Rep. Tom Kessler
Total votes
870
all sessions
Attendance
90%
88 missed
Lower than 99% of chamber peers
With party
98%
of cast votes
Higher than 93% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 91% of chamber peers
Sponsored
36
bills & resolutions
Lower than 79% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
870 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
716
voted in favor
Nay
66
voted against
Absent
88
missed votes
Total cast
870
across all sessions
Crossed party
14
votes against own party
This page
870
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Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
HB 2126
Providing immunity from civil liability for COVID-19 claims for certain covered facilities, including adult care homes, community mental health centers, crisis intervention centers, community service providers and community developmental disability organizations.
Yea
Passed
74–35
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2058
Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating a new class of concealed carry license for individuals 18 to 20 years of age, and creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
Yea
Passed
74–36
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2039
Requiring administration of a basic civics test as part of the course in United States history and government that is necessary for high school graduation and requiring students to take and pass a personal financial literacy course for high school graduation beginning in school year 2024-2025.
Yea
Passed
60–50
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2416
Senate Substitute for HB 2416 by Committee on Judiciary – Requiring compensation for the use, restriction on use, damage, loss or destruction of property as a result of certain governmental actions, authorizing reimbursement of property taxes levied upon businesses shut down or restricted as a result of certain governmental actions related to contagious or infectious disease in humans and establishing the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act to provide partial refunds to certain businesses impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions.
Yea
Passed
71–38
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2227
Allowing the chief justice to suspend certain time limitations during a state of local disaster emergency, suspend certain verification requirements and authorize use of electronic audio-visual communication to expeditiously resolve cases, and extending the chief justice's authority to suspend time limitations during a disaster emergency until June 30, 2022.
Yea
Passed
101–9
Mar 4, 2021
HB 2153
Senate Substitute for HB 2153 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate within the office of the attorney general and the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
Yea
Passed
111–0
Mar 3, 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.
Nay
Failed
37–72
Mar 3, 2021
HB 2057
Senate Substitute for HB 2057 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs – Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act.
Yea
Passed
111–0
Mar 3, 2021
HB 2058
Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating a new class of concealed carry license for individuals 18 to 20 years of age, and creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
Nay
Failed
39–70
Mar 3, 2021
HB 2058
Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating a new class of concealed carry license for individuals 18 to 20 years of age, and creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
Nay
Failed
40–68
Mar 3, 2021
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