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Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs

  • Committee Assistant: Sheila Wodtke 785-296-4335
  • Sheila.Wodtke@senate.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 144-S

    Room 144-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB1 - Prohibiting internet social media terms of service that permit censorship of speech and making violations subject to civil fines under the Kansas consumer protection act.
    SB36 - Amending the definition of ancestry in the Kansas act against discrimination to include traits historically associated with ancestry, including hair texture and protective hairstyles.
    SB64 - Prohibiting certain statewide elected officials from receiving income from outside employment while holding such statewide office.
    SB65 - Authorizing cities and counties to enact local laws to regulate abortion as stringent as or more stringent than state law.
    SB69 - Imposing requirements for reapportionment legislation.
    SB77 - Authorizing the Kansas human rights commission or any city or county to remove an unlawful restrictive covenant by recording a redacted plat or declaration.
    SB92 - Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention of the states under Article V of the Constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.
    SB93 - Creating the constitution and federalism defense act to establish a joint legislative commission to evaluate the constitutionality of federal mandates.
    SB99 - Establishing the advisory commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander affairs.
    SB117 - Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Shawnee Tribe.
    SB133 - Providing for the enforcement of donor-imposed restrictions on philanthropic gifts of endowment funds or property to charitable organizations.
    SB134 - Adding members to the commission on peace officers' standards and training and requiring the new members to be appointed with a preference to increase diversity.
    SB135 - Creating the medical cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis.
    SB156 - Repealing statutes that prohibit, limit and otherwise restrict municipal regulation of firearms.
    SB157 - Designating February 15 of each year as Susan B. Anthony Day in the state of Kansas.
    SB171 - Creating the veterans first medical cannabis act to regulate the cultivation, distribution, sale, possession and use of medical cannabis.
    SB177 - Declaring Juneteenth National Independence Day to be a legal public holiday and closing state offices for certain legal public holidays.
    SB197 - Allowing voters to register on election day.
    SB200 - Limiting the number of terms a legislator may serve as speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate.
    SB202 - Enacting the Kansas ranked-choice voting act to establish the use of the ranked-choice method of voting for elections in this state.
    SB218 - Requiring county election officers to assign registered voters whose residence has no corresponding mailing address to the voting precinct where the residence of such voter is located.
    SB220 - Establishing uniform requirements for all advance voting ballot envelopes.
    SB222 - Removing liability protections from online platforms and requiring certain wireless communication devices to have a default setting notifying parents of application downloads.
    SB223 - Changing the candidate filing deadline and the primary election date to two months earlier than current law, increasing campaign contribution limits and modifying restrictions on campaign activities during legislative sessions.
    SB224 - Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
    SB249 - Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the officer of state treasurer and commissioner of insurance by statewide party delegate convention.
    SB250 - Removing state department fees for concealed-carry licenses.
    SB251 - Providing sampling rules for alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages for spirits distributors, wine distributors and beer distributors in regard to the amount of products used for samples for distributors, retailers and club and drinking establishment licensees.
    SB253 - Authorizing home delivery by licensed retailers, licensed clubs and drinking establishments and restaurants and third-party delivery services.
    SB254 - Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the office of United States senator by a statewide party delegate convention.
    SB257 - Requiring that closed captioning be enabled on televisions and television receivers in public areas of places of public accommodation.
    SB259 - Prohibiting the use of ballot copies for purposes of any audit or recount of an election, setting a 7:00 p.m. deadline for receipt of advance mail ballots, requiring the use of paper ballots and hand counting, establishing legislative oversight, requiring that certain ballot records and all election records be publicly available and mandating use of a uniform paper for ballot printing.
    SB260 - Prohibiting remote ballot boxes, providing for reporting and publication of voting results and public access to voting records and materials, limiting advance voting provisions and requiring receipt of advance voting ballots by election day, limiting the size of precincts, making the general election a state holiday, providing that the sheriff has sole jurisdiction for and shall provide security at voting places, establishing the authority of the legislature over elections with preeminence over rules and regulations of the secretary of state and federal election law and making certain election crimes felonies.
    SB262 - Requiring voting and vote tabulation by hand and prohibiting electronic poll books or electronic or electromechanical voting or tabulation systems after January 1, 2024, mandating legislative approval of certain election matters and providing for the reporting of vote counts to the secretary of state and publication of the vote counts by the secretary.
    SB268 - Eliminating the statutory qualifications listed for the chief inspector for boiler safety appointed by the state fire marshal.
    SB269 - Exempting charitable raffle prizes of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages from the Kansas liquor control act, the club and drinking establishment act and the Kansas cereal malt beverage act.
    SB276 - Specifying the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration amount for final hemp products and allowing certain hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed.
    SB285 - Eliminating the senate confirmation requirement from the appointment of national guard officers.
