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Volume 41 - Issue 12 - March 24, 2022

State of Kansas

Legislative Administrative Services

Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced

The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced March 10–16 during the 2022 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 2736, AN ACT concerning driver’s licenses; relating to vision requirements; limiting the liability of optometrists and ophthalmologists who provide information to the division of vehicles; amending K.S.A. 8-295 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2737, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state representative districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-3,731, 4-3,733 and 4-3,859, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2738, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to countywide retailers’ sales tax; discontinuing an Atchison countywide retailers’ sales tax; allowing counties to decide whether to apportion revenue between the county and cities located therein; amending K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 12-187 and 12-192 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2739, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to sales and compensating use tax; providing for a sales tax exemption for friends of the mentally ill foundation, inc.; amending K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 79-3606, as amended by section 16 of 2022 Senate Bill No. 347, and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2740, AN ACT concerning gaming; relating to the Kansas expanded lottery act; Kansas lottery and Kansas racing and gaming commission, rules and regulations; authorizing sports wagering; creating the sports wagering receipts fund, the white collar crime fund, the privilege fee repayment fund and the facility manager licensee repayment fund; authorizing parimutuel licensees to operate historical horse race machines; amending K.S.A. 46-2301, 74-8702, 74-8710, 74-8711, 74-8716, 74-8718, 74-8733, 74-8734, 74-8751, 74-8752, 74-8757, 74-8760, 74-8761, 74-8802, 74-8804, 74-8814, 74-8823, 74-8836 and 79-4806 and K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-6403 and 21-6507 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

House Resolutions

HR 6024, A RESOLUTION congratulating and commending the 2020 and 2022 Kansas Master Teachers, by Representatives Schreiber, Amyx, Anderson, Baker, Bergquist, Blex, Borjon, Byers, Carlson, Carmichael, Carpenter, Clark, Clifford, Concannon, Croft, Dodson, Ellis, Eplee, Esau, Estes, Featherston, French, Gartner, Haswood, Highberger, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Howe, Hoye, Huebert, Humphries, Johnson, Kelly, Kuether, Lynn, Mason, Minnix, Neighbor, Osman, Patton, Poskin, Probst, Proehl, Ralph, Resman, Rhiley, Samsel, Sawyer, Schmidt, Smith, Smith, Stogsdill, Tarwater, Thomas, Thompson, Toplikar, Turner, Wasinger, Wheeler, Winn and Woodard.

House Concurrent Resolutions

HCR 5032, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring the commitment and resilience of the Ukrainian people fighting against the Russian invasion, by Representatives Ryckman, Hawkins, Finch and Sawyer.

Senate Bills

SB 558, AN ACT concerning firearms; establishing a procedure for a petition for restoration of a person’s firearms rights; authorizing a person who was convicted of a felony that has been expunged to file such petition; amending K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 21-6614 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 559, AN ACT concerning driver’s licenses; relating to vision requirements; limiting the liability of optometrists and ophthalmologists who provide information to the division of vehicles; amending K.S.A. 8-295 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 560, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to medical marijuana; enacting the medical marijuana regulation act; providing for licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical marijuana; delegating administrative duties and functions to the secretary of health and environment, secretary of revenue, board of healing arts, board of pharmacy and the director of alcohol and cannabis control; imposing fines and penalties for violations of the act; establishing the medical marijuana registration fund and the medical marijuana business regulation fund; creating the crimes of unlawful storage and unlawful transport of medical marijuana; making exceptions to the crimes of unlawful manufacture and possession of controlled substances; amending K.S.A. 38-2269, 44-501, 44-706, 44-1009, 44-1015, 65-28b08, 79-5201 and 79-5210 and K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 19-101a, 21-5703, 21-5705, 21-5706, 21-5707, 21-5709, 21-5710, 23-3201 and 65-1120 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 561, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state senatorial districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-4,451, 4-4,453 and 4-4,494, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 562, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state senatorial districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-4,451, 4-4,453 and 4-4,494, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 563, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state senatorial districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-4,451, 4-4,453 and 4-4,494, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 564, AN ACT concerning governmental ethics; requiring lobbyists to verbally disclose any current or pending litigation with a state agency involving a client that would be affected by proposed legislation on current or pending litigation with a state agency; amending K.S.A. 46-271 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 565, AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to classification and valuation; land devoted to agricultural use; classifying such land that is subject to the federal grassland conservation reserve program as grassland; amending K.S.A. 79-1476 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 566, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state senatorial districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-4,451, 4-4,453 and 4-4,494, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 567, AN ACT concerning driver’s licenses; relating to restricted driver’s licenses; allowing restricted driver’s license holders to drive to and from worship services held by any religious organization at age 15; amending K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 8-2,101 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 568, AN ACT concerning reapportionment; relating to state senatorial districts; providing for the reapportionment thereof; repealing K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 4-4,451, 4-4,453 and 4-4,494, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 569, AN ACT concerning the division of tourism; relating to the transfer of powers, duties and functions from the department of wildlife and parks to the department of commerce; making changes in references and transfers to state officers with respect thereto; amending K.S.A. 32-701, 32-801, 32-802, 32-805, 32-806, 32-807, 32-809, 32-832, 32-833, 32-834, 32-835, 32-836, 32-837, 32-839, 32-840, 32-844, 32-845, 32-846, 32-869, 32-873, 32-874, 32-874a, 32-874b, 32-874c, 32-874d, 32-874e, 32-886, 32-887, 32-888, 32-906, 32-918, 32-930, 32-932, 32-938, 32-960a, 32-966, 32-976, 32-996, 32-997, 32-998, 32-999, 32-9,100, 32-1001, 32-1004, 32-1005, 32-1031, 32-1032, 32-1040, 32-1041, 32-1049, 32-1049a, 32-1050, 32-1051, 32-1052, 32-1053, 32-1054, 32-1062, 32-1063, 32-1064, 32-1066, 32-1074, 32-1075, 32-1077, 32-1102, 32-1112, 32-1129, 32-1174, 32-1203, 32-1306, 32-1308, 32-1310, 32-1401, 32-1402, 32-1403, 32-1410, 32-1411, 32-1412, 32-1413, 32-1420, 32-1421, 32-1422, 32-1432, 32-1433, 32-1438, 41-719, 47-2101, 65-189e, 65-3424b, 65-5703, 68-406, 74-134, 74-5,133, 74-2622, 74-3322, 74-4722, 74-4911f, 74-5005, 74-5602, 74-6614, 74-7901, 74-9201, 75-1253, 75-2720, 75-2935, 75-3339, 75-37,121, 75-3907, 75-3908, 75-3910, 76-463, 77-415, 77-421, 79-201a, 79-3221e, 79-3221h, 79-32,203, 79-5212, 82a-209, 82a-220, 82a-326, 82a-903, 82a-1501, 82a-2001 and 82a-2204 and K.S.A. 2021 Supp. 2-1314d, 2-2473, 8-134, 19-2803b, 19-2803d, 19-2817, 19-2822, 19-2835, 19-2836, 19-2839, 19-2844, 19-2844a, 19-2855, 19-2868, 19-2873, 19-2894, 19-3543, 20-302b, 21-5810, 21-6308a, 21-6416, 22-2512, 49-408, 58-3221, 58-3225 and 79-3234 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 32-810, 32-811, 32-812, 32-813, 32-814, 32-815, 32-816 and 32-818, by Committee on Ways and Means.

Senate Resolutions

SR 1732, A RESOLUTION congratulating and commending the 2020 and 2022 Kansas Master Teachers, by Senator Longbine.

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