2019-2020 Regular Session

Amending employer contribution rates.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Sales tax exemption for registered charitable organizations.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for the election of county appraisers.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring electronic prescriptions for controlled substances.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Reducing the sales tax rate on food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Elections; recognition of political parties; petitions.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Amending oversight, administration and regulation of certain duties, responsibilities and activities of the insurance department relating to risk-based capital instructions, definition of long-term care insurance, conversion plans of reciprocals to mutual insurance companies, appointment and removal of securities commissioner and assessing penalties from excess lines and creating and authorizing certain transfers to the cancer research and public information trust fund for the university of Kansas medical center and changing the rate of the hospital provider assessment imposed by the department of health and environment and granting Wichita state university bonding authority for certain capital improvement projects.

Sponsor: Transportation

Designating a bridge on United States highway 77 in Cowley county as the SGT Kevin Gilbertson veterans memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Transportation

Amending the crime of counterfeiting currency.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2180 - Changing certain registration and title fees on vehicles and disposition of funds.

Sponsor: Transportation

Providing for the legal use of medical cannabis.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Prohibiting the use of a wireless communication device in a school zone or a road construction zone.

Sponsor: Jene Vickrey

Increasing the minimum wage.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Eliminating the client obligation for persons receiving home and community-based services.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Establishing a commercial industrial hemp program.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Protecting counties from debts or obligations of a county hospital upon its closure.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for the legal use of medical cannabis.

Sponsor: Jim Karleskint

Repealing the adoption protection act.

Sponsor: Jarrod Ousley

Amortizing the state and school KPERS actuarial accrued liability for a period of 30 years and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Proposition to amend section 1 of the Kansas bill of rights regarding equal rights for all human life.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Creating the crime of abandoning a human corpse.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Election offenses; electioneering crime changes.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Exempting hair threading from the practice of cosmetology.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing for certain business entities to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Increasing criminal penalties for abuse of a child and involuntary manslaughter when the victim is under 6 years of age and exempting certain victims from being considered an aggressor or participant as a mitigating factor when considering a departure sentence.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the board of regents on behalf of the university of Kansas to sell certain real property in Douglas county.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Senate Substitute for HB 2137 by Committee on Judiciary - Reviewing and continuing expiring exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act and eliminating a photograph record requirement in the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Concerning the admission into evidence of any tape or recording created using an electronic monitoring device in an adult care home.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

When township officials take the oath of office and the deadline for filing for municipal office when no primary is held.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Constitutional amendment; reapportionment, deleting requirement for adjustment of census data for military personnel and students.

Sponsor: Elections

Clarifying that it is unlawful for a person to submit an inspection report concerning wood-destroying pests unless that person is a pesticide applicator with the correct certification and license.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act; requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns; authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct; establishing the golden years homestead property tax freeze act providing refund for certain increases in residential property taxes and allowing homestead property tax refund for renters; and expanding the expense deduction to all taxpayers.

Sponsor: Select Committee on Federal Tax Code Implementation

Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of domestic battery.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Income tax treatment of net operating loss carryback on the sale of certain hotels.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring increased motor vehicle insurance coverage for people with convictions relating to driving under the influence.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Hillsdale cemetery district; deannexing territory of the district within Valley Center.

Sponsor: Steven Huebert

Creating the Kansas animal abuse offender repository.

Sponsor: John Alcala

Concerning state benefit requirements and limitations for the temporary assistance for needy families program.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Modifying the membership and duties of the substance abuse policy board of the Kansas criminal justice coordinating council.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for SB 75 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY2019, FY 2020, FY 2021 and FY 2022 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring bodies subject to the Kansas open meetings act to record proceedings and make the recordings available to the public.

Sponsor: John Alcala

Prohibiting certain utilities to recover income tax expenses through base rates approved by the state corporation commission.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Sales tax exemption for sales of farm products sold at farmers' markets.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Revising article 10 of the Kansas constitution; establishing a redistricting commission.

Sponsor: Brett Parker

Providing sales tax authority for Dickinson, Jackson, Russell, Thomas and Wabaunsee counties, and providing a sales tax exemption for sales of certain coins or bullion.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for a sales tax exemption for construction and certain purchases for businesses qualifying as part of an enterprise zone.

Sponsor: Rural Revitalization

Establishing the office of the child advocate for children's protection and services.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Prisoner healthcare costs; payment; cities, counties and other governmental entities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring personal financial literacy courses for high school graduation.

Sponsor: Education

Increasing the lump-sum death benefit for retirants under KPERS.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Establishing the golden years homestead property tax freeze act providing refund for certain increases in residential property taxes and allowing homestead property tax refund for disabled veteran renters; increasing the standard deduction.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Appropriations for FY 2020, 2021 and 2022 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Requiring verification of certain hours billed by contractors under certain state contracts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the fee limitations for certain department of wildlife, parks and tourism licenses, permits, stamps and other issue.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Exempting certain association health plans from requirements pertaining to small employer health plans.

Sponsor: Insurance

Disposition of seized firearms by law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: John Alcala

Requiring a timely determination of KanCare eligibility.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

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

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Amending the Kansas act against discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

Sponsor: Susan Ruiz

Substitute for SB 62 by Committee on Transportation - Allowing police vehicle drivers to engage in certain actions without using audible and visual signals and also allowing certain actions by drivers.

Sponsor: Transportation

Senate Substitute for HB 2118 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Concerning property taxation; establishing notice and public hearing requirements prior to approval by a governing body to exceed its revenue neutral rate; providing a waiver of interest and fees on certain delinquent property taxes for a period of time and delaying preparation of delinquent real estate tax list and notice; prohibiting valuation increase for real property solely as the result of normal repair, replacement or maintenance of existing structure.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Authorizing school districts to expend at-risk education funds on evidence-based learning programs.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Repealing prohibition on municipal regulation of minimum wages.

Sponsor: Brett Parker

Repealing the Kansas uninsurable health insurance plan act.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Amendments to the Kansas expanded lottery act relating to racetrack gaming and Wyandotte county horse racing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting local eligible employers to affiliate with KP&F with regard to coverage of certain local corrections employees.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring verification of certain hours billed by contractors under certain contracts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creating the student opportunity scholarship program.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment and the Kansas department of agriculture to conduct a health impact assessment of confined animal feeding operations for chickens.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Amending the Kansas act against discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

Sponsor: Barbara Bollier

Appropriations for FY 2020, FY 2021 and FY 2022 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Governmental ethics: two-year restriction on lobbying by former elected and appointed state officials.

Sponsor: Anthony Hensley

Electric utilities and recovery of transmission costs.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Expand the definition of express advocacy in the campaign finance act to cover phrases where reasonable minds could not differ and delete the requirement that the name of treasurers of organizations be disclosed in advertisements.

Sponsor: Elections

Updating certain emergency medical services-related statutes.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the criminal penalties for violation of a protective order.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the credit to the EMS revolving fund from district court fines, penalties or forfeitures.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Sales tax rate on food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing a post-retirement benefit increase (COLA) for certain KPERS retirants.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring suicide risk evaluation upon admission to certain treatment facilities.

Sponsor: Michael Houser

Exempting certain association health plans from requirements pertaining to small employer health plans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for certain business entities to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Allowing counties to impose a severance tax on limestone.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Granting immunity from civil liability to the person who files a grand jury petition.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas death with dignity act.

