(Feb. 22, 2023) – Today, the Senate took final action on the following bills:
Senate Bill 66 enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to recognize equivalent teacher licenses across member states
Senate Bill 85 enacts the Kansas Travel Insurance Act
Senate Bill 115 changes the lists of persons who are required to be given notice of the hearing on a petition for an independent or stepparent, private agency or public agency adoption
Senate Bill 132 provides for the buffalo soldier distinctive license plate
Senate Bill 144 exempts satellite service and video programming services accessed over the internet from the Video Competition Act
Senate Bill 189 authorizes state and local law enforcement agencies to receive files and information about an applicant from other agencies that received an application for employment from the applicant or conducted an employment background investigation on the applicant
These bills will now go to the House for further review.
On General Orders, the Chamber debated the following bills:
Senate Bill 3 designates Silvisaurus condrayi as the official state land fossil
Senate Bill 27 authorizes the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees
Senate Bill 123 deems military veterans and spouses or dependents of such veterans who were stationed in Kansas for at least 11 months as residents for purposes of tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions
Senate Bill 28 discontinues payments to certain group-funded insurance pools, refunds existing balances thereof and abolishes such funds; establishes the Group-Funded Pools Refund Fund
Senate Bill 229 provides for the city of Topeka distinctive license plates
Senate Bill 208 restricts the number of remote ballot boxes that may be used in each county and requires certain monitoring
Senate Bill 209 requires all advance voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day with conditions for such use
Senate Bill 119 updates certain obsolete statutory references in chapter 40 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated
Senate Bill 210 allows nonpartisan candidates for office to include such a candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with the candidate's name
Senate Bill 219 designates certain health care providers that provide elective abortions as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the Health Care Stabilization Fund
Senate Bill 221 requires affidavits of write-in candidacy for certain locally elected offices and provides requirements for counting write-in votes on ballots
Senate Bill 194 requires hospital district board members to be qualified electors of the county where the hospital is located or any adjacent county
Senate Bill 75 changes the legal rate of interest from a fixed rate to a variable rate based on the statutory rate provided for interest on judgments
Senate Bill 174 increases criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer
Senate Bill 5 prohibits the prescribing of drugs intended to cause an abortion using telemedicine and restricts the governor's power during a state of emergency to alter such prohibitions
Senate Bill 120 authorizes the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to adopt rules and regulations for an annual certification program for the replacement of distribution systems segments and increases the amortization period on loans from the Kansas Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
Senate Bill 113 allows naturopathic doctors to engage in the corporate practice of medicine
Senate Bill 34 expands the use and availability of rural housing incentive districts
Senate Bill 49 requires new wind energy conversion systems to be constructed with light-mitigating technology systems
Senate Bill 217 includes the conduct of utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted person's location, movement or travel patterns in the crime of stalking when done as part of an unlawful course of conduct and authorizing orders to prohibit such conduct under the Kansas Family Law Code, the revised Kansas Code for Care of Children, the Protection from Abuse Act and the Protection from Stalking, Sexual Assault or Human Trafficking Act
Senate Bill 233 creates a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requires revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service
Senate Bill 180 establishes the Women's Bill of Rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction
Senate Bill 6 restricts the authority of the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and local health officers to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases; repeals the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and imposes associated penalties
These bills, after a final vote, will go before the House Chamber for further review.
Today, the Senate saw an attempted amendment to allow for ranked choice voting that was ruled as non-germane to an election bill before the chamber. Additionally, Senate Bill 209 was amended to prohibit the use of ballot boxes.