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Senate Standing Committee on Ways and Means

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

Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Sponsored Bills
SB76 - Supplemental appropriation for FY 2012, FY 2013 and FY 2014 for various state agencies.
SB110 - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies.
SB115 - Requiring radon testing for residential home sales.
SB116 - Prohibiting referral fees between realtors
SB117 - Repealing a $500,000 transfer from highway patrol training center fund to the state general fund.
SB131 - School finance; use of capital outlay funds.
SB132 - School finance; amount of tax levy authorized to finance ancillary school facilities.
SB133 - Providing authority for a school district to adopt a local activities budget.
SB134 - Capital improvement projects for various state agencies.
SB144 - Annual basketball game between division I universities of the state.
SB145 - Municipalities; elections; partisan; fall, odd-numbered years.
SB152 - Health insurance for firefighters and law enforcement officers.
SB153 - Water; dams; definition; exemption from permit requirements; inspection costs and penalties.
SB169 - Enacting the Kansas reads to success act.
SB175 - Insurance; coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
SB176 - Creating the coalition of innovative districts act.
SB194 - Community developmental disability organizations; performance of functional assessments.
SB195 - Kansas employment first initiative act amendments.
SB196 - Creating the Kansas public charter school act.
SB197 - Kansas dental board; licensure of dental practitioners.
SB204 - Member elections and retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments under KPERS act of 2015.
SB205 - Member elections, retirement benefit determinations and one-time payments and interest credits and annuity interest rate changes under KPERS act of 2015.
SB206 - Abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund. Allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund.
SB209 - Providing for public disclosure and economic efficiency in publicly funded contracts and economic development agreements.
SB210 - Health information technology act.
SB211 - Elections; municipalities; primary and general elections; date change; partisan.
SB216 - Allowing a public building commission to acquire land for a municipal university similar to what such commission is currently allowed to do for any state university.
SB218 - Entire amount of docket fees shall be credited to the judicial branch docket fee fund, created in this bill, with certain exceptions. Extending the judicial branch surcharge for two years.
SB221 - Cremation; priority of decedent's fully paid prearranged cremation plan.
SB223 - Authorizing use of a crossbow by all hunters during big game archery season.
SB224 - School finance; amendments to certain weightings.
SB230 - Amendments to Kansas pet animal act; allowing animal shelters and rescue networks to be licensing agents for pet animal foster homes and to host mobile adoption events; changing inspection schedules.
SB233 - Uniform consumer credit code, definition of "loan".
SB236 - Reporting of adult care home resident deaths.
SB239 - Reducing corporate income tax rates based on selected actual corporation income tax state general fund receipts computation.
SB240 - Decreasing corporate income surtax and eliminating certain income tax credits.
SB241 - Amending the percentage amount that is deposited into the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund from 12.41% to 6%; allowing counties to access funds.
SB242 - Requiring health insurers to provide a copy of the insurance policy or contract before an applicant is required to pay a premium.
SB245 - National bio and agro defense facility, increasing amount of bonding authority from $105,000,000 to $307,000,000.
SB246 - Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
SB247 - University of Kansas; medical student loan act.
SB277 - Extending the alternative calculation for the local option budget under the school finance formula.
SB278 - Establishing the state board of veterinary examiners within the animal health division of the Kansas department of agriculture for a two-year period.
SB323 - Amending the duration of a conservation easement.
SB324 - Judicial branch supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations.
SB325 - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects.
SB326 - Advanced practice registered nurses scope of practice and prescribing authority.
SB331 - Providing for IP interconnection.
SB332 - Interest on judgments in civil actions.
SB333 - Electric utility uniform billing standards.
SB341 - School districts; enrollment count for kindergarten attendance.
SB364 - Annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court, chief judge could elect to have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation.
SB365 - District court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals.
SB366 - Wildlife, parks and tourism authorized to purchase land in Cherokee county.
SB367 - Creating the student data privacy act.
SB368 - Custody, visitation and residency of a child with certain relatives.
SB369 - School district agreements for consolidation of administrative services.
SB370 - Wildlife, parks and tourism authorized to purchase land in Pottawatomie county.
SB378 - Creating the Kansas educational opportunity act.
SB379 - Liquefied petroleum motor-fuel computation conversion for certain fuels, tax rates.
SB388 - Health insurance for certain emergency personnel employed by cities or counties.
SB395 - Educational building fund; regents bonding authority.
SB396 - State building projects; negotiating committees; alternative procurement.
