2021-2022 Regular Session

Providing restrictions, lender reporting and other requirements for alternative small installment loans made under the UCCC.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing court services officers and community corrections officers to provide a certification of identification to offenders for use to obtain a new driver's license.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the Senate and House of Representatives during the 2022 legislative session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Providing for changes in seat assignments in the House of Representatives during the 2022 legislative session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2022 regular session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance at state educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Proposing a constitutional amendment to revise article 10 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to create a redistricting commission.

Sponsor: Tom Sawyer

Limiting the maximum number of signatures required for certain municipal petitions for proposed ordinances and extending the effective period of such ordinances and providing for narrow construction of certain administrative ordinances.

Sponsor: Local Government

Establishing maximum towing rates and standard procedures for wrecker and towing services.

Sponsor: Transportation

Repealing the provision of Kansas residency for purposes of tuition and fees at a postsecondary educational institution for individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

Sponsor: Virgil Peck

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

Sponsor: Education

Creating the Kansas equal access act to authorize the use of medical marijuana.

Sponsor: Commerce

Providing an employment preference for persons with a disability for state government positions.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Concerning the study and investigation of maternal deaths in the state of Kansas and requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish an external review committee to review black maternal death cases.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring appraisal courses for county appraisers and members of the state board of tax appeals to be courses approved by the Kansas real estate appraisal board.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Requiring the state corporation commission to provide the legislature with an annual report of the electric rates of electric public utilities in the region.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing a Kansas itemized deduction for wagering losses for income tax purposes.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Providing for the transferability of high performance incentive fund tax credits.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Allowing early discharge from prison for certain drug offenders.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing for the dissolution of special districts and the assumption of responsibilities by a city or county.

Sponsor: Local Government

Authorizing mail ballot elections for propositions to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Local Government

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

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Senate Substitute for HB 2153 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate within the office of the attorney general and the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to provide tax credits for the employment of persons with developmental disabilities.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the county to abate or credit property tax when commercial property is negatively affected by temporary government restrictions on use during a state of disaster emergency.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

House Substitute for SB 98 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Development - Enacting the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution act, providing requirements, fiduciary powers, duties, functions and limitations for such financial institutions and the administration thereof by the state bank commissioner and creating an income and privilege tax credit for certain qualified distributions from technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Requiring changes to electric rates for transmission costs to be approved through an electric utility's general rate case proceedings.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install and operate school bus cameras.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for the licensure of dental therapists.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Constitutional amendment reserving the powers of initiative and referendum to the people.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Clarifying successive motions, new evidence and time limitations for habeas corpus claims.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Substitute for SB 100 by Committee on Transportation – Excluding the additional 90-day wait period driver’s license suspension for certain offenses.

Sponsor: Transportation

A constitutional amendment allowing for a voter petition process to call the legislature into special session during a state of disaster emergency.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun in the state capitol.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act and historical horse race machines under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring review by the joint committee on information technology of state agency contracts for certain information technology projects.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creating a definition of financial exploitation, requiring additional mandatory reporters, increasing investigation days for reports of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of certain adults and directing the department for children and families to inform certain chief administrative officers of substantiated findings of such reports.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

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

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Providing for the proud educator license distinctive license plate and decreasing the plate commitment prior to production.

Sponsor: Transportation

Decreasing the plate commitment and cost requirement for new distinctive license plate production.

Sponsor: Transportation

Making exemption permanent for certain cash rebates on sales or leases of new motor vehicles and excluding discounts and coupons from the sales or selling price for sales tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting the use of identifiable meat terms on labels of meat analogs without either an accompanying disclaimer that the product does not contain meat or the inclusion of the word "imitation" before the name of the meat food product being imitated.

Sponsor: Agriculture

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

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Adding other programming for approved research and education programs of the Johnson county education research triangle.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing state board of education redistricting plan little jerusalem badlands.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Proposing state senatorial district plan free state four.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment imposing consecutive term limits for state legislators.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing establishment of city or county child death review boards and permitting disclosure of records and information related to child deaths.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Enacting the no patient left alone act to require certain healthcare facilities to allow in-person visitation of patients or residents.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating a presumption that joint legal custody and maximized parenting time in temporary parenting plans are in the best interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for friends of the mentally ill foundation, inc.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring lobbyists to disclose any pending or current litigation against a client that would affect proposed legislation when discussing such legislation with a legislator or when testifying before a committee.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Urging the President of the United States to stop importing oil and gas from Russia.

Sponsor: Richard Billinger

Enacting the modernization of recovery through website outreach act to authorize the state treasurer to publish information regarding real property that counties have foreclosed for nonpayment of taxes.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver's licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the covert firearms act and establishing criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, distribution, transportation, shipping or receiving of certain firearms or components.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Honoring Ukrainians fighting against the Russian invasion.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Enacting the Gage park improvement authority act providing for the creation of a Gage park improvement authority and a Gage park improvement authority sales tax within Shawnee county to be administered by the authority for the purpose of supporting Gage park, the Topeka zoo and the Kansas children's discovery center.

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating a presumption that joint legal custody in temporary parenting plans are in the bests interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Increasing the period of time that a person is disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for certain violations and prohibiting prosecuting attorneys from concealing certain traffic violations from the CDLIS driver report for holders of commercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing requirements for judicial tax lien foreclosure sales and expanding costs that may be included as redemption fees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the constitution of the state of Kansas to require that certain individuals be mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Delaying the effective date of the secretary of state's new biennial business entity filing provisions enacted in 2021 House Bill No. 2391 from January 1, 2023, to January 1, 2024.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Proposing the state senatorial redistricting plan Eisenhower.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Limiting the liability of optometrists and ophthalmologists who report information to the division of vehicles relating to a person's vision.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the state fair board to use moneys in the state fair capital improvements fund for general operations for fiscal years 2021 and 2022.

Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn

Authorizing the animal health commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations related to transporting animals into the state.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing duties and responsibilities therefor.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring law enforcement agencies to determine whether applicants have been employed in law enforcement and examine certain records.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Allowing restricted driver's license holders to drive to and from worship services held by any religious organizations at age 15.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical marijuana.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Excepting matters relating to the administration or processing of individual water rights and applications from the advice and assistance that groundwater management districts may provide.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making changes to the process for evaluating and treating people who are undergoing evaluation for competency to stand trial and allowing such evaluation and treatment at various facilities.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring all forfeited or seized firearms in the possession of a law enforcement agency to be disposed of in accordance with the Kansas code of criminal procedure.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Expanding the number of presumptive and border grid blocks in the sentencing grid for drug crimes.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing for the order of the eastern star distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Changing to an eight-year simple average when determining values of agricultural land for purposes of property taxation.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Enacting the Kansas thrift savings plan act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such act.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience and allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Exempting broadcast satellite service and providers of streaming content from the video competition act and providing requirements relating to audits of video service provider franchise fees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting naturopathic doctors and acupuncturists to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring at least 65% of moneys provided by the state to be expended in the classroom or for instruction.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing standards for laboratory licenses that test medical marijuana and requiring the director of alcoholic beverage control to adopt rules and regulations regarding testing laboratories.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing a procedure for a petition for restoration of a person's firearms rights by a person whose prior conviction prohibited the possession of firearms and that has been expunged.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from criminal sodomy.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

Standardizing firearm safety education programs in school districts.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the Kansas historic site fund checkoff.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Expanding the scope of the campaign finance act to include candidates for board membership for school districts and community colleges in certain counties.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the aspiring future teacher of the year scholarship and grant program; such scholarships and grants based on the recipients of the Kansas teacher of the year award backgrounds and attributes; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the department of education for such scholarships and grants.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

Providing three years of income tax incentives to new businesses, requiring the secretary of administration to submit a report to the legislature concerning contracts awarded to new businesses and establishing the office of entrepreneurship within the department of commerce.

Sponsor: Taxation

Allowing candidates for nonpartisan offices to have such candidate's political party provided with the candidate's name on the ballot.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Concerning the authorization of educational benefits for spouses and dependents of deceased, injured or disabled public safety officers and employees and certain deceased, injured or disabled military personnel and prisoners of war; definitions; increasing the limitation on reimbursements to Kansas educational institutions.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring nondiscrimination in school district classroom instruction, public access to learning materials and removal of inherently divisive concepts from state board of education policies, guidelines and other materials.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases by a not-for-profit corporation operating a community theater.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring a prevailing wage for state public works construction contracts by state agencies and permitting cities and counties to require a prevailing for such contracts.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Excluding the required 20 mills for school districts from the notice and public hearing requirements to exceed the revenue neutral rate for property tax purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

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

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Enacting the protect home-based work act prohibiting the enactment or enforcement of zoning regulations that are barriers to home-based work.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for separate licensure authority for maternity centers.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Prohibiting any restriction on access to any service or facility related to the selling or renting of property based on certain lawful expressions of personal beliefs in nonprofessional settings.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Establishing the Kansas hope scholarship program to provide educational savings accounts for students.

