Volume 42 - Issue 8 - February 23, 2023

State of Kansas

Legislative Administrative Services

Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced

The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced February 9-15 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 2376, AN ACT concerning housing discrimination; relating to the Kansas act against discrimination; prohibiting the recording of unlawful restrictive covenants; authorizing the removal of unlawful restrictive covenants; prohibiting any city or county ordinance or resolution prohibiting discrimination that is more restrictive than the Kansas act against discrimination; amending K.S.A. 44-1017a and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Local Government.

HB 2377, AN ACT concerning records and recordation; related to the Kansas department of health and environment, office of vital statistics and Kansas department for children and families; exempting the Kansas department for children and families from fees for birth and death certificates required for an adoption proceeding; directing the office of vital statistics to provide birth or death certificates to the Kansas department for children and families or a court with jurisdiction upon receipt of the initial journal entry establishing custody; amending K.S.A. 65-2418 and 65-2422d and repealing the existing sections, by None.

HB 2378, AN ACT concerning the disposition of certain state real property; authorizing the secretary of administration on behalf of the Kansas department for aging and disability services to convey land in Shawnee county to the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office; imposing certain conditions; prescribing costs of conveyance; requiring approval by the attorney general, by Committee on Veterans and Military.

HB 2379, AN ACT concerning protection orders; relating to the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking act; requiring orders issued pursuant to such acts to restrain the plaintiff from contacting the defendant; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 60-3107 and 60-31a06 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2380, AN ACT concerning seizure and forfeiture of property; relating to property seized by law enforcement; requiring a conviction of an offense giving rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act; remitting proceeds to the state general fund; increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property; making certain property ineligible for forfeiture; providing persons involved in forfeiture proceedings representation by counsel and the ability to demand a jury trial; allowing a person to request a hearing on whether forfeiture is excessive; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 60-4104, 60-4105, 60-4106, 60-4107, 60-4109, 60-4112, 60-4113, 60-4114, 60-4117 and 60-4127 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2381, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to the revised Kansas code for care of children; requiring the court to appoint an attorney to represent a child who is the subject of child in need of care proceedings; making the guardian ad litem appointment optional; granting such attorney access to all information and records necessary for the representation of such child; amending K.S.A. 38-2202, 38-2205, 38-2219, 38-2229, 38-2236, 38-2247, 38-2248, 38-2249, 38-2258, 38-2260, 38-2268, 38-2275 and 38-2291 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 38-2211 and 38-2212 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2382, AN ACT concerning school district boards of education; establishing the school district board of education member free speech and transparency act; requiring school districts to publicly list current members and provide the email addresses for such members; requiring certain records made, maintained or kept on a member’s private electronic device to be subject to disclosure under the open records act; authorizing members to add items to meeting agendas, question conferees and request information from the school district; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 45-217 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on K-12 Education Budget.

HB 2383, AN ACT concerning courts; relating to district magistrate judges; allowing certain municipal judges to take the examination to be certified by the supreme court as qualified to be a district magistrate judge; amending K.S.A. 20-337 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2384, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to deductions; increasing the Kansas standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,119 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2385, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to presumptions; modifying the rules of evidence to provide rules for presumptions and inferences; replacing the rebuttable presumption of intent to distribute controlled substances with a permissive inference; amending K.S.A. 60-416 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5705 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.

HB 2386, AN ACT concerning public employees; relating to a person’s property; prohibiting a state or local governmental employee from entering or remaining on private property; providing exceptions, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget.

