to law enforcement reporting and investigation of missing persons.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Congratulating the Ottawa High School men's basketball team on its class 4A state championship.
Sponsor: Caryn Tyson
Driver's license examinations; locations.
Sponsor: Transportation
Credit unions; changes in certain loan limitations.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Insurance- Risk-based capital requirements for health organizations.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Insurers supervision, rehabilitation and liquidation act; derivatives.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Transferring boiler inspection duties from the department of labor to the state fire marshal.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Congratulating the McPherson High School women's volleyball team on its class 4A state championship.
Sponsor: Jay Emler
Congratulating and commending Washburn alumni Michael Wilhoite and Cary Williams for competing in the 2013 Super Bowl, and the leadership of Washburn Head Football Coach Craig Schurig.
Sponsor: Garrett Love
Firearms; criminal possession of a firearm; expungement; personal and family protection act.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Congratulating the Hoxie High School women's basketball team on its class 1A state championship.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
Sentencing for unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Kansas money transmitter act.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Insurance - Risk-based capital requirements for property, casualty and life insurance companies.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Congratulating and commending Kansas State University quarterback Collin Klein for his achievements on and off the football field.
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Honoring the life of former Kansas state senator, Jack Janssen.
Sponsor: Jay Emler
Motor vehicle insurance; providing proof of insurance by cellular phone or portable electronic device.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Allowing for proceedings to determine final disposition of prisoner's pending probation revocations.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Designating April as Autism Awareness Month.
Sponsor: Bill Sutton
Recognizing Mark Allen for his instrumental work in returning Dr. Naismith's original rules of basketball back to Kansas.
Sponsor: Kay Wolf
Congratulating the Burlington High School women's basketball team on its class 3A state championship.
Sponsor: Forrest Knox
Repealers; school finance; area vocational school fund; local effort as applied to U.S.D. No. 450.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
242nd engineer company – KS army national guard – highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Adoption hearings; time and waiver of notice.
Sponsor: Blaine Finch
Authorizing the division of emergency management within the adjutant general's department to accept certain real property.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Relating to garnishment proceedings.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Declaring the month of April "Parkinson's Awareness Month".
Sponsor: Ronald Ryckman
John Bower memorial highway.
Sponsor: Transportation
Increasing the penalty for a person who distributes a controlled substance that causes great bodily harm or death.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Providing for venue in Shawnee County District Court in certain forfeiture proceedings
Sponsor: Judiciary
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Armenia-Kansas partnership.
Sponsor: Jay Emler
Allowing a public building commission to acquire land for a municipal university similar to what such commission is currently allowed to do for any state university.
Sponsor: Ways and Means
Recognizing the Boy Scouts of America for the public service it performs.
Sponsor: Mike Petersen
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2013 session.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Congratulating the Wichita South High School women's basketball team on its class 6A state championship.
Sponsor: Brandon Whipple
Attorney general; reward for information.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Declaring July 27, 2013 as "Joe Tinker Day".
Sponsor: Randy Garber
Mortgage interest rate cap increase.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Authorizing use of motorcycle headlamp modulation systems and side lamps.
Sponsor: Transportation
Authorizing licensing bodies to accept certain online distance education courses towards licensure for military service member applicants.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Congratulating the Sedgwick County 4-H Shooting Sports Gold Team on its first place finish at the state shooting match.
Sponsor: Jim Howell
Public facilities; accessibility standards for disabled persons.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Honoring pregnancy maintenance resource centers.
Sponsor: Mary Pilcher-Cook
Health insurance coverage for bankers association.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Providing automatic relief from certain motor carrier restrictions upon the governor's declaration of emergency.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Criminal history record information; definition; municipal court reporting; district court reporting.
Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Repealing statutes related to oil and gas.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Repealer; use of metric system on certain road signs and markers, moving of heavy vehicles on bridges or culverts, interstate bridges.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Relating to motor carriers; concerning safety rules and regulations; certificates of convenience and necessity; transportation of certain materials.
Sponsor: Transportation
Kansas storage tank act and containment of underground storage tanks.
Sponsor: Energy and Environment
Creating deer hunting permits for injured combat veterans.
Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Insurance Holding Company act.
Sponsor: 2012 Special Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance
Local governmental entities and investment of public moneys.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions
Motor vehicles; vehicle registration and license plates.
Sponsor: Transportation
Congratulating the Sedgwick County 4-H Shooting Sports Gold Team on its first place finish at the state shooting match.
Sponsor: Mike Petersen
Senate Substitute for HB 2055 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Expanded lottery act; reducing investment and privilege fee, southeast Kansas gaming zone; racetrack gaming facilities authorization deleted; other changes.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Congratulating the Wichita South High School women's basketball team on its class 6A state championship.
Sponsor: Mike Petersen
Making gas pipeline safety terminology consistent with federal regulations.
Sponsor: Utilities
Senate Substitute for HB 2022 by Committee on Commerce concerning employees -- relating to certain employee organizations; political activities; certain deductions from wages.
Sponsor: Commerce
Lobbyists; filings.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Human trafficking; crimes of commercial sexual exploitation of a child, selling sexual relations, promoting the sale of sexual relations and buying sexual relations; children in need of care; staff secure facilities.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Possession of a firearm during a drug distribution, cultivation or manufacture felony.
Sponsor: Judiciary
House Substitute for SB 64 by Committee on Elections - Municipalities; elections; odd-numbered years; non-partisan.
Sponsor: Elections
Lines of insurance; reporting requirements.
Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance
Elections; disclosure of certain voter information prohibited.
Sponsor: Ethics and Elections
Eliminating the statute of limitations for prosecutions of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Sponsor: Blaine Finch
Increasing the amount of time for blood-alcohol concentration tests upon suspicion of boating under the influence.
