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Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs

  • Committee Assistant: Michael Welton 785-296-4335
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 144-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB27 - Amending the Kansas storage tank act to extend the sunsets of certain funds and to increase certain liability and reimbursement amounts.
    SB34 - Substitute for SB 34 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Prohibiting governmental entities and public officials from taking certain actions related to a contagious or infectious disease, limiting powers of the governor and other governmental entities under the Kansas emergency management act to require face masks, requiring judicial review of certain emergency actions to occur without unreasonable delay and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment related to enforcement of quarantine and student inoculation requirements.
    SB35 - Removing the option of extension of the time for receipt of advance mail ballots after the third day following an election.
    SB41 - Establishing a $100 maximum out-of-pocket cost-share per month per covered person for prescription insulin drugs.
    SB42 - Concerning the study and investigation of maternal deaths in the state of Kansas.
    SB79 - Providing the state fire marshal with law enforcement powers and requiring an investigation of deaths resulting from fire.
    SB80 - Requiring changes to electric rates for transmission costs to be approved through an electric utility's general rate case proceedings.
    SB81 - Requiring the state corporation commission to provide the legislature with an annual report of the electric rates of electric public utilities in the region.
    SB82 - Limiting utilization review conducted by health plans under certain circumstances involving the treatment of mental illness or substance abuse disorder.
    SB84 - Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act.
    SB94 - Requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots.
    SB125 - Authorizing mail ballot elections for propositions to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas.
    SB181 - Creating the elevator safety act to require inspections of elevators and licensure for elevator installation and repair.
    SB182 - Requiring electronic filing of campaign reports by candidates for state office unless an exemption is granted for cause.
    SB183 - 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.
    SB190 - Creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
    SB208 - Creating the fairness in women's sports act to require that female student athletic teams only include members who are biologically female.
    SB209 - Restrictions on third party solicitations to registered voters to file an application for an advance voting ballot.
    SB210 - Reducing the number of members of the house of representatives to 120.
    SB218 - Providing restrictions, lender reporting and other requirements for alternative small installment loans made under the UCCC.
    SB235 - Enacting the back to school act to require school districts to provide a full-time, in person attendance option for all students beginning on March 26, 2021.
    SB252 - Creating fulfillment house licenses to authorize storage and shipping services provided to winery special order shipping licensees.
    SB253 - Allowing a farm winery licensee to transfer and receive bulk wine and produce fortified wine.
    SB254 - Authorizing certain licensees under the Kansas liquor control act and the club and drinking establishment act to sell and serve cereal malt beverages.
    SB255 - 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.
    SB256 - 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.
    SB257 - Allowing clubs and drinking establishments to sell beer and cereal malt beverage for consumption off the licensed premises.
    SB258 - Clarifying the license terms and electronic submission of tax payments, reports and documentation for holders of a special order shipping license.
    SB262 - Authorizing a vote in Sedgwick county to allow the operation of electronic gaming machines at a racetrack gaming facility and prohibiting betting on greyhound races.
    SB269 - 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.
    SB270 - Prohibiting the hiring of certain law enforcement officers with history of serious misconduct allegations and making certain law enforcement disciplinary records public records.
    SB271 - Extending the time that victims of childhood sexual abuse have to bring a cause of action.
    SB272 - 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.
    SB273 - Enacting the governmental response to certain emergencies by amending the Kansas emergency management act, providing procedures for declaration and extension of state of disaster emergencies, limiting powers granted to the governor during a state of disaster emergency, defining public health disasters and establishing special provisions therefor, creating the joint committee on emergency management and prescribing powers, duties and functions of the secretary of health and environment, city and county government and the board of education of each school district to control the spread of disease and establishing judicial review thereof.
    SB276 - 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.
    SB279 - Establishing the wind generation permit and property protection act and imposing certain requirements on the siting of wind turbines.
    SB283 - 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 and certain persons conducting business in this state for COVID-19 claims until March 31, 2022.
    SB284 - Amending the Kansas emergency management act to authorize a state of disaster emergency to continue for no longer than 21 days unless ratified by concurrent resolution of the legislature and provide for extensions for specified periods not to exceed 30 days each.
    SB285 - Providing for the alpha kappa alpha distinctive license plate.
    SB287 - Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility.
    SB292 - Limiting who may return an advance voting ballot and the number of such ballots a person may return.
    SB293 - Creating the transparency in revenues underwriting elections act to criminalize the receipt and expenditure of private moneys by election officials.
    SB294 - Creating the Roy'Ale Spencer firearms safety act to require firearms to be safely secured and establishing criminal penalties for violations of the act.
    SB295 - Giving counties the authority to adopt prioritized COVID-19 vaccination plans separate from state guidelines.