Sponsor: Education

Permitting certain persons convicted of a felony to be eligible for food assistance.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Requiring state legislators to spend a week volunteering at a public school or consult with a teaching team prior to requesting a bill that impacts curriculum or school finance and prohibiting state legislators who have children in a nonpublic school from requesting a bill that diverts state funding from school districts to nonpublic schools.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing that the telecommunications machinery and equipment property tax exemption includes inventory and work-in-progress machinery and equipment.

Sponsor: Taxation

Validating the election held on November 2, 2021, to approve a retailers' sales tax levy by the city of Latham.

Sponsor: Taxation

Designating bridges on United States highway 54 in Seward County as the Jack Taylor memorial bridge and Max Zimmerman memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Shannon Francis

Establishing the Kansas employee emergency savings account (KEESA) program to allow eligible employers to establish employee savings accounts, providing an income and privilege tax credit for certain eligible employer deposits to such employee savings accounts and providing a subtraction modification for certain employee deposits to such savings accounts.

Sponsor: Mari-Lynn Poskin

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

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Imposing sales tax on vehicles purchased for rental or lease.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for partisan, statewide election of justices of the supreme court and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by certain nonprofit organizations that provide substance use disorder treatment or support to foster children and licensed foster families.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing an income tax credit for school supply expenditures by teachers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Eliminating the division of vehicles modernization surcharge.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting an ambulance to operate with one emergency medical service provider in rural counties.

Sponsor: Alicia Straub

Eliminating the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Expanding the election crime of corrupt political advertising to be consistent with the campaign finance act and clarifying the scope of its application.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing electric generation requirements for certain renewable energy resources that provide baseload generation supply to public utilities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Restricting the amount of fees on a utility bill for a board of public utilities.

Sponsor: Utilities

Establishing construction, notification and health and safety requirements for commercial-scale and limited-scale solar energy conversion systems.

Sponsor: Utilities

Establishing the Kansas rail safety improvement act providing for safety requirements for railroad operations and crossings.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Specifying that final hemp products may contain a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% and allowing certain prohibited hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring a second student count for virtual school enrollment, increasing certain virtual school state aid amounts and providing for additional state aid for certain students who transfer to virtual schools.

Sponsor: Education

Exempting any skilled nursing care facility for which the secretary for aging and disability services is appointed as receiver from the quality care assessment.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Establishing the parents' bill of rights for parents of students attending elementary or secondary school in this state.

Sponsor: Education

Requiring certain appointments to the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and training to be made with preferences to increase diversity on the commission and be made by the Kansas state conference of NAACP branches and increasing the number of people on the commission.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Allowing the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act for residential development of certain buildings within economically distressed urban areas.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Authorizing the attorney general to coordinate training regarding a multidisciplinary team approach to intervention in reports involving alleged human trafficking for law enforcement agencies and requiring training on human trafficking awareness and identification for certain child welfare agencies, juvenile justice agencies, mental health professionals and school personnel.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing that the employment status of a driver of a motor carrier does not change as a result of the inclusion of safety improvements on a vehicle.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the legislative award for excellence in teaching program to provide merit-based bonuses to teachers in certain school districts, establishing the every child can read act to focus on third-grade literacy proficiency and requiring the state department of education to provide summary academic achievement reports.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Expanding the scope of uses of campaign contribution moneys under the campaign finance act to include family caregiving services.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting banks, trust companies, credit unions and other business entities from discriminating based on certain subjective or arbitrary factors.

Sponsor: Michael Murphy

Requiring the Kansas department for children and families to review certain needs and attachments of a child before giving consent for an adoption and the court to determine such review occurred.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Providing immunity from civil liability for the person who files a citizen-initiated grand jury petition and requiring such person to be the first witness called by such grand jury.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Eliminating the division of vehicles modernization surcharge.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Enacting the fairness in women's sports act to require that student athletic teams only include members who are of the same biological sex unless designated as coed.

Sponsor: Education

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

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Requiring the state capitol and legislative meetings to be open to the public.

Sponsor: Tatum Lee-Hahn

Requiring that licensed farm wineries be issued a cereal malt beverage retailer license if the statutory requirements for such retailer license are satisfied.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and providing requirements therefor.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Proposing to amend section 1 of the Kansas bill of rights to guarantee equal rights for all individuals, including unborn children.

Sponsor: Randy Garber

Requiring a forensic medical evaluation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment and defining child abuse review and evaluation providers, networks and examinations and child abuse medical resource centers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Making appropriations to the department of administration in fiscal year 2022 for the purpose of legally defeasing or cash redeeming certain bonds at their first optional redemption date.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing a self-funded cost-of-living adjustment retirement benefit option for certain members of KPERS.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting certain restrictions on freedom of worship by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities and limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.

Sponsor: Tatum Lee-Hahn

Adopting the national association of insurance commissioner's amendments to the unfair trade practices act excluding commercial property and casualty insurance producers, brokers and insurers from prohibitions on giving rebates as an inducement to sales.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Providing for the city of Hutchinson distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Jason Probst

Designating a bridge on K-126 as the Dennis and Jane Crain overpass.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Reducing the rate of sales and compensating use taxes on sales of food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing congressional redistricting map mushroom rock.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Prohibiting certain acts by business entities, governmental entities or public officials based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport, amending the Kansas act against discrimination to define unlawful employment practices related to vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.

Sponsor: Tatum Lee-Hahn

Authorizing counties to create a code inspection and enforcement fund and expanding the scope of the equipment reserve fund to include other computer and electronic technologies.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Creating a new process for criminal forfeiture of property with a value of less than $100,000 that is used in the commission of certain crimes or is proceeds derived from certain crimes.

Sponsor: Dan Osman

Authorizing the state board of regents to exchange and convey certain real property in Douglas county, Kansas, on behalf of the university of Kansas and to accept certain real property in Douglas county, Kansas, from the Kansas university endowment association.

Sponsor: Higher Education Budget

Continuing the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas by extending the expanded use of telemedicine, the authority of the board of healing arts to grant certain temporary emergency licenses, the suspension of certain requirements related to medical care facilities and immunity from civil liability for certain healthcare providers, certain persons conducting business in this state and covered facilities for COVID-19 claims until January 20, 2023.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies related to motorcycle profiling and requiring law enforcement officers to participate in training related to motorcycle profiling.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing for an exemption from continuing education licensure requirements for certain insurance producers.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Substitute for SB 444 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023, FY 2024, FY 2025, FY 2026 and FY 2027 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Pittsburg, Crawford county, Kansas, on behalf of Pittsburg state university.

Sponsor: Higher Education Budget

Enacting the biological laboratory accident transparency act.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Allowing an individual to have a gender designation of "X" on driver's licenses and allowing an individual to change the gender designation on a driver's license, instruction permit or nondriver's identification card.

Sponsor: Stephanie Byers

Enacting the responsible gun ownership act and creating the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Establishing fees for the transportation of certain radioactive materials in the state and establishing the radioactive materials transportation operating fund.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting the state board of regents from fixing a higher rate of tuition, fees and charges for nonresident students.

Sponsor: Steven Howe

Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in Riley county and Cherokee county, Kansas, and Douglas county, Nebraska, on behalf of Kansas state university.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Requiring electronic filing of campaign reports by candidates for state office unless an exemption is granted for cause.

Sponsor: Elections

Urging the adoption of the conclusions and recommendations of the 2021 Special Committee on Taxation regarding the fiscal future of Kansas.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Increasing the time of an initial restraining order and possible extensions issued in a protection from abuse order or a protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking order.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing for immediate family members to receive vital statistics records of deceased family members, regardless of adoptive status.

Sponsor: Transportation and Public Safety Budget

Allowing restricted driver's license holders to drive to and from worship services for any religious organizations at age 15.

Sponsor: Charlotte Esau

Requiring electronic filing of campaign reports by candidates for state office unless an exemption is granted for cause.

Sponsor: Local Government

Lowering petition requirements for recognition of political parties.

Sponsor: Elections

Increasing the amount of retirant compensation subject to the statutory employer contribution rate and for a period ending June 30, 2023, reducing the employer contribution rate to the statutory rate for all compensation when employing retirants who are retired for one year or more when hired by a participating employer.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Including those who receive a high school equivalency (HSE) credentials for performance-based payments for certain postsecondary educational institutions.

Sponsor: Education

Enacting the rural remote worker incentive act and providing definitions, requirements, procedures and administrative duties of the secretary of commerce regarding such incentives therefor.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Requiring the total compensation of elected county and city officers be posted on such county's or city's website.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Authorizing the board of education of a school district to contract with transportation network companies to provide certain transportation services.

Sponsor: Transportation

Enacting the Kansas thrift savings plan act.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Providing a post-retirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Creating the crime of elector fraud to make it a crime to falsify presidential elector certificates.

Sponsor: Susan Ruiz

Reducing the KPERS working after retirement employer contribution rate to only the statutory rate and decreasing the waiting period to 60 days for certain retirants employed by a school district for a period ending June 30, 2024.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing an annual KPERS cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) on the occurrence of certain investment returns and increases to the consumer price index as certified by the KPERS board or executive director as designated by the board.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Defining "primary aggressor" for domestic violence purposes in the Kansas criminal code, the Kansas code of criminal procedure and the protection from abuse act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and excluding FDA-approved drug products from the definition of marijuana.