Sponsor: Natural Resources
Requiring law enforcement to report the presence of pornographic materials found at the scene of a sexually violent crime or in possession of a person who commits a sexually violent crime.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Workers compensation: administration; administrative judge disqualification; notice; workplace health and safety program.
Sponsor: Commerce
Health Insurance; Mandate lite health benefit plans.
Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare
The Eisenhower foundation license plate.
Sponsor: John Barker
Congratulating Rod Garman for being named Kansas Elementary School Principal of the Year.
Sponsor: Laura Kelly
Congratulating the many accomplishments of Jim Halsey.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Court of appeals judges; appointment by the governor, confirmation by the senate.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Physical therapists; evaluation and treatment of patients.
Sponsor: Health and Human Services
Recognizing March 26th as American Diabetes Association Alert Day.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Congratulating the 1953 El Dorado Junior College basketball team on the 60th anniversary of winning the NJCAA title.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Kansas rules and regulations filing act.
Sponsor: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations
Amending the crime of perjury.
Sponsor: Judiciary
Recognizing the contributions made by the citizens of Azerbaijan.
Sponsor: Tom Moxley
Congratulating the U.S. 36 Highway Association on its 100th anniversary.
Sponsor: Sharon Schwartz
Commending the business and philanthropic achievements of native Kansan, David G. Booth.
Sponsor: Reid Petty
Recognizing the contributions made by the citizens of Azerbaijan.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Congratulating the U.S. 36 Highway Association on its 100th anniversary.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Congratulating Miss Kansas 2012, Sloane Lewis.
Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Congratulating the Norton High School wrestling team on its 3-2-1A state championship.
Sponsor: Ralph Ostmeyer
Congratulating and commending Mary Torrence, Revisor of Statutes, on her retirement.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Congratulating the Washburn Rural High School women's volleyball team on winning the class 6A state championship.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Designating March 11th-17th , 2013, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week."
Sponsor: Marshall Christmann
Designating March 11th-17th, 2013, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week".
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Congratulating Cletus Simons on his receipt of the French Legion of Honor medal.
Sponsor: Anthony Hensley
Congratulating the 2013 Kansas Master Teachers.
Sponsor: Jeff Longbine
Congratulating and commending Mary Torrence, Revisor of Statutes, on her retirement.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Recognizing the Kansas Small Business Development Center's 2013 Businesses of the year.
Sponsor: Tom Holland
Congratulating the Caney Valley High School debate team.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Congratulating the Tonganoxie High School Debate team on their state championship.
Sponsor: Tom Holland
Congratulating the Silver Lake High School debate team.
Sponsor: Laura Kelly
Congratulating the Field Kindley High School debate team.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Congratulating the Blue Valley West High School debate team.
Sponsor: Pat Apple
Congratulating the Caney Valley High School debate team.
Sponsor: Jeff King
Congratulating the Emporia High School debate team.
Sponsor: Jeff Longbine
Congratulating the Newton High School debate team.
Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn
Congratulating the Shawnee Mission High School debate team.
Sponsor: Kay Wolf
Honoring the life of Jim Weaver.
Sponsor: Scott Schwab
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2013 session.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Providing veterans designation on driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Providing professional liability insurance to teachers.
Sponsor: Education
Ethics; lobbyist reporting requirements; gifts to public officials.
Sponsor: Elections
Longevity bonus for state employees only if money appropriated in fiscal year by in an appropriations act.
Sponsor: General Government Budget
Combining life insurance with certain additional riders such as specified illness, hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity.
Sponsor: Insurance
Providing veteran designation on driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards; authorizing the director of vehicles to provide a list of veterans' information to KCVA.
Sponsor: Veterans, Military and Homeland Security
Recognizing the friendship between the state of Kansas and the Nation of Israel.
Sponsor: David Haley
Increasing delinquent registration fees.
Sponsor: Transportation
Renewable energy portfolio standards.
Sponsor: Utilities
Opposing the black-footed ferret programmatic safe harbor agreement.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Designating February 15, 2013 as "Emporia State University Day".
Sponsor: Vern Swanson
Designating February 15, 2013 as "Emporia State University Day".
Sponsor: Jeff Longbine
Congratulating the Kansas recipient of the 2012 Milken Family Foundation Educator Award.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Congratulating and commending the 2013 Kansas Cable Telecommunications Horizon Award Program educators.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Congratulating and commedning the 2012 Kansas National Board Certified Teachers.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Congratulating the 2014 Vanguard graduating class of the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Sponsor: Sue Boldra
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kansas State University.
Sponsor: Tom Phillips
Designating the Official Robert (Bob) G. Bethell House of Representatives ballot box.
Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs
Congratulating and commending the 2014 graduating class of the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Sponsor: Terry Bruce
Congratulating Bob Koechner for receiving the community service award from the NSDAR.
Sponsor: Pat Apple
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kansas State University.
Sponsor: Tom Hawk
Congratulating the University of Kansas Cancer Center on receiving National Cancer Institute designation.
Sponsor: Louis Ruiz
Congratulating the University of Kansas Cancer Center on receiving National Cancer Institute designation.
Sponsor: Marci Francisco
Designating February 6th, 2013 as "Native American Legislative Day at the Capitol".
Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors
Resolution recognizing National Catholic Schools Week.
Sponsor: Bill Sutton
Joint rules for the Senate and House of Representatives, 2013-2014.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Rules of House of Representatives, permanent rules of the 2013-2014 biennium.
Sponsor: Rules and Journal
Congratulating the Shawnee Mission West High School Football Team on winning the 2012 6A State football championship.
Sponsor: Greg Smith
Congratulating Jo Budler on her Librarian of the Year award.