SB397 - Amendments to the Kansas pet animal act.
SB405 - State use law; extending the committee for 5 years; allowing municipalities to use the products and services.
SB408 - Allowing retail sale of electric generation.
SB412 - Authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for water projects instead of the Kansas water office; state finance council approval required.
SB413 - Legislative meetings and the transparency and accountability act.
SB414 - Kansas department for children and families; photograph of a recipient on the public assistance card.
SB415 - Increasing criminal penalties for residential burglary.
SB416 - Defendants have statutory right to counsel at every hearing before a judge of the district court, rather than at every stage of the proceedings.
SB417 - Court of appeals judges to be nominated by the supreme court nominating commission and appointed by the governor.
SB418 - Regulated scrap metal; crime of theft and related sentencing provisions; regulation of scrap metal dealers, including unlawful acts and penalties.
SB420 - Establishing the capitol meditation room.
SB421 - Allowing program credits earned by an inmate to be published on the department of corrections website.
SB422 - Local governments; investment of idle funds; changes.
SB423 - Authorizing Department of Administration to sell Landon and Eisenhower state office buildings.
SB424 - Amending the statutory requirements for a valid hospital lien.
SB425 - Changing interest credit amounts and retirement annuities under KPERS act of 2015, and membership in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for security officers of the department of corrections.
SB427 - Creating the Johnson county community college go pro now program to provide high school students with an accelerated four-year, opportunity to receive a high school diploma, associate degree from Johnson county community college, and bachelor's degree from a state educational institution; appropriations for FY 2014 and FY 2015.
SB429 - Providing postsecondary career technical education performance-based funding.
SB430 - Providing for alternative teacher licensure.
SB432 - Enacting the SUCCESS act.
SB433 - Repealing the renewable energy standards act.
SB434 - Enacting the SUCCESS act.
SB441 - Driver's license examiners.
SB442 - Enacting the Kansas employee credit consideration act.
SB443 - Education; funding for capital outlay and supplemental general state aid.
SB444 - Authorizing a new capital outlay tax levy; when.
SB445 - Enabling active business recruitment through PEAK.
SB446 - Alcoholic beverages; designating certain areas for consumption of alcoholic beverages in public.
SB450 - Valuation of land devoted to agricultural use.
SB451 - Kansas expanded lottery act; racetrack gaming.
SB452 - Amendments to the school district finance and quality performance act.
SB453 - Creating the mineral production education fund, crediting 20% of remainder from oil and gas tax into such fund. Moneys expended on education funding. Abolishing the oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund. Allowing the counties to retain funds already in such county's oil and gas valuation depletion trust fund.
SB454 - Abolishing longevity bonus payments; authorizing an annual $300 payment for classified state employees and certain state officers and an annual $150 payment for regular classified part-time employees and members of the legislature.
HB2143 - Senate Substitute for HB 2143 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects.
HB2145 - Senate Substitute for HB 2145 by Committee on Ways and Means -- University of Kansas; medical student loan act. Adding general surgery and obstetrics and gynecology to the definition of approved postgraduate residency training program.
HB2195 - Senate Substitute for HB 2195 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, and FY 2016 for various agencies, capital improvement projects.
HB2231 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2231 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2014, FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
HB2338 - Senate Substitute for HB 2338 by Committee on Ways and Means - Judicial branch; supplemental appropriation for fiscal year 2015, judiciary operations; increasing various docket fees and creating new docket fees; annually, allowing the allocation of a budget for each judicial district court operations, chief judge would have the authority to expend funds as necessary to carry out the functions of such district if such chief judge elected to do so, including establishing what court personnel are necessary and their compensation; district court judges in judicial district elect chief judge and court of appeals judges elect chief judge of the court of appeals; district judge and district magistrate judge vacancies; statutory authority for longevity bonus for judicial branch employees repealed; nonseverability clause.
HB2391 - Senate Substitute for HB 2391 by Committee on Ways and Means - Creating the joint committee on uniform educational standards oversight.
HB2506 - Senate Substitute for HB 2506 by Committee on Ways and Means - Education; appropriations for FY 2014 and FY 2015 for various state agencies; amendments concerning postsecondary education; amendments to provisions relating to school finance.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2014 Legislative Session
SCR1617 - State constitutional amendment; raffles by non-profit organizations.
SCR1621 - Constitutional amendment establishing the budget stabilization fund and the disaster relief fund in the state treasury; transfers to and from such funds.
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