Sponsor: Mike Dodson

Prohibiting the state school for the deaf from dismissing or transferring any student who gains access to hearing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Regarding the teacher service scholarship program; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state board of regents to fund such scholarships.

Sponsor: Education

Allowing advanced practice registered nurses to sign do not resuscitate orders.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Creating the gun violence restraining order act authorizing the issuance of court orders prohibiting the purchase or possession of firearms by a person.

Sponsor: Barbara Ballard

Eliminating the reduction of child day care services assistance tax credit in subsequent years following facility establishment and limitations on eligible corporations and providing a credit for employer payments to organizations for child day care services access.

Sponsor: Dinah Sykes

Making null and void the approval by the state finance council for the renovation of building No. 3, Docking state office building, and the authority to issue bonds for such renovation.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of driving under the influence.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Repealing the authority of the state finance council to approve an expenditure request of moneys from the federal government for aid for coronavirus relief while the legislature is in session during fiscal year 2022.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Prohibiting certain restrictions on the operation of private businesses by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities and limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Requiring the use of the United States postal service when returning an advance ballot by mail.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Creating the crime of abuse of a sports official and providing criminal penalties therefor.

Sponsor: Mark Samsel

Requiring courts to order domestic violence offender assessments for first-time offenders convicted of domestic battery and requiring courts and prosecutors to provide relevant documents to the certified batterer intervention programs completing such assessments when assessments are ordered or required under the Kansas criminal code or the Kansas family law code.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.

Sponsor: Barbara Ballard

Extending the time frame for governmental ethics commission hearings once probable cause is found and allowing federal officials to assist commission investigations.

Sponsor: Local Government

Computing income tax rates through the use of formulas.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to conduct a lethality assessment.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Concerning the Kansas seed law and the commercial industrial hemp act; relating to labeling; seeds treated with certain substances; definitions; labeling; unlawful actions; certain registrations; inspections; live plant dealers; and testing services.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for contributions to the board of pharmacy as a donation, gift or bequest supporting the prescription monitoring program.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 for various state agencies.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring independent investigations and reports for incidents of law enforcement officer-involved deaths and use of aggressive force.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing legislators who are law enforcement officers to count legislative service toward continuing law enforcement education or training.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Limiting fees for copying and staff time under the Kansas open records act and providing for waiver or reduction of such fees.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Making technical amendments to the campaign finance act, extending the time frame for investigative hearings before the governmental ethics commission, and allowing federal officials to assist commission investigations.

Sponsor: Local Government

Enacting the Kansas work and save program act, allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts and providing administrative duties and powers of the state treasurer regarding such program.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages caused by such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the back the blue act to authorize the issuance of protective orders to prohibit the acquisition and possession of firearms in order to reduce law enforcement officer deaths.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring school districts to annually publish on the internet a list of learning materials and activities used for student instruction at each school of the school district and providing a penalty for violations thereof.

Sponsor: Caryn Tyson

Requiring the secretary of state and county election officers to develop a ballot system showing the number of years an incumbent has served in the office.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating a microwinery license to manufacture and sell wine, and requiring a farm winery licensee to engage in farm-related activities.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of education to pay the actuarial cost of certain delayed KPERS employer contributions, authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during fiscal year 2022 and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Providing an income tax credit for certain qualified property taxes levied on homesteads.

Sponsor: Richard Hilderbrand

Constitutional amendment legalizing the recreational use of marijuana on July 1, 2023.

Sponsor: Jason Probst

Prohibiting certain restrictions on freedom of worship by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities and limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas economic recovery loan deposit program, updating field of membership requirements of credit unions and allowing privilege tax deductions on agricultural real estate loans and single family residence loans.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Expanding eligibility for Kansas senior care act services to include Kansas residents younger than 60 years of age with younger-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Proposing congressional redistricting plan prairie dog.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Modifying the rules of evidence to require courts to allow certain persons with specialized training to testify on the issue of impairment.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Expanding deferred retirement option program (DROP) membership to all KP&F members.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Authorizing a vote in Sedgwick county to allow the operation of electronic gaming machines at a racetrack gaming facility and authorizing the operation of historical horse race machines by parimutuel licensees.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Defining non-covered dental benefits under health insurance plans.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Increasing reimbursement rates for providers of home and community-based services under the intellectual or developmental disability waiver, making appropriations for such rates and providing for legislative review of the waiting list for such services.

Authorizing school districts to provide part-time enrollment options for certain students.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, making fraudulent use of electronic poll books a crime, prohibiting electronic voting systems or electronic poll books from having the capability of connecting to the internet, requiring election judges to check for any such connection and providing a deadline for post-election voting equipment testing and for notice of such testing on county websites.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Protecting private property from unauthorized access by certain government officials and unauthorized surveillance.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act, establishing certain standards of care, requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services and establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Discontinuing the property tax exemption for new developments of renewable energy resources.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Dennis Wilson Memorial Highway.

Sponsor: Transportation

Proposing congressional redistricting map blue stem.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Proposing congressional redistricting map blue stem.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Establishing the EV energy equity road repair tax act and providing for a road repair tax on electricity distributed from a public charging station for electric vehicles.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Enacting the individual liberty preservation act to nullify certain federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements, prohibit enforcement of such requirements and provide criminal penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Transportation

Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act.

Sponsor: Transparency and Ethics

Requiring school districts to provide copies of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys or examinations to parents prior to obtaining consent to administer such test, questionnaire, survey or examination and prohibiting collection of personally identifiable student data.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Including source of income as a protected class with respect to housing under the Kansas act against discrimination.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Removing the option of extension of the time for receipt of advance mail ballots after the third day following an election.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Converting the conditional charter issued for the pilot program under the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act to a full fiduciary financial institution charter.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Establishing the Kansas property value protection act to provide for compensation to nonparticipating landowners near wind and solar farms for diminution of real property value under certain conditions.

Sponsor: Utilities

Allowing certain persons to use the right-of-way of any county road or township road to install, maintain and operate one or more pipelines for agricultural activities.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Enacting the national popular vote interstate compact for electing the president of the United States.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Discontinuing the sales tax exemption for vehicles purchased for rental or lease.

Sponsor: Taxation

Excluding persons credentialed in the field of nutrition who are providing related advice from the application of the dieticians licensing act.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Expanding Kansas housing programs to facilitate economic development by broadening the Kansas rural housing incentive district act to allow use of bond proceeds for construction of residential dwellings and buildings and to include the city of Topeka, increasing availability of loans or grants to rural communities for moderate income housing, establishing a program for urban communities for moderate income housing and permitting housing developments to include manufactured or modular housing.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Applying licensure provisions for real estate brokers and salespersons to trusts and authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Concerning the state board of veterinary examiners and the regulation of licensed veterinarians and registered veterinarian technicians; penalties; fees; investigative and disciplinary proceedings.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Providing for a refund of sales and compensating use taxes paid on sales of property used in video, internet access and telecommunications services.

Sponsor: Taxation

Senate Substitute for HB 2492 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Making unlawful the capture or possession of ornate box turtles.

Sponsor: Jim Gartner

Allowing veteran license plate applicants to use either a DD214 form, a military veteran identification card or veteran health identification card for proof of veteran status.

Sponsor: David French

Establishing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act providing income, privilege and premium tax credits for qualified low-income housing projects.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Including certain uses of recreational off-highway vehicles as farm machinery and equipment for purposes of exemption from property taxation.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Senate Substitute for HB 2495 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring retention of fingerprints by the Kansas bureau of investigation for participation in the federal rap back program; imposing restrictions on surveillance by certain employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks on private property; expanding the jurisdiction and powers of law enforcement officers to include situations when an activity is observed leading the officer to reasonably suspect a person is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and reasonably believe that a person is in imminent danger of death or bodily injury without immediate action; allowing a search warrant to be executed within 240 hours from the time of issuance; and directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Amending the public water supply project loan program's definition of "project" to remove the definition's current exclusion of projects that are related to the diversion or transportation of water acquired through a water transfer.

Sponsor: Water

Establishing procedures that may be used to void or terminate leases or easements for electricity generation using wind or solar energy resources.

Sponsor: Utilities

Proposing congressional redistricting map sunflower.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Proposing congressional redistricting map buffalo two.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Enacting the attracting powerful economic expansion act to provide for tax and other incentives for projects in specified industries, or for national corporate headquarters, that involve a significant capital investment, including a refundable tax credit for a portion of the investment, reimbursement of certain payroll costs and training costs, retention of certain payroll withholding taxes, a sales tax exemption for project construction and a property tax incentive for projects located and active in a foreign trade zone program.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating in school or construction zone or by individuals less than 18 years of age.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring registration as a sex offender for violations of the crime of internet trading in child pornography or aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the defend the guard act to establish when the Kansas national guard may be released into active duty combat and to prohibit COVID-19 vaccination requirements for national guard members.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending school.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the secretary of transportation to study the use of zipper merges on highways.

