signed · Kansas · Senate Apr 28, 2023 SB 106: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. Approved by Governor on Tuesday, May 9, 2023
signed · Kansas · Senate Apr 28, 2023 SB 113: House Substitute for SB 113 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 23, FY 24 and FY 25; establishing the mental health intervention team program; authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association; requiring school districts to post certain enrollment and academic information on school district websites; revising school district open-enrollment procedures; authorizing local school board members to receive compensation from their school district; authorizing current-year student enrollment for determinations of state foundation aid; continuing the 20 mill statewide tax levy for schools; amending the school districts that qualify for and the amount that school districts are able to levy pursuant to the cost-of-living weighting. The Legislature having adjourned sine die on April 28, 2023, there was no opportunity to reconsider and the line-item vetoes are sustained.
signed · Kansas · House Apr 28, 2023 HB 2010: Senate Substitute for HB 2010 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating a statutory cross reference to provide proper jury instruction in cases when a defendant lacks the required mental state to commit a crime; increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm; enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms; providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law; and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program. Approved by Governor on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 Sponsor Boog Highberger (D)
signed · Kansas · House Apr 28, 2023 HB 2060: Senate Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Education - Authorizing payments from the state safety fund to community colleges for the provision of driver's education, authorizing the provision of tools, supplies and examinations to AO-K career pathway program participants and including high school equivalency credentials in performance-based payments for postsecondary educational institutions. Approved by Governor on Friday, May 12, 2023
signed · Kansas · House Apr 27, 2023 HB 2184: Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies. Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 143 overridden; Yea: 28 Nay: 11
signed · Kansas · House Apr 25, 2023 HB 2019: Implementing additional reporting requirements for information technology projects and state agencies, requiring additional information technology security training and status reports, requiring reporting of significant cybersecurity audits and changing the membership requirements, terms of members and the quorum requirements for the information technology executive council. Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023
signed · Kansas · Senate Apr 25, 2023 SB 217: Including the conduct of utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted persons 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 and increasing the time of an initial restraining order and possible extensions issued in a protection from abuse order or a protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking order. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023
signed · Kansas · House Apr 25, 2023 HB 2027: Creating a procedure to prevent distribution of a decedent's assets to a person charged with the felonious killing of the decedent until criminal proceedings are completed. Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 Sponsors Barbara Ballard (D) , Barb Wasinger (R)
signed · Kansas · House Apr 25, 2023 HB 2298: Designating a portion of interstate 435 as the Officer Donald Burton Gamblin Jr memorial highway and a portion of United States highway 69 as the Robert Lessen memorial highway. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023
signed · Kansas · Senate Apr 25, 2023 SB 205: Authorizing certain water rights in a water bank to participate in multi-year flex accounts on a temporary basis. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023
signed · Kansas · House Apr 25, 2023 HB 2130: Permitting a copy of a will to be filed and admitted to probate, increasing certain dollar amounts in the Kansas probate code, adjusting time requirements linked to notice by publication and mailing in the Kansas probate code and clarifying how property held under a transfer-on-death deed is distributed when one beneficiary predeceases the grantor. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023
signed · Kansas · House Apr 25, 2023 HB 2292: Promoting Kansas workforce development by enacting the Kansas apprenticeship act to expand apprenticeships with businesses, healthcare organizations and nonprofit organizations through tax credits and grants and to develop teaching apprenticeships with public schools through scholarships for professional teaching degrees and by establishing a program to provide matching grants to public and private professional engineering schools for engineering scholarships and program development costs. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023