Committee Bill Hearings

March 04, 2025

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Committee	Chamber	Bill	Short Title	Time	Room	Status
Public Health and Welfare	Senate	HB2070	Enacting the dietitian licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dietitians.	08:30 AM	142-S	Past
Public Health and Welfare	Senate	HB2069	Enacting the school psychologist licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for school psychologists.	08:30 AM	142-S	Past
Transportation	Senate	HB2124	Designating a portion of United States highway 160 as the CPL Monte Wayne Forrest memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 77 as the POW MIA memorial highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 (026) in Clay county as the POW MIA memorial bridge.	08:30 AM	546-S	Past
Transportation	Senate	HB2031	Providing that driving school instructors and motorcycle instructors may possess a driver's license or motorcycle driver's license from any state.	08:30 AM	546-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	HB2128	Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.	09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Assessment and Taxation	Senate	SB259	Providing that future personal and corporate income tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding tax receipt revenues.	09:30 AM	548-S	Past
Assessment and Taxation	Senate	HB2275	Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Finney county for the purpose of financing the construction or remodeling of a courthouse, jail, law enforcement center facility or other county administrative facility.	09:30 AM	548-S	Past
Assessment and Taxation	Senate	SB226	Allowing an itemized deduction for certain losses from wagering transactions for individuals for income tax purposes.	09:30 AM	548-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	HB2045	Reducing the number of board members appointed by the commissioner on certain insurance-related boards and the frequency of the meetings of the committee on surety bonds and insurance.	09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Financial Institutions and Insurance	Senate	HB2333	Renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, the office of the securities commissioner of Kansas as the department of insurance, securities division, the securities commissioner as the department of insurance assistant commissioner, securities division and eliminating the requirement that the senate confirm department of insurance assistant commissioner, securities division appointees.	09:30 AM	546-S	Past
Local Government, Transparency and Ethics	Senate	HB2099	Permitting periodic inspections by a city or county for code violations of private residential rental housing where the property owner is receiving governmental rental subsidies.	09:30 AM	142-S	Past
Local Government, Transparency and Ethics	Senate	HB2116	Requiring that certain contractual provisions be incorporated in all contracts for certain cities and counties, including the provisions of form DA-146a, with certain exceptions.	09:30 AM	142-S	Past
Judiciary	Senate	HB2177	Increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer when the person has prior convictions of the offense.	10:30 AM	346-S	Past
Judiciary	Senate	HB2347	Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft.	10:30 AM	346-S	Past
Judiciary	Senate	HB2242	Authorizing the governor to accept requests of concurrent jurisdiction from the federal government in certain circumstances.	10:30 AM	346-S	Past
Judiciary	Senate	HB2183	Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit certain acts related to visual depictions in  which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person.	10:30 AM	346-S	Past
Federal and State Affairs	Senate	SB177	Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act, providing for automatic increases to such limits based on the consumer price index and eliminating such limits on contributions to party committees.	10:30 AM	144-S	Past
Commerce	Senate	HB2117	Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record.	01:30 PM	159-S	Past
Commerce	Senate	HB2092	Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.	01:30 PM	159-S	Past
Education	House	SB44	Expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas promise scholarship program.	01:30 PM	218-N	Past
Education	House	SB76	Requiring employees of school districts and postsecondary educational institutions to use the name and pronouns consistent with a student's biological sex and birth certificate and authorizing a cause of action for violations therefor.	01:30 PM	218-N	Past
Health and Human Services	House	HB2236	Establishing the mental health intervention team program in the Kansas department for aging and disability services in state statute and providing incentives for coordination between school districts, qualified schools and mental health intervention team providers.	01:30 PM	112-N	Past
Commerce, Labor and Economic Development	House	HB2308	Enacting the aviation and innovative manufacturing in Kansas act to attract businesses establishing a headquarters or engaged in aircraft assembly, electric or hydrogen-powered motor vehicle production, and other specified industries to Kansas by offering companies meeting certain employment and investment requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs.	01:30 PM	346-S	Past
Judiciary	House	SB222	Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer hearing an administrative action.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past
Taxation	House	HB2396	Authorizing the use of a protest petition to limit funding of a taxing jurisdiction by property tax revenues exceeding a certain amount, establishing the acknowledging stewardship of tax revenue and appropriations (ASTRA) fund; authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to qualifying cities and counties and eliminating the revenue neutral rate requirements by taxing subdivisions and the taxpayer notification costs fund.	03:30 PM	346-S	Past
Judiciary	House	SB138	Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past
Judiciary	House	SB135	Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.	03:30 PM	582-N	Past
Agriculture and Natural Resources	House	SB36	Increasing the cap on the amount of moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation districts and providing an increased matching basis for state moneys disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the board of county commissioners for such districts.	03:30 PM	112-N	Past