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Senate Committee on Ways and Means

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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 548-S

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB57 - Requiring certain state agencies, counties, cities and political subdivisions to reimburse the owner or operator of communications or video service facilities for the costs to modify or relocate such facilities for certain road and highway projects.
    SB68 - Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.
    SB75 - Establishing the education opportunity tax credit to provide an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children who are not enrolled in public school.
    SB86 - Establishing the intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually to the passenger rail service revolving fund.
    SB99 - Requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full-time positions paid from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and lapsing state general fund appropriations for such positions for fiscal year 2026.
    SB101 - Creating the drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.) educator position.
    SB214 - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.
    SB228 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    SB293 - Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.
    SB298 - Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.
    HB2113 - Establishing the state conservation fund and transferring $2,500,000 to such fund and providing for the enhanced transfer of moneys from the state general fund to the state water plan fund and from the state water plan fund to the water technical assistance fund and the water project grant fund.
    HB2237 - Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, 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.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB14 - Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.
    SB68 - Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies.
    SB181 - Limiting the annual amount of expenditures and demand transfers from the state general fund, requiring certification by the state treasurer and providing for additional requirements on the governor's and legislature's budget plans and legislative measures.
    SB207 - Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.
    SB214 - Enacting the attorney training program for rural Kansas act to provide financial assistance to lawyers and law students who practice law in rural areas.
    SB228 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies and healthcare workers platforms by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    SB256 - 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.
    SB257 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the healthcare access for working Kansans (HAWK) act.
    SB260 - Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues.
    SB264 - Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.
    SB270 - 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.
    SB271 - Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.
    SB281 - Establishing the Kansas postsecondary education savings account and Kansas ABLE savings account grant incentive program and eliminating the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program.
    SB290 - 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.
    SB293 - Authorizing technical and community colleges to affiliate with universities.
    SB298 - Authorizing technical colleges and community colleges to affiliate with universities.
    HB2007 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2025 Legislative Session
    SCR1612 - Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by allowing the legislature to contract public debt and pledges to the payment thereof the full faith, credit and taxing power of the state and giving the legislature authority over all matters concerning the contracting of public debt.
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