    SB296 - Adjusting the rate of sales and compensating use tax on food and food ingredients and implementing additional formulaic adjustments to tax rate.
    SB298 - Updates to the controlled substances act.
    SB300 - Amending the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act to add a person who has engaged in identity theft or identity fraud to the definition of "covered person" and add identity theft and identity fraud to the definition of "racketeering activity."
    SB301 - Establishing the office of the child advocate within the office of the attorney general and the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    SB303 - Prohibiting boards of county commissioners, boards of trustees or employees from restricting visitors of residents of a county home for the aged or patients in a county hospital and permitting such residents and patients to waive state, city or federal restrictions on right to receive visitors.
    SB304 - Removing the sunset provision in the COVID-19 contact tracing privacy act.
    SB307 - Requiring that advance voting ballots be returned to the county election office by the day of the election.
    SB308 - Providing for the right of individuals to not wear face coverings in places of public accommodation, refuse vaccinations and access off-label medications.
    SB309 - Designating a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway.
    SB310 - 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.
    SB312 - Changing election law regarding bond law elections, eliminating the requirement that county commissioners reside in the county, clarifying mail ballot provisions and repealing obsolete election laws relating to the presidential preference primary and certain elections-related corporate contribution restrictions.
    SB313 - Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee.
    SB351 - 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.
    SB352 - Enacting the community defense and human trafficking reduction act to regulate sexually orientated businesses and human trafficking and to impose criminal penalties for violations.
    SB361 - Concerning an employer's maximum liability for permanent total disability compensation and requiring an employer to pay such disabled employee during the continuance of such disability from the date of maximum medical improvement for the lifetime of the employee at the weekly rate of the compensation in effect on the date of injury for which compensation is being made.
    SB369 - Establishing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act providing income, privilege and premium tax credits for qualified low-income housing projects.
    SB370 - 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.
    SB371 - Revoking authority to suspend driving privileges for the nonpayment of fines from traffic citations.
    SB372 - Prohibiting the state school for the deaf from dismissing or transferring any student who gains access to hearing.
    SB374 - Discontinuing the property tax exemption for new developments of renewable energy resources.
    SB375 - Enacting the Kansas housing investor tax credit act and expanding Kansas housing programs to facilitate economic development by providing tax credits for investment in residential housing projects in underserved rural and urban communities to accommodate new employees and support business growth.
    SB376 - 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.
    SB382 - Applying licensure provisions for real estate brokers and salespersons to trusts and authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders.
    SB394 - Requiring all advanced voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.
    SB395 - Protecting private property from unauthorized access by certain government officials and unauthorized surveillance.
    SB396 - Creating the constitution and federalism defense act to establish a joint legislative commission to evaluate the constitutionality of federal mandates.
    SB397 - 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.
    SB404 - 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.
    SB405 - Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Shawnee Tribe.
    SB406 - 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.
    SB418 - Prohibiting the modification of election laws by agreement except as approved by the legislative coordinating council.
    SB420 - 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.
    SB423 - Modifying how reasonable allowance for use is calculated for nonconforming vehicle warranty refunds.
    SB424 - Requiring independent investigations and reports for incidents of law enforcement officer-involved deaths and use of aggressive force.
    SB445 - Prohibiting the use of additional ballot boxes for the return of advance voting ballots.
    SB446 - 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.
    SB459 - Providing for the order of the eastern star distinctive license plate.
    SB466 - Prohibiting certain acts by places of public accommodations based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and prohibiting governing bodies of any city or county, public officials of any city or county and local health officers from requiring that a person wear a face mask based on an epidemic or other public health reason.
    SB468 - Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a mural honoring the 1st Kansas (Colored) Voluntary Infantry regiment.
    SB485 - Expanding the scope of uses of campaign contribution moneys under the campaign finance act to include family caregiving services.
    SB486 - Expanding the scope of the campaign finance act to include candidates for board membership for school districts and community colleges in certain counties.
    SB487 - Proposing congressional redistricting map jayhawk two.
    SB492 - 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.
    SB493 - Prohibiting cities and counties from regulating plastic and other containers designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages.
    SB494 - 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.
    SB503 - Providing requirements for judicial tax lien foreclosure sales and expanding costs that may be included as redemption fees.
    SB504 - Providing that worker's compensation benefit reductions due to retirement benefits funded by the employer shall apply to retirement benefits that the employee begins receiving after the injury to reduce permanent disability benefits and exempting benefits under the federal social security act.
    SB505 - Enacting the protect home-based work act prohibiting the enactment or enforcement of zoning regulations that are barriers to home-based work.
    SB506 - Providing for the north central Kansas down syndrome society distinctive license plate.