HB 2387, AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to STAR bonds; providing funding to replace lost food sales tax revenue for STAR bond districts established prior to December 31, 2022, and modifying the tax increment definition for such districts; authorizing STAR bond project costs for historic theaters and major amusement parks to include certain additional costs; extending the deadline for the report on STAR bonds by the department of commerce to certain legislative committees; amending K.S.A. 12-17,162 and 12-17,169 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2388, AN ACT concerning occupational regulation; relating to occupational licenses; requiring that licensing bodies provide verified electronic credentials, in addition to paper-based credentials, to all credential holders, including military servicemembers and others receiving Kansas credentials based on their credentials from other jurisdictions; requiring licensing bodies to use centralized electronic credential data management systems capable of providing instantaneous credential verification; mandating that such systems maintain an auditable record; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-3406 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2389, AN ACT concerning real estate brokers and salespersons; application of licensure provisions to trusts; authorizing the Kansas real estate commission to issue cease and desist orders; providing that dealing in assignable contracts for the purchase or sale of, or options on real estate requires licensure; amending K.S.A. 58-3036 and 58-3065 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 58-3035, 58-3037 and 58-3042 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2390, AN ACT concerning drugs; relating to drug overdoses; enacting the Kansas overdose fatality review board act; establishing the Kansas overdose fatality review board; providing for membership and duties thereof; requiring the secretary of health and environment to study drug overdose death cases; providing for the confidentiality of acquired and related records; relating to crimes involving controlled substances; excluding materials used to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid from the definition of drug paraphernalia; clarifying who may be protected from liability for administering an emergency opioid antagonist; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701 and 65-16,127 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701b, by Committee on Health and Human Services.

HB 2391, AN ACT concerning campaign finance; relating to the governmental ethics commission; establishing a two-year statute of limitations for complaints; limiting the commission’s subpoena powers; allowing respondents to have a hearing transferred before a presiding officer under the Kansas administrative procedure act; amending K.S.A. 25-4119a, 25-4119d, 25-4143, 25-4145, 25-4148, 25-4148c, 25-4152, 25-4153a, 25-4153b, 25-4154, 25-4157a, 25-4158, 25-4161, 25-4163, 25-4165, 25-4170, 25-4181, 25-4182 and 25-4185 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Elections.

HB 2392, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; updating the Kansas code of military justice relating to certain definitions, unlawful acts and punishment requirements thereof; amending K.S.A. 48-2101, 48-2102, 48-2103, 48-2105, 48-2106, 48-2201, 48-2203, 48-2204, 48-2602, 48-2605, 48-2708, 48-2709, 48-2801, 48-2802, 48-3003, 48-3005, 48-3006, 48-3007, 48-3008, 48-3009, 48-3010, 48-3011, 48-3012, 48-3013, 48-3014, 48-3015, 48-3016, 48-3017, 48-3018, 48-3019, 48-3020, 48-3021, 48-3022, 48-3023, 48-3024, 48-3025, 48-3026, 48-3027, 48-3028, 48-3029, 48-3030, 48-3031, 48-3032, 48-3033, 48-3033a, 48-3034, 48-3035, 48-3035a, 48-3036, 48-3037, 48-3038, 48-3039, 48-3040, 48-3041, 48-3042, 48-3043, 48-3044, 48-3101, 48-3102, 48-3103, 48-3104, 48-3105, 48-3108, 48-3109, 48-3110 and 48-3112 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-2301 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 48-2104, 48-2202, 48-2205, 48-2206, 48-2207, 48-2208, 48-2401, 48-2401a, 48-2402, 48-2402a, 48-2403, 48-2404, 48-2405, 48-2406, 48-2501, 48-2501a, 48-2502, 48-2503, 48-2504, 48-2505, 48-2506, 48-2507, 48-2601, 48-2603, 48-2604, 48-2606, 48-2701, 48-2702, 48-2703, 48-2704, 48-2705, 48-2706, 48-2707, 48-2710, 48-2711, 48-2712, 48-2713, 48-2714, 48-2715, 48-2716, 48-2717, 48-2718, 48-2719, 48-2803, 48-2804, 48-2915, 48-2916, 48-2917, 48-2918, 48-2919, 48-2920, 48-2921, 48-2922, 48-2923, 48-2924, 48-2925, 48-2926, 48-2927, 48-2928, 48-2929, 48-2930, 48-2931, 48-2932, 48-3001, 48-3106, 48-3107 and 48-3114, by Committee on Veterans and Military.

