Appropriations

Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.

Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds.

Requiring an annual reimbursement to the Kansas department of wildlife and parks for lost revenue from free or discounted hunting and fishing licenses, permits or passes that were established by legislative enactment on or after July 1, 2027.

Requiring grant applications, expenditure information, reports and other documentation concerning the rural health transformation program to be presented and provided to the state finance council, house of representatives committee on appropriations, senate committee on ways and means and legislative budget committee.

Substitute for SB 315 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.

Substitute for HB 2434 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.

Permitting the director of investments of the health care stabilization fund to invest funds as authorized for insurance companies.

Creating the rural health transformation fund, prescribing powers and duties of the state finance council concerning such fund and the rural health transformation program, crediting all federal moneys for the rural health transformation program to such fund and making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state finance council and other state agencies.

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.

Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board.

Directing legislative administrative services to prepare all committee minutes.

Substitute for HB 2294 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.

Providing funding for the state historical society to issue a scope statement, plan the work to be accomplished and issue a request for proposals for a master plan for the Quindaro ruins archaeological park in Wyandotte county, Kansas, and implement such master plan.

Enacting the aviation and innovative manufacturing in Kansas act to attract businesses establishing a headquarters or engaged in aircraft assembly, electric or hydrogen-powered motor vehicle production, and other specified industries to Kansas by offering companies meeting certain employment and investment requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs.

Establishing the Kansas nursing initiative grant program and authorizing the state board of regents to approve need-based or competitive grants for the expansion of nursing faculty, laboratory supplies and tools for student success at postsecondary educational institutions.

Prohibiting the acquisition of critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and the procurement of final or finished goods or services from countries of concern.

Enacting the returning to nonaccountability of the executive branch agencies that report to the governor act and eliminating the budget process requirements of a performance-based budgeting system.

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.

Substitute for SB 514 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for employers that employ members of the Kansas army and air national guard and establishing an income tax credit for employees that are members thereof.

Authorizing the animal health commissioner to adopt rules and regulations to administer the poultry disease control act and to establish an annual participation fee not to exceed $50 for participation in the national poultry improvement plan, a certification fee not to exceed $50 for persons performing testing and diagnostic services and a testing fee not to exceed $100 per visit to each location participating in the plan.

Requiring the state board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on certain statistics of students who take the statewide assessments.

Authorizing the chief engineer to adopt rules and regulations under the watershed district act and concerning fees and inspections of dams.

Authorizing a party to obtain discovery of the existence and content of an agreement for third-party funding of litigation under the code of civil procedure.

Creating the no-impact home-based business act, limiting the ability of municipalities to regulate such businesses and prohibiting certain types of activities by such businesses.

Directing the department of corrections to establish a correctional center nursery for incarcerated expectant mothers and their child to allow certain expectant mothers to care and bond with their child for up to 36 months while incarcerated.

Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Limiting the legislative option to purchase school district buildings to buildings that were formerly used as attendance centers.

Requiring each school district to establish an at-risk student accountability plan and to show academic improvement in certain student subgroups and students identified as eligible for at-risk programs, prohibiting the state board of education from revising the curriculum standards in English language arts and mathematics until 75% of all students achieve proficiency and requiring school districts to comply with all state laws and rules and regulations to maintain accreditation.

Revising school district open enrollment procedures and requirements to prioritize students who are residents of Kansas over students who are residents of another state, providing for continued enrollment of students who attended a school district of nonresidence in school year 2023-2024, authorizing school districts to deem students as not in good standing prior to enrollment and requiring publication of nonresident student transfer policies on the school district website.

Requiring persons who file lawsuits for wrongful conviction compensation to prove additional information, changing the compensation rates to daily rates instead of yearly rates and limiting housing assistance offered to such persons.

Making appropriations for the department for aging and disability services for FY 2025 and creating a program for cities to improve and develop infrastructure for homeless shelters.

Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.

Enacting the forbidding abuse child transitions act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare professionals from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare professionals for providing such treatments, authorizing professional discipline against a physician who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses.

Requiring the court to appoint an attorney to represent a child who is the subject of child in need of care proceedings and allowing for the optional appointment of a guardian ad litem.

Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies; constituting the omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill for the 2024 regular session; payment of certain claims against the state.

Concerning state agencies; requiring the secretary of administration to include on the Kansas taxpayer transparency act website certain information concerning grants, grant awardees and grant applications.