Sponsor: Transportation

Requiring judicial foreclosure tax sales by public auction to be held in person at a physical location in the county.

Sponsor: David Haley

Transferring the responsibility to certify drug abuse treatment providers that participate in the certified drug abuse treatment program from the department of corrections to the Kansas sentencing commission.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Authorizing retail liquor stores to sell and deliver alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages to a caterer, public venue, club or drinking establishment located in any county.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Designating a portion of United States highway 73 as the Col Chuck Rambo memorial highway.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Limiting who may deliver advance ballots, placing limitations on the number of such ballots that a person may deliver and establishing criminal penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Elections

Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and allowing certain service credit purchases of previous KPERS security officer service for purposes of KP&F retirement benefits.

Sponsor: Pat Proctor

Mandating coverage of certain diagnostic services for breast cancer and making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

Sponsor: Aaron Coleman

Proposing to amend Section 11 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas regarding the filing of vacancies in the office of Attorney General and the Secretary of State.

Sponsor: Elections

Prohibiting stay-at-home orders and curfews and certain public and private entities from requiring vaccinations, requiring the capitol and legislative meetings be open to the public and protecting the freedom of worship and operation of private businesses.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Limiting increases on electric retail rates and providing certain exceptions.

Sponsor: Utilities

Providing for a sales tax exemption for sales made by student organizations that contract with schools.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring that a sheriff be elected in each county; exception.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Reducing the criminal penalties for possessing, cultivating and distributing psilocyn or psilocybin.

Sponsor: Aaron Coleman

Establishing the Kansas reapportionment commission to propose reapportionment plans for congressional, senate, representative and board of education districts and imposing requirements for enactment of such plans.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Substitute for Substitute for HB 2512 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024, establishing requirements relating to academic achievement and third-grade literacy, authorizing credits to be earned through alternative educational opportunities, requiring KSHSAA members and employees to report child abuse and neglect, requiring boards of education of school districts to consider district needs assessments and academic assessments when approving district budgets, authorizing part-time enrollment for certain students, establishing an alternative graduation rate calculation for virtual schools, providing virtual school state aid for credit deficient students and amending the age of initial eligibility for the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients and providing for the levying of taxes by cities and counties, providing for an exemption from sales and use taxes for sales of farm products sold at farmers' markets, and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Sponsor: Tom Sawyer

Creating a traffic infraction for operating a vehicle while fatigued.

Sponsor: John Carmichael

House Substitute for SB 318 by Committee on Taxation – Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases to reconstruct, repair or replace certain fencing damaged or destroyed by natural disasters.

Sponsor: Taxation

Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Ending legislator participation in KPERS and establishing an annual salary structure for legislators.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Senate Substitute for HB 2056 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Changing the time period when advance voting ballots can be returned and regulating the use of remote ballot boxes for the return of such ballots.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Excluding separately stated delivery charges from the sales or selling price for sales tax purposes.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing a sales tax exemption for purchases to reconstruct, repair or replace certain fencing damaged or destroyed by wildfires.

Sponsor: Troy Waymaster

Providing for a property tax exemption for health clubs.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the technology-enabled trust bank act, providing requirements, fiduciary powers, duties, functions and limitations for trust banks and the administration thereof by the bank commissioner and creating an income and privilege tax credit for certain qualified distributions from trust banks.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Changing unemployment insurance disqualification provisions for fraud, part-time employment for educational institutions and receipt of pensions.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse and addiction.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Amending provisions of the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act relating to procedures when undercapitalized or insolvent, fees and assessments, applications, examinations, insurance and capital requirements and disclosures to consumers and requiring such institutions to be mandatory reporters for purposes of elder abuse.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code and authorizing exceptions if the court holds a hearing and makes certain findings on the record.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Authorizing municipalities to adopt local zoning regulations that establish a minimum distance between group homes in single family residential zones.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Providing an employment preference for persons with a disability for state government positions.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Creating the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district.

Sponsor: Mike Amyx

Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating two classes of concealed carry licenses.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing requirements relating to zoning and recordation of wind and solar energy resource easements and leases.

Sponsor: Utilities

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

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

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

Modifying how certain prior convictions are counted for the special sentencing rule related to possession of a controlled substance and providing concurrent or consecutive sentencing for persons convicted of new crimes while on release for a felony.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Authorizing the Kansas lottery to offer sports wagering with an existing contract provider or to issue a request for proposal for such purpose.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating the crime of unauthorized disclosure of a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Taxation

Creating the crime of sexual extortion and requiring an offender to register under the Kansas offender registration act.

Sponsor: Stephen Owens

Allowing physicians to have patients sign a liability waiver for off-label use of prescription drugs.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Removing the requirement that all district court judges in Douglas county serve on the board of trustees of the law library.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction under domestic battery.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Directing that tobacco product manufacturer remittances be credited to the Kansas endowment for youth fund rather than deposited into escrow upon certification by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Taxation

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

Adjusting the rate of sales and compensating use tax on food and food ingredients and implementing additional formulaic adjustments to tax rate.

Sponsor: Taxation

Increasing KPERS employee contribution rate for school district employees and making appropriations for FY 2022 for the department of education for a pay increase for KPERS covered school district employees.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Amending the scope of practice, discipline by the board, and license renewal procedures for naturopathic doctors.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of corrections; appropriating moneys that had been lapsed in fiscal year 2021 in the evidence-based programs account.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Proposing to amend section 13 of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas regarding vote requirements for passage of bills or concurrent resolutions.

Sponsor: Dennis Pyle

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

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Supporting the adoption of the COVID-19 Vaccine Bill of Rights

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing considerations in family law, adoption, foster care, guardianship and child in need of care proceedings for a parent or prospective parent who is blind.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for the department of corrections; appropriating moneys that had been lapsed in fiscal year 2021 in the evidence-based programs account.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight

Substitute for HB 2463 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Prohibiting changes to the medical assistance program, authorizing the legislative coordinating council to approve such changes and requiring the extension of the current medical assistance program.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Permitting taxpayers to attend BOTA hearings by use of audio or video electronic communication.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Requiring that advance voting ballots be returned to the county election office by the day of the election.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing income tax modifications for global intangible low-taxed income, business interest, capital contributions, business meals and payment protection program loans and expenses, expanding the expense deduction availability to income tax taxpayers and calculating the deduction amount, exempting from income compensation attributable to unemployment insurance identity fraud, requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales, use, transient guest taxes and 911 fees from sales made through their platforms, providing nexus for certain retailers and removing click-through nexus provisions, imposing sales tax on digital property and subscription services, increasing the Kansas standard deduction for income tax purposes and providing a refundable income tax credit for certain purchases of food and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Sponsor: Taxation

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to provide for the classification and taxation of all-terrain vehicles.

Sponsor: Taxation

Modifying the distribution of the levy on fire insurance business premiums to the state fire marshal fee fund, the emergency medical services operating fund and the fire service training program fund.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour over a period of 6 years.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Requiring each law enforcement agency that utilizes automated license plate recognition systems to adopt and maintain a detailed, written policy relating to the use and operation of such systems and prescribing restrictions and requirements relating to the collection, storage and sharing of captured license plate data.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Creating a state tax credit for family caregivers of disabled veterans.

Sponsor: Taxation

Protecting consumers and preventing online retail crime by requiring online marketplaces to verify and authenticate the identity of third parties who sell products on their platforms.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Permitting United States and NATO country military surplus vehicles to register with the division of vehicles for road use.

Sponsor: Transportation

Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2021 through 2032 for various state agencies and revising the pooled money investment portfolio repayment schedule.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Providing a KPERS death and long-term disability employer contribution moratorium.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas lottery act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Defining emergency responders to include public safety telecommunicators.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing for the alpha kappa alpha distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing income tax credits for aerospace and aviation program graduates and their employers and a credit for school and classroom supplies purchased by teachers, enacting the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act and the Kansas housing investor tax credit act, providing homestead property tax refunds to certain persons based on the increase in property tax over the base year property tax amount and increasing the extent of the property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Extending the time that victims of childhood sexual abuse have to bring a cause of action.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove legislative immunity from arrest in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting, or during the continuance of the legislative session and from civil service of process during the legislative session or 15 days prior to the commencement of the legislative session.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Prohibiting cities from collecting solid waste fees against vacant lots or other vacant property and prohibiting cities and counties that establish annual fees from billing these fees on the ad valorem tax statement.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Increasing rates of tax of cigarettes and tobacco products, establishing the cigarette and tobacco products cessation fund and providing for adjusted sales tax rate for food and food ingredients.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring sexual assault evidence collection procedures to include a urinalysis test to determine the presence of controlled substances that may have been used to commit the alleged sexual assault.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 24-year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Transferring duties concerning registration for charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Limiting who may return an advance voting ballot and the number of such ballots a person may return.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crime of breach of privacy.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring recipients of a distinctive license plate fee to file a report detailing money received and expenditures.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting the sale, slaughter and acquisition of live dangerous regulated animals, including nonhuman primates and wolves as dangerous regulated animals and requiring sufficient distance and barriers between dangerous regulated animals and the public.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the community defense act to regulate sexually oriented businesses and impose criminal penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Updating statutes relating to the powers, duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing continuation of the 20 mill statewide property tax levy for schools and the exemption of a portion of residential property from such levy.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to adopt a policy on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales and compensating use taxes, transient guest taxes and prepaid wireless 911 fees and providing nexus for certain retailers that make sales in Kansas.