Sponsor: Vicki Schmidt
Recognizing National Catholic Schools Week.
Sponsor: Elaine Bowers
Providing for a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing a message from the Governor.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Congratulating and commending the members of the 2013 Kansas Teacher of the Year team.
Sponsor: Steve Abrams
Assignment of seats in House of Representatives, 2013.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Organization of the House of Representatives, 2013.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Rules of the House of Representatives, temporary 2013 session.
Sponsor: Ray Merrick
Committee to inform governor that legislature is organized, 2013.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Rules of the Senate 2013-2016.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Organization of the Senate, 2013.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Congratulating Senator and Mrs. Ostmeyer on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
Assignment of seats in the Senate, 2013.
Sponsor: Susan Wagle
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Senate Substitute for HB 2588 by Committee on Judiciary - Concerning children and minors; relating to children in need of care; placement in juvenile detention facilities; permanent custodians; relating to juvenile offenders; alternative adjudication; youth residential centers and services; risk assessment; sentencing; good time credits.
Board of healing arts functions and duties, physician assistants licensure act and podiatry act.
Creating the student data privacy act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2616 by Committee on Commerce - Secretary of labor directed to study state enforcement of OSHA standards.
Predetermination of health insurance benefits
Kansas money transmitter act concerning change of controlling interest and notification.
Kansas Real Estate Appraisal Board; licensee fingerprinting and criminal background checks.
Computation of retirement benefits when a state officer or employee is placed on furlough or has reduction in compensation.
Authorizing land purchases by the state; amending process state uses to address seized wildlife; increasing the number of allowable hunter education deferrals.
Property tax; classification of commercial and industrial machinery and equipment as personal property; reclassification of property upon termination of IRB tax exemption; use of independent appraisers to appraiser certain complex property; motor vehicles, members of military; mortgage registration tax phase out and replacement with fees; county clerk technology fund; county treasurer technology fund.
Unclaimed property act and hearings.
Senate Substitute for HB 2693 by Committee on Transportation - Providing for testing by community colleges for commercial driver's licenses; entities serving as driver's licenses examiners.
Substitute for Substitute for HB 2721 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the business entity standard treatment act.
Economic development financing; eligible project costs for certain TIF and CID districts; bond repayment requirements; clarifying tax status of certain property.
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2051 by Committee on Natural Resources -- Enacting the state sovereignty over non-migratory wildlife act.
State use law; purchases by municipalities; committee sunset date and chairperson selection.
Elections; petition circulators.
Senate Substitute for HB 2140 by Committee on Education – Carrying of concealed handguns by law enforcement officers.
Regulated entities and activities including cemeteries and agreements relating thereto and certain city and county licenses.
Senate Substitute for HB 2154 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Cosmetology; relating to licensure and renewal.
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2231 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
Substitute for HB 2246 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Peer review for certain licensed technical professions.
Local governments; investment of idle funds; changes.
House Substitute for SB 231 - Concerning valuation and appeals; renaming the state court of tax appeals; timing of decisions.
Senate Substitute for HB 2389 by Committee on Judiciary - Crimes and criminal procedure; mistreatment of a dependent adult or an elder person; RICO; warrants; discharge of certain persons; appeals.
Senate Substitute for HB 2446 by Committee on Judiciary - Courts; allocating moneys from driver's license fees to judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund; allowing chief justice to authorize expenditures from court trustee operations fund in certain judicial districts; time limits for court decisions.
Substitute for HB 2430 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Promoting employment across Kansas act; benefits.
Severance tax return and payment dates; sales tax authority for Rooks county; property tax exemptions for certain donations of land to the state and for amateur-built aircraft; sales tax exemptions for surface mining equipment and certain charitable organizations.
House Substitute for SB 273 by Committee on Transportation - Regulation of commercial motor vehicles; exemption from rules and regulations of the Kansas corporation commission.
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Relating to the Kansas uniform securities act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating provisions relating to the Kansas bureau of investigation's DNA database; amending the crime of interference with judicial process; concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision; concerning expungement of driving under the influence and criminal refusal convictions; concerning trials, conduct of jury after case is submitted.
Relating to issuance of certificates of birth resulting in stillbirth.
Agriculture; extending sunset date on certain agriculture fees from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2018; national day of the cowboy; establishing the local food and farm task force.
Relating to the powers and duties of the state corporation commission; construction of electric transmission lines and certificates of public convenience and necessity.
Memorializing the life of Representative Mike Peterson.
Clarifying court orders relating to parents in juvenile offender cases and changing the statute of limitations on certain juvenile offenses.
FHSU President Hammond's retirement.
House Substitute for SB 245 by Committee on Appropriations - Education funding; relating to mineral production; creating the mineral production education fund, crediting 20% of remainder from oil and gas tax into such fund, moneys expended on education; abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; concerning school financing sources; proceeds from the tax levied by a school district under authority of K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 72-6431, remitted to the state treasury to the credit of the state school district finance fund not to the district's general fund; making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2017.
Repealing the review of TeleKansas I.
Insurance; eliminating font and type requirements for certain non-English insurance documents; confidentiality of certain documents; continuation of health insurance for spouse and children of certain emergency personnel and employees of the department of corrections; purchase of certain insurance by the state fair board.
Political action committees, legislative leadership.
Capital murder; attempt; murder in the first degree; sentencing.
Veterans and military matters; military honors fund; death gratuity; disabled veterans preference, state jobs and contracts; schools on military reservations, funding.
Repealing the regulation of PCB disposal facilities; making changes to the atmospheric mercury deposition monitoring network and the disposal of plastic bottles, containers and solid waste.
Updating statutory references and making corresponding changes due to Executive Reorganization Order No. 41.