HB 2393, AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to the secretary for children and families; directing the secretary to enter agreements with state agencies for the continuous review and comparison of data for public assistance eligibility; requiring the secretary to review federal sources to verify such eligibility, by Committee on Welfare Reform.

HB 2394, AN ACT concerning public assistance; relating to energy assistance and housing assistance; requiring the secretary for children and families to develop a low income energy assistance program and the secretary for aging and disability services to develop a program for unhoused individuals to find and secure affordable housing; determining eligibility for such programs, by Committee on Welfare Reform.

HB 2395, AN ACT concerning the open records act; relating to public records; continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure thereof; amending K.S.A. 9-512, 40-4308, 40-4350, 45-229, 65-177, 65-28b08, 74-5611a, 75-7240 and 75-7242 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2396, AN ACT concerning the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act; requiring a conviction prior to forfeiture; remitting proceeds to the state general fund; requiring proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture; requiring seizing agencies to make forfeiture reports more often; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 60-4104, 60-4105, 60-4106, 60-4109, 60-4112, 60-4113, 60-4114, 60-4117 and 60-4127 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2397, AN ACT concerning real property; relating to the conveyance thereof; prohibiting the conveyance of title to certain real property to foreign adversaries; establishing criminal penalties therefor; requiring the attorney general to investigate such conveyances, by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

HB 2398, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes involving controlled substances; adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture; increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl-related controlled substance; creating a special sentencing rule for distributing fentanyl-related controlled substance; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701, 21-5703 and 21-6805 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701b, by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice.

HB 2399, AN ACT concerning labor and employment; providing protections for freelance workers including payment within 30 days unless otherwise contractually specified; requiring written contracts; forbidding clients from demanding reductions in compensation for timely payment; prohibiting retaliation against freelance workers who seek payment; authorizing the secretary of labor to investigate alleged violations and the attorney general to enforce orders against violators and setting forth penalties for such violations; providing for a private cause of action by freelance workers or by nonprofit organizations on behalf of such workers; establishing an assistance program for freelance workers to be administered by the secretary of labor, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2400, AN ACT concerning workforce development; enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act; establishing a grant program for adult learners to pursue certain fields of study; providing for workforce retention incentive payments; creating the Kansas adult learner grant program fund, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2401, AN ACT concerning employment security law; relating to the definition of “benefit year” and “temporary unemployment”; requiring electronic filing of wage reports, contribution returns and payments and interest assessments for employers with 25 or more employees; permitting the exercise of discretion in the number of appointments and length of terms with respect to the temporarily expanded employment security board of review members; extending when the mandatory combination of rates and the establishment of a new account due to a business acquisition must occur from the beginning of the following quarter to the beginning of the following year; amending K.S.A. 44-709 and 44-717 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 44-703 and 44-710a and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.

HB 2402, AN ACT concerning self-service storage facilities; prohibiting such new facilities that are located within 1,000 feet of a child care facility or school, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2403, AN ACT regarding firearms; relating to the storage of firearms and stun guns; creating certain crimes dealing with improper storage, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2404, AN ACT concerning environmental, social and governance standards involving contracts, investments and business practices; relating to ideological boycotts or other discriminatory conduct; enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act; directing the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system to divest from investments with entities engaged in ideological boycotts; establishing conditions and procedures for divestment; requiring the state treasurer to publish a list of financial companies and financial institutions engaged in ideological boycotts; authorizing the state treasurer to disqualify listed financial institutions from receiving deposit of state moneys; prohibiting governmental contracts without written verification that a contractor is not engaged in ideological boycotts; directing fiduciaries of governmental plans that provide retirement benefits, defer employee income or invest taxpayer moneys to act only in the financial interest of such plans; requiring registered investment advisers to make certain disclosures to clients and obtain written consent of clients prior to investing client funds in investments engaged in ideological boycotts; providing for civil and criminal penalties; amending K.S.A. 75-4208 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 40-2404 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2405, AN ACT concerning legal tender; establishing the Kansas legal tender act; reaffirmation of gold and silver coin as legal tender; providing an income taxation subtraction modification for gains from the sale of specie; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2406, AN ACT concerning the personal and family protection act; prohibiting the collection of personal information regarding off-duty law enforcement officers entering buildings or requiring the officer to wear anything identifying the person as a law enforcement officer or being armed; amending K.S.A. 75-7c22 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2407, AN ACT concerning students; relating to nonacademic questionnaires; eliminating the requirement for parental consent for a student to participate in a nonacademic questionnaire; allowing for notice of a nonacademic questionnaire to be administered; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-6316 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care.