Substitute for SB 155 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.

Authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for the construction and renovation of a new department of nursing and student wellness center on the campus of Emporia state university.

Increasing the dollar amount of state scholarships for students attending a postsecondary educational institution who have established financial need.

Authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for the construction and equipment of the NIAR technology and innovation building on the innovation campus of Wichita state university.

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

Directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances.

Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to facilitate workforce development by providing grants and workforce retention incentive tax credits to adults who pursue baccalaureate degrees from eligible postsecondary educational institutions in certain fields of study.

Creating the Kansas vacant property act to prohibit municipalities from imposing any fees or registration requirements on the basis that property is unoccupied.

Authorizing nonpublic school students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association and allowing nonpublic school students who enroll part time in a public school to participate in nonpublic school activities.

Exempting certain political party committee treasurers from liability for certain violations under the campaign finance act.

Enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights.

Authorizing boards of education of school districts to compensate board members for the duties and obligations of board members.

Requiring that licensing bodies provide paper-based and verified electronic credentials to credential holders, including military servicemembers and others receiving Kansas credentials based on their credentials from other jurisdictions, that the secretary of administration develop and implement an electronic license verification system, that centralized electronic credential data management systems be established with instant verification systems operated by licensing bodies and excepting the certification of law enforcement officers from all provisions of the amended section.

Establishing the Sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students in Kansas.

Defining "benefit year" and "temporary unemployment" in the employment security law, allowing the extension of temporary unemployment; requiring electronic report filing by certain employers, permitting discretion in appointments and terms for the temporary employment security board of review, delaying new account formation after certain business acquisitions, requiring the new unemployment insurance system to allow employer reports regarding claimant compliance and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to extend new system implementation deadlines.

Substitute for HB 2168 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Amending the commercial industrial hemp act to reduce maximum license and registration fee amounts to $500.

Extending the deadline for project agreements under the attracting powerful economic expansion act, enhancing incentives for qualified suppliers and adding a new employee relocation reimbursement incentive for qualified suppliers, limiting the corporate income tax rate reduction provision to two rate reductions and permitting qualified firms and qualified suppliers to participate in other economic development programs for new projects.

Establishing the office of entrepreneurship within the department of commerce, encouraging that 5% of state contracts and certain incentive funding go toward Kansas businesses that have been in operation for less than five years, encouraging the elimination of first-year business fees and requiring the office of entrepreneurship to submit an annual report to the legislature.

Concerning state agencies; relating to the employee award and recognition program; authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses; increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000; eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations; and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.

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

Authorizing the children's cabinet to form a 501(c)(3) for fundraising for the Dolly Parton imagination library book gifting program.

Changing the membership requirements, terms of members and the quorum requirements for the information technology executive council.

Requiring medical care facilities and providers to report the reasons for each abortion performed at such facility or by such provider to the secretary of health and environment.

Transferring registration requirements and related compliance oversight and enforcement authority for professional employer organizations from the commissioner of insurance to the secretary of state effective January 1, 2025, granting the secretary responsibility over the professional employer organization fee fund and ensuring that welfare benefit plans offered by professional employer organizations to employees and covered employees are treated as a single employer welfare benefit plan for purposes of state law.

Abolishing the law enforcement training center fund; all liabilities of such fund are transferred to and imposed on the state general fund; moneys previously credited to such fund shall be credited to the state general fund.

Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from taking certain actions regarding admission applicants, applicants for employment and faculty concerning diversity, equity or inclusion, exceptions, providing for civil remedies and penalties, submitting a report to the legislature and posting information on the board of regents website.

Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas fights addiction act.

Senate Substitute for HB 2344 by Committee on Commerce - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.

House Substitute for SB 42 by Committee on Appropriations - Exempting rural emergency hospitals from the hospital provider assessment and establishing residency and other requirements for membership on a hospital board.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances.

Making notification to an injured employee by an employer or insurance carrier of any change to workers compensation benefits discretionary, providing that employees seeking workers compensation benefits waive the patient privilege preventing access to medical information, prohibiting infringement of the employer's right to direct medical treatment, requiring that questions by the director of workers compensation to a healthcare provider for an examination ordered by the director be in writing, providing that partial work weeks be counted as full weeks for purposes of computing average wages and excluding expert witness costs from court costs that may be awarded a claimant.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Substitute for HB 2466 by Committee on Education - Establishing the promoting advancement in computing knowledge act to increase the availability of computer science education in Kansas schools and the career technical education credentialing and student transitioning to employment success pilot program; also exempting national assessment providers from the student online personal protection act.

