Volume 42 - Issue 11 - March 16, 2023
State of Kansas
Legislative Administrative Services
Legislative Bills and Resolutions Introduced
The following numbers and titles of bills and resolutions were introduced March 2–8 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 2445, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to rates; providing for additional income tax rate brackets; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,110 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2446, AN ACT concerning cities and counties; prohibiting the regulation of plastic and other containers designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2447, AN ACT concerning cities and counties; prohibiting the banning of products or services otherwise permitted under state law, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2448, AN ACT concerning the legislature; relating to compensation, salary and retirement benefits of members thereof; creating the legislative compensation commission; prescribing powers and duties of the commission; authorizing the commission to set rates of compensation for members of the legislature; establishing procedures for review and possible rejection of such rates of compensation by the legislature; eliminating the previously established compensation commission; repealing K.S.A. 46-3101, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2449, AN ACT concerning boards and commissions; relating to the per diem compensation of members of such boards and commissions; amending K.S.A. 75-3212 and 75-3223 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2450, AN ACT concerning sales taxation; relating to economic development; providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas, the purchase of data center equipment and eligible data center costs, electricity and certain labor costs to qualified firms that make a minimum investment of at least $600,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-3606 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Taxation.
HB 2451, AN ACT concerning industrial hemp; relating to hemp products; specifying the delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration for final hemp products; allowing certain hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed; amending K.S.A. 2-3901 and 2-3908 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
HB 2452, AN ACT concerning the Kansas state employees health care commission; relating to insurance for state employees; eliminating the requirement that the commission offer long-term care insurance and indemnity insurance; amending K.S.A. 75-6513 and repealing the existing section; also repealing K.S.A. 75-6521, 75-6522 and 75-6523, by Committee on Appropriations.
HB 2453, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to dentists and dental hygienists; enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists, by Committee on Appropriations.
House Resolutions
HR 6013, A RESOLUTION strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan, by Representatives Hawkins, Mason, Anderson, Bergkamp, Bergquist, Blew, Blex, Bloom, Borjon, Boyd, Bryce, Buehler, Butler, Carpenter, Carpenter, Clifford, Collins, Concannon, Corbet, Croft, Curtis, Delperdang, Dodson, Ellis, Eplee, Essex, Estes, Featherston, Garber, Goddard, Goetz, Hill, Hoffman, Hoheisel, Howe, Howell, Howerton, Hoye, Humphries, Johnson, Kessler, Maughan, Miller, Miller, Minnix, Moser, Murphy, Neighbor, Oropeza, Osman, Owens, Patton, Penn, Pickert, Poetter Parshall, Poskin, Probst, Proctor, Rahjes, Resman, Rhiley, Roth, Sanders, Sawyer Clayton, Schreiber, Seiwert, Smith, Smith, Smith, Thomas, Thompson, Turk, Turner, Underhill, Waggoner,Wasinger, Waymaster, Weigel, White, Williams, Williams and Woodard.
HR 6014, A RESOLUTION commending the United States African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Program and urging the State of Kansas to adopt a similar program, by Representative Robinson.
Senate Bills
SB 283, AN ACT concerning real property; relating to the conveyance thereof; prohibiting the conveyance of real property parcels of 10 or more acres to foreign adversaries; establishing criminal penalties therefor; requiring the attorney general to investigate such conveyances, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 284, AN ACT concerning disability services; relating to telecommunications and information access services; establishing the blind information access act; requiring the state librarian to contract with an organization to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled; establishing the blind information access fund; requiring the transfer of moneys from the Kansas universal service fund to provide for such services; amending K.S.A. 66-2010 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 285, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; relating to national guard officers; eliminating the requirement of senate confirmation thereof; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-208 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 286, AN ACT concerning abortion; prohibiting abortion procedures, exceptions; providing a private cause of action for civil enforcement of such prohibition; amending K.S.A. 65-2401, 65-2837, 65-6731, 65-67a01, 76-3308 and 79-32,195 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 60-1906, 79-32,182b, 79-32,261 and 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 65-4a01, 65-4a02, 65-4a03, 65-4a04, 65-4a05, 65-4a06, 65-4a07, 65-4a08, 65-4a09, 65-4a10, 65-4a11, 65-4a12, 65-6701, 65-6702, 65-6703, 65-6704, 65-6705, 65-6707, 65-6708, 65-6709, 65-6710, 65-6711, 65-6712, 65-6714, 65-6715, 65-6721, 65-6722, 65-6723, 65-6724, 65-6725, 65-6726, 65-6741, 65-6742, 65-6743, 65-6744, 65-6745, 65-6746, 65-6747, 65-6748 and 65-6749, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 287, AN ACT concerning the Kansas silver alert plan; expanding such plan to include persons 18 years of age or older who have dementia, a developmental disability or a cognitive impairment; amending K.S.A. 75-754 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 288, AN ACT concerning drivers’ licenses; authorizing certain individuals with revoked licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges; amending K.S.A. 8-2110 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 289, AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to functional incapacitation release and terminal medical condition release; permitting release of persons sentenced to imprisonment for an off-grid offense; 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; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 22-3728 and 22-3729 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 290, AN ACT concerning elections; relating to primary elections; requiring a presidential preference