Sponsor: Jim Gartner

Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Updating definitions relating to small employer health plans and association health plans.

Sponsor: Insurance

Authorizing certain entities to access a criminal defendant's presentence investigation report.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating sexual abuse committed by a minister of religion.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Requirements for the sale of firearms at gun shows or over the internet.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Voter registration; departments of aging and disability services; children and families; labor and state board of education.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Providing certain requirements regarding the taking of minutes of meetings of legislative committees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Unemployment benefits for privately contracted school bus drivers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing voter registration on election day.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Elections; registration; election day registration.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Removing the duty of the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle to drive with due regard for the safety of all others.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Exempting health plans issued to associations of small employers from certain statutory provisions governing small employer health plans.

Sponsor: Insurance

Prohibiting certain unfair or deceptive acts or practices under a life insurance policy for a living organ donor.

Sponsor: Insurance

Supplemental appropriations for FY 2019, FY 2020, FY 2021, FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Amending the Kansas no-call act to restrict text message solicitations and certain uses of automatic dialing-announcing devices and prohibit certain conveyances of telephone numbers and the transmission of inaccurate caller-ID information.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Creating a procedure for owner to recover misappropriated property from pawnbroker or precious metal dealer.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing earned discharge credit for people on probation.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Enacting the Kansas sports wagering act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Kansas children's savings account program.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Expanding medicaid eligibility by enacting the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Making certain self-funded association health plans subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner.

Sponsor: Insurance

Allowing money in the evidence-based programs account managed by the department of corrections to be used for transportation to programs and electronic monitoring.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Enacting the Kansas working families pay raise act.

Sponsor: Jim Ward

Amending the Kansas no-call act to restrict use of automatic dialing-announcing devices and to prohibit certain conveyances of telephone numbers and transmission of inaccurate caller-ID information.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Updating definitions relating to small employer health plans and association health plans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Amending the requirements for offender registration.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Review of tax credits, tax exemptions and economic development programs.

Sponsor: Jim Gartner

Changing eligibility requirements and limitations for public assistance programs.

Sponsor: Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight

Election commissioners of large counties to be appointed by board of county commissioners instead of by secretary of state.

Sponsor: Anthony Hensley

Elections; petition circulator requirements.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Clarifying concurrent or consecutive sentencing for persons convicted of new crimes while on release for a felony.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Moving the dates for school board officer elections and organizational meetings and amending the manner of submitting to voters proposed changes to a school district’s manner of election and voting plan.

Sponsor: Tom Hawk

Changing penalties for certain voting crimes.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Constitutional amendment eliminating transfers from the state highway fund.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Specifying the conditions under which a small employer carrier may establish certain classes of business.

Sponsor: Insurance

Removing the authority of the secretary of state to prosecute election crimes.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Including a person who has filed a petition for adoption in the definition of an interested party in the child in need of care code.

Sponsor: Michael Capps

Repealing state contract requirements regarding anti-Israel boycotts.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Evidence based juvenile programs; lapsing and appropriating $6,000,000 state general fund moneys from department of health and environment--division of health care finance to the department of corrections.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Elections; term limits for offices of state treasurer and insurance commissioner.

Sponsor: Ken Corbet

Eliminating the client obligation for persons receiving home and community-based services.

Sponsor: Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight

Limiting the property tax exemption for fire districts.

Sponsor: John Resman

Requiring that sports gaming be operated and managed solely by racetrack gaming facilities.

Sponsor: Stan Frownfelter

Changing the supreme court clerk's information requirements for licensed attorneys and changing procedures related to the supreme court nominating commission and the judicial district nominating commissions.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Constitutional amendment; term limits for the secretary of state and attorney general.

Sponsor: Ken Corbet

Exempting Kansas from daylight saving time.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Sales tax exemption for required textbooks.

Sponsor: Nick Hoheisel

Restoring local control over certain compensation, wage and benefit requirements for construction projects.

Sponsor: Pam Curtis

Creating the limited driver's license and identification card for certain individuals.

Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors

Updating laws concerning limited liability companies.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the licensure of dental therapists.

Sponsor: Robert G. (Bob) Bethell Committee on Home and Community Based Services and KanCare Oversight

Authorizing the state board of education to grant waivers for school districts from the requirement to provide a minimum number of school hours during the school term.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing evidence-based program account money to be used on certain children, requiring the department of corrections to build data systems, and allowing for overall case length limit extensions for certain juvenile offenders.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for storytime village, inc.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Adjournment of the Senate and the House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2020 regular session of the Legislature; extending such session beyond 90 calendar days.

Sponsor: Susan Wagle

Requiring restitution to be due immediately unless the court orders a payment plan.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing an additional option to fulfill work participation requirements under the cash assistance program.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Expanding the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program to include military servicemembers and veterans and allowing contributions by charitable organizations.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Updating the national association of insurance commissioners credit for reinsurance model law and codifying the credit for reinsurance model regulation.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for enhanced regulation of pharmacy benefits managers and requiring licensure rather than registration of such entities.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Enacting the revised uniform law on notarial acts and validating certain notarial acts performed while the requirements that a person must appear before a notary public are suspended.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by animal shelters.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing an income tax credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures of short line railroads and associated industry track owners or lessees.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Changing to an eight-year simple average and changing the capitalization rate for valuation of agricultural land for purposes of property taxation.

Sponsor: Taxation

Updating field of membership requirements of credit unions and allowing privilege tax deductions on certain business and single family residence loans.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing school districts to install and operate school bus cameras and providing enhanced criminal penalties for vehicles improperly passing school buses.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the department of administration to issue bonds to renovate the Docking state office building and construct and equip a department of health and environment laboratory on parking lot No. 4 of the capitol complex in Topeka.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a state veterans home.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a state veterans home in Leavenworth or Wyandotte county.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting protections for healthcare providers to not participate in healthcare services that violate their conscience.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating a statewide alert program for missing military members.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing requirements for the use of handheld portable x-ray systems.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Discontinuing state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing from the state general fund.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring information technology security training for state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Defining and prohibiting certain deceptive lawsuit advertising practices and restricting the use or disclosure of protected health information to solicit individuals for legal services.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the campus intellectual diversity act to establish an office of public policy events at each public postecondary educational institution.

Sponsor: Education

Amending the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas regarding the right to abortion, the right to require government funding for abortion and the power of the legislature to regulate abortion.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that victims of childhood sexual abuse may bring an action for recovery of damages at any time.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a hiring preference for persons with disabilities for state jobs.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Decreasing the amount of net electronic gaming machine income credited to the expanded lottery act revenues fund from racetrack gaming facilities.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Sunday start time for the sale of liquor in retail liquor stores changed from 12 noon to 9 a.m.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the right to appeal an involuntary discharge or transfer from an adult residential care facility.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act; establishing notice and public hearing requirements prior to approval by a governing body to exceed its revenue neutral rate for the imposition of property tax and discontinuing the city and county tax lid; providing a waiver of interest and fees on certain delinquent property taxes for a period of time and delaying preparation of delinquent real estate tax list and notice; prohibiting valuation increase for real property solely as the result of normal repair, replacement or maintenance of existing structure; providing for county treasurers to establish a payment plan for the payment of delinquent or nondelinquent taxes; requiring the state board of tax appeals to serve orders and notices by electronic means if requested by the party; prohibiting county appraisers and the state board of tax appeals from increasing the valuation of county appraised property in valuation appeals

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Exempting certain plans or operations from the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional scheme.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office to submit an initial application for a VA state veterans home construction grant.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing a tax lid exception for transportation construction projects.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating a drug abuse treatment program for people on diversion and allowing county attorneys to enter into agreements with court services and community corrections for supervision.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Exempting petroleum landmen from the provisions of employment security law.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed bonds for electric generation facilities; enacting the Kansas electricity bill reduction bonds act, K-EBRA bonds.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing a primary health center and enacting the primary health center pilot program act contingent upon state acceptance into a demonstration program under the centers for medicare and medicaid innovation.