    SB286 - Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.
    SB290 - Requiring a presidential preference primary election to be held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May every fourth year and changing the primary election date for all primary elections to the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May.
    SB293 - Crediting tax revenue generated from wagers made on historical horse races to the horse breeding development fund and the horse fair racing benefit fund.
    SB296 - Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.
    SB310 - Creating the medical cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis.
    SB321 - Providing for a presidential preference primary election on March 19, 2024, and establishing voter registration and voting procedures for such election.
    SB322 - Authorizing any gaming compact regarding sports wagering to include provisions governing sports wagering outside the boundaries of Indian lands.
    SB323 - Providing for the election of county appraisers.
    HB2056 - Requiring all advance voting ballots to be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.
    HB2124 - Allowing businesses to sell cereal malt beverage by the drink on Sundays without requiring that 30% of such businesses’ gross receipts be derived from the sale of food.
    HB2291 - Permitting food establishments to allow dogs in outside areas and microbreweries to allow dogs in outside and inside areas, allowing microbreweries to sell beer with a limited alcohol content as cereal malt beverage.
    HB2314 - Prohibiting the use of the social media platform TikTok on state-owned devices and on any state network.
    HB2376 - Prohibiting the recording of any restrictive covenant that violates the Kansas act against discrimination and authorizing the removal of such covenants from existing documents, and prohibiting city or county laws prohibiting discrimination that are more restrictive than state law.
    HB2378 - Authorizing the secretary of administration on behalf of the Kansas department for aging and disability services to convey lands in Shawnee county to the Kansas commission on veterans affairs.
    HB2412 - Removing state agency fees for concealed-carry licenses.
    HB2422 - Eliminating the statutory qualifications listed for the chief inspector for boiler safety appointed by the state fire marshal.
    HB2436 - Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
    HB2438 - Eliminating the instructor-coordinator's certificate requirement associated with the teaching of emergency medical services courses.
    HB2439 - Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible.
    Resolutions In Committee
    SCR1605 - Proposing a constitutional amendment imposing term limits for state legislators.
    SCR1606 - Constitutional amendment proposing the Kansas Citizen Involvement Amendment to reserve the powers of initiative and referendum to the citizens of Kansas.
    SCR1609 - Making application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention of the states to establish term limits for members of Congress.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB34 - Expanding the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act, the transferability of income, privilege and premium tax credits issued under the Kansas housing investor tax credit act and enacting the Kansas urban housing incentive district act.
    SB35 - Increasing the rate of compensation for legislators for service during regular and special sessions and the interim period between regular sessions.
    SB36 - Amending the definition of ancestry in the Kansas act against discrimination to include traits historically associated with ancestry, including hair texture and protective hairstyles.
    SB37 - Expanding the transferability of income, privilege and premium tax credits issued under the Kansas housing investor tax credit act.
    SB38 - Increasing the maximum compensation benefits payable by an employer for permanent total disability suffered by an injured employee.
    SB39 - Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a mural honoring the 1st Kansas (Colored) Voluntary Infantry regiment.
    SB65 - Authorizing cities and counties to enact local laws to regulate abortion as stringent as or more stringent than state law.
    SB77 - Authorizing the Kansas human rights commission or any city or county to remove an unlawful restrictive covenant by recording a redacted plat or declaration.
    SB92 - Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention of the states under Article V of the Constitution of the United States and prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such delegates.
    SB93 - Creating the constitution and federalism defense act to establish a joint legislative commission to evaluate the constitutionality of federal mandates.
    SB95 - Permitting a prosecution for childhood sexual abuse to be commenced at any time, permitting victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages caused by such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
    SB99 - Establishing the advisory commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander affairs.
    SB100 - Prohibiting ownership in certain real property in this state by foreign individuals and entities.
    SB107 - Providing that family members of deceased crime victims have the right to sit in a designated seating area at or near the prosecution table during court proceedings.
    SB116 - Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.
    SB117 - Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Shawnee Tribe.
    SB118 - Expanding the duties of the secretary of health and environment when investigating maternal deaths to include promoting continuity of care, helping develop performance measures and establishing an external review committee to study cases and make recommendations to prevent maternal deaths.
    SB133 - Providing for the enforcement of donor-imposed restrictions on philanthropic gifts of endowment funds or property to charitable organizations.
    SB134 - Adding members to the commission on peace officers' standards and training and requiring the new members to be appointed with a preference to increase diversity.
    SB135 - Creating the medical cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis.
    SB149 - Expanding the crime of promoting obscenity to minors to include drag performances.
    SB156 - Repealing statutes that prohibit, limit and otherwise restrict municipal regulation of firearms.
    SB157 - Designating February 15 of each year as Susan B. Anthony Day in the state of Kansas.