Enacting the motor vehicle financial protection products act and providing definitions, requirements and procedures regarding the offering of such products.

Substitute for HB 2662 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Establishing the parents' bill of rights and academic transparency act, requiring school districts to establish parent transparency portals to provide information on materials that are used or made available in schools, prohibiting schools from non-renewing a teacher's contract for refusing to teach against certain beliefs or practices and establishing requirements for the administration of certain nonacademic tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations.

Enacting the Kansas foster parents bill of rights.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Eliminating the division of vehicles modernization surcharge.

Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a mural honoring the 1st Kansas (Colored) Voluntary Infantry regiment.

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

Authorizing transfers from the state general fund to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund, county and city revenue sharing fund and special city and county highway fund resuming in fiscal year 2023.

Appropriations for FY 2023, FY 2024 and FY 2025 for various state agencies.

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.

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

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

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.

Defining emergency responders to include public safety telecommunicators.

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

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.

Making appropriations for the Kansas department for aging and disability services to provide services to individuals waiting to receive intellectual or developmental disability home and community-based services; lapsing state foundation aid and authorizing school districts to expend unencumbered cash balances.

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

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.

Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel.

Establishing certification and funding for certified community behavioral health clinics.

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

Updating certain definitions, referral to specialty services and coordination of care provisions in the Kansas telemedicine act.

Expanding the crime of election tampering to include changing or altering votes cast, manipulating computer hardware or software or vote tabulation methods or producing false vote totals.

Substitute for HB 2119 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget – Making and concerning appropriations for the department of education for fiscal years ending June 30, 2021, June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023, creating and expanding school choice programs, restricting remote learning and remote enrollment and extending the statewide property tax levy for schools.

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

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

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

Setting the protected income level for persons receiving home and community-based services at 150% of federal supplemental security income.

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.

Holding reimbursing employers and other employers harmless for fraudulent unemployment insurance claims and reimbursing the unemployment insurance trust fund with moneys from the state general fund for improper benefits payments.

Establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program to assist rural hospitals in serving rural communities.

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

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 267 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023, FY 2024, FY 2025, FY 2026 and FY 2027 for various state agencies.

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.

Amending the standards for school-administered vision screenings for students, establishing the Kansas children's vision health and school readiness commission and relating to the powers and duties of the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing with regard to registration of interpreters, communication access services guidelines and adoption of rules and regulations.

Updating the entities who are subject to the pipeline safety program of the state corporation commission.

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

Establishing the asbestos remediation fund for fees collected as part of the Kansas asbestos control program.

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

Updating the state corporation commission's authority to regulate and determine responsibility for abandoned oil and gas wells and abolishing the well plugging assurance fund and transferring all assets and liabilities to the abandoned oil and gas well fund.

Increasing good time and program credits for certain offenders.

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

Authorizing the Kansas department of transportation to issue up to $100,000,000 in additional bonds during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Exempting petroleum landmen from the provisions of employment security law.

Amending behavioral sciences professional licensing requirements.

Increasing penalty for assault and battery against a sports official.

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

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

Creating the Kansas reading readiness act.

Updating certain definitions and requirements of the third party administrators act.

Creating the students' right to know act to provide information on postsecondary education options.

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

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

Establishing the securities act victim restitution program.

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

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

Designating a portion of United States highway 77 as the Cpl. Allen E. Oatney and SP4 Gene A. Myers memorial highway.

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

Amending the Kansas storage tank act by increasing the maximum liability of and extending the sunset of the aboveground fund and the underground fund.

Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from amending or enacting regulations that would create new or increase air quality control fees.

Requiring information technology security training for state agencies.

Conferring original jurisdiction to the supreme court to hear certain actions related to the health care provider insurance availability act, the healthcare stabilization fund and claims for noneconomic loss in medical malpractice liability actions.

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

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

Claims against the state submitted by the Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State.

Substitute for HB 2536 by Committee on Appropriations – Updating the state corporation commission's authority to regulate and determine responsibility for abandoned oil and gas wells, providing methods for the commission to plug such wells including reimbursement for certain plugging operations and abolishing the well plugging assurance fund and transferring all assets and liabilities to the abandoned oil and gas well fund.