Sponsor: Taxation

Expanding the pharmacist's scope of practice to include point-of-care testing for and treatment of certain health conditions.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Senate Substitute for HB 2380 by Committee on Ways and Means - Increasing certain registration and title fees on vehicles for services performed by county treasurers and the division of vehicles and decreasing certain fees related to administrative costs and disposition of such fees and eliminating the division of vehicles modernization surcharge.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas death with dignity act.

Sponsor: Jim Gartner

Enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse and addiction.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the massage therapist licensure act, to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Enacting the technology-enabled trust bank act, providing requirements, fiduciary powers, duties, functions and limitations for trust banks and the administration thereof by the bank commissioner and creating an income and privilege tax credit for certain qualified distributions from trust banks.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish a task force to study and report on uncompensated healthcare.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Prohibiting the issuance of a request for proposal or entering into a new contract for the administration and provision of benefits under the medical assistance program and removing the authority of the governor to prohibit attending or conducting certain religious services and worship services.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.

Sponsor: Judiciary

House Substitute for SB 49 by Committee on Taxation - Authorizing continuation of the 20 mill statewide property tax levy for schools and the exemption of a portion of residential property from such levy.

Sponsor: Taxation

Establishing an additional quarterly option for time of payment of property taxes for certain persons 65 years of age and older.

Sponsor: Taxation

Requiring the Kansas department for children and families to implement performance-based contracts.

Sponsor: Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Changing the start time for Sunday sales of alcoholic liquor from 12 noon to 10 a.m. and removing restrictions on sales on certain holidays.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the Kansas cybersecurity act to require security training for all state agencies and provide for certain information to be provided to the joint committee on information technology.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting criminal justice reform measures related to hiring, firearms certification and psychological testing of law enforcement officers

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring health benefit plans to cover certain professional services when performed by pharmacists.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Senate Substitute for HB 2416 by Committee on Judiciary – Requiring compensation for the use, restriction on use, damage, loss or destruction of property as a result of certain governmental actions, authorizing reimbursement of property taxes levied upon businesses shut down or restricted as a result of certain governmental actions related to contagious or infectious disease in humans and establishing the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act to provide partial refunds to certain businesses impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing that the testimony of an examining healthcare provider may be submitted in evidence by the provider's medical report in workers compensation cases.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 24-year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.

Sponsor: Appropriations

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

Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Creating the Kansas work and save program under the administration of the state treasurer and allowing certain individuals to contribute to individual retirement accounts.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Allowing retailer to retain the state rate of sales and compensating use tax from movie ticket sales and concession sales.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Creating additional reporting requirements for all state agencies for certain information technology projects.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the peer-to-peer vehicle sharing act to provide insurance, liability, recordkeeping and consumer protection requirements for peer-to-peer vehicle sharing.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

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

Providing for COVID-19 hazard pay for teachers.

Sponsor: Education

Granting civil immunity for exposing another to infectious disease due to a lack of immunization, prohibiting an employer from taking adverse employment action based on an employee's immunization status, prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring additional immunizations to attend a child care facility or school.

Sponsor: Mark Steffen

Expanding the number of presumptive probation and border grid blocks in the sentencing grid for nondrug crimes.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time restrictions for certain victims to receive compensation for mental health counseling and adding certain children to the definition of victim.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing lifetime combination fishing, hunting and furharvester licenses to any Kansas air or army national guard veteran who served for 20 years and was honorably discharged.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Consolidating certain mortgage lending provisions, removing duplicate provisions from the uniform consumer credit code and incorporating such provisions into the Kansas mortgage business act.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Establishing maximum length for trains to operate in Kansas and providing for penalties for violations.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Prohibiting a criminal conviction from acting as a sole disqualification for occupational licensure and creating guidelines to follow when considering criminal convictions of an applicant for occupational licensure.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Eliminating the reduction of child day care services assistance tax credit in subsequent years and limitations on eligible corporations and providing a credit for employer payments to organizations for child day care services access.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Authorizing a notice to appear for unlawful possession of marijuana and defining complaint in the Kansas code of criminal procedure to include such notice to appear.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child.

Sponsor: Judiciary

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the COVID-19 taxpayer and small business owner relief act including the UI fraud protection act exempting unemployment compensation income attributable to identity fraud, the retail storefront small business owner rebate act providing a refundable credit for certain retail storefront property tax and the small business property tax increase relief act establishing a payment plan for certain extraordinary increases in property taxation.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Constitutional amendment reserving the powers of initiative and referendum to the people.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

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

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Providing dental benefits for medicaid enrollees and making technical updates to the dental practices act.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

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

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Making it a crime for a physician to perform gender reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy on certain children.

Sponsor: Mike Thompson

Prohibiting the networking of electronic voting machines and providing for recounts of the results tabulated by such machines.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Establishing the advisory committee on harm reduction to advise KDHE on reducing incidents of harm to individuals in the state.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

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

Sponsor: Taxation

Authorizing schools to maintain emergency medication kits and to administer such medication in emergency situations.

Sponsor: Education

Allowing cites, counties or other local units of government to raise the minimum wage by ordinance, resolution or law.

Sponsor: Pam Curtis

Establishing the Kansas commission for the United States semiquincentennial.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Increasing sales tax collection thresholds relating to time frames for filing returns and paying sales tax by certain retailers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing a fee on firefighter distinctive license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing voter registration for individuals 16 years of age or older.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Creating a misdemeanor for causing an injury to a vulnerable road user.

Sponsor: Transportation

Authorizing solar power purchase agreements with renewable energy suppliers and exempting the sales of electricity pursuant to power purchase agreements from public utility regulation.

Sponsor: Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications

Enacting the Kansas home inspectors professional competence and financial responsibility act and providing for registration for home inspectors with oversight by the attorney general.

Sponsor: Commerce

Requiring the department of corrections to develop guidance to be used by parole officers when responding to violations of parole and postrelease supervision and that incentivize compliant behavior.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging for certain purchases of tangible personal property and services.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Extending the eligible time period for rural opportunity zones loan repayment program and income tax credit.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots with a distinctive watermark, requiring the secretary of state and local election officers to develop an affidavit to be signed by election workers regarding handling of completed ballots, requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years, requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period and exempting poll workers from certain election crimes.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending statutes concerning the recognition of marriage and removing the requirement that marriage be between two parties of the opposite sex.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Senate Substitute for HB 2316 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Expanding the eligible uses for the 0% state rate for sales tax for certain utilities and providing for the levying of such tax by cities, counties and Washburn university of Topeka, authorizing cities and counties to exempt sales of such utilities from such city or county taxes, providing a back-to-school sales tax holiday for sales of certain school supplies, computers and clothing and exempting certain purchases and sales by the Johnson county Christmas bureau association, excluding manufacturers' coupons from the sales or selling price, removing the expiration on manufacturer cash rebates on motor vehicles, discontinuing an Atchison countywide retailers' sales tax, allowing counties to decide whether to apportion revenue received for general purposes between the county and cities located therein, discontinuing the first 15 days of the month remittance requirements for certain retailers and increasing the sales tax collection thresholds relating to time frames for filing returns by certain retailers.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Amending Kansas open records act provisions regarding access to certain law enforcement audio and video recordings and enacting the police and citizen protection act regarding use of body cameras by law enforcement officers.

Sponsor: David Haley

Authorizing any registered voter to apply for permanent advance voting status.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Allowing earned discharge credit for offenders on probation and limiting the maximum term of supervision on probation.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Establishing the nonproficient student weighting in the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Providing income tax credits for aerospace and aviation program graduates and their employers.

Sponsor: Sean Tarwater

Prohibiting the acceptance of incomplete applications for advance voting ballots, prohibiting candidates for office from engaging in certain conduct with respect to advance voting ballots and expanding the crime of electioneering.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Permitting injured workers to choose a healthcare provider for care under workers compensation law.

Sponsor: Stephanie Clayton

Requiring manufacturers of electronics-enabled equipment used in agriculture, animal husbandry and ranching to make available to farmers, ranchers and independent repair providers, on fair and reasonable terms, the documentation, parts and tools used to diagnose, maintain and repair such equipment.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Requiring accredited high schools to provide a course of instruction in personal financial literacy.

Sponsor: Education

Excluding U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth, from the capital improvement state aid schedule.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Creating the fairness in women's sports act to require that female student athletic teams only include members who are biologically female.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Sponsor: Pam Curtis

Allowing release of defendants to a pretrial supervision entity or program and allowing fees associated with supervision to the nonjudicial salary adjustment fund at the discretion of a chief judge.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

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

Sponsor: Tom Holland

Establishing the Kansas pesticide waste disposal program and permitting up to $50,000 to be transferred annually from the Kansas agricultural remediation fund to a new Kansas pesticide waste disposal fund.

