R Kansas House · District 96 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Tom Kessler

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Session

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

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 2101

Extending transfers from the expanded lottery act revenues fund to the university engineering initiative.

Yea

Passed

100–11

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2175

Creating the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district.

Yea

Passed

109–2

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2078

Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2023, in all criminal cases, providing guidelines for prioritizing trials and requiring the office of judicial administration to prepare and submit a report to the legislature in 2022 and 2023.

Yea

Passed

97–14

Feb 25, 2021

SB 29

Providing for short-term, limited-duration health plans.

Yea

Passed

111–0

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2244

Establishing requirements for the effective disposal of industrial hemp and requiring industrial hemp processors to register with the state fire marshal.

Yea

Passed

88–23

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2277

Clarifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code.

Yea

Passed

104–7

Feb 25, 2021

SB 39

Changing Kansas department of agriculture division of animal health license, permit and registration renewal deadlines and allowing the animal health commissioner to recover the actual cost of official calfhood vaccination tags.

Yea

Passed

105–6

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2136

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, discontinuing the first 15 days of the month sales and compensating use tax remittance requirements for certain retailers, providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Atchison county and delaying implementation of the exclusion of separately stated delivery charges from sales or selling price.

Yea

Passed

111–0

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2052

Authorizing legislative assistants and committee assistants to accept gifts from legislators.

Yea

Passed

106–5

Feb 25, 2021

HB 2262

Senate Substitute for HB 2262 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act.

Yea

Passed

109–1

Feb 24, 2021