R Kansas Senate · District 34

Sen. Mark Steffen

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Total votes

1,092

all sessions

Attendance

98%

21 missed

Near the chamber average

With party

80%

of cast votes

Lower than 96% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

10%

some cross-party votes

Higher than 93% of chamber peers

Voting record

Yea

807

voted in favor

Nay

253

voted against

Absent

21

missed votes

Total cast

1,092

across all sessions

Crossed party

202

votes against own party

This page

1,092

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Bill

Description

Vote

Result

Tally

Date

HB 2336

Increasing bonding authority and simplifying the approval process for public airport construction and improvement projects under the surplus property and public airport authority act and increasing the cost threshold for state construction projects when the convening of a negotiating committee to obtain professional services is required. Against party

Nay

Passed

30–10

Mar 29, 2023

HB 2290

Authorizing the affiliation of northwest Kansas technical college and north central Kansas technical college with Fort Hays state university.

Yea

Passed

39–0

Mar 29, 2023

HB 2390

Senate Substitute for HB 2390 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring the secretary of health and environment to study drug overdose death cases and providing for the confidentiality of acquired and related records, restricting the authority of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious or contagious diseases and repealing the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and impose associated penalties.

Yea

Passed

24–16

Mar 29, 2023

SB 147

Increasing the income tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable and increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses.

Yea

Passed

40–0

Mar 28, 2023

SB 252

Providing for exemptions from property tax and sales tax for certain businesses competing against governmental entities.

Yea

Passed

24–16

Mar 28, 2023

SB 265

Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support and increasing the criminal penalties for repeat violations of a protective order.

Yea

Passed

40–0

Mar 28, 2023

SB 271

House Substitute for SB 271 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Prohibiting governmental agencies from acquiring critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and prohibiting state-level agencies from procuring final or finished goods or services from countries of concern.

Yea

Passed

27–13

Mar 28, 2023

SB 291

House Substitute for SB 291 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Transferring all cybsersecurity services under the chief information technology officer of each branch of government, creating chief information security officers within the judicial and legislative branches, requiring a chief information security officer to be appointed by the attorney general, Kansas bureau of investigation, secretary of state, state treasurer and insurance commissioner and requiring the chief information security officers to implement certain minimum cybersecurity standards, requiring the information technology executive council to develop a plan to integrate executive branch information technology services under the executive chief information technology officer, making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2025, and June 30, 2026, for the office of information technology, Kansas information security office and the adjutant general, authorizing certain transfers and imposing certain limitations and restrictions and directing or authorizing certain disbursements and procedures for all state agencies and requiring legislative review of state agencies not in compliance with this act.

Yea

Passed

29–11

Mar 28, 2023

SB 300

House Substitute for SB 300 by Committee on Taxation - Modifying income tax rates for individuals, increasing the standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income limit for an income tax subtraction modification for social security income, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax rate, abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund, providing for certain transfers to the special city and county highway fund and decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district.

Yea

Passed

34–6

Mar 28, 2023

SB 309

Creating the fixing instant revenue shock for taxpayers fund and the local extraordinary needs fund, establishing the joint committee on local extraordinary needs grants and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund. Against party

Nay

Failed

17–23

Mar 28, 2023