Sponsor: Agriculture

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

Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2024, in all criminal cases filed prior to the effective date of this act and eliminating such rights in any criminal case filed on or after the effective date of this act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Making changes related to sex offenses including creating the crime of rape during a treatment session, lowering the criminal penalty for attempt, conspiracy and solicitation of certain sex offenses and changing the elements of, reducing criminal penalties and removing registration requirements for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing for the limited transfer of landowner or tenant deer hunting permits to nonresidents.

Sponsor: Ken Corbet

Creating the Kansas healthy soils fund and the Kansas healthy soils initiative for the purpose of promoting healthy soils practices in the state of Kansas.

Sponsor: Rui Xu

Delaying distribution of certain property taxes paid under protest and requiring certain information on protested or exempt property taxes to be provided to local taxing jurisdictions.

Sponsor: Taxation

Providing for reimbursement of property taxes from county government for business shutdown or capacity limitation caused by the county.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Imposing sales tax on digital property and subscription services.

Sponsor: Taxation

Regulating funeral processions and permitting funeral escorts to direct traffic for funeral processions.

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

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

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Enacting the national popular vote interstate compact for electing the president of the United States.

Sponsor: David Haley

Removing an employment security law restriction on leasing of certain employees by client lessees of lessor employing units.

Sponsor: Commerce

Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

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

Sponsor: Transportation

Updating certain provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access, increasing the membership of the advisory committee and providing for setup and annual maintenance fees for program data integration.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Requiring election commissioners currently appointed by the secretary of state to be elected.

Sponsor: Cindy Holscher

Expanding the military spouse and service member’s expedited licensure law to all applicants who have established or intend to establish residency in Kansas, providing for licenses in an emergency declared by the legislature, allowing telemedicine by out-of-state healthcare providers and permitting the use of electronic credentials.

Sponsor: Commerce

Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional shock or after a series of work-related events.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing liability protection for businesses, municipalities and educational institutions that participate in high school work-based learning programs and providing that schools are responsible for injuries to students participating in such programs.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Requiring equipment and other personal property purchased with campaign funds by a candidate terminating their candidacy be sold or purchased by the candidate for fair market value and the money disposed of in the same manner as residual funds.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Substitute for HB 2281 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Implementing the 988 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas and imposing a 988 fee on telecommunications and other voice services.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Enacting the Kansas rural home loan guarantee act and authorizing the Kansas housing resources corporation to guarantee a certain portion of rural home loans made by financial institutions and report to the legislature regarding such loan guarantees.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat a sexually transmitted disease.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Removing the requirement of residency for election commissioners.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm and when a person less than 14 years of age was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm.

Sponsor: David Haley

Decriminalizing the possession of drugs, reducing the criminal penalty for distributing or manufacturing drugs, referring those found in possession of a controlled substance to drug abuse treatment and creating the crime of failure to comply with drug abuse treatment.

Sponsor: Aaron Coleman

Permitting student athletes at postsecondary educational institutions to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Providing for tobacco cessation benefits coverage under the state health care benefits program.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Amending STAR bonds law by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business 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

Authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor by class A clubs at special events under the club and drinking establishment act.

Sponsor: Commerce

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

Sponsor: David Haley

Constitutional amendment to add a new article imposing a limitation on state expenditures.

Sponsor: Brett Fairchild

Providing a sales tax exemption for required textbooks and authorizing a local sales tax on required textbooks.

Sponsor: Brandon Woodard

Prohibiting the modification of election laws by agreement except as approved by the legislative coordinating council.

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

Providing a refundable income tax credit for certain purchases of food and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Sponsor: Taxation

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: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Senate Substitute for HB 2287 by Committee on Education - Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide postsecondary educational scholarship for certain two-year associate degree programs, career and technical education certificates and other stand-alone programs.

Sponsor: Education

Proposing to amend section 3 of the Kansas bill of rights regarding the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances, including by citizen-initiated grand jury.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Substitute for HB 2094 by Committee on Appropriations - Expanding educational benefits of tuition and fees waiver for spouses and dependents of public safety officers and personnel who are injured or disabled while performing service-related duties.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Providing for abatement of property tax for certain buildings or improvements destroyed or substantially destroyed by natural disaster.

Sponsor: Tom Holland

House Substitute for SB 158 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Senate Substitute for HB 2280 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the prescribing and dispensing of medications for off-label use to prevent and treat COVID-19 infections and requiring child care facilities and schools to grant religious exemptions from vaccination requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of such religious beliefs.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Removing opposite sex requirement for unlawful voluntary sexual relations.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Updating scope of practice requirements for advanced practice registered nurses without a supervising physician, imposing requirements therefor and updating certain licensure requirements.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

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

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

A constitutional amendment to grant counties home rule powers.

Sponsor: Local Government

Requiring lobbyists to wear body cameras while in the statehouse, making such recordings public records and prohibiting any economic benefit or hospitality provided by a lobbyist to a legislator or candidates for the legislature.

Sponsor: Aaron Coleman

Requiring law enforcement officers to impound the vehicles of individuals unable to provide proof of financial security under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Reducing certain camp site and cabin fees at Kansas state parks by 50% for senior citizens.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Authorizing county election officers to transmit advance voting ballots up to 40 days prior to the election.

Sponsor: Ethan Corson

Increasing reimbursement rates for providers of home and community-based services under the intellectual or developmental disability waiver, making appropriations for such rates and providing for legislative review of the waiting list for such services.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Enacting the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, the Kansas housing investor tax credit act, the historic Kansas act, the Kansas rural home loan guarantee act, authorizing certain residential real property appraisals in rural counties to be performed without completing the sales comparison approach to value, allowing the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act for residential vertical development and renovation of certain buildings within economically distressed urban areas and expanding eligibility for the child day care services assistance tax credit and providing a credit for employer payments to an organization providing access to employees for child day care services.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for adults who want decision-making assistance.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Creating exemptions in the open records act for cyber security assessments, plans and vulnerabilities.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Increasing the Kansas standard deduction for income tax purposes.

Sponsor: Taxation

Permitting physicians to decide based on their medical judgment whether to provide patients with certain information.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Establishing election procedures for the imposition of term limits on members of the board of county commissioners.

Sponsor: Local Government

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

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Making the high-density at-risk student weighting of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act permanent by removing the sunset.

Sponsor: Education

Updating membership and requirements of the Kansas state employees health care commission to better reflect the current population of individuals eligible to participate in the state healthcare benefits program.

Sponsor: Carolyn McGinn

Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Creating the taxpayer empowerment, accountability and transparency in state contracting act; relating to private service contracts; requiring the department of administration to create a database of private service contract information and to analyze the potential impacts of such contracts; requiring contracting state agencies to obtain the resources needed to monitor the performance of private service contracts before finalizing such contracts.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Making application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention of the states on election integrity.

Sponsor: Elections

Discontinuing apportionment of countywide retailers' sales tax imposed for general purposes between the county and cities located therein.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.

Sponsor: Insurance

Excluding the additional 90-day wait period and providing for the elimination and delay of payment for certain fees for restricted driving privileges.

Sponsor: Transportation

Prohibiting disparate treatment by pharmacy benefits managers of certain pharmacies and pharmaceutical services providers.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Allowing single sales factor apportionment of business income for certain taxpayers.

Sponsor: Taxation

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

Authorizing exclusion of the sales comparison approach in mortgage financing appraisals of certain unique residential real property in rural counties.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Decoupling the KIT and KIR workforce training programs from the high performance incentive fund program.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Increasing criminal penalties for fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer when operating a stolen vehicle, committing certain driving violations or causing a collision involving another driver and making fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer evidence of intent to commit theft of a vehicle.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring the state department of education and the department for children and families to publish a Kansas foster care children academic report card.

Sponsor: Education

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

Sponsor: Jeff Pittman

Enacting the fairness in women's sports act to require that student athletic teams only include members who are of the same biological sex unless designated as coed.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

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

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Congratulating and commending the University of Kansas men's basketball team on their 2022 NCAA Division I national championship.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Providing for the use of personal package delivery devices on sidewalks and crosswalks, exempting such devices from motor vehicle regulation and limiting additional municipal regulation.

Sponsor: Commerce

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 286 - Continuing the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas by extending the expanded use of telemedicine, the suspension of certain requirements related to medical care facilities and immunity from civil liability for certain healthcare providers, certain persons conducting business in this state and covered facilities for COVID-19 claims until January 20, 2023, creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a hospital and increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Creating the Kansas cotton boll weevil program and requiring the program to levy an assessment upon Kansas produced cotton and monitor and mitigate the risk of boll weevils; concerning the Kansas seed law and the commercial industrial hemp act; relating to labeling; seeds treated with certain substances; definitions; labeling; unlawful actions; certain registrations; inspections; live plant dealers; and testing services.

