Bills introduced in the 2021 and 2022 legislative sessions are dead, and any bills to be considered must be introduced anew. Any bills introduced in 2023 that are not enacted will carry over to the 2024 session. For the 2023 Session of the Kansas Legislature, individual requests for bill intr...
Kansas Legislature Drops Bills on Judiciary, Guns, KDOT, Foster CareThe House budget committee demonstrated eagerness Tuesday toresolve a conflict with the Kansas...Carpenter, Tim
2018:The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) of 1992 is overturned by the US Supreme Court. Three bills that legalize sports betting in KS are introduced, but all die in the legislature. 2019:There is another attempt to legalize sports betting that would tax operators at 5...
Redistricting Kansas: High Court Overturns —In April, a Kansas district court disqualified the legislature’s congressional map as a partisan gerrymander. Gov. Laura Kelly (D) originally vetoed the map, but the legislature was able to override her action with two-thirds support in both houses....
Legislature. They've already backed off the toughest version of the anti-ESG legislation because of opposition from powerful business groups, and have rewritten both bills to prevent projected investment losses of $3.6 billion over 10 years for the pension fund for Kansas teachers and government ...
“They knew me,” Francisco said about voters and her campaign, which highlighted that she’s had perfect attendance in the Kansas Legislature since being first elected in 2005, and that she works across the aisle and tries to make bills be...
Chris Raithel, a non-binary University of Kansas junior, was among those who worked on drafting the Student Senate proposal since last fall. Their goal wasn’t to create a confrontation between the university and the Legislature that could fuel a budget-cutting b...
The Kansas House actually changed its rules to require more information on its bills in 2021, but House leaders and staff said it took the Legislature's technology staff three years to work out the details. The House Rules Committee member who pushed for the change, Democratic state Rep. ...
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. ...
In 2004, the Kansas state legislature went back to the law and amended it with the new, current regulations. It set a loan term minimum for seven days and a maximum for 30 days. Only two loans were allowed to be taken out at a time, according to this new set of regulations. Lenders...