HB 2408, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to the practice of barbering and cosmetology; exempting adult care homes from statutes governing barbering and cosmetology facilities; amending K.S.A. 65-1904a and 74-1807 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Health and Human Services.

HB 2409, AN ACT concerning family law; enacting the Kansas uniform parentage act (2017); repealing the Kansas parentage act; amending K.S.A. 38-1518, 38-2220, 38-2221, 38-2313, 38-2318, 39-7,145, 59-501 and 65-2409a and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 20-165, 20-302b, 23-2222, 23-2223, 23-36,401 and 59-2136 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 23-2201, 23-2202, 23-2203, 23-2204, 23-2205, 23-2206, 23-2207, 23-2208, 23-2209, 23-2210, 23-2211, 23-2212, 23-2213, 23-2214, 23-2215, 23-2216, 23-2219, 23-2220, 23-2221, 23-2224 and 23-2225, by Committee on Judiciary.

HB 2410, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to taxable income; increasing taxable income amounts by a cost-of-living adjustment in determining Kansas income tax; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,110 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2411, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to withholding and remittance of employee income taxes by employers; decreasing the penalties for failing to timely remit; amending K.S.A. 79-32,107 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2412, AN ACT concerning the personal and family protection act; removing state agency fees for licenses to carry concealed handguns; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-7c05 and 75-7c08 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2413, AN ACT concerning firearms; requiring safe storage of firearms; establishing criminal penalties for violations, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2414, AN ACT concerning postsecondary education; relating to the university engineering initiative act; expanding the act to include certain private postsecondary educational institutions; amending K.S.A. 76-7,138, 76-7,140, 76-7,141, 76-7,142 and 76-7,143 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 76-7,137 and 76-7,139 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Appropriations.

HB 2415, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program; relating to medical assistance; expanding income limits for eligibility to 138% of the federal poverty level, by Committee on Appropriations.

HB 2416, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to sales and compensating use tax; providing for a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2417, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to medical cannabis; creating the medical cannabis regulation act; providing for licensure and regulation of the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis; 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 cannabis registration fund, the medical cannabis business regulation fund and the retail dispensary consultant registration fee fund; creating the crimes of unlawful storage and unlawful transport of medical cannabis; making exceptions to the crimes of unlawful manufacture and possession of controlled substances; amending K.S.A. 38-2269, 41-201, 44-501, 44-706, 44-1009, 44-1015, 79-5201 and 79-5210 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 19-101a, 21-5703, 21-5705, 21-5706, 21-5707, 21-5709, 21-5710, 21-6607, 22-3717 and 23-3201 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