Domestic relations; Kansas family law code; child support guidelines.
FHSU President Hammond's retirement.
Assignment of seats in the Senate, 2014.
J.C. Harmon High School's 20/20 Leadership Program.
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.
Erie High School's design for NASA's new Orion spacecraft.
Substitute for HB 2002 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs -- Legislative post audit; financial and security audits.
Prescription Drug Abuse.
Santa Fe Trail High School girls' basketball.
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
Authorizing Department of Administration to sell Landon and Eisenhower state office buildings.
National Middle School of the Year recipient Fort Riley Middle School.
Port authority; creation in Stafford, Kansas.
Amending the statutory requirements for a valid hospital lien.
Uniform commercial driver's license act; definition of tank vehicle.
Expiration of license plates and placards for individuals with disability.
Substitute for HB 2681 by Committee on Veterans, Military, and Homeland Security - Abolishing the Kansas commission on veterans affairs; creating the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office within the executive branch of government.
Permits for the operation of salvage vehicles no longer required to be prepared in triplicate.
Amending statutes related to the Kansas criminal justice information system committee.
Senate Substitute for HB 2655 by Committee on Judiciary - Allowing veterans with PTSD to seek mental health treatment upon certain convictions; also amending the crimes of interference with law enforcement and giving a false alarm.
Increasing the percentage of unclassified employees allowed to be employed by KPERS from 25% to 50%.
Allowing parents to remain anonymous when surrendering an infant under the newborn protection act.
Kansas medical assistance program; managed care organizations; consent for expansion of certain medicaid services.
Amending the shared work unemployment compensation program; layoff aversion.
Secretary of health and environment and air quality standards.
Relating to asbestos-related liability.
Employment security law; creation of "new employer rate."
Special permits, oversized loads, transportation of hay or feed stuffs.
Allowing burial of hazardous waste on-site.
Requiring court fee for forensic audio and video examination services.
Requiring 60-day wait before re-employment for retirement benefit eligibility.
Board of technical professions; recodification of professions and scope of practice, other; boiler safety act, deputy inspectors.
Creating the water program management fund and transferring the air quality fee fund.
Health care compact.
Modernizing certain insurance laws to allow use of additional investments.
Amendments relating to health care provider liability insurance and to companies organized to provide such insurance.
Kansas tort claims act; attorney may appear in small claims action.
Human trafficking and related crimes; penalties for buying sexual relations; records and reporting by courts; staff secure facility requirements.
Regulating the possession of weapons.
Changing the map copy requirement in mining permit application.
Optometrists; prohibition against limiting payment for covered services to insurance plan amounts.
Amending the Kansas medicaid fraud control act.
Spendthrift trusts.
Grand juries; crimes to consider; amendment of indictment.
Senate Substitute for HB 2506 by Committee on Ways and Means - Education; appropriations for FY 2014 and FY 2015 for various state agencies; amendments concerning postsecondary education; amendments to provisions relating to school finance.
Substitute for HB 2424 by Committee on Transportation - Designating the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell interchange; the SGT David Enzbrenner memorial highway; the Pack S Clair highway; the ancient Indian traders trail; the Harper county veterans memorial highway; the Bonnie Huy memorial highway; the Bonnie Sharp memorial interchange.
Changing interest credit amounts, member distributions upon termination or death and retirement annuities under the KPERS Act of 2015.
Creating civil liability for acts of terrorism; forfeiture of property related to violations of certain criminal acts.
Health insurance coverage for qualified professional associations.
Increasing the noneconomic damages cap, changing rules related to expert evidence and repealing statutes pertaining to collateral source benefits.
Removing 2015 sunset provision from law requiring ignition interlock device after first test failure or alcohol or drug-related conviction.
Allowing for criminal discovery materials to be provided to defendant or defendant's counsel.
Senate Substitute for HB 2482 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the energy efficiency investment act.
Real property; trespass and liability.
Substitute for HB 2436 by Committee on Vision 2020 - Boards of cosmetology and barbering; agreements on inspectors of dual-licensed facilities.
Property tax exemption for certain utility systems located on military installation.
Substitute for HB 2451 by Committee on Transportation - Increasing registration fees for electric vehicles.
School crossing guards.
Kansas department for aging and disability services; adult care homes
Venue for crimes committed with an electronic device.
Definition of income for homestead refund and SAFESR eligibility; income tax credits for adoption expenses and expenses to make dwelling or facility accessible to persons with a disability; income tax deductions, self-employment taxes, expenses related to organ donations, net gain on the sale of certain livestock; withholding, non-resident pass-through entity income; Kansas taxpayer transparency act, sunset; sales tax exemptions.
Substitute for HB2442 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice--Special sentencing rule for third or subsequent flee and elude cases.
Amending the crime of mistreatment of a dependent adult; creating the crime of mistreatment of an elder person; amending the crime of unlawful sexual relations; amending provisions relating to appearance bonds and surety regulation; amending violations of the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act; also concerning the attorney general, costs in criminal appeals.
Medical assistance recovery program; rules and regulations.
Substitute for HB 2452 by Committee on Transportation - Distinctive license plates; donate life, disabled veterans, rotary international, Kansas horse council, motorcycles.
City annexation; fire district territory; detachment.
Relating to the Kansas revised limited liability company act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2378 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing sales tax exemption for sales of certain machinery and equipment used for surface mining activities.
Senate Sub for HB 2298 by Committee on Judiciary - Uniform controlled substances act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2338 by Committee on Ways and Means - Judicial branch; supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations; increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees; annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court operations, chief judge would have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district if such chief judge elected to do so, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation; district court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals; district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies; statutory authority for longevity bonus for judicial branch employees repealed; nonseverability clause.