Sponsor: Rural Revitalization

Creating the crime of aggravated abuse of a child.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Authorizing the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to purchase land in Kingman county.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Imposing a civil fine for operating a child care facility without a license.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring medical directors of emergency medical services to provide medical oversight of such services and emergency medical service providers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing tax withholding requirements when certain employees work in multiple states.

Sponsor: Taxation

Approving executive reorganization order No. 45 that transfers certain powers, duties and functions to the division of the state employee health benefits plan within the department of administration.

Sponsor: General Government Budget

Allowing military service members ordered to relocate to terminate leases.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing public utilities to implement demand-side programs to increase energy efficiency.

Sponsor: Utilities

Allowing investigations of child deaths by coroner before performing an autopsy.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the property tax relief act and providing an expiration for the selective assistance for effective relief credit and the homestead property tax refund.

Sponsor: Chris Croft

Authorizing the department of administration to issue bonds to construct and equip a department of health and environment laboratory on parking lot No. 4 of the capitol complex in Topeka; current laboratory identified and sold as state surplus real estate.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing the state fire marshal with law enforcement powers and requiring an investigation of deaths resulting from fire.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring specified insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating exemptions in the open records act for election security records and cyber security records.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for joint liability for costs and sanctions in third-party funded litigation, requiring certain discovery disclosures and requiring payment of certain costs for nonparty subpoenas.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Clarifying the license terms and electronic submission of tax payments, reports and documentation for holders of a special order shipping license.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Affiliation with the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system by the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism for membership of certain law enforcement officers and employees.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Creating the Kansas exceptional child academic improvement act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting municipal zoning ordinances that exclude federally licensed firearms manufacturers, importers or dealers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring petrochemical manufacturing facilities and petroleum refineries to use a skilled and trained workforce.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Providing a tax lid exception for transportation construction projects.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the Kansas electricity bill reduction bonds act and authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed KEBRA bonds for electric utility property.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing licensees under the club and drinking establishment act to sell and serve cereal malt beverages.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring courts to order a defendant to pay certain restitution when the defendant's offense resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who has a minor child or children.

Sponsor: David Haley

Removing minimum fines for a failure to maintain financial security.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Requiring the department of administration to raze the Docking state office building and preserve the existing energy center of the building.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Changing process for collection of debts owed to courts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the Kansas firearms industry nondiscrimination act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Removing cannabis products that contain up to 0.3% THC from the list of controlled substances listed in schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Sponsor: Taxation

Allowing public utilities to implement demand-side programs to increase energy efficiency.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Providing a sales tax exemption for sent, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the Sedgwick county urban area nuisance abatement act.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by crisis pregnancy centers.

Sponsor: Paul Waggoner

Requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales and compensating use tax.

Sponsor: Taxation

Allowing the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Transferring powers, duties and functions of the emergency medical services board to the secretary of health and environment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Allowing physicians to decide whether to provide patients with certain information based on the physician's reasonable professional medical judgment.

Sponsor: Brett Parker

Enacting the audiology and speech language pathology interstate compact.

Sponsor: Susan Concannon

Allowing certain criminal offenses to be expunged automatically.

Sponsor: Tom Cox

Imposing sales tax on digital property and subscription services.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Allowing venue for an agency adoption to be where a state agency or their subcontracting agencies have offices when the state is the agency.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorization for counties to impose a local motor fuels tax with voter approval.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Amending provisions concerning the abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of certain adults to update the list of mandatory reporters, create a definition of "financial exploitation" and increase the number of working days in which DCF must complete an initial investigation from 30 to 60 working days.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Requiring law enforcement agencies to increase data collection and reporting on racial profiling and other biased policing.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Imposing sales tax on digital property and subscription services.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending the definition of knife for the crime of criminal possession of a firearm.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Adjusting the credit and income amounts for the income tax credit for purchases of food in this state.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Replacing the BOTA small claims appeal process with a mediation process for certain tax appeals.

Sponsor: Chris Croft

Repealing certain obligations of a purchaser after sale of business for unpaid retailers' sales taxes.

Sponsor: Michael Capps

Designating a portion of K-7 as the Senator Bud Burke Memorial Highway.

Sponsor: Julia Lynn

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies regarding false information relayed to individuals during custodial interrogations.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Updating certain provisions of the optometry law pertaining to scope of practice, definitions and related requirements.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Constitutional amendment to repeal section 16 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas relating to marriage.

Sponsor: Susan Ruiz

Establishing requirements for claiming pollinator-friendly solar sites.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Establishing a healthcare benefits package not covered or affiliated with a health insurer or health benefits plan, to be administered by Kansas state employees healthcare commission.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

All contract for deeds must be filed with the county register of deeds by the seller within 10 days after execution or such contract shall be deemed void.

Sponsor: Jason Probst

Supplemental appropriations for FY 2020 and FY 2021 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Extending the period for unemployment insurance benefit eligibility to 26 weeks for the next two years.

Sponsor: Mike Petersen

Amending the capital improvement state aid schedule to exclude U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth, and the students enrolled in a virtual school offered by a school district.

Sponsor: Education

Providing for the required mill levy for financing education for the subsequent two school years and extending the exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Sponsor: Taxation

Imposing a privilege tax on the gross receipts from the sale of firearms and ammunition.

Sponsor: Jerry Stogsdill

Prohibiting the possession of large capacity ammunition magazines and the carrying of handguns with large capacity ammunition magazines.

Sponsor: Jerry Stogsdill

Rate of sales and compensating use tax on food and food ingredients and implementing formulaic adjustment to tax rate.

Sponsor: Chris Croft

Adding a definition of "purposes of sepulture" to the law dealing with cemetery corporation.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Tax credit for contributions to technical colleges.

Sponsor: Taxation

Allowing the director of alcoholic beverage control to suspend or revoke a license under the Kansas liquor control act or the club and drinking establishment act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Updating producer licensing statutes pertaining to appointment, fees, licensing, renewal dates, continuing education, suspension, revocation and denial of licensure and reinstatement.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Provide for the filling of a vacancy in the office of state treasurer and insurance commissioner by statewide district convention.

Sponsor: Elections

Substitute for HB 2597 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2020, 2021 and 2022 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Limiting certain Schedule II, III and IV opioid prescriptions to a seven-day supply.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring students pass an American civics test in order to graduate with a high school diploma.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring the department of health and environment to make long-acting reversible contraceptives more accessible.

Sponsor: Brett Parker

Providing insurance coverage for hearing aids.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Providing for adjusted income tax rates and sales tax treatment for food and food ingredients and feminine hygiene products.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Allowing an alcoholic liquor manufacturer to obtain a drinking establishment license under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.

Sponsor: Insurance

Increasing penalty for assault and battery against a sports official.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Calculating special education state aid amount based on the number of full-time equivalent special education teachers in the preceding school year.

