R Kansas Senate · District 18

Sen. Kristen O'Shea

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Total votes

1,092

all sessions

Attendance

94%

66 missed

Lower than 94% of chamber peers

With party

94%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

4%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Voting record

Yea

915

voted in favor

Nay

108

voted against

Absent

66

missed votes

Total cast

1,092

across all sessions

Crossed party

59

votes against own party

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Bill

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Vote

Result

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Date

SB 539

Simplifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, eliminating the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, establishing a child tax credit, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate and establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients on July 1, 2024.

Yea

Passed

26–6

Mar 14, 2024

SB 539

Simplifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, eliminating the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, establishing a child tax credit, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate and establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients on July 1, 2024.

Nay

Failed

6–31

Mar 14, 2024

SB 539

Simplifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, eliminating the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, establishing a child tax credit, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate and establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients on July 1, 2024.

Nay

Failed

14–26

Mar 14, 2024

SB 60

Substitute for SB 60 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing sales tax exemptions for custom meat processing services, purchases for the construction or repair of buildings used for human habitation by the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf, certain purchases and sales by the Johnson county Christmas bureau association, certain purchases by doorstep inc., exploration place, inc. and Kansas children's discovery center, inc. and sales of menstrual discharge collection devices and diapers and establishing an annual sales tax holiday exempting certain sales of school supplies, computers and clothing.

Yea

Passed

38–2

Mar 14, 2024

SB 311

Excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange, build-to-suit and sale-leaseback arrangement transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes.

Yea

Passed

21–19

Mar 14, 2024

SB 376

Extending the time period for the single city port authority income tax credit. Against party

Nay

Passed

35–5

Mar 14, 2024

SB 480

Authorizing teleconference or video conference hearings in the small claims and expedited hearings division of the state board of tax appeals.

Yea

Passed

39–1

Mar 14, 2024

SB 482

Providing that county clerks are not required to send revenue neutral rate notices to property owners of exempt property, modifying and prescribing the contents of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice, permitting a tax levy that generates the same amount of revenue as the previous year when the final assessed valuation decreases compared to the estimated assessed valuation and requiring that the governing body's vote be conducted on the same day as the commencement of the hearing.

Yea

Passed

32–8

Mar 14, 2024

SB 484

Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers. Against party

Nay

Passed

29–11

Mar 14, 2024

SB 498

Establishing a tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities, increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable and providing a sales tax exemption for pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities.

Yea

Passed

28–12

Mar 14, 2024