HB 2418, AN ACT concerning certain state programs, boards and commissions; abolishing the study commission for the consolidation of Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte county, consolidation commission of Topeka, Kansas, and Shawnee county, study commission for the consolidation in Greeley county, podiatry review committee, state board of healing arts review committee for each branch of the healing arts, contact lens advisory council, state emergency response commission, naturopathic advisory council, transportation vision task force, special education funding task force, Persian Gulf war veterans health initiative act, Kansas export finance act, community strategic planning assistance act, natural and scientific areas advisory board, public finance transparency board, Kansas film services commission, Kansas bioscience authority, KAN-ED act and department of health and environment advisory committees; amending K.S.A. 12-340, 12-360, 45-229, 65-5702, 65-5728, 65-7406, 66-2010, 74-2916, 74-5210, 74-6603, 74-6609, 74-72,123, 74-99b03, 74-99b33, 74-99b63, 74-99b83 and 75-7403 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 65-4915 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 12-341, 12-342, 12-343, 12-350, 12-351, 12-352, 12-353, 12-354, 12-355, 12-356, 12-357, 12-359, 12-361, 12-362, 65-2016, 65-2840c, 65-4969, 65-5703, 65-7214, 68-185, 72-3441, 73-1221, 73-1222, 73-1223, 73-1224, 73-1225, 73-1226, 73-1227, 73-1228, 73-1229, 73-1230, 73-1231, 74-5069, 74-5070, 74-5071, 74-5072, 74-5073, 74-5074, 74-5092, 74-5093, 74-5094, 74-5095, 74-5096, 74-5097, 74-5098, 74-5099, 74-50,100, 74-50,101, 74-6614, 74-6615, 74-72,124, 74-9201, 74-99b04, 74-99b05, 74-99b11, 74-99b12, 74-99b13, 74-99b17, 75-7221, 75-7222, 75-7223, 75-7224, 75-7225, 75-7226 and 75-7227, by Committee on Appropriations.

HB 2419, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to credits; establishing a tax credit for expenses incurred for the care of cats and dogs, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2420, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to withholding taxes; establishing withholding requirements for certain employees who work in multiple states, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2421, AN ACT concerning sales and compensating use tax; relating to city and countywide retailers’ sales tax; providing countywide retailers’ sales tax authority for Grant county; amending K.S.A. 12-187 and 12-189 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Taxation.

HB 2422, AN ACT concerning the state fire marshal; eliminating the statutory qualifications of the chief inspector for boiler safety; amending K.S.A. 44-918 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

House Resolutions

HR 6011, A RESOLUTION commemorating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Ellsworth Route of the historic Chisholm Trail, by Representative Waymaster.

House Concurrent Resolutions

HCR 5011, A PROPOSITION to amend section 1 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas; relating to the right to abortion, by Representatives Garber, Awerkamp, Blex, Bryce, Corbet, Droge, Ellis, Fairchild, Goddard, Goetz, Hill, Jacobs, Murphy, Poetter, Rhiley, Roth, Sanders, Seiwert, A. Smith and Sutton.

Senate Bills

SB 223, AN ACT concerning elections; changing the candidate filing deadline and the date of primary elections; increasing campaign contribution limits under the campaign finance act; modifying restrictions on campaign activities during legislative sessions; amending K.S.A. 25-203, 25-205, 25-302a, 25-1115, 25-1122, 25-1903, 25-2006, 25-2010, 25-2018, 25-2102, 25-2107, 25-2108a, 25-2109, 25-21a01, 25-21a03, 25-2502, 25-26a03, 25-3801, 25-3901, 25-4004, 25-4005, 25-4153, 25-4153a, 71-1413, 71-1414 and 71-1422 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 19-3505 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 224, AN ACT concerning environmental, social and governance standards involving contracts, investments and business practices; relating to ideological boycotts or other discriminatory conduct; enacting the Kansas protection of pensions and businesses against ideological interference act; directing the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system to divest from investments with entities engaged in ideological boycotts; establishing conditions and procedures for divestment; requiring the state treasurer to publish a list of financial companies and financial institutions engaged in ideological boycotts; authorizing the state treasurer to disqualify listed financial institutions from receiving deposit of state moneys; prohibiting governmental contracts without written verification that a contractor is not engaged in ideological boycotts; directing fiduciaries of governmental plans that provide retirement benefits, defer employee income or invest taxpayer moneys to act only in the financial interest of such plans; requiring registered investment advisers to make certain disclosures to clients and obtain written consent of clients prior to investing client funds in investments engaged in ideological boycotts; providing for civil and criminal penalties; amending K.S.A. 75-4208 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 40-2404 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 225, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program; relating to medical assistance; expanding income limits for eligibility to 138% of the federal poverty level, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 226, AN ACT concerning education; relating to student data; authorizing educational agencies to disclose student data for the purpose of conducting research contracted for by an educational agency; amending K.S.A. 72-6314 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Education.