Sponsor: Bruce Givens

Clarifying inspection, permit, certification and fee requirements for amusement rides under the Kansas amusement ride act.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing income tax credit for expenditures to make principal dwelling accessible to persons with a disability.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Permanent advance voting status extended to any registered voter but such status will end if two consecutive elections are missed.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Increasing the Kansas standard deduction and personal exemption for income tax purposes.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Clarify the vacation of territory from city boundaries or release of easements.

Sponsor: Local Government

Authorizing certain sales taxation authority for the Sherwood improvement district.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Clarifying the weight restrictions for drivers' licenses.

Sponsor: Transportation

Property tax abatement for agricultural improvement destroyed or substantially destroyed by a natural disaster.

Sponsor: Jim Karleskint

Substitute for HB 2642 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Removing a restriction, for purposes of employment security law, on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Enacting the right to family planning act, requiring contraceptives to be available at pharmacies.

Sponsor: Brett Parker

Allowing the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people.

Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors

Requiring transportation network companies to require drivers to display official trade dress.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Requiring publication of school district bullying policies and requiring a report on bullying incidents at each school district attendance center.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring student athletes to participate in school athletics based upon their biological gender at birth.

Sponsor: Michael Capps

Increasing the minimum age to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco products from 18 to 21; prohibiting cigarette vending machines and flavored vaping products.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that the highway patrol will provide the administration and oversight of state certified ignition interlock manufacturers and their service providers.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting employers and employment agencies from requiring or using compensation history of job applicants in the employment process.

Sponsor: Cindy Neighbor

Sales tax exemption for purchases made by SOAR special needs.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies requiring an investigation and public report be completed after officer-involved deaths.

Sponsor: Chris Croft

Authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a state veterans home.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Enacting the right to earn a living act to minimize unnecessary occupational licensing and regulation.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Supplemental appropriations for FY 2020 and FY 2021 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Allowing cement trucks and requiring dump trucks to display license plates on front of vehicle.

Sponsor: Transportation

Transferring $268,412,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund in FY 2020 and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Jim Denning

Creating the educator protection act to provide excess professional liability insurance coverage for teachers.

Sponsor: Education

Prohibiting pelvic, rectal, or prostate exams on unconscious patients without informed consent.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Requiring the Kansas department for aging and disability services to operate acute psychiatric inpatient beds for children in Hays and Garden City.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating a process to terminate the parental rights of a person whose sexual assault of another has resulted in the conception of a child.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing requirements relating to how certain health insurers treat dental care service claims; reimbursements; prior authorization; denials.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Requiring poachers to pay a fine to certain landowners and law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Setting the number of weeks a claimant is eligible to receive unemployment benefits.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the fairness in condemnation act requiring the condemning authority to provide the property owner notice of a planned condemnation proceeding, an offer for purchase and a court review of compliance with this act.

Sponsor: Kellie Warren

Eliminating the 30-day delay before offering state surplus property for sale to the general public.

Sponsor: General Government Budget

Requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the attorney general in certain businesses and public places.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing employees of salvage vehicle pools to perform vehicle identification number inspections.

Sponsor: Transportation

Require a vote of approval by persons living in an area to be regulated by city extraterritorial zoning or subdivision regulations.

Sponsor: Willie Dove

Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2020 regular session of the Legislature.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Creating the Kansas reading readiness act.

Sponsor: Renee Erickson

Requiring that remote sellers make $100,000 in gross receipts from sales for sales tax nexus requirements.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the revised uniform athlete agents act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain testing statutes related to crimes in which the transmission of body fluids from one person to another may have been involved.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Granting the secretary of revenue the authority to set letters and numerals for license plates and removing the requirement that plates be shipped to the county treasurer.

Sponsor: Transportation

Updating certain provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access and increasing the membership of the advisory committee.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Supporting Kansas farmers in the Rattlesnake Creek subbasin in their ongoing effort to protect their water rights and livelihood through a collaborative solution to the region's water impairment issue.

Sponsor: Susan Wagle

Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.

Sponsor: Insurance

Allowing four-wheel military surplus vehicles to register with the division of vehicles for road use.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

The secretary of state shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis and shall resign before running for another office.

Sponsor: Elections

Appropriations for FY 2021 for the department of education; concerning special education aid.

Sponsor: Bruce Givens

Senate Substitute for HB 2585 by Committee on Utilities - Exempting certain public utilities from Kansas income taxation and allowing the state corporation commission to approve certain contract and reduced electric rates and associated cost recovery from all rate classes.

Sponsor: Utilities

Club and drinking establishment liquor license eligibility; spouse is a law enforcement officer in another county.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Removing the monetary cap on irrevocable prearranged funeral agreements.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Transferring $268,412,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund in FY 2020 and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Establishing a state oral health plan and Medicaid dental benefits and revising the dental practices act.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Expanding the scope of Kansas state board of cosmetology disciplinary and enforcement actions to non-licensees.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Removing sunset provisions for closed sessions and privileged records regarding trauma cases.

Sponsor: Rural Revitalization

Sedgwick county voters, in the 2020 election cycle, may vote on election day at any polling place in the county.

Sponsor: Blake Carpenter

Allowing local authorities to decrease a speed limit to 5 miles per hour and decrease any speed limit without requiring an engineering and traffic investigation.

Sponsor: Transportation

Increasing the subtraction modification for social security income.

Sponsor: Taxation

Ensuring that the votes of voters whose names do not appear in the poll book and are otherwise eligible to vote are counted.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Allowing the state corporation commission to approve certain electric contract rates and associated cost recovery from all rate classes.

Sponsor: Utilities

Updating motor carrier laws and regulation of motor carriers by the state corporation commission.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing court services officers and community corrections officers to provide a certification of identification to offenders.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time restrictions for a victim of a sexually violent crime to receive compensation for mental health counseling.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Exempting motor vehicle odometer reading recording requirements when such recording requirements are exempted by federal law.

Sponsor: Transportation

Amending the Kansas drycleaner environmental response act to change the required deductible rate, environmental surcharge rate and penalty fine amount.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Enacting the uniform fiduciary income and principal act (UFIPA).

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the subtraction modification for social security income to $100,000.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business and medical facilities, increasing certain project investment and sales requirements, adding a return on investment analysis and other requirements and approvals by the secretary and extending the sunset date.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Substitute for SB 335 by Committee on Education - Authorizing school districts to pay the tuition for a student's dual or concurrent enrollment in a postsecondary educational institution and requiring a tuition waiver for foster children who are dually or concurrently enrolled.

Sponsor: Education

Removing provisional employment from adult care homes, home health agencies and providers of disability services.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the transfer of $268,412,000 from the state general fund to the KPERS fund during fiscal year 2020 and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Excluding hypothetical leased fee when determining fair market value for real property.

Sponsor: Taxation

Relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing income tax modifications for global intangible low-taxed income, business interest, capital contributions and FDIC premiums.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending healthcare stabilization fund coverage requirements and membership on the board of governors and providing for the dissolution of the fund under specified circumstances.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Repealing obsolete provision requiring the state corporation commission and the department of health and environment enter into an interagency agreement for integration of certain oil and gas regulatory operations on or before November 1, 1982.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Expanding the provision of the ACT college entrance exam and workkeys assessments to students enrolled in nonpublic schools.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring that certain business entities be Kansas corporations for coverage by the healthcare stabilization fund.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Prescribing certain duties on the chairperson of legislative committees related to the provision of testimony presented to the committee.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the insurance department to retain the proceeds of the sale of insurance department surplus real estate and any improvements thereon in the insurance department service regulation fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Allow municipalities to adopt an alternate budget procedure.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the together as one foundation license plate.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring drivers to proceed with due caution when passing stationary vehicles displaying hazard warning lights and providing a penalty for violation.

