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Senate Committee on Ways and Means

  • Committee Assistant: Nancy Fontaine 785-296-3775
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 548-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB52 - Creating the Sedgwick county urban area nuisance abatement act.
    SB53 - Establishing the membership of the Sedgwick county charter commission which, if created, will review and recommend changes regarding the structure of county government.
    SB54 - Authorizing judges to extend protection from abuse orders for more reasons and tolling time when subject of the order is in prison.
    SB113 - Creating the distracted driving violation and prohibiting the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle.
    SB117 - Enacting the Kansas electricity bill reduction bonds act and authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed K-EBRA bonds for electric utility property.
    SB136 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
    SB145 - Authorizing the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to purchase land in Kingman county.
    SB154 - Increasing reimbursement rates for providers of home and community-based services under the intellectual or developmental disability waiver, making appropriations for such rates and providing for legislative review of the waiting list for such services.
    SB155 - Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
    SB168 - 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
    SB169 - Authorizing the legislative coordinating council to prohibit the carrying of concealed handguns in the state capitol.
    SB170 - Enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact to provide for interjurisdictional authorization to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychology and enacting the physical therapy licensure compact and authorizing criminal history record checks in the physical therapy practice act.
    SB171 - Providing for adjusted sales tax rates for food and food ingredients.
    SB222 - Excluding hypothetical leased fee when determining fair market value for property taxation purposes.
    SB223 - Allowing the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of conducting carbon dioxide in pipes.
    SB224 - Establishing maximum length for trains to operate in Kansas and providing for penalties for violations.
    SB225 - Providing affiliation with the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system by the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism for membership of certain law enforcement officers and employees.
    SB226 - Providing a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging for certain purchases of tangible personal property and services.
    SB236 - Establishing the Kansas commission for the United States semiquincentennial.
    SB248 - Updating certain definitions, referral to specialty services and coordination of care provisions in the Kansas telemedicine act.
    SB249 - Creating additional reporting requirements for all state agencies for certain information technology projects.
    SB250 - Amending the Kansas cybersecurity act to require security training for all state agencies and provide for certain information to be provided to the joint committee on information technology.
    SB251 - Updating statutes relating to the powers, duties and functions of the state board of pharmacy.
    SB259 - Providing that the testimony of an examining healthcare provider may be submitted in evidence by the provider's medical report in workers compensation cases.
    SB260 - Requiring an elected office holder or candidate for office to remove endorsements from social media within 90 days of a written request by an individual or organization.
    SB261 - Establishing the asbestos remediation fund for fees and penalties collected as part of the Kansas asbestos control program.
    SB263 - Eliminating the reduction of child day care services assistance tax credit in subsequent years and limitations on eligible corporations and providing a credit for employer payments to organizations for child day care services access.
    SB264 - Enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse and addiction.
    SB265 - Providing a KPERS death and long-term disability employer contribution moratorium.
    SB266 - Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 24-year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.
    SB267 - Substitute for SB 267 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2021, FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.
    SB268 - Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2021 through 2032 for various state agencies and revising the pooled money investment portfolio repayment schedule.
    SB277 - Authorizing continuation of the 20 mill statewide property tax levy for schools and the exemption of a portion of residential property from such levy.
    SB278 - Requiring recipients of a distinctive license plate fee to file a report detailing money received and expenditures.
    SB280 - Modifying the distribution of the levy on fire insurance business premiums to the state fire marshal fee fund, the emergency medical services operating fund and the fire service training program fund.
    SB281 - Changing unemployment insurance disqualification provisions for fraud, part-time employment for educational institutions and receipt of pensions.
    SB288 - Enacting the technology-enabled trust bank act, providing requirements, fiduciary powers, duties, functions and limitations for trust banks and the administration thereof by the bank commissioner and creating an income and privilege tax credit for certain qualified distributions from trust banks.
    SB289 - Enacting the frontline service pay act to provide additional compensation to Kansas employees at high risk of exposure to COVID-19 and who are engaged in essential work for the state of Kansas.
    SB290 - Increasing healthcare stabilization fund minimum professional liability insurance coverage requirements, changing the membership of the board of governors of such fund and adding options and increasing time for service of process thereon.
    SB291 - Increasing the minimum wage by $1 per year to $15 an hour by 2027.
    SB299 - Increasing the compensation of members of the state banking board.
    SB305 - Requiring each law enforcement agency that utilizes automated license plate recognition systems to adopt and maintain a detailed, written policy relating to the use and operation of such systems and prescribing restrictions and requirements relating to the collection, storage and sharing of captured license plate data.
    SB314 - Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.
    SB315 - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act to regulate the production, distribution, sale and possession of medical marijuana.
    SB386 - Limiting fees for copying and staff time under the Kansas open records act and providing for waiver or reduction of such fees.
    SB407 - Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.
    SB421 - Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
    SB422 - Appropriations for FY 2023, FY 2024 and FY 2025 for various state agencies.
    SB443 - 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.
    SB444 - 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.
    SB488 - Eliminating the division of vehicles modernization surcharge.
    SB508 - Eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
    SB509 - Providing a refund of state sales tax paid on certain purchases to reconstruct, repair or replace buildings and improvements damaged by certain disasters.
    SB523 - Authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund in fiscal years 2022 and 2023 and requiring state finance council approval for such fiscal year 2023 transfers.
    SB524 - Providing membership in the KP&F retirement system for certain security officers of the department of corrections and for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks.
    SB530 - Establishing the Kansas rail safety improvement act providing for safety requirements for railroad operations and crossings.
    SB551 - Establishing the division of pet animal facilities inspection within the department of agriculture under the administration of the pet animal facilities director.
    SB563 - Proposing the state senatorial redistricting map liberty two.
    SB569 - Updating references and corresponding changes related to 2021 Executive Reorganization Order No. 48 and the transfer of the division of tourism from the department of wildlife and parks to the department of commerce.
    SB576 - Proposing state board of education redistricting plan little jerusalem badlands.
    SB577 - Proposing state board of education redistricting plan apple.
    SB578 - Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.
    SB581 - Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance at state educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.
    HB2380 - 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.
    HB2397 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2397 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling conflicting amendments to certain statutes.
    HB2492 - Senate Substitute for HB 2492 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.
    HB2567 - Senate Substitute for HB 2567 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 22, FY 23 and FY 24; enacting the every child can read act; authorizing course credits to be earned outside the classroom; making members of the Kansas state high school activities association mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect; requiring school districts to consider certain assessments when budgeting for the following school year; authorizing part-time school district enrollment; establishing open enrollment requirements for school districts; amending the initial age of eligibility for the tax credit for low income students scholarship program; making changes to the virtual school act and authorizing additional virtual school state aid; removing federal impact aid from the determination of local foundation aid; amending the capital improvement state aid formula; requiring the state department of education to report on student achievement outcomes; amending the Kansas promise scholarship act; establishing requirements for certain nonacademic surveys and questionnaires; increasing educational benefits for relatives of deceased, injured or disabled public safety officers, military personnel and prisoners of war; and authorizing additional education programs under the Jonson county education research triangle authority act.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SCR1609 - Proposing a constitutional amendment that provides for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    SCR1609 - Proposing a constitutional amendment that provides for legislative oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
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