Sponsor: Agriculture

Prohibiting any municipality from preventing the enforcement of federal immigration laws, requiring municipal law enforcement agencies to provide written notice to each law enforcement officer of the officer's duty to cooperate with state and federal agencies in the enforcement of immigration laws and requiring any municipal identification card to state on its face that it is not valid for state identification.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Substitute for SB 563 by Committee on Redistricting - Proposing state senatorial redistricting plan liberty three, state representative redistricting plan free state 3F and state board of education redistricting plan apple seven.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Providing tax credits for graduates of aerospace and aviation-related educational programs and employers of program graduates, school and classroom supplies purchased by teachers, contributions to community colleges and technical colleges, qualified railroad track maintenance expenditures of short line railroads and associated rail siding owners or lessees and expanding eligibility, amount and transferability of the research and development tax credit, providing homestead property tax refunds from the income tax refund fund to certain persons based on the increase in property tax over the base year property tax amount, providing for an additional personal income tax exemption for 100% disabled veterans, establishing the salt parity act to allow pass-through entities to elect to pay state income tax at the entity level, establishing a checkoff for contributions to the Kansas historic site fund, establishing a revenue neutral rate complaint process for tax levies, authorizing the county clerk to limit the amount of ad valorem taxes to be levied in certain circumstances, establishing a deadline for budgets to be filed with the director of accounts and reports, requiring roll call votes and publication of information to exceed the revenue neutral rate, classifying certain agritourism activities and zoos as land devoted to agricultural use, classifying land devoted to agriculture that is subject to the federal grassland conservation reserve program as grassland, establishing a property tax exemption for antique utility trailers, allowing for the proration of value when certain personal property is acquired or sold prior to September 1 of any tax year, providing for the exemption of inventory and work-in-progress machinery and equipment for telecommunications machinery and equipment, increasing the extent of exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for abatement or credit of property tax for buildings and improvements destroyed or substantially destroyed by natural disaster, providing a sales tax exemption for certain fencing and for reconstructing, repairing or replacing certain fencing damaged or destroyed by a wildfire, flood, tornado or other natural disaster, excluding separately stated delivery charges from sales or selling price, removing the expiration on manufacturer cash rebates on motor vehicles, providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Wilson county, requiring disclosure of distribution of revenues on countywide retailers' sales tax ballot proposals, validating the election held to approve a retailers' sales tax levy by the city of Latham, extending the time period for eligibility in the loan repayment program and the income tax credit for rural opportunity zones, enacting the Gage park improvement authority act and providing for the creation of the Gage park improvement authority and an election for the imposition of a countywide sales tax sales tax within the boundaries of Shawnee county.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Extending the 2022 regular session of the legislature beyond 90 calendar days and providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during such session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Removing provisions authorizing criminal restitution to be enforced as a civil judgment and authorizing judicial districts to contract for collection services for criminal restitution.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy regarding submission of sexual assault evidence kits and allowing evidence collection at child advocacy centers or other facilities.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Prohibiting the disclosure of personal information about a person's affiliation with an entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code and continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring an individual to maintain enrollment on a tribal membership roll to receive a free permanent hunting license.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Amending the definition of the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional scheme, providing for an exemption and defining key terms.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Allowing restricted driver's license holders beginning at age 15 to drive to and from religious activities held by any religious organization and providing for the electronic renewal of nondriver's identification card.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Authorizing technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution insurance companies within the captive insurance act and providing for the requirements and operations thereof.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Excluding hot water supply boilers that have a nominal water capacity not exceeding 120 gallons from the provisions of the boiler safety act; creating the elevator safety act to require safety standards, permit requirements, and insurance coverage for elevator contractors; requiring inspections of elevators and licensure for persons installing, repairing and inspecting elevators; creating an elevator safety advisory board; establishing duties for the state fire marshal.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Designating a portion of United States highway 166 as the SGT Evan S Parker memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 56 as the PFC Shane Austin memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Tom R Van Sickle memorial highway, a certain bridge on K-126 as the Dennis Crain memorial bridge, a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway and bridges on K-66 highway as veterans memorial bridge.

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Removing the standing committee membership requirements for members of the joint committee on state-tribal relations.

Sponsor: Ponka-We Victors

Updating the version of risk-based capital instructions in effect.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Shawnee Tribe.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Limiting the review of certain rules and regulations by the director of the budget and requiring review of rules and regulations every five years.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

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

Allowing for the on-farm retail sale of milk and milk products, authorizing the secretary of agriculture to declare an imminent health hazard, extending certain milk and dairy license fees and establishing certain standards for milk.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Establishing the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license.

Sponsor: Ken Corbet

Exempting the practice of threading from the practice of cosmetology.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for certain conditions, updating provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access and increasing the membership of the advisory committee.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Requiring insurance coverage for PANS and PANDAS by the state health care benefits program and requiring the state employee health care commission to submit an impact report on such coverage to the legislature.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Creating exemptions in the open records act for records that contain captured license plate data or that pertain to the location of an automated license plate recognition system.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Crediting docket fees to the state general fund instead of the judicial branch docket fee fund; crediting marriage license fees and drivers' license reinstatement fees to the state general fund instead of the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Amending provisions of the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act relating to out-of-state financial institutions, banks and trust companies conducting fidfin transactions, fees and assessments, examinations, disclosures to consumers and requiring such institutions to be mandatory reporters for purposes of elder abuse.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Rural Development

Establishing when an occupational therapist may treat a patient without referral from a physician and requiring occupational therapists to maintain professional liability insurance.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Allowing certain employees from the department of corrections to attend the Kansas law enforcement training center and including special agents of the department of corrections in the definition of law enforcement officer under the Kansas law enforcement training act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Sub for SB 450 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance: Eliminating the crediting to the Kansas public employees retirement fund of 80% of the proceeds from the sale of surplus real estate, authorizing state educational institutions to sell and convey real property given to such state educational institutions as an endowment, bequest or gift and authorizing the state board of regents to adopt policies relating to such sale and conveyance.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Adopting the national association of insurance commissioner's amendments to the unfair trade practices act excluding commercial property and casualty insurance producers, brokers and insurers from prohibitions on giving rebates as an inducement to sales.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Updating certain investment limitation requirements to provide increased options for Kansas domiciled life insurance companies investing in equity interests and preferred stock.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Providing for the north central Kansas down syndrome society distinctive license plate.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and the House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2022 regular session of the Legislature.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Proposing a constitutional amendment that provides for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.

Sponsor: Appropriations

Exempting certain business entities that provide health insurance in the state but are not subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner of insurance from payment of the annual premium tax.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Establishing a time limitation for awarding compensation for mental health counseling and increasing certain compensation award amounts by the crime victims compensation board.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

Sponsor: Kellie Warren

Authorizing technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution insurance companies within the captive insurance act and providing for the requirements and operations thereof.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Expanding law enforcement officers' jurisdiction to include situations when an illegal act is observed that the officer reasonably believes will jeopardize the safety of any person without immediate action.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Requiring earlier notice of anticipated release from custody of a person who may be a sexually violent predator to the attorney general and a multidisciplinary team and specifying where such person will be detained during civil commitment proceedings.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Commemorating the celebration of St. Patrick's Day

Sponsor: Bill Rhiley

Exempting certain modifications on antique vehicles from vehicle identification number offense seizures and dispositions.

Sponsor: Transportation

Congratulating and commending the 2020 and 2022 Kansas Master Teachers.

Sponsor: Mark Schreiber

Amending the public water supply project loan program's definition of "project" to remove the definition's current exclusion of projects that are related to the diversion or transportation of water acquired through a water transfer.

Sponsor: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Regulating the retail sale of fireworks all year and extending the time period for seasonal retail sale of fireworks.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2022 regular session of the legislature.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Converting the conditional charter issued for the pilot program under the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act to a full fiduciary financial institution charter.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

Removing the authority for law enforcement officers to deliver a child in need of care to a court services officer and prohibiting supervision of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect by court services officers.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Defining torturing for the purposes of the crime of cruelty to animals.

Sponsor: Judiciary

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

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Requiring a waiver of extradition proceedings as a condition of bond.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Providing exemptions for college and career readiness assessments under the student data privacy act and the student online personal protection act.

Sponsor: Education

Substitute for HB 2629 by Committee on Transportation - Removing mandatory jail time for a habitual violator convicted of driving while the driver's license of the person is canceled, suspended or revoked for failure to comply with a traffic citation.

Sponsor: Transportation

Concerning the state board of veterinary examiners and the regulation of licensed veterinarians and registered veterinarian technicians; relating to penalties, fees and investigative and disciplinary proceedings.

Sponsor: Ron Highland

Authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association and making members of or persons employed by the Kansas state high school activities association mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect.

Sponsor: K-12 Education Budget

Allowing a court to change a spouse's name to a name that is different than a maiden or former name during a divorce proceeding.

Sponsor: Dennis Highberger

Designating February 10, 2022, as JAG-K Day at the Capitol.

Sponsor: Richard Billinger

Substitute for SB 355 by Committee on Redistricting - Proposing congressional redistricting map ad astra two.

Sponsor: Redistricting

Congratulating and commending the members of the 2022 Kansas Teacher of the Year team.

Sponsor: Education

Honoring pregnancy maintenance resource centers in Kansas and across the United States.

Sponsor: Kellie Warren

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Assigning seats in the Senate during the 2022 legislative session.

Sponsor: Ty Masterson

Providing for changes in seat assignments in the House of Representatives during the 2022 legislative session.