Substitute for HB 2223 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs—Alcoholic beverages; homemade fermented beverages; microbrewery gallonage expanded; liquor license length of citizenship.
Senate substitute for HB 2182 by Committee on Judiciary - Legislative review of open records exceptions.
Senate Substitute for HB 2197 by Committee on Education -- Kansas state high school activities association; membership of board of directors and executive board.
Repealer: uniform land sales practices act.
Senate Substitute for HB 2101 by Committee on Utilities - Renewable energy; excess energy credits.
Senate Substitute for HB 2146 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Board of pharmacy; licensure and practice of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns.
Property taxation, sale or abandonment of personal property before taxes paid, liens, appointment of interim appraisers, homesteads destroyed or substantially destroyed by natural disaster, certain agreements by board of county commissioners; privilege tax, deductions; income tax, credits, modification to Kansas adjusted gross income; liquified petroleum motor fuel law, rates of taxation.
House Substitute for SB 40 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Secretary of corrections; including juvenile offenders in the prison-made goods act; authorizing use of correctional industries funds for payment of workers compensation insurance.
Amendments to statutes regulating abortions.
Requiring municipalities to vote to increase property tax revenues over previous year; publication.
Senate substitute for HB 2065 by Committee on Judiciary - Relating to district magistrate judges; jurisdiction; appeals.
Senate Substitute for HB 2023 by Committee on Commerce - enacting the public service benefits protection act.
Olathe Northwest Raven Dance team's third consecutive national title.
2014 Boys and Girls Club Kansas Youth of the Year.
Parkinson's Awareness Month.
American Legion Post 408 Flag Team.
Parkinson's Awareness Month.
Public Health Week.
Wichita South High School women's basketball team.
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
Norton Community High School wrestling team.
Paola Panther robotics team.
State constitutional amendment authorizing raffles.
Defining watercraft for purposes of taxation.
Insurance; Risk-based capital requirements.
Urging the Kansas bureau of investigation to establish a blue alert system for the state of Kansas.
Updating the Kansas no-call act.
Hoxie High School women's basketball team.
Return of premiums separate from notice of denial of coverage.
Emerging industry investment act; treatment of certain bioscience companies.
Derby High School athletics and extracurricular activities.
Vehicle identification numbers; penalties; damages.
Marais des Cygnes Valley High School boys’ basketball team.
Eliminating the 3% limit on controlled shooting area acreage in a county.
Insurance; excluding real estate from acceptable security deposits with the commissioner and requiring original handwritten signatures on deposit forms.
Public Health Week.
Kansas electric transmission authority and the purpose and composition of the authority.
State fossils; the tylosaurus and the pteranodon.
U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon award recipients.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
Urging the President to extend the qualifications for the Women's Army Corps Service Medal.
Authorizing postsecondary educational institutions to enter into the state authorization reciprocity agreement to provide distance education.
Municipal recycling services
Establishing the state board of veterinary examiners within the animal health division of the Kansas department of agriculture for a two-year period.
Conduct of dental offices.
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Day.
Purchasing authority for certain insurance by the state board of regents for state educational institutions.
Amending employment security law regarding disposition of penalty funds and disclosure of confidential information.
Farm machinery and equipment annual highway permits, commercial drivers’ license.
Paola Panther robotics team.
Requiring certain audit reports to be filed electronically and to be filed only with the department of administration.
Equity Day at the capitol.
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day.
Mars Chocolate North America Day.
Relationship with Taiwan and Taiwan's participation in international agreements.
Santa Fe Trail High School women's volleyball team.
Master Teachers.
Memorializing the life of Glen Deitcher.
American Diabetes Association Alert Day.
Amending the Kansas 911 act.
Victim notification prior to release of certain inmates.
Authorizing the secretary of state to grant an easement to the unified government of Wyandotte county.
Elections; change of party affiliation.
Exemption for Federal Home Loan Bank in certain insolvency proceedings involving insurance companies.
Washburn University School of Nursing's 40th anniversary.
Statehouse Architect Barry Greis.
Kidney Awareness Day.
80th Anniversary of Newman University.
3i show and Western Kansas Manufacturers Association.
Kidney Awareness Day.
80th Anniversary of Newman University.
Relating to assignment of seats of the house of representatives.
Boys and Girls Club National Youth of the Year.
The Honorable Christel E. Marquardt's Retirement.
TRIO Day.
Small Business Development Center award winners.
Resolution encouraging the creation of a Kansas plan for comprehensive treatment of chronic obstruction pulmonary disease.
Hispanic Legislative Day.
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2014 session.
Urging approval of the Presidential Permit application allowing the construction and operation of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline.
Relationship with Taiwan and Taiwan's participation in international agreements.
Social Work Awareness Month.
Blue Ribbon award recipient Mission Trail Elementary School.
Blue Ribbon award recipient Mission Trail Elementary School.
230th Anniversary of the Treaty of Paris Ratification and Wyandot Chapter of the Kansas Daughters of the American Revolution.
Strategic Partnership with Republic of Kazakhstan.
Relating to assignment of seats of the House of Representatives.
Strategic Partnership with Republic of Kazakhstan.
KU Eye and the Department of Ophthalmology's 100th anniversary.
James Chitty's Volunteer Service.
Landoll Corporation, 50th Anniversary and Ad Astra Award recipient.
Parent Teacher Association's 100th Anniversary.
Cable Telecommunications Horizon Award Program educators.
National Board Certified Teachers.
Milken Family Foundation Educator.
4-H Citizenship in Action leadership conference.
Landoll Corporation, 50th Anniversary and Ad Astra Award recipient.
Israel's beneficial relationship with the United States and State of Kansas.
Multiple Sclerosis Day.