    SB158 - Enacting the community defense and human trafficking reduction act to regulate sexually oriented businesses and human trafficking and to impose criminal penalties.
    SB159 - Creating the Kansas rural grocery store development incentive act to provide tax incentives for the development of grocery businesses in rural areas of the state.
    SB160 - Require commercial entities that produce material harmful to minors on the internet to require age verification for access to such internet sites, establishing a civil cause of action against such commercial entities by persons harmed to recover actual and punitive damages, court costs and attorney fees.
    SB170 - Enacting the Kansas assistance animals in housing act, authorizing housing providers to require documentation of the need for an assistance animal and creating the crime of misrepresentation of entitlement to an assistance animal in housing.
    SB201 - Prohibiting the expenditure of state moneys for the production or performance of drag shows for which minors are the primary audience.
    SB202 - Enacting the Kansas ranked-choice voting act to establish the use of the ranked-choice method of voting for elections in this state.
    SB208 - Restricting the number of remote ballot boxes that may be used in each county and requiring certain monitoring conditions for such use.
    SB209 - Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.
    SB210 - Allowing nonpartisan candidates for office to include such candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with the candidate's name.
    SB214 - Prohibiting public utilities from recovering any dues, donations or contributions to any charitable or social organization or entity through customer rates.
    SB218 - Requiring county election officers to assign registered voters whose residence has no corresponding mailing address to the voting precinct where the residence of such voter is located.
    SB219 - Designating certain healthcare providers as being ineligible to purchase professional liability insurance from the healthcare stabilization fund.
    SB220 - Establishing uniform requirements for all advance voting ballot envelopes.
    SB221 - Amending statutes concerning election officials, election crimes and election procedures.
    SB222 - Removing liability protections from online platforms and requiring certain wireless communication devices to have a default setting notifying parents of application downloads.
    SB223 - Changing the candidate filing deadline and the primary election date to two months earlier than current law, increasing campaign contribution limits and modifying restrictions on campaign activities during legislative sessions.
    SB224 - Enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act, relating to ideological boycotts involving environmental, social or governance standards, requiring KPERS to divest from and prohibiting state contracts or the deposit of state moneys with entities engaged in such boycotts as determined by the state treasurer and prohibiting discriminatory practices in the financial services industry based on such boycotts.
    SB233 - Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.
    SB237 - Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture, remitting proceeds to the state general fund and requiring law enforcement agencies to make forfeiture reports more frequently.
    SB245 - Enacting the commercial financing disclosure act, requiring certain disclosures when making commercial financing product transactions, requiring registration with state bank commissioner, obtaining a surety bond, providing for civil penalties and rules and regulations by the commissioner and authorizing enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
    SB249 - Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the officer of state treasurer and commissioner of insurance by statewide party delegate convention.
    SB250 - Removing state department fees for concealed-carry licenses.
    SB251 - Providing sampling rules for alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages for spirits distributors, wine distributors and beer distributors in regard to the amount of products used for samples for distributors, retailers and club and drinking establishment licensees.
    SB253 - Authorizing home delivery by licensed retailers, licensed clubs and drinking establishments and restaurants and third-party delivery services.
    SB254 - Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the office of United States senator by a statewide party delegate convention.
    SB255 - Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school sponsored trips.
    SB257 - Requiring that closed captioning be enabled on televisions and television receivers in public areas of places of public accommodation.
    SB258 - Enacting the act against abusive access litigation to create a civil action for determining whether litigation that alleges any access violation under the Americans with disabilities act or similar law constitutes abusive litigation and authorize penalties for such abusive litigation.
    SB259 - Prohibiting the use of ballot copies for purposes of any audit or recount of an election, setting a 7:00 p.m. deadline for receipt of advance mail ballots, requiring the use of paper ballots and hand counting, establishing legislative oversight, requiring that certain ballot records and all election records be publicly available and mandating use of a uniform paper for ballot printing.
    SB260 - Prohibiting remote ballot boxes, providing for reporting and publication of voting results and public access to voting records and materials, limiting advance voting provisions and requiring receipt of advance voting ballots by election day, limiting the size of precincts, making the general election a state holiday, providing that the sheriff has sole jurisdiction for and shall provide security at voting places, establishing the authority of the legislature over elections with preeminence over rules and regulations of the secretary of state and federal election law and making certain election crimes felonies.
    SB261 - Authorizing appeals from certain decisions related to a citizen-initiated grand jury.
    SB262 - Requiring voting and vote tabulation by hand and prohibiting electronic poll books or electronic or electromechanical voting or tabulation systems after January 1, 2024, mandating legislative approval of certain election matters and providing for the reporting of vote counts to the secretary of state and publication of the vote counts by the secretary.
    SB268 - Eliminating the statutory qualifications listed for the chief inspector for boiler safety appointed by the state fire marshal.
