Kansas Senate Bills

Updating certain provisions of the Kansas dental practices act relating to dentist information requested by patients, in-person practice requirements in dental office using licensee's name, unprofessional conduct and patient complaints.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Prohibiting members of the legislature from lobbying for a period of four years after leaving office.

Requiring veterans with a condition from military service to be offered diversion for certain offenses and expanding the mitigating factor for departure at sentencing for veterans.

Requiring persons convicted of or given diversion agreements for driving under the influence to attend victim impact panel programs.

Classifying crimes related to driving under the influence and driving a commercial vehicle under the influence as person crimes.

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for the distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts.

House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing certain sales tax exemptions, imposing sales tax on certain sales of lottery tickets, imposing an excise tax on all sports wagers as a rate of 2% of the amount wagered, creating the property tax relief fund and providing for transfers therefrom to the state school district finance fund and creating the sports wagering privilege tax refund fund.

Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Authorizing the state bank commissioner to revoke a TEFFI charter, subject to approval by the legislative coordinating council.

Requiring the department of health and environment to audit hospital compliance with the lay caregiver act and report the results of such audit to the legislature.

Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Providing for local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.

Eliminating certain tax credits, exemptions, incentives, refunds and limitations, a transitional adjustment, a checkoff and a restoration program administered by the secretary that have expired or are no longer applicable.

Removing the criminal penalties for possession of a personal-use quantity of marijuana and creating a civil penalty for possession of a personal-use quantity of marijuana.

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.

Prohibiting the transfer of hemp-derived cannabinoid products to any person under the age of 21, establishing packaging and labeling requirements for such products and amending the definition of industrial hemp and hemp products.

Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.

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.

Requiring economic development electric rate discounts offered by public utilities to cover the incremental and variable costs to serve customers that receive such a discount.

Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof.

Prohibiting law enforcement agencies and officers from participating in immigration enforcement in places of religious worship, elementary and secondary schools and hospitals.

Relating to the definitions of lobbyist, lobbying and lobbying client for purposes of the state governmental ethics law.

Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for certain expenses incurred by state officers and employees for travel in attending conferences or events provided by nonprofit organizations and for discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.

Enacting the defense of drug delivery act to prohibit manufacturer interference relating to 340B drug distribution.

Decreasing individual income tax rates, discontinuing tax credits of the high performance incentive program and the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, discontinuing payroll withholding tax benefits of the promoting employment across Kansas act, discontinuing the crediting of certain amounts to the job creation program fund and repealing certain tax credits.

Enacting the Kansas retirement investment and savings plan (KRISP) act and establishing terms, conditions, requirements, membership elections, accounts, benefits, contributions and distributions related to such plan.

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.

Requiring the approval by a majority of electors voting at an election in order for the governing body of any taxing entity to increase its total amount of property tax to be levied by more than the annual rate of inflation.

Updating public adjuster and insurance agent statutes pertaining to suspension, revocation, denial of licensure and licensure renewal.

Amending the campaign finance act and the state governmental ethics laws regarding the qualifications of members of the governmental ethics commission, actions of the commission, formation of political committees, reporting requirements and requirements for "paid for" attributions.

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by care to share cancer support group of Bourbon county, Kansas, inc.

Exempting certain qualified tips from state income tax.

Removing the state fire marshal from the adult care home licensure act and the providers of disability services act and requiring the state fire marshal to complete training in person-centered care and responding to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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.

Requiring the state corporation commission to engage a consulting firm to conduct a technical and legal feasibility study on new nuclear energy generation.

Requiring that special elections be held on the first Tuesday in March.

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

Requiring grants awarded pursuant to the Kansas educator registered apprenticeship program for education apprentice tuition and fees to be made twice per year and at the time payments for such tuition and fees are due.

Eliminating the requirement that the commissioner submit certain reports to the governor and removing certain specific entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law.

Clarifying modifications for certain business interest expenses and federal net operating loss carrybacks and providing a technical change to a statutory cross reference for recaptured moneys related to adoption savings accounts for purposes of Kansas income tax.

Providing sales tax exemptions for certain services purchased on behalf of a provider in the provision of communication services and certain purchases by the Kansas fairgrounds foundation and modifying the definition of alcoholic beverages for purposes of the retailers' sales tax.

Requiring legislative approval to construct high-impact electric transmission lines.

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.

House Substitute for SB 263 by Committee on Education - Establishing standards and requirements for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools and regulating active shooter simulations.

Requiring government agencies, public utilities and other entities when exercising the power of eminent domain to make a good faith offer for the property prior to filing an eminent domain action, providing the good faith offer, if greater than the appraiser's award, shall be deposited with the court, allowing appeals from that amount, prohibiting the exercise of eminent domain for recreational trails and park and recreational facilities and deleting the power of the legislature to condemn property for economic development.

Authorizing the director of alcoholic beverage control to issue certain licenses to persons convicted of certain felonies if such conviction is more than 10 years old.

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases by bowling centers.

Providing that future personal and corporate income tax rate and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding tax receipt revenues.

Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official.

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.

Enacting the back to work act to require all full-time state employees to perform such employees' duties in their assigned office, facility or field location, provide for certain exceptions by agency heads and require certain reports regarding such exceptions.

Authorizing certain inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections to petition the court for a resentencing hearing.

Prohibiting aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States from receiving any state or local public benefit in accordance with applicable federal law.

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

Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to allow certain high school students and students eligible to be enrolled in certain school districts to be eligible for scholarships, increasing the tax credit for contributions and the aggregate tax credit limit, providing for aggregate tax credit increases under certain conditions and providing for program administration by the state treasurer.

Requiring the department of health and environment to submit an annual report to the legislature concerning the newborn screening program.

Enacting the insurance savings account act, allowing individuals and corporations to establish insurance savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications under the Kansas income tax act.