2015 KAMS Graduating Class.
Israel's beneficial relationship with the United States and State of Kansas.
Historical Society and Capitol Visitor Center.
Sporting Kansas City.
10th Anniversary of National Wear Red Day.
Chief Standing Bear Trail.
Commending recipients of the Peter John Loux award for overcoming the difficulties of personal disabilities.
Assignment of seats in Senate, 2014.
10th Anniversary of National Wear Red Day.
Increasing driver's license reinstatement fees.
Ms. Wheelchair Kansas.
Volunteer Commission.
Relating to a committee to inform the governor that the two houses of the legislature are duly organized and ready to receive communications.
Providing for a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing a message from the Governor.
Relating to assignment of seats of the House of Representatives.
Teacher of the year team.
Relating to the organization of the House of Representatives.
49th anniversary of the Piatt plane crash.
Teacher of the Year team.
Organization of the Senate, 2014.
Resolution amending rules of Senate.
Member elections and retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments under KPERS act of 2015.
Adjournment of the 2013 regular session of the legislative session.
Income tax deductions and modifications and severance tax exemptions; basis of partner's interest and shareholder's stock; statutory clarification.
Congratulating and commending Senator Ulysses Lee "Rip" Gooch.
Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
Congratulating the 2013 University of Kansas women's track and field team on being named NCAA Team Champions.
Honoring the lives of the two Topeka Police Officers killed in the line of duty.
Congratulating Kansas State University on a successful year in inter-collegiate athletics.
Appropriations for FY 2013, FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
Repealing certain joint committees and amending related statutes; amending the joint committees on special claims against the state.
City annexation of fire district land; double taxation; refund.
Senate Substitute for HB 2199 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs; alcoholic liquor; art organizations, complimentary drinks; club and drinking establishments; pitchers; employment standards for servers; samples; drink tax; hotels, coupons; enforcement orders, time limitations; other.
Supporting the 200+ years of Judeo-Christian tradition and its open expression in the U.S. Military.
Secretary of State; ballot language statements.
Repealers; postsecondary education student loans and tuition grants.
Congratulating Kansas State University on a successful year in inter-collegiate athletics.
Recognizing the success of the STARBASE program in Kansas.
Amendments to the Kansas offender registration act.
Recognizing the success of the STARBASE program in Kansas.
Authorizing the expenditure of unencumbered balances held by school district; removing the cap for contingency reserve fund.
Relating to the employment of retired judges and justices.
Domestic relations; relating to marital property.
Congratulating Wichita State University on a successful year in NCAA inter-collegiate athletics.
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; tests; implied consent; administrative hearings.
Relating to redemption of real property.
Forfeiture of property related to violations of certain criminal acts.
Congratulating Sumner Academy of Arts and Science on being ranked the best high school in Kansas.
Congratulating Wichita State Athletics on their successful year in sports.
Congratulating Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences on being ranked the #1 academic high school in Kansas.
Celebrating Joe Hefner's 90th birthday and thanking him for his service to the Kansas Senate.
Congratulating Dylan Thomas York on his 13 year record of perfect school attendance.
Honoring native Kansan, Army Chaplain Father Emil Kapaun, Medal of Honor winner.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Kansas's bilateral relationship with the Republic of Armenia.
Congratulating Ted Ensley on his retirement from the Shawnee County Commission.
Congratulating Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten on his retirement.
Honoring David Miller for his 24 year career as Miami County Attorney.
Recognizing the abuse of prescription drugs as a statewide and national problem.
Congratulating the Hayden Catholic High School Girls' and Boys' soccer teams on their class 4-1A state championships.
Congratulating Emporia State University's debate team on winning the National Debate Tournament and the Cross Examination Debate Association national tournament.
Memorializing the life of Ivan Wyatt.
Substitute for HB 2105 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Employment security law.
Relating to restricted driving privileges in lieu of suspension.
Open records; requests for criminal justice information; restriction of certain officials' information from publicly accessible records.
Increasing the children's advocacy center assessment fee.
Establishing the workers compensation and employment security boards nominating committee; administrative law judges; appeals board; duties of secretary of health and environment; filing claims; AMA guide; workplace health and safety program.
Mortgage interest rate cap increase.
Property tax exemption; military housing.
Enacting the Kansas farmers' market promotion act.
Relating to the division of health of the department of health and environment.
VoIP and IP enabled services.
Quality care assessment on skilled nursing care facilities.
Relating to jurors; information disqualifying prospective juror from jury service.
Relating to drug screening, criminal history record check and fingerprinting of certain persons and employees.
Exempting certain aggregate mining operations from department of health and environment regulations.
Concerning sentencing dispositions, probation and postrelease supervision.
Contracts between the Kansas turnpike authority and the Kansas department of transportation.
Adding certain controlled substances as schedule I drugs.
Abortion; concerning civil actions related to abortion.
Insurance; enacting the electronic notice and document act; allows insurer to return premiums to a policyholder separate from the notice of an adverse underwriting decision.
Senate Substitute for HB2167 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Concerning fireworks; regulations thereof.
House Substitute for SB 83 by Committee on Taxation - Income tax deductions and modifications; severance tax; sales tax; delinquent tax liabilities.
Open records act; exceptions.
Legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records.
Kansas uniform securities act.
Decreased employer payments to group insurance reserve fund for KPERS plan of death and long-term disability benefits during fiscal years 2014 and 2015.
Providing veterans designation on driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards.
Telecommunications; regulation by the state corporation commission and distributions from the Kansas universal service fund.
Portable electronics insurance act.
Relating to exercise of religion.
Elections; relating to unauthorized voting disclosures.
Concerning the requirements to receiving a service grant through the veterans claims assistance program.
School finance; military pupil count.