    SB269 - Exempting charitable raffle prizes of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages from the Kansas liquor control act, the club and drinking establishment act and the Kansas cereal malt beverage act.
    SB270 - Including acts that occur in the course of the taking of property in the crimes of robbery and aggravated robbery.
    SB271 - Limiting the length of trains to 8,500 feet on any main line or branch line and providing for minimum distance for storage of rolling stock.
    SB276 - Specifying the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration amount for final hemp products and allowing certain hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed.
    SB278 - Requiring public utilities to report information regarding customer assistance programs, account delinquencies and disconnections.
    SB279 - Granting law enforcement officials access to the prescription monitoring program database without a warrant and replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas bureau of investigation with the attorney general or the attorney general's designee.
    SB280 - Modifying self-defense and use of force provisions related to the initial aggressor standard, changing immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action to an affirmative defense and requiring reporting and publication of certain data related to use of force cases by the Kansas bureau of investigation and the judicial administrator.
    SB281 - Creating the position of dementia services coordinator within the department of aging and disability services.
    SB282 - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, permitting a 16 year-old staff member to staff a unit with children at least 12 months old without supervision, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase day care facility availability or capacity.
    SB283 - Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.
    SB285 - Eliminating the senate confirmation requirement from the appointment of national guard officers.
    SB286 - Prohibiting abortion procedures except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman and providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition.
    SB287 - Expanding the Kansas silver alert plan to include persons 18 years of age or older who have dementia, a developmental disability or a cognitive impairment.
    SB288 - Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver's licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.
    SB289 - Permitting functional incapacitation release and terminal medical condition release for persons sentenced to imprisonment for an off-grid offense and extending terminal medical condition release to inmates in the custody of the secretary of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 180 days.
    SB290 - Requiring a presidential preference primary election to be held on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May every fourth year and changing the primary election date for all primary elections to the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May.
    SB291 - Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria, directing registered investment advisers to provide ESG criteria notice to clients and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
    SB292 - Updating statutes related to the Kansas army and air national guard, providing for the appointment of a state judge advocate and providing for the adjustment of death and disability benefits.
    SB296 - Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.
    SB297 - Revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.
    SB298 - Providing for child support orders for unborn children with a detectable heartbeat.
    SB299 - Providing a Kansas exemption for state income tax purposes for an unborn child with a detectable heartbeat.
    SB302 - Suspending fidfin transactions, custodial services and trust business of technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions until the legislature expressly consents to and approves such activities by an act of the legislature and requiring the legislature to conduct a forensic audit of technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions.
    SB303 - Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.
    SB304 - Authorizing the state board of education to establish a new unified school district, if necessary, for the attachment of territory of a school district disorganized via voter petition and providing for administrative and judicial review of resolutions to permanently close a public school building.
    SB305 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    SB310 - Creating the medical cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis.
    SB314 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending a child care facility or school.
    SB315 - Requiring child care facilities, elementary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and employers to grant exemptions from vaccine requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the request and repealing the meningitis vaccine requirement to live in student housing.
    SB317 - Permitting a prosecution for childhood sexual abuse to be commenced at any time, extending the time to file civil actions for recovery of damages caused by childhood sexual abuse and providing exceptions in the Kansas tort claims act for claims arising from such abuse.
    SB321 - Providing for a presidential preference primary election on March 19, 2024, and establishing voter registration and voting procedures for such election.
    SB322 - Authorizing any gaming compact regarding sports wagering to include provisions governing sports wagering outside the boundaries of Indian lands.
    HB2053 - Senate Substitute for HB 2053 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for a presidential preference primary election on March 19, 2024, and establishing voter registration and voting procedures for such election.
    HB2058 - Senate Substitute for HB 2058 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing any gaming compact regarding sports wagering to include provisions governing sports wagering outside the boundaries of Indian lands and crediting tax revenue generated from wagers on historical horse races to the horse breeding development fund and the horse fair racing benefit fund.
    HB2170 - Senate Substitute for HB 2170 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the donor intent protection act to provide enforcement of donor-imposed restrictions on philanthropic gifts of endowment funds or to endowment funds.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2023 Legislative Session
    SCR1606 - Constitutional amendment proposing the Kansas Citizen Involvement Amendment to reserve the powers of initiative and referendum to the citizens of Kansas.
    SCR1607 - Making application to the United States congress to call a convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to limit the federal government.
    SCR1608 - Urging the adoption of a student bill of rights.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2024 Legislative Session
    SCR1606 - Constitutional amendment proposing the Kansas Citizen Involvement Amendment to reserve the powers of initiative and referendum to the citizens of Kansas.
    SCR1607 - Making application to the United States congress to call a convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to limit the federal government.
    SCR1608 - Urging the adoption of a student bill of rights.
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