SB 227, AN ACT concerning sales and compensating use taxation; relating to the collection and remittance of taxes; allowing for the retention of taxes by a retailer on movie ticket and concession sales, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 228, AN ACT concerning county jails; removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail; modernizing requirements related to food, drink and medical care for prisoners and jail records; modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails or other county jails to keep prisoners; requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail; amending K.S.A. 19-1901, 19-1903, 19-1904, 19-1905, 19-1910, 19-1911, 19-1916, 19-1917, 19-1927, 19-1929 and 19-1930 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 19-1906, 19-1907, 19-1908, 19-1912, 19-1913, 19-1914 and 19-1915, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 229, AN ACT concerning motor vehicles; relating to distinctive license plates; providing for the city of Topeka license plate, by Committee on Commerce.

SB 230, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to qualified governmental retirement plans under the federal internal revenue code; state income tax treatment of certain pre-tax and Roth retirement contributions; enacting the Kansas thrift savings plan act; establishing terms, conditions and requirements related thereto; creating mandatory, deferred compensation, employer and rollover accounts; providing for plan document, membership elections, benefits, contributions, distributions and prospective plan changes by the legislature; relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; employer contribution rate; allowing total covered payroll to include compensation of thrift savings plan members; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 74-4920 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 231, AN ACT concerning postsecondary education; relating to tuition; providing for the waiver of tuition for certain children of qualifying public school teachers; deeming certain children of qualifying public school teachers as residents for tuition purposes; amending K.S.A. 76-729 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 232, AN ACT concerning children and minors; establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions therefor; authorizing access to certain records; amending K.S.A. 38-2213, 38-2309 and 38-2310 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 38-2211 and 38-2212 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 233, AN ACT concerning gender identity medical care; creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service; requiring revocation of a physician’s license if such physician performs childhood gender reassignment service; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 65-2836 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 234, AN ACT concerning public health and welfare; relating to a closed-loop referral system; requiring consent for an individual’s information to be added to or transmitted by a closed-loop referral system, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 235, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to healthcare benefits; health insurance plans and related coverage; granting third-party access to provider network contracts if certain criteria are met; establishing requirements and restrictions for the payment and reimbursement of healthcare services; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 40-2,225, 40-2,226 and 40-2,227 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 236, AN ACT concerning insurance; relating to pharmacy benefits managers; the federal 340B drug pricing program; prohibiting disparate treatment of pharmacies based upon participation in the 340B program; requiring drug manufacturers to provide 340B pricing to pharmacies that enter into contractual agreements covered under the 340B program; prohibiting pharmacy benefits managers from denying patients the use of the pharmacy and healthcare provider chosen by such patients, by Committee on Public Health and Welfare.

SB 237, AN ACT concerning the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act; requiring a conviction prior to forfeiture; remitting proceeds to the state general fund; requiring proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture; requiring seizing agencies to make forfeiture reports more often; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 60-4104, 60-4105, 60-4106, 60-4109, 60-4112, 60-4113, 60-4114, 60-4117 and 60-4127 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 238, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to crimes involving controlled substances; adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture; increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing or distributing fentanyl-related controlled substances; creating a special sentencing rule for manufacturing or distributing fentanyl-related controlled substances and any controlled substances that are likely to be attractive to minors because of their appearance or packaging; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701, 21-5703, 21-5705 and 21-6805 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5701b, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 239, AN ACT concerning criminal procedure; providing that certain witnesses shall have the right to be accompanied by a support person during testimony and may be accompanied by a certified critical incident response therapy K9 team, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 240, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to aggravated endangering a child; increasing the criminal penalties in certain environments where any person is distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, manufacturing or attempting to manufacture fentanyl-related controlled substances; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 21-5601 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 241, AN ACT concerning children and minors; relating to juvenile offenders; requiring certain records to be automatically expunged from a juvenile’s record; amending K.S.A. 38-2312 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 242, AN ACT enacting the cold case homicide victims’ families’ rights act; providing for a system for reviewing the case files of cold case homicides upon written application by certain persons, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 243, AN ACT concerning minors; relating to settlement agreements; providing requirements and procedures for a person having legal custody of a minor to enter into a settlement agreement on behalf of the minor, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 244, AN ACT concerning the attorney general; authorizing prosecution of any crime that is part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties; amending K.S.A. 75-702 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Judiciary.