Establishing the rural hospital innovation grant program.

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

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

Providing KPERS membership to certain direct support positions in community developmental disability organizations upon completion of a two-year training period.

House Substitute for SB 173 by Committee on Appropriations - Providing for the Eisenhower legacy transportation plan.

Recertification of professional employees' organizations to represent teachers

Allowing pharmacists to administer drugs pursuant to a prescription order.

Creating conditions for the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations.

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

Restrictions on city and county political sign regulations repealed.

Adopting the Driver's Privacy Protection Act.

Relating to penalties for operating a child care facility without a license.

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

Creating the Kansas military base task force.

Rehabilitation of abandoned property by cities.

Establishing a commercial industrial hemp program.

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

Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.

Increasing KPERS employee contribution rate for school district employees and making appropriations for FY 2020 for the department of education for a pay increase for KPERS covered school district employees.

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

Amendments regarding the licensure and regulation of barbering.

Allowing private plaintiffs to bring an action under the Kansas false claims act.

Authorizing the secretary of transportation to designate toll projects on new and existing highways and changing financing requirements for toll or turnpike projects.

Ensuring a public employee's right to resign from a public employee organization.

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

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

Increasing the rate and expanding the base of the hospital provider assessment and extending the quality care assessment imposed on skilled nursing care facilities.

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

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

Authorizing the transfer of $115,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during fiscal year 2019.

Amending Substitute for Senate Bill No. 423 to strike provisions requiring school districts to adopt a minimum local option budget; restoring certain provisions relating to local option budgets and adjusting the BASE aid accordingly.

Amending Substitute for Senate Bill No. 423 relating to the mandated minimum local option budget for school districts.

Substitute for SB 269 by Committee on Ways and Means – Appropriation revisions for FY 2018, FY 2019, FY 2020, FY 2021, FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.

Urging Congress to repeal the Dickey amendment.

Prohibiting certain organizations and associations from being a KPERS eligible employer.

Increasing tax on cigarettes and using proceeds for medicaid expansion.

Requiring veterinarians to submit information to the prescription monitoring program and providing for transfers of moneys from certain state agencies to the state board of pharmacy for operation and maintenance of the prescription monitoring program.

Requiring approval of rules and regulations by the director of the budget and analysis of costs and any impact on business, and adding a ranking minority member to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations.

Moving the registration for charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general.

Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding local option budget provisions, certain weightings, capital outlay expenditures and repealing provisions of the CLASS act.

Amending the Kansas school equity and enhancement act regarding the transportation weighting.

Homeowners associations subject to consumer protection act; annual registration; fee.

Provision of assistive technology, sign language and Braille services for students with a disability.

Abolishing the boiler inspection fee fund; transferring balances to the fire marshal fee fund.

Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to provide for certain modifications of an employer's premium rates under a workers compensation insurance policy.

Authorizing the board of regents and the state of Kansas to convey certain real property in Sedgwick county to Wichita state university.

Establishing confidentiality of records contained in the central registry of all Kansas police officers and law enforcement officers.

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

Enacting the KanCare/Medicaid ombudsman act.

Making changes to the Kansas sexually violent predator program.

Removing caps on damages in wrongful death actions except those against certain healthcare providers.

Requiring the recording of votes taken in standing committees, and committee of the whole when under the order of business of general orders and final action.

Prohibiting amendments striking all material and inserting new material.

Requiring the director of the budget to prepare a federal moneys report on budget bills introduced by the legislature and the governor's budget report.

Making appropriations for FY 2019 for the department of corrections; salary increases for uniformed officers and all employees at correctional facilities.

Requiring that certain client assessment, referral and evaluation program services are provided by area agencies on aging for two years.

Kansas lottery; permit lottery ticket vending machines and bingo ticket vending machines; lottery sunset extended; debt setoff; certain lottery money pledged to mental health and community crisis programs.

Making appropriations for FY2018, FY2019, FY2020, FY2021, FY2022, and FY2023 for the department of education.

Substitute for HB 2468 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriation revisions for FY 2018 and FY 2019 for various state agencies.

Authorizing the sale of certain tobacco settlement receipts; creating the great plains tobacco settlement financing corporation; authorizing the issuance of bonds payable from the tobacco asset payments.

Establishing an on-site state employee health clinic.

Requiring electronic recording of certain custodial interrogations.

Allowing certain persons with suspended drivers' licenses to enter into amnesty agreements with the district court.