primary election; changing the primary election date for all primary elections to the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May; 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, 25-4153a, 25-4501a, 25-4502, 71-1413, 71-1414 and 71-1422 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 19-3505 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 25-4503, 25-4505, 25-4506, 25-4507 and 25-4508, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 291, AN ACT concerning environmental, social and governance criteria involving public contracts and investments; enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act; prohibiting the state or a political subdivision from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on environmental, social and governance criteria in procuring or letting contracts; requiring fiduciaries of the Kansas public employees retirement system to act solely in the financial interest of participants and beneficiaries of the system; restricting state agencies from adopting environmental, social and governance criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria; directing registered investment advisers to provide certain environmental, social and governance criteria notice to clients; requiring the legislative research department to develop and maintain an environmental, social and governance disclosure webpage; providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 74-4921 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 292, AN ACT concerning veterans and military; updating certain provisions related to the Kansas army and air national guard; providing for the appointment of a state judge advocate; increasing monthly disability and death benefits; providing for the adjustment of such disability and death benefits; amending K.S.A. 48-101, 48-202, 48-205, 48-206, 48-209, 48-211, 48-214, 48-216, 48-242, 48-243, 48-252c, 48-261, 48-267, 48-269, 48-301, 48-509 and 48-516 and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 48-204 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 48-103, 48-219, 48-221, 48-222, 48-223, 48-228, 48-237 and 48-252, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 293, AN ACT concerning parimutuel wagering; relating to historical horse races; crediting tax revenue generated to the horse breeding development fund and the horse fair racing benefit fund; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 74-8823 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 294, AN ACT concerning health and healthcare; relating to local health departments; increasing state financial assistance to such departments under specified circumstances; amending K.S.A. 65-242 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 295, AN ACT concerning property taxation; authorizing the continuation of the 20 mill statewide levy for schools; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-5142 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 296, 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.
SB 297, AN ACT concerning abortion; revising the definition of abortion; excluding certain procedures from the definition; amending K.S.A. 40-2,190, 65-4a01, 65-6701, 65-6723 and 65-6742 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 298, AN ACT concerning children and families; relating to orders of child support; providing for child support for unborn children with a detectable heartbeat; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 20-165, 23-2205 and 23-3001 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 299, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to Kansas exemptions for an individual; providing additional exemptions for unborn children with a detectable heartbeat; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,121 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 300, AN ACT concerning privilege tax; relating to rates; decreasing the privilege tax rates on banks, trust companies and savings and loan associations by reducing the normal tax rates; amending K.S.A. 79-1107 and 79-1108 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
SB 301, AN ACT concerning governmental ethics; relating to statements of substantial interests; requiring annual filing of such statements by local governmental officers and employees; amending K.S.A. 46-252 and 75-4302a and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Ways and Means.
SB 302, AN ACT concerning financial institutions; relating to the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act; suspending technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions from engaging in fidfin transactions, custodial services and trust business until the legislature consents to and approves the engaging in such activities by an act of the legislature; requiring the legislature to conduct a forensic audit of certain technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution activities; prescribing the scope of such audit, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 303, 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.
SB 304, AN ACT concerning school districts; authorizing the state board of education to establish new school districts for purposes of attachment of territory of a disorganized school district; providing for administrative and judicial review of resolutions to permanently close a school building; amending K.S.A. 72-635 and 72-1431 and repealing the existing sections, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 305, AN ACT concerning health professions and practices; enacting the massage therapist licensure act; providing for regulation and licensing of massage therapists; prescribing powers, duties and functions of the state board of healing arts, by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
SB 306, AN ACT concerning income taxation; relating to Kansas adjusted gross income; providing an addition modification for losses from any investment in a technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 79-32,117 and repealing the existing section, by Committee on Assessment and Taxation.
Senate Resolutions
SR 1712, A RESOLUTION recognizing the Kansas Small Business Development Center’s 2023 Businesses of the Year, by Senators Holland, Erickson, Alley, Baumgardner, Dietrich, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Gossage, Haley, Longbine, Masterson, O’Shea, Peck, Petersen, Pettey, Reddi, Ryckman, Shallenburger, Steffen, Straub, Sykes, Ware and Warren.
SR 1713, A RESOLUTION recognizing March 8, 2023, as International Women’s Day, by Senators Reddi, Bowers, Corson, Dietrich, Doll, Erickson, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Holland, Holscher, Kloos, Longbine, Masterson, McGinn, Petersen, Pettey, Pittman, Shallenburger, Sykes, Ware and Wilborn.
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