Abortion; prohibiting funding for abortion services; amending late-term abortion and woman's-right-to-know statutes.
Executive chief information technology officer; office of information technology services.
Amending the Kansas restraint of trade act.
Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act, criminal street gangs.
Enacting the equal access act; school employees; professional employees organization.
Limiting nuisance actions against certain agricultural activities.
Creating the crime of female genital mutilation and setting the penalty.
Drug screening for recipients of cash assistance and unemployment benefits.
Career technical education incentive program amendments.
Substitute HB 2207 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources--Amending provisions relating to the regulation and certification of animal feeding facilities.
Substitute HB 2183 by Committee on Health and Human Services - - designation and control of infectious and contagious diseases.
Motor vehicles; counties with multiple registration facilities; additional registration fee.
Relating to the director of vehicles regulating providers of motor vehicle functions.
Creating a penalty enhancement for the theft or burglary of a firearm.
Senate Substitute for HB 2034 by Committee on Judiciary - Repealing outdated provisions relating to the purchase of certain real estate by the department of corrections.
Native Americans; establishing Native American legislative day at the capitol; awarding of high school diplomas.
Senate Substitute for HB 2043 by Committee on Judiciary - Duties, responsibilities and authority of the attorney general.
Transferring the recognition of county fair associations from the secretary of agriculture to the board of county commissioners.
Authorizing certain licensing boards to accept education, training or experience completed in the military towards licensure in this state.
Canceled warrants.
Combining life insurance with certain additional riders such as specified illness, hospital indemnity or other fixed indemnity.
Creating the coalition of innovative districts act.
Recognizing Mark Allen for his instrumental work in returning Dr. Naismith's original rules of basketball back to Kansas.
Eligibility of students under the military service scholarship program act.
Repealing unnecessary statutes relating to juveniles.
Designating April 4 as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day."
Substitute for HB 2024 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development- Kansas roofing registration act.
Substitute for SB 57 by Committee on Agriculture - Agriculture; powers and duties of the department of agriculture relating to poultry improvement plan, stockyards and domesticated deer.
Senate Substitute for HB 2011 by Committee on Transportation -- Educational institution motorcycle license plates; transferability of certain plates.
Congratulating and commending Kansas State University quarterback Collin Klein for his achievements on and off the football field.
Senate Substitute for HB 2150 by Committee on Commerce – Concerning the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
Establishing the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight.
Legislative Post Audit; periodic audits of the State treasurer and the pooled money investment board.
Senate Substitute for HB 2093 by Committee on Judiciary - Consumer protection; unconscionable acts; identity theft and fraud.
Substitute HB 2017 by Committee on Judiciary--Relating to appeals from municipal court.
Relating to the governor's mental health services planning council.
Concerning the regulation of knives.
Health care; stem cell therapy and unused medications.
Senate Substitute for HB 2052 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs; concerning firearms; personal and family protection act; concealed handguns in public building; other changes; unlawful discharge of a firearm inside city.
School districts; audit by legislative post audit committee.
School districts; statewide tax levy for public schools; school finance amendments.
Public employees relations board; assessment of certain costs.
Secretary of Administration, department of administration; successor; director of accounts and reports, division of accounts and reports.
Public policy; certain city ordinances and county resolutions declared void.
Prison-made goods act; prohibiting prisoner production of manufactured or modular homes.
Sentencing for unlawful manufacturing of controlled substances.
Record requirements and civil penalties relating to sales of plastic bulk merchandise containers.
Driver's license examinations; locations.
Firearms; criminal possession of a firearm; expungement; personal and family protection act.
Insurance - Risk-based capital requirements for property, casualty and life insurance companies.
Congratulating the Ottawa High School men's basketball team on its class 4A state championship.
Insurance- Risk-based capital requirements for health organizations.
Congratulating the McPherson High School women's volleyball team on its class 4A state championship.
Congratulating and commending Washburn alumni Michael Wilhoite and Cary Williams for competing in the 2013 Super Bowl, and the leadership of Washburn Head Football Coach Craig Schurig.
Congratulating the Hoxie High School women's basketball team on its class 1A state championship.
Insurers supervision, rehabilitation and liquidation act; derivatives.
Transferring boiler inspection duties from the department of labor to the state fire marshal.
Kansas money transmitter act.
Relating to law enforcement reporting and investigation of missing persons.
Credit unions; changes in certain loan limitations.
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2013 session.
Recognizing the Boy Scouts of America for the public service it performs.
Attorney general; reward for information.
Relating to garnishment proceedings.
Adoption hearings; time and waiver of notice.
Authorizing the division of emergency management within the adjutant general's department to accept certain real property.
John Bower memorial highway.
Congratulating the Wichita South High School women's basketball team on its class 6A state championship.
Public facilities; accessibility standards for disabled persons.
Congratulating and commending Kansas State University quarterback Collin Klein for his achievements on and off the football field.
Authorizing licensing bodies to accept certain online distance education courses towards licensure for military service member applicants.
Allowing for proceedings to determine final disposition of prisoner's pending probation revocations.
Honoring the life of former Kansas state senator, Jack Janssen.
Authorizing use of motorcycle headlamp modulation systems and side lamps.
Congratulating the Sedgwick County 4-H Shooting Sports Gold Team on its first place finish at the state shooting match.
Allowing a public building commission to acquire land for a municipal university similar to what such commission is currently allowed to do for any state university.
Motor vehicle insurance; providing proof of insurance by cellular phone or portable electronic device.
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the Armenia-Kansas partnership.
242nd engineer company – KS army national guard – highway.
Health insurance coverage for bankers association.
Honoring pregnancy maintenance resource centers.
Mortgage interest rate cap increase.
Repealers; school finance; area vocational school fund; local effort as applied to U.S.D. No. 450.