SB 245, AN ACT concerning financial institutions; enacting the commercial financing disclosure act; requiring the disclosure of certain commercial financing product transaction information; registration of commercial finance brokers with the state bank commissioner; obtaining a surety bond; providing for civil penalties; rules and regulations authority of the commissioner; authorizing enforcement of such act by the attorney general, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 246, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to telemedicine; defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act; requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services; providing for certain standards of care; establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee; amending K.S.A. 40-2,210, 40-2,211, 40-2,212 and 40-2,213 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 247, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to sales and compensating use tax; providing for a sales tax exemption for a not-for-profit corporation operating a community theater; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 248, AN ACT concerning sales and compensating use tax; relating to food; providing a sales tax exemption for sales of healthy food; repealing the state rate reduction for sales of certain food and food ingredients; amending K.S.A. 12-189a and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3603, 79-3606, 79-3620, 79-3703 and 79-3710 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3603d, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 249, AN ACT concerning the offices of the state treasurer and the commissioner of insurance; relating to the filling of a vacancy; amending K.S.A. 25-101b and 40-106 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 250, AN ACT concerning the personal and family protection act; removing state agency fees for licenses to carry concealed handguns; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-7c05 and 75-7c08 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 251, AN ACT concerning alcoholic beverages; relating to spirits distributors, wine distributors and cereal malt beverage distributors; regulating samples; amending K.S.A. 41-306, 41-306a and 41-307 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 252, AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to property tax and sales tax exemptions; providing a property tax exemption for certain business property operated in competition with property owned or operated by a government entity; providing a sales tax exemption for certain businesses competing against governmental entities; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.

SB 253, AN ACT concerning alcoholic beverages; authorizing the delivery of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage by licensed retailers, licensed clubs, drinking establishments and restaurants and third-party delivery services to patrons; amending K.S.A. 41-327, 41-2601, 41-2701 and 41-2728 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 41-102 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 254, AN ACT concerning the office of United States senator; providing for the filling of a vacancy; amending K.S.A. 25-318 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 255, AN ACT concerning school districts; relating to school sponsored travel and activities; requiring separate overnight accommodations for students of each biological sex, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SB 256, AN ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas public employees retirement system; Kansas public employees retirement system act of 2015; providing an additional interest credit of 1% and removing the current additional interest credit calculation for calendar year 2023; amending K.S.A. 74-49,306 and 74-49,308 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.

SB 257, AN ACT concerning places of public accommodation; relating to public areas thereof; requiring that closed captioning be enabled on certain televisions and television receivers therein, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

Senate Resolutions

SR 1709, A RESOLUTION recognizing the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., for their outstanding service to the citizens of our state, our nation and the international community and for their promotion of sisterhood, scholarship and service, by Senators Faust-Goudeau and Haley.

Senate Concurrent Resolutions

SCR 1605, A PROPOSITION to amend section 2 of article 2 of the constitution of the state of Kansas; providing for consecutive term limits for senators and representatives, by Senators Straub, Claeys, Doll, Gossage, Kloos, Peck, Pittman, Pyle, Steffen and Thompson.

SCR 1606, A PROPOSITION to amend article 14 of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section thereto; relating to the powers of initiative and referendum, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

SCR 1607, A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION making application to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose limits on the federal government, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

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