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Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Sponsored Bills
SB35 - Appropriation revisions for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, and FY 2018 for various state agencies.
SB48 - Sunset of property tax exemption for new qualifying pipeline property and retention of exemption for existing exemptions.
SB71 - School districts; amending the supplemental general state aid calculation.
SB81 - Appropriation revisions and supplementals for FY 2015 and FY 2016 for various state agencies.
SB112 - Senate Substitute for HB 2135 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, FY 2018 and FY 2019 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
SB138 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from adopting rules and regulations relating to confined feeding facilities that are more restrictive than federal law.
SB161 - Vacation and discretionary policies of the boards of regents relating to university support staff.
SB162 - Joint revenue estimates, move April 20 date to May 4.
SB175 - Exercise of religious freedom by postsecondary education student associations.
SB176 - Limiting negotiations under the professional negotiations act.
SB178 - Valuation of agricultural land.
SB179 - Limiting negotiations under the public employer-employee relations act.
SB193 - Requiring a degree prospectus for postsecondary degree programs.
SB218 - Advance practice registered nurse.
SB235 - Capital improvement projects for various state agencies
SB236 - Making appropriations for FY 16 and FY 17 for the judicial branch.
SB237 - Appropriations for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, FY 2018 and FY 2019 for various state agencies.
SB241 - Amending the procedure for the approval of state contracts.
SB242 - Adding employees of the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office to the list of safety sensitive positions for preemployment drug screening.
SB243 - State civil service board; transferred from the department of administration to the office of administrative hearings.
SB244 - Municipal budgets; notifications.
SB245 - Repealer; certain bridge inspections.
SB246 - Exempting certain state leases from energy audit requirements.
SB247 - Municipal audits.
SB248 - Title X funding priorities for family planning service providers.
SB249 - Purchasing; competitive bids; vehicle repairs.
SB250 - Appropriations to department of administration for satisfaction of all legal obligations to pay debt pursuant to lease with option to purchase and for amount due and owing on construction contract; prohibits conveyance of land where Docking state office building is located; prohibits expenditures during fiscal year 2016 or 2017 to demolish Docking and reconstruct, relocate and renovate the power plant or energy center; eliminates the requirement of monthly progress reports to the joint committee on state building construction.
SB254 - Behavioral sciences regulatory board; licensure of professions.
SB265 - Designated lay caregivers act.
SB268 - Changes to stream maintenance and obstruction requirements.
SB269 - Removing eastern spotted skunks from the nongame and endangered species conservation act.
SB273 - Creating the classroom learning assuring student success act; making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years ending June 30, 2015, June 30, 2016, and June 30, 2017, for the department of education.
SB275 - Establishing water conservation areas.
SB276 - Integrating certain statutes pertaining to business filings and limited liability companies.
SB282 - Exempting Kansas from daylight saving time.
SB283 - STAR bonds; economic impact study; base year for additions of area to project districts; financing in excess of approved amounts.
SB284 - Enacting the Kansas deferred retirement option program act.
SB285 - Healing arts licensees, resident active licenses and health care records.
SB289 - Establishing requirements and fiduciary duties for pharmacy benefits managers under the state health care benefits program.
SB290 - Kansas code of military justice, Article 15; commanding officer's nonjudicial punishment.
SB292 - Providing orders of the state board of tax appeals to be final for appeals by taxpayers which are lottery gaming enterprises.
SB300 - Education; amendments regarding virtual school state aid, supplemental general state aid, capital outlay state aid and capital improvement state aid.
SB301 - Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
SB303 - Clarifying mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
SB304 - Administration of abortifacient drugs.
SB305 - Transferring functions of the Kansas bioscience authority to the department of commerce.
SB307 - Open records act; definitions, public agency and public record.
SB309 - Establishing a 3.5% fee for policies sold on the federally facilitated health insurance exchange.
SB310 - Authorizing income tax contributions to school districts.
SB311 - Transfer of administration of school finance from the state board of education to the department of administration and secretary of administration.
SB322 - Creating application requirement and fee to appropriate surface water that otherwise leaves the state.
SB335 - Increasing passenger vehicle registration fee and dedicating a portion of such fee to the law enforcement training center fund.
SB354 - Appropriation revisions for FY 2016, FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies.
SB384 - Amending provisions of the nongame and endangered species conservation act.
SB389 - Appropriation revisions for FY 2017 and FY 2018 for various state agencies.
SB403 - Limitations on municipal revenue generation through traffic citations.
SB404 - Authorizing the state board of regents on behalf of Kansas state university to sell certain real property in Riley county, Kansas.
SB409 - Transportation arrangements prior to a funeral.
SB420 - Amendments regarding courses offered in community college service areas and the funding thereof.
