D Kansas House · District 56 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Virgil Weigel

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Total votes

1,621

all sessions

Attendance

97%

49 missed

Lower than 98% of chamber peers

With party

95%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

About Rep. Virgil Weigel

Rep. serving Kansas District 56. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 9 years · 8 months. Serves on 4 committees, including Veterans and Military, Financial Institutions and Pensions and Transportation.

Sworn in

Jan 9, 2017

9 years · 8 months

Closest ally

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Recent legislative activity

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HB 2151Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour. died

5 months ago

HB 2629Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes. died

5 months ago

HB 2073Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers. died

5 months ago

HB 2029Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. signed

5 months ago

HCR 5030Urging Congress to enact immigration reform. died

5 months ago

HB 2600Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility. died

5 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 2545Providing for the sale of property not retrieved by an occupant after notice, allowing electronic signatures and delivery for rental agreements, defining property that has no commercial value, providing for the deemed effectiveness of rental agreements not signed or delivered by an owner or occupant and specifying custody of abandoned or towed property under the self-service storage act.

2 years ago

Voted Yea

HB 2103Substitute for HB 2103 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Eliminating the statutory 15% alternative investment limit for the KPERS fund and requiring the KPERS board to establish an alternative investment percentage limit.

2 years ago

Voted Yea

SB 15Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund.

2 years ago

Voted Nay

HB 2284Providing an income tax rate of 5.25% for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment, increasing the Kansas personal exemption, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients on April 1, 2024, and increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

2 years ago