Sponsor: Transportation

Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Rejected rezoning requests to cities and counties may not be resubmitted for a period of one year.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Abolishing the well plugging assurance fund and transferring all assets and liabilities to the abandoned oil and gas well fund.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Increasing the age for eligibility to renew drivers' licenses online to 65.

Sponsor: Transportation

Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing the state board of regents on behalf of Kansas state university to sell certain real property in Saline county; providing payment or waiver of tuition for certain dually or concurrently enrolled students; authorizing the practice of the healing arts by healing arts school clinics; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to nonpublic school students.

Sponsor: Local Government

Clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse treatment program.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Granting the commissioner of insurance flexibility in assessing certain excess lines coverage penalties.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Authorizing department of corrections employees, local correctional or detention officers, judicial branch employees and municipal court employees to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Concerning the admission into evidence of any tape or recording created using an electronic monitoring device in an adult care home.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Placing the burden of proof on the county appraiser in certain valuation and classification appeal hearings before the district court and extending the time a state board of tax appeals member may continue to serve after member's term expires.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing certain KP&F tier II spousal and children's benefits for death resulting from a service-connected disability.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring resident tuition rates for certain Native American students at public postsecondary educational institutions.

Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors

Designating the watermelon as the state fruit of Kansas.

Sponsor: Mark Samsel

Enact the Kansas anti-red flag act which prohibits the enforcement of extreme risk protection orders that prevent certain individuals from buying or possessing a firearm and establishes a criminal penalty for violations.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Imposing a civil fine for operating a child care facility without a license.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Increasing the bond amount required for a vehicle dealer license.

Sponsor: Transportation

Designating General Election Day as a legal public holiday.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing subpoena and investigative powers for the commissioner of insurance and certain law enforcement powers for insurance investigators in pursuance of insurance fraud violations.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Amending the Kansas pesticide law's licensure requirements and the Kansas chemigation safety law's permittee requirements.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Providing motor vehicle disability placards for school districts, interlocal cooperatives, postsecondary educational institutions and department for aging and disability services institutions.

Sponsor: Education

Changing how two-way electronic audio-visual communication is used in courts.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Transfers to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.

Sponsor: John Doll

Clarifying that bond agents seeking discharge as a surety are required to return the person released on bond to the court in the county where the complaint subject to the bond was filed.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Senate Substitute for HB 2487 by Committee on Education - Providing for individuals with disabilities by clarifying authority of the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing; enacting the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact; providing disability placards to school districts, interlocal cooperatives, postsecondary educational institutions and institutions under the direction of the department for aging and disability services; and updating references to emotional disability.

Sponsor: Education

Allowing police vehicles to equip blue-only lights.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting the sale of unpasteurized milk for human consumption.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Updating provisions related to the Kansas department of agriculture division of conservation.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Enacting the healthcare price disclosure act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing children who run away to be placed in a juvenile detention facility for 24 hours.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Updating approved types of personal flotation devices.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Senate Substitute for HB 2490 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Concerning property taxation; relating to the state board of tax appeals, orders and notices, service by electronic means, time to request full and complete opinion, board member service after term expires; relating to appeals, prohibiting valuation increases in certain appeals, burden of proof in district court; relating to county appraisers, eligibility list, notification when person no longer holds office; appraisal standards; and buildings and improvements destroyed or substantially destroyed by natural disaster.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Excluding air bags from the definition of cost of repairs for salvage vehicles.

Sponsor: Transportation

House Substitute for SB 285 by Committee on Agriculture - Amending the Kansas storage tank act to extend the sunsets of certain funds and increase certain reimbursement amounts.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Clarifying the authority of healing arts school clinics to provide healing arts services.

Sponsor: Education

House Substitute for SB 266 by Committee on Taxation - Requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales and compensating use tax and providing nexus for retailers doing business in this state.

Sponsor: Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2480 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Establishing a process for a reciprocal to convert to a mutual insurance company, providing for flexibility when certain penalties are assessed from excess lines, updating the version of risk-based capital instructions in effect, updating the definition of long-term care in the long-term care act, updating the securities commissioner appointment and removal process and updating suspension, denial and revocation of licensure and certain other licensure requirements of insurance agents and public adjusters.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for notice and opportunity to be heard before removal of person from county appraiser eligibility list and for notification when person no longer holds office of appraiser.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Removing the requirement that certain entities submit certain reports to the division of post audit.

Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit

Changing the filing schedule for business entity information reports with the secretary of state from an annual to a biennial basis effective July 1, 2022.

Sponsor: Robert Olson

Police officer-involved death of a person; mandatory investigation; report open if no criminal charges; Kansas open records act change.

Sponsor: David Benson

Substitute for SB 238 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Updating field of membership requirements of credit unions; allowing privilege tax deductions on certain business and single family residence loans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Codifying the NAIC corporate governance model regulation into statute.

Sponsor: Insurance

Enacting the public litigation coordination act to restrict contracts by public entities for legal services on a contingent fee basis.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the negligent driving violation.

Sponsor: Transportation

Determining residence for school attendance of children awaiting foster care or permanent family placement.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the mandatory retirement age for judges to 80 years of age.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

Substitute for HB 2416 by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to provide tax credits for the employment of persons with developmental disabilities.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Ending participation of certain employees of the legislative branch in the Kansas public employees deferred compensation plan.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Amending the Kansas storage tank act by extending the expiration of certain reimbursement provisions to 2030 and increasing the underground storage tank replacement reimbursement maximum.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Clarifying when a receipt of property seized by law enforcement should be sent to the court and who seized weapons should be returned to.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the state board of tax appeals to serve orders and notices by electronic means if requested by the party.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Adding a public defender to the Kansas criminal justice reform commission.

Sponsor: Stephen Owens

Regarding the local ad valorem tax reduction fund, county and city revenue sharing fund and job creation program fund, no transfers from or credits to such funds without prior specific authorization by an act of the legislature or an appropriation act of the legislature.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

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: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to reserve to the people the right to regulate abortion through their elected state representatives and senators.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending Kansas department of agriculture division of animal health license, permit and registration renewal deadlines.

Sponsor: Agriculture

House Substitute for SB 271 by Committee on Education - Creating the students' right to know act to disseminate information on postsecondary education; providing specific curriculum guidance for civics instruction.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the Roy'Ale Spencer firearms safety act, which requires firearms to be safely secured and establishes criminal penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Amending and repealing reapportionment census data laws to conform with 2019 amendments to the Kansas constitution, and to remove certain obsolete provisions.

Sponsor: Jim Denning

Cities and counties prohibited from regulating lemonade or other beverage stands operated by minors in residential areas.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Providing a sales tax exemption for the principle foundation.

Sponsor: Taxation

Expand the campaign finance act to cover unified school districts having 5,000 or more students and community colleges.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Expanding the property tax exemption for property used to provide humanitarian services to include additional not-for-profit organizations.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Removing the requirement that certain entities submit certain reports to the division of post audit.

