For the 2023 Session of the Kansas Legislature, individual requests for bill introductions had to be submitted before February 8, 2023; with committee introductions on or before February 10, 2023. All bills must pass the house-of-origin on or before February 23, 2023 (with some exceptions) or...
TOPEKA — A Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly for the third year in a row Friday, setting up a hotly contested fight in the Republican-controlled Legislature to override her. Kelly’s action was exp...
Kansas Legislature Drops Bills on Judiciary, Guns, KDOT, Foster CareThe House budget committee demonstrated eagerness Tuesday toresolve a conflict with the Kansas...Carpenter, Tim
SB 387, a proposal that is rapidly changing as lawmakers work to finalize bills before the Legislature adjourns Friday, includes $75 million for Special Education Services Aid in fiscal year 2025. In fiscal year 2026, the bill claims to appropriate $610.5 million for Spec...
The Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto in three years of a bill to ban transgender athletes, and came a day after state lawmakers passed a broad bathroom bill. Nineteen other states have imposed restrictions on transgender athletes, most recently Wyoming. T...
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Warns of Adverse Consequences From “Anti-ESG” Bills Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLPon3/24/2023 Earlier this month, the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) urged legislators to reject key aspects of “anti-ESG” bills introduced in the Kan...
Since the US Supreme Court struck down PASPA in May 2018, the Kansas legislature had been working on legislation governing sports betting. During that same year, Kansas became one of the pioneering states to attempt the introduction of sports betting. The major issue was determining which lottery...
Four conservative GOP members of the Kansas House introduced the measure Wednesday, drawing immediate and strong condemnation from the Legislature's first transgender member, its two other openly LGBTQ lawmakers and the executive director of the state's leading LGBTQ-rights organization. It is ...
“This says that you're in a close race and that you're really desperate to get out of it," he said. Republicans are attacking Bollier for her strong support of abortion rights, which led her to vote against new abortion restrictions during her decade-plus in the Legi...
Sports betting also contributes heavily to Kansas tax revenues. When the industry launched in 2022, lawmakers predicted it would generate $1.8 million for the 2022/23 fiscal year. From September 2022 to January 2023, the industry had already brought in over $2.7 million in revenue. ...