Amending citizen grand jury petition sufficiency and right to appeal.

Revocation timeframe of drivers' licenses for certain offenses.

House Substitute for SB 109 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2018, FY 2019, FY 2020, FY 2021, FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies; omnibus appropriation act of 2018; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.

Remedies for the impairment of a valid water right or permit to divert and use water.

Increasing the health maintenance organization privilege fee and extending the medical assistance fee fund.

Debt set off; allowing the director of accounts and reports to enter into an agreement with third party vendors to assist in collecting debts against the state.

Repealing the local government infrastructure improvement projects loan program; abolishing the Kansas partnership fund.

Authorizing the sale of certain Kansas lottery revenues.

Department of commerce appropriations for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 for the rural opportunity zones program.

Enacting the ad astra rural jobs act.

Clarifying the criminal sentencing statute for a person with intellectual disability who is convicted of capital murder.

Authorizing certain claims for compensation through the crime victims compensation board.

Substitute for HB 2194 by Committee on Transportation -Kansas lottery; permit lottery ticket vending machines and bingo ticket vending machines; lottery sunset extended; debt setoff; certain lottery money pledged to mental health and community crisis programs.

Substitute for HB 2331 by Committee on Government, Technology and Security - Enacting the representative Jim Morrison cybersecurity act and establishing the Kansas information technology enterprise.

Restoring local control over wage requirements for construction projects.

Requiring an affirmative acceptance by a consumer of charges by vendors offering goods or services over the internet before billing.

Amendments to the Kansas expanded lottery act relating to racetrack gaming facilities.

Kansas liquor control act and retailer's licenses.

Allowing certain time away from work or normal duties to be credited as participating service under KPERS and KP&F.

Authorizing school districts to adopt a local activities budget and levy property taxes for the finance thereof.

Amending the crime of aggravated battery, concerning strangulation.

School district finance and quality performance act of 2017.

Creating the education finance act.

Requiring the adoption of a local foundation budget by each school district and the levying of a property tax for the financing thereof.

Creating the school district finance and student success act.

Amending provisions concerning annual examinations, transitional release and conditional release of sexually violent predators.

Transferring administration of the state workers compensation self-insurance fund to the department of administration.

Substitute for HB 2364 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2017, FY 2018, FY 2019 and FY 2020 for various state agencies.

Authorizing the department of administration to sell specified surplus state property on behalf of various state agencies.

Assessments on hospitals and health maintenance organizations.

Relating to disposition of failure to comply with traffice citation reinstatement fees and the judicial branch nonjudicial salary adjustment fund.

State finances; requiring the KPERS board to liquidate the pooled money investment portfolio investment pursuant to K.S.A. 2016 Supp. 75-2263; transferring money to the state general fund and to the pooled money investment portfolio; authorizing the pooled money investment board to invest idle funds available for long term investment.

Joint revenue estimates, move April 20 date to May 1.

Amendments to the grandparents as caregivers act.

Creating the Eisenhower preservation fund; registration fees.

Providing for drivers’ license online renewals and vision requirements; approved motorcycle licenses safety training curriculum; and renewal periods for commercial driver’s license. Conference committee changes

Substitute for HB 2147 by Committee on Veterans & Military-Providing an income tax refund for certain Native American veterans.

Amendments to the Kansas National Guard educational assistance act.

State finances; transfers to and expenditures from the budget stabilization fund; transfers to the pooled money investment portfolio.

Establishing the alcoholic beverage control modernization fee.

House Substitute for SB 126 by Committee on Children and Seniors - Establishing the child welfare system task force.

Substitute for HB 2277 by Committee on Local Government - Alcoholic liquor; common consumption areas; cities and counties; class B club membership, waiting period.

Certification of businesses as a certified business by the department of administration pursuant to competitive bid process for state contracts.

House Substitute for SB 13 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Alcoholic beverages; sale of beer by cereal malt beverage licensees.

Authorizing the state board of regents to sell, exchange and convey certain real property in Riley county and Sedgwick county on behalf of Kansas state university and Wichita state university.

Amendments to the CLASS act regarding supplemental general state aid.

Recertification of professional employees' organizations under the professional negotiations act.

Substitute for SB 356 by Committee on Education - Amendments regarding school district capital improvement state aid.

Amendments to the CLASS Act regarding supplemental general state aid and capital outlay state aid.