Sponsor: Legislative Post Audit

Length of time prior to use of debt collection agencies for delinquent taxes; time for payment of sales and liquor drink tax; liability of person to collect sales or compensating use tax; administration of liquor enforcement tax.

Sponsor: Taxation

House Substitute for SB 235 by Committee on Taxation - Providing for bonding authority rate limitations for municipal bonds, the issuance of short term no-fund warrant financing during emergency and the ability of the development finance authority to issue bonds.

Sponsor: Taxation

Amending the definition of dangerous regulated animal and restricting proximity of such animals to members of the public.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Clarifying the definition of the term "possession" in the Kansas criminal code.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing for the blackout distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Amending requirements for service of process on nonresident drivers and clarifying service of process on certain business entities.

Sponsor: Jim Denning

Administrative rules and regulations shall sunset five years after adoption unless extension is approved by the legislature.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Allowing third-party fee simple appraisals to be filed with county appraisers for residential property.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.

Sponsor: Taxation

Recertification of professional employees' organizations to represent teachers

Sponsor: Appropriations

Appropriations to the University of Kansas Medical Center’s cancer center research account.

Sponsor: Jim Denning

Extraterritorial zoning, subdivision regulations; mailed notice to land owners of record.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Establishing daylight saving time as the permanent standard time in Kansas.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Establishing new rate limitations for general purposes and special purposes for the countywide retailers' sales tax.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Condemning the declaration of a "national emergency" by the president of the United States.

Sponsor: David Haley

Requiring visual observation of alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of investigation.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing investment of state moneys in securities issued by Israel.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting firearm possession restrictions in subsidized housing agreements.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Concerning requirements of publication of certain documents by the secretary of state; relating to session laws, the Kansas register, proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas, and Kansas administrative rules and regulations and guidance documents.

Sponsor: Jim Denning

Driving under the influence is a disqualification for election or appointment as a sheriff.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Adjournment of the 2019 Legislature until May 1, 2019.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Providing a tax credit for donations to certain postsecondary educational institutions that provide scholarships to students with financial need.

Sponsor: Taxation

Sales tax exemption extension for Gove county healthcare endowment foundation, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending powers, duties and functions of the Kansas state board of cosmetology relating to licensing and hearings.

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing transfers from the state general fund to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and county and city revenue sharing fund if the city or county has a new road construction or bridge improvement plan and the plan is approved by the secretary of transportation.

Sponsor: Taxation

Revoking authority to suspend driving privileges for the nonpayment of fines from traffic citations.

Sponsor: Gail Finney

Revising cross-references in the civil procedure codes.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Imposing a tax on certain state credit unions for the privilege of doing business.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Publication of school district bullying prevention policies.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending license and renewal application fees for insurance third party administrators.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Extending the length of time for the Kansas corporation NOL carryforward.

Sponsor: Taxation

Eliminating the six-month retirement benefit suspension for violating KPERS working after retirement provisions.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Extending the length of time for the Kansas corporation NOL carryforward.

Sponsor: Taxation

Allowing clubs and drinking establishments to sell beer and cereal malt beverage for consumption off the licensed premises.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Empowering the KPERS board to develop policies and procedures relating to procurement, enter into certain contracts and allow travel for trustees and employees of the system.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed bonds for electric generation facilities.

Sponsor: Utilities

Providing for an increase in registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Unemployment benefits for privately contracted school bus drivers.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Clarifying the authority of the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Setoff against debtors; relating to support debt matched by gaming facilities.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Increasing reimbursement rates for home and community-based services.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing requirement that only legislators may request bills for introduction to be sponsored by legislative standing committees and certain requirements for printed bills and committee minutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring inquiry about veteran status in supervised loans.

Sponsor: Veterans and Military

Providing for water measuring device inspections and limiting the liability of water right owners regarding water measuring devices and the use of water measuring device technicians.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Requiring certain military service that is concurrent with KPERS participating service to be credited as additional KPERS participating service.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring deposit in the water program management fee fund of certain moneys received by the Kansas department of health and environment.

Sponsor: Utilities

Amending the hospital provider assessment rate and uses and membership of the healthcare access improvement panel.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring electronic prescriptions for certain controlled substances.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making application to the U.S. congress to call a convention of the states.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Exempting out-of-state licensed healthcare professionals from Kansas licensure requirements when traveling with a sports team.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Creating the transportation planning program.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Tax lid exception when budget was higher in prior five years.

Sponsor: Taxation

Making licenses issued by the division of alcoholic beverage control effective on the date stated on the license.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating the state dance as the polka.

Sponsor: Vic Miller

The hours and days of sale of cereal malt beverage conform to the hours and days of sale for alcoholic liquor.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing penalties for domestic battery and amending child endangerment to include domestic battery in the presence of a child.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

No liability for charitable vision screenings and donations of eyeglasses.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for an increase in permit fees for oversize or overweight vehicles and requiring registration for escort vehicle service operators.

Sponsor: Taxation

Granting federal law enforcement officers who work with state task forces arrest authority.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Tax lid exception for transportation construction projects.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Increasing the married tax filer income threshold for the subtraction modification for social security income.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Extending the time that victims of child sex abuse have to bring a cause of action.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Abolishing the capitol area plaza authority.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring the attorney general to appoint a Kansas youth suicide prevention coordinator.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Clarifying the duties of the administrator of the Kansas charitable gaming act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Expanding the expense deduction to all taxpayers in addition to corporate taxpayers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for an increase in permit fees for oversize or overweight vehicles.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Removing provisional employment from adult care homes, home health agencies and providers of disability services.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Enacting the Kansas buy American act.

Sponsor: Anthony Hensley

Creating a cause of action for censorship or suppression of social media speech.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Requiring the state employee healthcare benefits program to accept participation as a provider by any willing pharmacist.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Establishing the legislative post audit economic development incentive review subcommittee.

Sponsor: Select Committee on Federal Tax Code Implementation

Enacting the Kansas safe access act.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Increasing liability limits for the healthcare stabilization fund.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the Kansas Alzheimer's disease advisory council.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Creating presumptions related to temporary parenting plans and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Creating the Kansas legal tender act; providing for sales exemption from and modification for sales of specie legal tender.

Sponsor: Michael Capps

Establishing non-covered dental benefits under health insurance plans and limitations on plan changes.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Making changes to mitigating factors used by court in granting a departure sentence.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Income tax credit for increased salaries paid to Kansas employees.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Authorize counties which have zoning regulations to abate nuisances.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating a property tax exemption for land associated with a dam or reservoir and subject to a mitigation easement.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Allowing apparatus operators to provide ground ambulance transportation for certain patients in rural areas.

Sponsor: Rural Revitalization

Removing felony violation of possession, cultivation and distribution of marijuana.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Amending remedies for victims of sexual abuse by a duly ordained minister of religion.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring notification to the governor and legislature of missing foster care youth.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Constitutional restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Providing for the licensure of anesthesiologist assistants.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the Kansas buy American act.

Sponsor: Brandon Whipple

Authorizing transfers from the state general fund to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and county and city revenue sharing fund if the county has a plan for expansion or modernization of a road or bridge improvement and the plan is approved by the secretary of transportation.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Amendments regarding license to carry a concealed handgun.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the limit of healthcare expenses allowed as a workers compensation benefit for injured employees prior to formal authorization of a claim.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating the Kansas student and educator freedom of religious speech act.

