Volume 42 - Issue 10 - March 9, 2023
State of Kansas
Legislative Administrative Services
Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced
The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced February 23 – March 1 during the 2023 session of the Kansas Legislature. Full text of bills, bill tracking, and other information may be accessed at http://www.kslegislature.org/li/.
House Bills
HB 2443, AN ACT concerning children and minors; establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and the child advocate advisory board; prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof; allowing disclosure of confidential records to the child advocate; amending K.S.A. 38-2213, 38-2309 and 38-2310 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 38-2211 and 38-2212, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2444, AN ACT concerning school districts; relating to the state department of education and the state’s network of community mental health centers; establishing the mental health intervention team program in state statute; providing incentives for coordination between school districts and community mental health centers; creating the mental health intervention team program fund, by Committee on Appropriations.
House Resolutions
HR 6012, A RESOLUTION commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, by Representatives Sawyer, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Collins and Seiwert.
House Concurrent Resolutions
HCR 5012, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION relating to the adjournment of the senate and house of representatives for a period of time during the 2023 regular session of the legislature, by Representatives Hawkins, Croft and Miller, V.
Senate Bills
SB 280, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to use of force; modifying the initial aggressor standard; changing immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action to an affirmative defense; requiring reporting and publication of certain data by the Kansas bureau of investigation and the judicial administrator related to use of force cases; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5226 and 21-5231 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 281, AN ACT concerning the Kansas department for aging and disability services; creating a dementia services coordinator position, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 282, AN ACT concerning the department of health and environment; relating to licensure of child care facilities; day care homes and child care centers; establishing license capacity and staff-to-child ratios; lowering license fees and training requirements; required age of child care center staff; creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements; authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase day care facility availability and capacity; amending K.S.A. 65-503, 65-505, 65-508 and 65-512 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-3406 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
Senate Resolutions
SR 1711, A RESOLUTION commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, by Senator Ware.
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
SCR 1609, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION making application to the Congress of the United States to call a limited national convention for the exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishing term limits for members of Congress, by Senators Claeys, Alley, Baumgardner, Blasi, Bowers, Erickson, Fagg, Gossage, Kerschen, Kloos, Masterson, Peck, Steffen, Straub, Thompson, Warren and Wilborn.
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