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

State finances; performance based budgeting; program service inventory; integrated budget fiscal process; establishing a budget stabilization fund; revenue and expenditures; review of risk-based practices; repealing key deposit funds.

Amendments to CLASS act regarding local option budget and capital outlay equalization.

School finance; general state aid adjustment for unencumbered cash balances.

Senate Substitute for HB 2074 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Kansas expanded lottery act; racetrack gaming; county fair association racing; prizes subject to state debt setoff.

Substitute for SB 335 by Committee on Transportation - Relating to registration, fees; law enforcement training center fund; creating the Kansas highway patrol staffing and training fund.

Requiring an opportunity for diversion in certain circumstances.

Kansas uniform common interest owners bill of rights act; consumer protection.

Increasing municipal court assessments and directing to the commission on peace officers' standards and training.

Amending the Kansas pet animal act.

Requiring school districts to adopt certain policies against bullying, harassment and cyberbullying.

Requiring disclosure to veterans in certain materials concerning veterans' benefits.

Adding and amending substances included in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act.

Prohibiting agency changes to waiver services under the Kansas program of medical assistance without express legislative authorization.

Fee agencies, moneys transferred to the state general fund or special revenue fund; notification to persons paying fees that moneys have been transferred.

Eliminating due process for certain postsecondary teachers.

Pharmacy act amendments.

Limiting the ability of a licensing board to deny an occupational license based on prior convictions not directly related to the licensed occupation.

Municipalities and assessments for energy efficiency improvements.

Healing arts; concerning anatomic pathology billing.

Limiting powers of rural water districts.

Creating the Kansas highway patrol staffing and training fund; vehicle registration fees.

Mental health technician's licensure act amendments.

Amendments to the freedom from unsafe restraint and seclusion act.

Providing pay raises for public employees based on increases in tax revenue.

State medical assistance program; expansion of eligibility.

Live streaming of legislative meetings and the information network of Kansas.

State employees; working conditions.

Approved uses from the state highway fund by the department of transportation.

KPERS; definition of compensation for purposes of computing final average salary.

Exclusion of fantasy sports leagues from the crime of gambling.

House Substitute for SB 59 by Committee on Appropriations - Amendments to the CLASS Act regarding supplemental general state aid and capital outlay state aid.

Kansas department for children and families; eligibility requirements for public assistance.

Prohibition on sales of powdered alcohol.

Amending the procedure for the approval of state contracts.

House Substitute for SB 249 - Appropriations for FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; omnibus appropriation act of 2016; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.

Providing optional notification by website.

Hospitals; regarding designated lay caregivers; duties of the hospital; policies and procedures.

Campaign finance; transfer of campaign funds.

Authorizing hemp treatments for seizure disorders.

Restrictions and exceptions for campaign finance solicitations.

Enacting the Kansas deferred retirement option program act.

Domestic battery; sentencing.

Board of nursing; assistant attorneys general.

Allowing conservation districts to sponsor local enhanced management areas.

Speed limit increase when passing on two lane highways.

Removing age requirement from crime of female genital mutilation.

School district plan addressing child sexual abuse; establishing Erin's law.

Municipalities; use of internet as official publication.

Senate Substitute for HB 2112 by Committee on Judiciary – Amending the Kansas general corporation code and the business entity standard treatment act.

Changing the mandatory retirement age for judges and justices.

Substitute for HB 2362 by Committee on Health and Human Services - Healing arts licensees, resident active licenses and health care records.

Secretary for aging and disability services licensure of certain facilities and standards for treatment of certain individuals.

Enacting the transportation network company driver and passenger protection act.

Prohibiting KSHSAA from preventing children of military families from participating in high school sports due to a residency change.

Podiatrists surgery treatment of the ankle.

Substitute for HB 2370 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, FY 2018 and FY 2019 for various sate agencies; capital improvement projects.

Senate Substitute for HB2365 by Committee on Ways and Means - Skilled nursing care facility quality care assessment rate, sunset and improvement panel amendments.

Advanced practice registered nurse.

Giving full-time state employees one additional discretionary holiday each year.

Appropriation revisions for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, and FY 2018 for various state agencies.

Claims against the state.

House Substitute for SB161 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriation revisions for FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies.

Repealing the nonseverability clause in 2015 House Bill No. 2005 and providing for the severability of the provisions of such bill, concerning the judicial branch.

Conducting information technology audits.