Sponsor: Renee Erickson

Allow prosecutor's office to enter into agreements for supervision of people on diversion and allowing people on diversion to participate in the certified drug treatment program.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the sales tax collection threshold for certain retailers and the required timeframe for payment of tax.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for an increase in motor fuel taxes and trip permits.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Allowing oversize or overweight utility vehicles to operate at all times and all weather and road conditions when responding to emergency utility outages.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to give certain notices and conduct a lethality assessment.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention act.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Repealing public convenience and necessity requirements for motor carriers.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Sunsetting the food sales tax credit and enacting the food sales tax refund.

Sponsor: Brandon Whipple

Providing an income tax credit for expenditures to construct health or education facilities by Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference member institutions.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Exempting animal shelters from registration requirements as a charitable organization.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Adding certain counties to the list of eligible rural opportunity zone counties.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Free state election act; eliminate proof of citizenship; same day registration and voting; other.

Sponsor: Elections

Creating the extreme risk protective order act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring written informed consent before administering an antipsychotic medication to an adult care home resident.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Providing the court of appeals jurisdiction to review final orders of the state board of tax appeals.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Deeming children as foster children under the grandparents as caregivers act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the use of non-disclosure agreements to silence victims of workplace sexual harassment.

Sponsor: Brandon Whipple

Providing for department of health and environment response operations for water and soil pollutant release, discharge or escape.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Concerning tax clearance certificates for individuals offered jobs with the state or any agency thereof; when required.

Sponsor: Social Services Budget

Senate Substitute for HB 2244 by Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the COVID-19 response and reopening for business liability protection act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing income tax and privilege tax credits for contributions to the Eisenhower foundation.

Sponsor: Randall Hardy

Increasing retirement benefit cap and decreasing employee contribution rate for members of the Kansas Police and Firemen's Retirement System in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Requiring the fees and civil penalties collected by the Kansas department of health and environment under the asbestos control program to be deposited in the air quality fee fund.

Sponsor: Utilities

Requiring health insurance coverage for contraceptives.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Requiring certain electric transmission lines to acquire a siting permit from the state corporation commission.

Sponsor: Gail Finney

Due process for terminating teachers' contracts.

Sponsor: Jerry Stogsdill

Providing for increased penalties for right-of-way violations.

Sponsor: Jene Vickrey

Prohibiting the denial of earned maternity leave benefits after an employee has given notice of intent to take maternity leave.

Sponsor: Brandon Whipple

Amending requirements for school district board requests for proposals for construction or repair projects.

Sponsor: Education

Creating the voluntary gun safety act.

Sponsor: Jarrod Ousley

Allowing the assignment of dental insurance benefits under the state healthcare benefits program.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Making appropriations for FY 2020 for the Kansas state school for the deaf.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Requiring the state corporation commission to ensure that a seismic risk analysis is conducted upon class II disposal wells.

Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors

County boards of tax appeals are created to hear appeals from county appraisers and hearing officers.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Creating the community leaders service act.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Substitute for SB 126 by Committee on Utilities - Exempting certain public utilities from Kansas income taxation and requiring the filing of new retail electric rates in certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Utilities

Elections; unlawful collection of voted or unvoted ballots.

Sponsor: Elections

Exempting certain victims from being considered an aggressor or participant as a mitigating factor when considering a departure sentence.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Sales tax exemption for food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Liquor sales by licensees in common consumption areas.

Sponsor: Local Government

Sales tax exemption for fencing used in agricultural use.

Sponsor: Taxation

Making changes to the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting the state corporation commission from authorizing certain charges for electric service.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Allowing wagering losses for Kansas itemized deductions.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Enacting the fair share act.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Imposing an excise tax on admission to adult-oriented businesses.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Enacting the marriage and constitution restoration act.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Increasing income tax credit for household and dependent care expenses.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Requiring banks to make a minimum amount of subprime loans.

Sponsor: Tim Hodge

Designating a portion of United States highway 77 as the Capt. Donald Root Strother memorial highway.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring the state corporation commission to study electric rates and consider certain factors in establishing just and reasonable electric rates.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Prohibiting the Kansas lottery from entering into or extending an existing management contract with a lottery gaming facility manager without prior legislative approval.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Authorizing the secretary of health and environment to collect underground injection control program fees and redirecting water well license program fees.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Relating to instances when reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation are sent to both the department for children and families and the appropriate law enforcement agency.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.

Sponsor: Mark Schreiber

Appropriations for the department of education for FY 2019, 2020 and 2021; continuing 20 mill statewide levy for schools and exempting certain portion used for residential purposes from such levy.

Sponsor: Select Committee on Federal Tax Code Implementation

Requiring the state corporation commission and the secretary of health and environment to assess certain fees upon operators of class I and class II injection wells and establishing the state geological survey monitoring well fund.

Sponsor: Jason Probst

Amending uninsured motorist coverage provision requirements in automobile liability insurance policies.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting universities from charging fees for certain scholarship applications.

Sponsor: Brandon Whipple

Recognizing Kansas' celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

Sponsor: Susan Humphries

House Substitute for SB 27 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing for a maximum of 26 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits and compensation for the pre-payment waiting period.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

House Substitute for SB 142 by House Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Authorizing the state board of education to grant waivers for school districts from the requirement to provide a minimum number of school hours during the school term.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

House Substitute for SB 102 by Committee on Judiciary - Allowing the chief justice of the Kansas supreme court to extend or suspend deadlines or time limitations to secure the health and safety of court users, staff and judicial officers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Supporting the extension of Amtrak passenger rail service between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Newton, Kansas.

Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn

Honoring the 30th anniversary of the Parents as Teachers program in Kansas.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Honoring the 30th anniversary of the Parents as Teachers program in Kansas.

Sponsor: Brenda Dietrich

Recognizing the week of February 24, 2020, as National Public Schools Week.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Increasing the criminal penalty for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon and amending the crime as it relates to knives.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the Kansas reinvest in postsecondary education act.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring the allocation of sufficient school district moneys to improve academic performance of underachieving students.

Sponsor: Education

Affording public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Modifying criminal procedures relating to a defendant's competency or incompetency to stand trial.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Making offender registration for certain drug crimes five years.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Lobbyist reports late filing.

Sponsor: Elections

Changing the elements and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child and creating the crime of aggravated abuse of a child.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing reimbursement rates for providers of home and community-based services under the intellectual or developmentally disabled waiver.

Sponsor: Social Services Budget

Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2598 by Committee on Insurance - Providing for enhanced regulation of pharmacy benefits managers and requiring licensure of such entities rather than registration of such entities.

Sponsor: Insurance

A resolution recognizing the week of February 24 , 2020, as National Public Schools Week.

Sponsor: Molly Baumgardner

Modifying the penalties for sexual contact between certain juveniles and excluding such juveniles from offender registration.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Delete the treasurer's name from candidate political ads.

Sponsor: Elections

Authorizing the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to purchase land in Kingman county.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Aligning the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Designating a bridge on United States highway 166 in Cowley county as the SGT Tyler A Juden memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Honoring Agent Orange victims.

Sponsor: Dan Kerschen

Allowing a court to make a finding that a final decree of adoption take effect at an earlier date.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing legislative assistants and committee assistants to accept one gift of not to exceed $100 in value each legislative session from legislators.

Sponsor: Elections

Amending the capital improvement state aid schedule to exclude U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Recognizing September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Sponsor: Mark Schreiber

Recognizing the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Recognizing the 100th Anniversary of the League of Women Voters of the United States.

