Total votes
2,556
all sessions
Attendance
99%
13 missed
Higher than 78% of chamber peers
With party
81%
of cast votes
Among the lowest in the chamber
Bipartisan score
10%
some cross-party votes
Higher than 97% of chamber peers
Sponsored
49
bills & resolutions
Lower than 77% of chamber peers
Committees
10
assignments
2,556 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
1,923
voted in favor
Nay
610
voted against
Absent
13
missed votes
Total cast
2,556
across all sessions
Crossed party
465
votes against own party
This page
2,556
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 391
Enacting the constitutional right to health freedom act to regulate the activities of the secretary of health and environment related to public health functions; repealing statutes relating to the secretary's authority to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.
Yea
Passed
23–17
Feb 22, 2024
SB 417
Limiting the secretary of wildlife and park's authority to exercise the right of eminent domain.
Yea
Passed
25–14
Feb 22, 2024
SB 438
Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.
Yea
Passed
40–0
Feb 22, 2024
SB 455
Prohibiting public utilities from exercising eminent domain for the siting or placement of solar generation facilities.
Yea
Passed
29–8
Feb 22, 2024
SB 458
Specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act, providing limitations on state and local law enforcement agency requests for federal adoption of a seizure under the act, requiring probable cause affidavit filing and review to commence forfeiture proceedings, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property to clear and convincing evidence, authorizing courts to order payment of attorney fees and costs for certain claimants and requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to submit forfeiture fund financial reports to the legislature.
Yea
Passed
36–2
Feb 22, 2024
SB 481
Renaming Kansas state university polytechnic campus as Kansas state university Salina. Against party
Nay
Passed
39–1
Feb 22, 2024
SB 491
Standardizing criminal history record check fingerprinting language and defining who may be fingerprinted for a criminal history record check.
Yea
Passed
40–0
Feb 22, 2024
HB 2545
Providing 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.
Yea
Passed
40–0
Feb 22, 2024
SB 333
Providing hiring, promotion and retention preferences for persons with disabilities for certain state executive branch positions and extending the expiration provision for the state use law committee. Against party
Nay
Passed
38–2
Feb 21, 2024
SB 359
Providing for the Kansas City Chiefs, sporting Kansas City, Sedgwick county zoo, Kansas City royals, Kansas City current, Topeka zoo, support the troops and the first city of Kansas distinctive license plates and requiring certain license plates to have the county of registration for the motor vehicle identified on the license plate. Against party
Nay
Passed
36–2
Feb 21, 2024
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