Judicial branch; relating to court fees, docket fees and court costs; relating to dispositive motions; judicial branch surcharge fund, electronic filing and management fund and judicial branch docket fee fund; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2016, and June 30, 2017, for the judicial branch.

House Substitute for SB 91 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Renewable energy standards act and property tax exemptions for renewable energy resources.

House Substitute for SB 7 by Committee on Appropriations - Creating the classroom learning assuring student success act; making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, June 30, 2016, and June 30, 2017, for the department of education.

Extending the alternative calculation for the local option budget under the school finance formula.

State building projects; negotiating committees; alternative procurement.

Substitute for HB 2763 by Committee on Energy and Environment - Making appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, and June 30, 2016, for the university of Kansas; expansion and development of the state seismic monitoring network.

Wildlife, parks and tourism authorized to purchase land in Cherokee county.

Constitutional amendment establishing the budget stabilization fund and the disaster relief fund in the state treasury; transfers to and from such funds.

Kansas housing loan guarantee program.

Salary increase for classified employees; abolishing longevity bonus for all state employees.

Legislators per diem compensation would be based on 80% of the average K-12 teachers salary; eliminating annualization of certain compensation by legislators in determination of benefits and contributors.

Ethics commission; fees.

Workplace bullying, abuse and harassment; policies for state employees.

State contracts; access to negotiated bid contracts by certified businesses; preference for business owned by disabled veterans.

Appropriations for I/DD waiver waiting list for FY 2015 through 2018.

Judicial branch supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations.

Lottery, gaming, parimutuel winnings, debt set off; child support.

House Substitute for SB 245 by Committee on Appropriations - Education funding; relating to mineral production; creating the mineral production education fund, crediting 20% of remainder from oil and gas tax into such fund, moneys expended on education; abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund; concerning school financing sources; proceeds from the tax levied by a school district under authority of K.S.A. 2013 Supp. 72-6431, remitted to the state treasury to the credit of the state school district finance fund not to the district's general fund; making and concerning appropriations for fiscal year 2017.

Concerning utilities and approval of the construction of electric transmission lines.

Medical care facilities, licensure and renewal of licenses.

Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.

Renewable energy portfolio standards.

County treasurers; term of office starting date.

School districts; finance; amendments to funding formula.

Exchange of real estate by the university of Kansas and the Kansas university endowment association.

Repealing the restraint of trade act.

Authorizing the sale or exchange of Emporia State University property.

Relating to the open meetings act.

Interest credits and annuity interest rate changes under KPERS act of 2015.

A resolution indicating the legislature's intention not to expand medicaid services in Kansas.

Kansas dental board; licensure of dental practitioners.

Disaster reimbursement fund; adjutant general.

State employees; abolishing longevity bonus payments.

Relating to marriage licenses.

A resolution to stop Kansas participation in the expansion of medicaid services.

Requiring an election to authorize expenditures for school finance litigation.

Substitute HB 2262 by Committee on Appropriations - Amending the percentage amount that is deposited into the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund from 12.41% to 8.25%.

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2231 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.

Supplemental appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013 and FY 2014 for various state agencies.

Senate substitute for HB 2182 by Committee on Judiciary - Legislative review of open records exceptions.

Senate Substitute for HB 2338 by Committee on Ways and Means - Judicial branch; supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations; increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees; annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court operations, chief judge would have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district if such chief judge elected to do so, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation; district court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals; district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies; statutory authority for longevity bonus for judicial branch employees repealed; nonseverability clause.

Authorizing postsecondary educational institutions to enter into the state authorization reciprocity agreement to provide distance education.

On July 1, 2013, all new hires and state agency attorneys, supervisors and positions that perform information technology functions are unclassified; certain exceptions.

Senate Substitute for HB 2391 by Committee on Ways and Means - Creating the joint committee on uniform educational standards oversight.

Legislative Post Audit; periodic audits of the State treasurer and the pooled money investment board.

House Substitute for SB 434 by Committee on Appropriations -- State surplus real estate, proceeds 20% to agency and 80% to the KPERS unfunded liability; allowing DOC to sell real estate by the Hutchinson correctional facility in Reno County to Reno County for law enforcement purposes; allowing DOC to purchase real estate, and improvements thereon, in Ellsworth County for a minimum security correctional facility.

Allowing DOC to sell real estate by the Hutchinson correctional facility in Reno County to Reno County for law enforcement purposes.