Sponsor: Ron Ryckman

Transferring duties concerning address confidentiality program (safe at home) and the registration of charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general, enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse and addiction and requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the attorney general in certain businesses and public places.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns and authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct, exempting compensation attributable as a result of identity fraud, extending the dates when corporate returns are required to be filed, providing conformity with the federal return due date for returns other than corporate returns, providing a temporary withholding option for certain teleworking employees, establishing the Eisenhower foundation contribution credit and the friends of cedar crest association contribution credit, extending the time period and expanding eligibility for the single city port authority credit, extending the time period for eligibility in the loan repayment program and income tax credit related to rural opportunity zones and defining rural opportunity zone on the basis of population.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Supporting the full development of the Heartland Flyer Extension.

Sponsor: Bradley Ralph

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2397 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

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

Sponsor: Insurance

Approving Executive Reorganization Order No. 48, transferring the division of tourism and the office of the director of tourism from the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to the department of commerce.

Sponsor: Commerce

Extending the Kansas closed case task force, providing for staff assistance and renaming the task force the Alvin Sykes cold case DNA task force, extending the Kansas criminal justice reform commission, limiting the commission's scope of study and adding a public defender, and authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time restrictions for certain victims to receive compensation for mental health counseling and adding certain children to the definition of victim.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Substitute for SB 238 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring emergency medical services operators be overseen by medical directors or physicians; clarifying duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy; providing for confidentiality of investigations, inspections and audits; establishing fees on out-of-state facilities; defining telepharmacy and requiring the adoption of rules and regulations related thereto.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 273 by Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the COVID-19 small business relief act to provide funds for impacted small businesses, create the COVID-19 small business relief fund of the legislative coordinating council and the COVID-19 small business relief claims board, require certain counties to establish and administer a county COVID-19 small business relief fund and certain cities to establish and administer a city COVID-19 small business relief fund, require a study by the legislative division of post audit and prohibit compensation for intangible losses related to the COVID-19 public health emergency under the Kansas emergency management act.

Sponsor: Judiciary

Enacting the first-time home buyer savings account act.

Sponsor: Taxation

Enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact to provide for interjurisdictional authorization to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychology and enacting the physical therapy licensure compact and authorizing criminal history record checks in the physical therapy practice act.

Sponsor: Ways and Means

Increasing the criminal penalty for mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person when the victim is a resident of an adult care home, adding definitions related to defendants who abscond from supervision in the criminal procedure code and for parole and 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, requiring the department of corrections to develop guidance to be used by parole officers when responding to violations of parole and postrelease supervision and that incentivize compliant behavior, and authorizing court services officers and community corrections officers to provide a certification of identification to offenders for use to obtain a new driver's license.

Sponsor: Corrections and Juvenile Justice

Appropriations for FY 2021, FY 2022, and FY 2023, for various state agencies; authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state; authorizing certain transfers and capital improvement projects.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State

Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain statutes related to crimes in which bodily fluids may have been transmitted from one person to another.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Requiring administration of a basic civics test as part of the course in United States history and government that is necessary for high school graduation and requiring students to take and pass a personal financial literacy course for high school graduation beginning in school year 2024-2025.

Sponsor: Steven Huebert

Strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan.

Sponsor: Les Mason

Article V Convention to propose amendments to limit federal power.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Providing for trust company charter conversions.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance

House Substitute for SB 124 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Expanding STAR bonds by adding rural redevelopment projects and major business facilities, prohibiting public officials from employment with a developer, providing for public notice of hearings on city or county websites, posting of certain documents and links on websites, disclosure of names of developer, disclosure of state, federal and local tax incentives within a STAR bond district, changing certain project financing, investment and sales provisions, adding visitor tracking plan requirements and additional feasibility study requirements with oversight by the secretary, requiring approval by the secretary for real estate transfers, requiring district contiguity and extending the sunset date.

Sponsor: Commerce, Labor and Economic Development

Exempting motor vehicle odometer reading recording requirements when such recording requirements are exempted by federal law and expanding the definitions of all-terrain vehicles and recreational off-highway vehicles.

Sponsor: Transportation

Substitute for HB 2166 by Committee on Transportation - Providing for the Braden's hope for childhood cancer, proud educator, delta sigma theta, Gadsden flag, love, Chloe foundation and alpha kappa alpha distinctive license plates and providing distinctive license plates for current and veteran members of the United States army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard and space force, modifying the requirements to begin production on distinctive license plates, requiring reporting by sponsoring organizations of distinctive license plates, allowing certain license plates issued by the division of vehicles to be personalized license plates and establishing a fee on firefighter distinctive license plates.

Sponsor: Transportation

Senate Substitute for HB 2183 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the transparency in revenues underwriting elections act; prohibiting the receipt and expenditure of private moneys by election officials; directing the secretary of state to publish certain registered voter totals; relating to advance voting ballots by requiring signed statements for delivery of such ballots on behalf of a voter; limiting the number of such ballots that can be delivered; prohibiting the altering or backdating of the mailing date on such ballots; requiring a matching signature on such ballots; removing the secretary of state's authority to provide additional time for receipt of such ballots; prohibiting candidates for office from engaging in certain conduct related to advance voting ballots; creating the crime of false representation of an election official; and, expanding the crime of electioneering.

Sponsor: Federal and State Affairs

Amending the angel investor tax credit with respect to the definition of qualified securities, tax credit limitations and amounts, investor requirements and extending the date that credits may be allowed, and also amending the tax credit for expenses incurred to make a residence accessible to persons with a disability by increasing the credit.

Sponsor: Commerce

Senate Substitute for Substitute HB 2196 by Committee on Commerce - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfer of federal COVID-19 moneys to the unemployment insurance trust fund, emergency expansion of the employment security board of review, providing for the my reemployment plan program and workforce training program availability to claimants, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.

Sponsor: Commerce

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

Sponsor: Judiciary

Establishing the senior care task force, a definition of financial exploitation and Kansas elder and dependent adult abuse multidisciplinary team coordinator and teams, requiring additional mandatory reporters, increasing investigation days for reports of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of certain adults and directing the department for children and families to inform certain chief administrative officers of substantiated findings of such reports.

Sponsor: Children and Seniors

Senate Substitute for HB 2208 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics, enacting the rural emergency hospital act to provide for the licensure of rural emergency hospitals, authorizing telemedicine waivers for out-of-state healthcare providers, reducing certain requirements for licensure by the behavioral sciences regulatory board and expanding out-of-state temporary permits to practice behavioral sciences professions.

Sponsor: Public Health and Welfare

Providing for all vehicles more than 35 years old to qualify as an antique vehicle.

Sponsor: Transportation

Eliminating the dollar limitation for acceptance of gifts by donors to school districts or cities, or both, for library purposes.

Sponsor: Kenneth Collins

Establishing the Kansas extraordinary utility costs loan deposit program and the Kansas economic recovery loan deposit program and amending the city utility low-interest loan program by providing for electronic repayment of loans, cash basis exception, payment frequency, loan security and an ending date for making loans.

Sponsor: Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments, and Benefits

Increasing the monetary cap on irrevocable prearranged funeral agreements to $10,000.

Sponsor: Health and Human Services

Updating the membership and responsibilities of the Kansas state employees health care commission and requiring the commission to make certain reports and recommendations to the legislature.

Sponsor: Emil Bergquist

Permitting the division of vehicles to collect emergency contact information for registration purposes and permitting law enforcement agencies to use such information in the case of an emergency.

Sponsor: Transportation

Adjusting the frequency of the KPERS actuarial experience study, providing a moratorium on KPERS death and long-term disability employer contributions, allowing the extension of certain DROP periods and conforming certain KPERS provisions with the federal CARES act.

Sponsor: Insurance and Pensions

Requiring marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales, compensating use and transient guest taxes and prepaid wireless 911 fees, removing clickthrough nexus provisions, providing for addition and subtraction modifications for the treatment of global intangible low-taxed income, business interest, capital contributions, FDIC premiums and business meals, expanding the expense deduction for income taxpayers and calculating the deduction amount, providing the ability to elect to itemize for individuals, providing an exemption of unemployment compensation income attributable as a result of identity fraud, removing the line for reporting compensating use tax from individual tax returns, extending the dates when corporate tax returns are required to be filed, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and providing for an extension of the corporate net operating loss carryforward period.

Sponsor: Assessment and Taxation

Prohibiting the modification of election laws other than by legislative process, requiring county election officials to maintain residential and mailing addresses for registered voters, requiring identification of the sender on third party solicitations to registered voters to file an application for an advance voting ballot and prohibiting such solicitations by nonresidents of this state, expanding the crime of election tampering and providing for the appointment of elected officials when vacancy is due to military service.

Sponsor: John Toplikar

Senate Substitute for HB 2074 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Enacting the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution act, providing requirements, fiduciary powers, duties, functions and limitations for such financial institutions and the administration thereof by the state bank commissioner, creating an income and privilege tax credit for certain qualified distributions from technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions and the joint committee on fiduciary financial institutions oversight.

Sponsor: Financial Institutions and Insurance