Sponsor: Marci Francisco

Congratulating and commending the individuals who have been selected as award-winning educators in Kansas.

Sponsor: Molly Baumgardner

Recognizing the Wichita police department's homeless outreach team.

Sponsor: Susan Wagle

Recognizing February 7, 2020, as Wear Red Day.

Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn

Designating January 30, 2020, as Latina Leaders Day at the Capitol.

Sponsor: Susan Ruiz

Recognizing Dolores Huerta as an American civil rights and labor leader.

Sponsor: Anthony Hensley

Designating a bridge on United States highway 77 in Cowley county as the SGT Kevin A. Gilbertson memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Transportation

Congratulating and commending Buhler High School's girls golf team.

Sponsor: Edward Berger

Congratulating and commending Buhler High Schools boys cross country team.

Sponsor: Edward Berger

Providing for changes in seat assignments in the house of representatives for the 2020 session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Recognizing the Roy'ale Foundation.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Providing for a joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate to hear a message from the Governor.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Providing for the organization of the Senate in 2020.

Sponsor: Susan Wagle

Adopting economic development program evaluation and information disclosure regimes and expanding economic development incentive financing to address housing shortages.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing the Kansas closed case task force; creating the Kansas criminal justice reform commission; concerning criminal history record checks for entities providing care to children, the elderly or individuals with disabilities; creating a Kansas victim information and notification everyday (VINE) coordinator, a Kansas youth suicide prevention coordinator, and a crime victims compensation division within the office of the attorney general; legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records under the Kansas open records act; and changing tort claims fund obligations for claims involving alleged violations of the Kansas open meetings act and open records act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating an affirmative defense to the crime of possession of a controlled substance for possession of certain medical treatments; amending podiatrist qualifications.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

House Substitute for SB 25 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2019, FY 2020, FY 2021 and FY 2022 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Honoring the 150th anniversary of Abilene, Kansas.

Sponsor: Randall Hardy

Ratifying and providing for continuation of the May 9, 2019, state of disaster emergency declaration for certain Kansas counties.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Providing a process for the attorney general to enter into diversion agreements; authorizing certain entities to access a criminal defendant's presentence investigation report; amending the crime of counterfeiting currency; clarifying the definition of comparable offense under the Kansas criminal code, the timing of claiming error on appeal, and the grounds for a motion to correct an illegal sentence; allowing use of certified drug abuse treatment programs for certain offenders convicted of unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances; amending available sanctions for violation of condition of postrelease supervision; increasing criminal penalties for abuse of a child and involuntary manslaughter when the victim is under 6 years of age and making a presumption of unfitness against any parent convicted of either crime; exempting certain victims from being considered an aggressor or participant as a mitigating factor when considering a departure sentence; requiring law enforcement officers to provide information about timing of release from custody when an arrest is made following a domestic violence call.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing lighting devices in transportation network company vehicles; regulating the operation of electric-assisted scooters; allowing for the installation of certain light screening material on windshields; allowing all-terrain and work-site utility vehicles to operate on a federal or state highway; requiring vehicles to stop for on-track train equipment.

Sponsor: Transportation

Recognizing Rick Riggs' service to the State of Kansas.

Sponsor: Julia Lynn

Recognizing Rick Riggs' service to the State of Kansas.

Sponsor: Tom Burroughs

honoring the 125th anniversary of Goodwill of Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Senate Substitute for HB 2225 by Committee on Transportation - Providing for an increase in permit fees for oversize or overweight vehicles and required registration for escort vehicle service operators.

Sponsor: Transportation

Eliminating the expiration of the postsecondary technical education authority and requiring a report to the legislature.

Sponsor: Education

Kansas state fair board is authorized to create a nonprofit corporation for the benefit of the state fair.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Substitute for Senate Bill 130 by the Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government—Permitting persons voting an advance ballot to correct a signature deficiency, permitting any county to allow voting at any polling place on election day, establishing June 1 as the filing deadline for municipalities where a primary is not required, providing flexibility for when township officers take the oath of office, providing flexibility for school districts for the election of officers and establishing the schedule for meetings and allowing the question of changing the method of election or voting plan to be held at any primary or general election as well as at a special election.

Sponsor: Ethics, Elections and Local Government

Providing for confidential communications of Kansas national guard members in peer support counseling sessions.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Regulating assignment of rights or benefits to a residential contractor under a property and casualty insurance policy insuring residential real estate; enacting housing protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking or stalking.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Adjournment of 2019 Legislature until May 1, 2019.

Sponsor: Susan Wagle

Kansas itemized deductions, election, providing for deferred foreign income, global intangible low-taxed income, business interest, capital contributions and FDIC premiums income tax modifications; sales and compensating use tax, imposition of tax, nexus, remote sellers, marketplace facilitators, rate of tax on food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Extending the repayment period for municipal loans for public water supply projects and clarifying the reinstatement requirements for rural water district forfeited benefit units.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Requiring licensees operating a motor vehicle to promptly deliver driver's license upon demand by authorized persons.

Sponsor: Transportation

Senate Substitute for HB 2167 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing a commercial industrial hemp program.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Updating state credit union statutes.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Pensions

Amending the Kansas 911 act.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Designating a portion of United States highway 75 as the John Armstrong memorial highway and a bridge on United States highway 77 as the SGT Kevin A. Gilbertson memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Transportation

Adopting the Driver's Privacy Protection Act.

Sponsor: Transportation

Limiting the fees and agreements cities can require a wireless services provider to enter for the provision of wireless telecommunications service.

Sponsor: Utilities

Amending Kansas real estate commission licensing provisions for brokers and sales persons.

Sponsor: Commerce

Retirement and pensions; amending definition of "service-connected" in KP&F system; empowering KPERS board to develop procurement, contracting and travel policies and procedures; providing two-year waiting period for KPERS membership for certain positions in community developmental disability organizations; exempting positions employed by Kansas STARBASE program from working after retirement requirements; allowing waiver of working after retirement penalties and authorizing reimbursement of certain suspended retirement benefits; providing DROP membership to KBI agents and extending sunset date for DROP.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Benefits

Creating the AO-K to work program that allows certain adults to earn high school equivalency credentials by participating in career pathway oriented postsecondary classes.

Sponsor: Education

Division of vehicles registering fleet vehicles.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring community colleges to publish certain taxpayer and student transparency data.

Sponsor: Kristey Williams

Providing uniformity in the issuance of citations for violations of the Kansas cereal malt beverage act by ABC; imposition of liquor enforcement tax.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amendments related to driving under the influence, including preliminary screening tests, implied consent advisories and test refusal.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing judges to waive or reduce driver's license reinstatement fees.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Updating statutory references necessitated by 2012 executive reorganization order no. 41 related to administration of tuberculosis programs.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Recognizing national service recognition day at the capitol.

Sponsor: Jim Kelly

Recognizing the Merriam Park elementary and the Shawnee Mission school district's health partnership school-based clinic.

Sponsor: Pat Pettey

Requesting the federal government address water issues in the Arkansas River basis.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Eliminating the marking requirements for certain truck and truck tractors.

Sponsor: Transportation

Honoring the 70th anniversary of the Kansas commission on disability concerns.

Sponsor: Richard Billinger

Adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2019 regular session of the Legislature.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Clarifying that a violation of the statute requiring seat belt use is a traffic infraction.

Sponsor: Transportation

Extending the sunset date of the state use law for five years.