Substitute for Senate Bill No. 433 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY 2015 for various state agencies; capital improvement project.

House Substitute for SB 104 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice -- Driving under the influence; creating the crime of test refusal; motorized bicycle licenses.

House Substitute SB 17 by Committee on Elections -- Relating to voter identification requirements.

Creating the Kansas newborn screening fund.

House Substitute for SB 102 by Committee on Redistricting -- Redistricting; State legislative and board of education member districts.

Prohibition on use of state appropriated moneys to lobby at state and local government level.

Kansas Bioscience authority; term limit, affiliation with KPERS and conflict of interest.

Substitute HB 2768 by Committee on Appropriations -- Appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY 2015 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.

House Substitute for SB 425 by Committee on Appropriations -- Court of appeals; 14th judge position.

Qualifications for resident tuition for military personnel and veterans.

Relating to fingerprinting and criminal history record check of nursing program applicants.

Kansas preservation of religious freedom act.

Consolidation of cities and counties by dual majority vote.

Providing authority for a school district to adopt a local activities budget.

Agreements with school districts for service provided to students attending the school for the blind and the school for the deaf.

Enacting the KanCare accountability act.

Substitute HB 2634 by Committee on Education -- School employee performance and evaluation; professional development.

Central database of information on resources supporting veterans.

Amending procedures concerning a defendant's competency to stand trial.

Limiting authority of counties to restrict certain waste material from privately owned landfills.

Postsecondary educational institutions; reducing the exception percentage for qualified admissions; eliminating funding for remedial courses.

Amending the Kansas family law code.

Biennial budget estimates for state agencies.

Longevity bonus payments for state employees.

Renewable energy standards act and energy storage.

Adjutant general; funding for disasters; creating the disaster reimbursement fund and the Kansas emergency management and homeland security fund; insurance fees and premium taxes; KUSF.

Supplemental appropriations for FY 2012 and FY 2013 for various state agencies.

Providing state employees who retired on and after January 10, 2011 and before August 2, 2011 an election to either receive continued health insurance benefits or receive a one-time lump sum payment.

Bonds relating to national bio and agro defense facility

Substitute for SB 234 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, capital improvements, special claims.

School districts; amendment to definition of at-risk pupil.

House Substitute for SB 40 by Committee on Appropriations -- Kansas housing loan deposit program; expanding the program to include the building or rehabilitation of adult care homes.

Private and out of state postsecondary educational institution act; fees.

Senate Substitute for HB2382 by Committee on Ways and Means - concerning economic development

Senate Substitute for HB 2383 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, omnibus appropriation act and omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill.

Authorizing house arrest for certain misdemeanors and nongrid felonies and updating definitions.

Amending the provisions of the crime of operating a vessel under the influence.

Substitute for HB 2296 by Social Services Budget Committee -- Establishing the joint committee on oversight of the closure of the Kansas neurological institute.

Enacting the health care freedom act.

Retaining students from grade-level promotion if not proficient on the reading state assessment for grade 3.

Requiring school districts to finance cost of remedial college courses.

The Kansas residential roofing act.

Criminal procedure and appearance bonds.

Third and subsequent DUI offenders following county jail sentence shall serve under local supervision for one year; supervised by community corrections or court services.

Board of Indigents' Defense Terms and Qualifications.

School districts; finance; high density at-risk weighting.

Working after retirement requirements for KPERS retirants.

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2333 by KPERS Select Committee --Enacting KPERS act of 2015 and other modifications to KPERS.

Appropriations for autism waiver for fiscal year 2012.

Collection of fees, charges, taxes and exactions by state agencies.

Highway patrol; administration.

House Substitute for SB 118 by Committee on Calendar and Printing -- Legislative page compensation; remuneration of not less than $5 value.

Concerning appropriations; deleting the 20% credit to the state general fund.

Amendments to the Kansas offender registration act.

Concerning courts; relating to court fees and costs; relating to the judicial branch surcharge fund.

House Substitute for SB 154 by Committee on Appropriations -- Issuance of bonds by Kansas development finance authority, national bio and agro defense facility and university of Kansas engineering school expansion project.

Senate Substitute for HB 2014 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, omnibus appropriation act and omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill, capital improvements, special claims.

Fee agencies; implementing a 10% transfer for FY2012 then repealing the 20% transfer requirement.