SB421 - Carrying a concealed handgun in a public building; restricted access entrance.
SB423 - Redesignating Kansas state university-Salina, college of technology as Kansas state university polytechnic campus.
SB425 - Authorizing the board of county commissioners of any county to regulate conservation easements on property located within the county.
SB450 - Prohibiting the adoption of sanctuary ordinances and resolutions by municipalities.
SB451 - Consolidation of Wichita state university and Wichita area technical college.
SB454 - Amending court docket fees and charges.
SB456 - Electronic monitoring in adult care homes.
SB457 - Nursing home quality care assessment rate and sunset.
SB460 - Social and rehabilitative institutions; appointment of superintendents, physicians, employees and staff.
SB463 - Abolishing the expanded lottery act revenues fund, the Kansas endowment for youth fund, the children's initiative fund, the state economic development initiatives fund; all revenues into such funds go into the state general fund; other transfers to the state general fund; duties of Kansas children's cabinet.
SB465 - Use of certain controlled substances to treat binge eating authorized.
SB466 - Amending the criminal penalties for domestic battery.
SB467 - Prohibiting certain advertising by an attorney who is not regularly admitted to practice law in Kansas.
SB468 - Authorizing the creation of entertainment districts for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
SB469 - Recertification of professional employees' organizations under the professional negotiations act.
SB470 - Establishing the intercollegiate adaptive sport grant program.
SB473 - Amending the chemigation fee and excepting certain users from chemigation permit requirements.
SB474 - Authorizing the state finance council to oversee any sale of the Kansas bioscience authority or substantially all of its assets.
SB487 - Open meetings; justifications for closed or executive meetings.
SB489 - Hemp oil treatments for specified medical conditions.
SB490 - Adding dry needling to the physical therapy scope of practice.
SB491 - Department of agriculture division of water resources; groundwater management; rules and regulations; court procedures; position of chief engineer; impairment.
SB492 - Requiring notification for cancellation of motor vehicle insurance policy.
SB494 - Consolidating the payrolls of the state educational institutions and the state board of regents.
SB495 - Eliminating medical assistance coverage for elective induced labor prior to 39 weeks of pregnancy.
SB496 - Healing arts exempt license status for telemedicine providers.
SB497 - Birth risk factor screening for pregnant women.
SB498 - Surplus real estate; authorizing a project management office.
SB499 - Requiring school districts to strategically source specific spend categories through the department of administration.
SB500 - Eliminating the community service income tax credit program.
SB501 - Establishing a non-discretionary performance based bonus program for state employees.
SB502 - Kansas ideas festival by state employees for efficiency savings in state government.
SB503 - Secretary of corrections establishing a program to incentivize the unification of community corrections and court services.
SB504 - Establishing the parole and community corrections nursing home task force.
SB505 - School finance; general state aid adjustment for unencumbered cash balances.
SB506 - Concerning economic development, HPIP credit and required training.
SB509 - Establishing a budget stabilization fund in the state treasury; revenue and expenditures; review of risk-based practices by the legislative budge committee.
SB510 - Eliminating criminal and professional penalties for medical marijuana.
SB511 - Prohibiting the state employees health care commission from changing coverage options under the state health care benefits program in effect for the 2016 plan year without prior legislative approval.
SB512 - Court ordered redistribution of district funds act.
SB513 - Creating the student physical privacy act.
SB514 - Amendments to the CLASS Act regarding the authority to levy a tax for ancillary school facilities.
SB515 - Amendments to the CLASS Act regarding supplemental general state aid and capital outlay state aid.
SB517 - Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
SB518 - Amending the Kansas cigarette and tobacco products act.
HB2135 - Senate Substitute for HB 2135 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2015, FY 2016, FY 2017, FY 2018 and FY 2019 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
HB2285 - Senate Substitute for HB 2285 by Committee on Ways and Means-Reconciling amendments to certain statutes.
HB2353 - Senate Substitute for HB 2353 by Committee on Ways and Means - Education; amendments regarding virtual school state aid, supplemental general state aid, capital outlay state aid and capital improvement state aid.
HB2365 - Senate Substitute for HB2365 by Committee on Ways and Means - Skilled nursing care facility quality care assessment rate, sunset and improvement panel amendments.
HB2655 - Senate Substitute for HB 2655 by Committee on Ways and Means - Amendments to the CLASS Act regarding supplemental general state aid and capital outlay state aid.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2015 Legislative Session
SCR1605 - A state constitutional amendment concerning public debt.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2016 Legislative Session
SCR1605 - A state constitutional amendment concerning public debt.
Appointments
1236 - Donald Pendergast, Appointed Governor, State Banking Board, Member - 7 - Term ends March 15, 2018
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