Total votes
1,513
all sessions
Attendance
97%
48 missed
Lower than 94% of chamber peers
With party
95%
of cast votes
Higher than 76% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 96% of chamber peers
Sponsored
42
bills & resolutions
Lower than 90% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
1,513 roll-call votes
Voting record
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1,309
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156
voted against
Absent
48
missed votes
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Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 40
Prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to the COVID-19 health emergency, adding the vice president of the senate to the legislative coordinating council, modifying the procedure for the declaration and extension of a state of disaster emergency under the Kansas emergency management act, prohibiting certain actions by the governor related to the COVID-19 health emergency and revoking all executive orders related to such emergency on March 31, 2021, establishing judicial review for certain executive orders issued during a state of disaster emergency and certain actions taken by a local unit of government during a state of local disaster emergency, authorizing the legislature or the legislative coordinating council to revoke certain orders issued by the secretary of health and environment and limiting powers granted to local health officers related to certain orders.
Yea
Passed
109–5
Mar 16, 2021
HB 2287
Senate Substitute for HB 2287 by Committee on Education - Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide postsecondary educational scholarship for certain two-year associate degree programs, career and technical education certificates and other stand-alone programs.
Yea
Passed
106–9
Mar 16, 2021
SB 235
Enacting the back to school act to require school districts to provide a full-time, in person attendance option for all students beginning on March 26, 2021.
Yea
Failed
50–65
Mar 16, 2021
HB 2219
Enacting the Kansas targeted employment act to provide tax credits for the employment of persons with developmental disabilities.
Yea
Passed
114–1
Mar 16, 2021
HB 2106
Decreasing the state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients and providing for the levying of taxes by cities and counties and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.
Yea
Passed
114–0
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2116
Exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement.
Yea
Passed
114–0
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2313
Senate Substitute for HB 2313 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing for reimbursement of property taxes for certain business shutdowns or restrictions, allowing Kansas national guard and reservist members who are in good standing to receive a property tax exemption for up to two motor vehicles, authorizing continuation of the statewide levy for schools and the exemption of a portion of residential property from such levy, authorizing appointment by the governor of a member pro tempore when a vacancy on the state board of tax appeals exists and directing post audit study of the impact of non-profit and governmental entities competing against for-profit businesses.
Yea
Passed
114–0
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2088
Requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation.
Yea
Passed
112–2
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2196
Senate Substitute for Substitute HB 2196 by Committee on Commerce - Changing provisions of the employment security law including creation of the unemployment compensation modernization and improvement council, development of a new unemployment insurance information technology system, provision of tax information to claimants, publication of trust fund data, the maximum benefit period, the charging of employer accounts for benefits paid, employer contribution rate determination and schedules, crediting of employer accounts for fraudulent or erroneous payments, transfer of federal COVID-19 moneys to the unemployment insurance trust fund, emergency expansion of the employment security board of review, providing for the my reemployment plan program and workforce training program availability to claimants, changes to the shared work compensation program and other unemployment trust fund provisions.
Yea
Passed
80–34
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2315
Providing a tax credit for contributions to technical colleges.
Yea
Passed
111–3
Mar 4, 2021
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