    SB507 - Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
    SB510 - Enacting the Kansas vacant property act to prohibit municipalities from imposing any fees or registration requirements on unoccupied residential or commercial property.
    SB511 - Providing public employees and professional employees certain rights with respect to withholding of public employee organization and professional employee organization dues.
    SB517 - Requiring public agencies to allow certain persons to listen to audio recordings or to view video recordings made at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile intake and assessment services facility and that relate to an incident in which a juvenile was seriously injured or died while in such facility.
    SB521 - Prohibiting motorcycle profiling by law enforcement agencies.
    SB522 - Standardizing firearm safety education programs in school districts.
    SB529 - Providing for the electronic renewal of nondriver's identification cards.
    SB531 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    SB532 - Allowing candidates for nonpartisan offices to have such candidate's political party provided with the candidate's name on the ballot.
    SB533 - 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.
    SB534 - 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.
    SB535 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to determine whether applicants have been employed in law enforcement and examine certain records.
    SB536 - Requiring the attorney general to investigate allegations of misconduct by a prosecuting attorney that may have contributed to a wrongful conviction and, if the evidence warrants, prosecute any appropriate criminal charges and commence ouster proceedings against such prosecuting attorney.
    SB537 - Requiring state agencies, political subdivisions, state contractors and vendors to disclose certain contracts, gifts or grants received from foreign sources and state educational institutions to screen certain foreign applicants seeking employment in certain research positions, prohibiting agreements with or accepting grants from certain foreign countries of concern and establishing research integrity offices and international travel and approval programs at state educational institutions.
    SB539 - Permitting naturopathic doctors and acupuncturists to engage in the corporate practice of medicine.
    SB541 - Prohibiting a governmental entity or public official from ordering or otherwise requiring a person to wear a face mask as a response to a contagious or infectious disease and from restricting worship services or activities; providing that orders and similar actions by public officials relating to gathering limitations and business restrictions shall not exceed 30 days in duration at a time before being renewed or allowed to expire; prohibiting school officials from issuing or requiring use of a COVID-19 vaccination passport or discriminating against a student based upon COVID-19 vaccination status; requiring schools to recognize exemptions from vaccination requirements; prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to contagious or infectious disease and modifying judicial review provisions related thereto; and removing the sunset provision in the COVID-19 contact tracing privacy act.
    SB544 - 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.
    SB545 - Requiring nonpublic schools to participate in certain assessments and publish on their website performance accountability reports and longitudinal achievement reports.
    SB546 - Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee.
    SB547 - 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.
    SB548 - 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.
    SB549 - Allowing certain water right holders to withdraw from a groundwater management district under certain circumstances.
    SB550 - Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver's licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.
    SB552 - 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.
    SB557 - Changing the scope of crimes that may be expunged to exempt an individual from the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
    SB558 - 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.
    SB559 - Limiting the liability of optometrists and ophthalmologists who report information to the division of vehicles relating to a person's vision.
    SB560 - Enacting the medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical marijuana.
    SB561 - Proposing the state senatorial redistricting plan Eisenhower.
    SB562 - Proposing the state senatorial redistricting map bluestem.
    SB566 - Proposing state senatorial redistricting plan freedom.
    SB567 - Allowing restricted driver's license holders to drive to and from worship services held by any religious organizations at age 15.
    SB568 - Proposing state senatorial redistricting plan free state one.
    SB570 - 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.
    SB571 - Providing for the appointment of members of standing, special and select committees of the legislature by a committee on organization of the senate and a committee on organization of the house of representatives.
    SB572 - Enacting the covert firearms act and establishing criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, distribution, transportation, shipping or receiving of certain firearms or components.
    SB573 - Proposing state senatorial district plan free state five.
    SB574 - Proposing state senatorial district plan free state four.
    SB575 - 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.
    SB579 - Establishing the homegrown Kansas leadership program to provide tuition assistance for individuals who earn a teaching degree or a master's degree in education and agree to teach in Kansas after earning such degree.
    SB580 - Establishing an accelerated teacher training program.
    HB2056 - 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.
    HB2057 - Senate Substitute for HB 2057 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act.
    HB2138 - 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.
    HB2183 - 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.
    HB2212 - Senate Substitute for HB 2212 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Enacting the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act and the Kansas housing investor tax credit act to provide tax credits for certain housing projects.
    HB2252 - Prohibiting the modification of election laws by agreement except as approved by the legislative coordinating council.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SCR1611 - Article V Convention to propose amendments to limit federal power.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    SCR1611 - Article V Convention to propose amendments to limit federal power.
    SCR1621 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the governor will appoint supreme court justices subject to senate confirmation and to eliminate the supreme court nominating commission.
    SCR1622 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for partisan, statewide election of justices of the supreme court and abolish the supreme court nominating commission.
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