Declaring the month of April "Parkinson's Awareness Month".
Providing for venue in Shawnee County District Court in certain forfeiture proceedings
Increasing the penalty for a person who distributes a controlled substance that causes great bodily harm or death.
Congratulating the Burlington High School women's basketball team on its class 3A state championship.
Recognizing Mark Allen for his instrumental work in returning Dr. Naismith's original rules of basketball back to Kansas.
Designating April as Autism Awareness Month.
Declaring July 27, 2013 as "Joe Tinker Day".
Repealer; use of metric system on certain road signs and markers, moving of heavy vehicles on bridges or culverts, interstate bridges.
Repealing statutes related to oil and gas.
Kansas storage tank act and containment of underground storage tanks.
Criminal history record information; definition; municipal court reporting; district court reporting.
Insurance Holding Company act.
Creating deer hunting permits for injured combat veterans.
Relating to motor carriers; concerning safety rules and regulations; certificates of convenience and necessity; transportation of certain materials.
Local governmental entities and investment of public moneys.
Providing automatic relief from certain motor carrier restrictions upon the governor's declaration of emergency.
Making gas pipeline safety terminology consistent with federal regulations.
Congratulating the Sedgwick County 4-H Shooting Sports Gold Team on its first place finish at the state shooting match.
Motor vehicles; vehicle registration and license plates.
Congratulating the Wichita South High School women's basketball team on its class 6A state championship.
The Eisenhower foundation license plate.
Senate Substitute for HB 2022 by Committee on Commerce concerning employees -- relating to certain employee organizations; political activities; certain deductions from wages.
Eliminating the statute of limitations for prosecutions of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Recognizing March 26th as American Diabetes Association Alert Day.
Kansas rules and regulations filing act.
Congratulating the many accomplishments of Jim Halsey.
Congratulating Rod Garman for being named Kansas Elementary School Principal of the Year.
Congratulating the 1953 El Dorado Junior College basketball team on the 60th anniversary of winning the NJCAA title.
Amending the crime of perjury.
Physical therapists; evaluation and treatment of patients.
Court of appeals judges; appointment by the governor, confirmation by the senate.
Congratulating the U.S. 36 Highway Association on its 100th anniversary.
Recognizing the contributions made by the citizens of Azerbaijan.
Congratulating the U.S. 36 Highway Association on its 100th anniversary.
Commending the business and philanthropic achievements of native Kansan, David G. Booth.
Recognizing the contributions made by the citizens of Azerbaijan.
Congratulating Miss Kansas 2012, Sloane Lewis.
Congratulating and commending Mary Torrence, Revisor of Statutes, on her retirement.
Congratulating the Washburn Rural High School women's volleyball team on winning the class 6A state championship.
Congratulating the Norton High School wrestling team on its 3-2-1A state championship.
Designating March 11th-17th , 2013, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week."
Congratulating Cletus Simons on his receipt of the French Legion of Honor medal.
Congratulating and commending Mary Torrence, Revisor of Statutes, on her retirement.
Designating March 11th-17th, 2013, as "Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week".
Recognizing the Kansas Small Business Development Center's 2013 Businesses of the year.
Congratulating the 2013 Kansas Master Teachers.
Congratulating the Caney Valley High School debate team.
Congratulating the Newton High School debate team.
Congratulating the Field Kindley High School debate team.
Congratulating the Tonganoxie High School Debate team on their state championship.
Congratulating the Caney Valley High School debate team.
Congratulating the Blue Valley West High School debate team.
Congratulating the Shawnee Mission High School debate team.
Congratulating the Silver Lake High School debate team.
Congratulating the Emporia High School debate team.
Adjournment of legislature for a time during the 2013 session.
Honoring the life of Jim Weaver.
Recognizing the friendship between the state of Kansas and the Nation of Israel.
Designating February 15, 2013 as "Emporia State University Day".
Opposing the black-footed ferret programmatic safe harbor agreement.
Designating February 15, 2013 as "Emporia State University Day".
Congratulating and commedning the 2012 Kansas National Board Certified Teachers.
Congratulating and commending the 2013 Kansas Cable Telecommunications Horizon Award Program educators.
Congratulating the Kansas recipient of the 2012 Milken Family Foundation Educator Award.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kansas State University.
Congratulating the 2014 Vanguard graduating class of the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Designating the Official Robert (Bob) G. Bethell House of Representatives ballot box.
Congratulating the University of Kansas Cancer Center on receiving National Cancer Institute designation.
Congratulating and commending the 2014 graduating class of the Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science.
Congratulating Bob Koechner for receiving the community service award from the NSDAR.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kansas State University.
Congratulating the University of Kansas Cancer Center on receiving National Cancer Institute designation.
Designating February 6th, 2013 as "Native American Legislative Day at the Capitol".
Rules of House of Representatives, permanent rules of the 2013-2014 biennium.
Joint rules for the Senate and House of Representatives, 2013-2014.
Resolution recognizing National Catholic Schools Week.
Congratulating the Shawnee Mission West High School Football Team on winning the 2012 6A State football championship.
Congratulating Jo Budler on her Librarian of the Year award.
Recognizing National Catholic Schools Week.
Providing for a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing a message from the Governor.
Congratulating and commending the members of the 2013 Kansas Teacher of the Year team.
Assignment of seats in House of Representatives, 2013.
Organization of the House of Representatives, 2013.
Rules of the House of Representatives, temporary 2013 session.
Rules of the Senate 2013-2016.
Committee to inform governor that legislature is organized, 2013.
Assignment of seats in the Senate, 2013.
Organization of the Senate, 2013.
Congratulating Senator and Mrs. Ostmeyer on their 50th wedding anniversary.