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May 24, 2022
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Ways and Means


Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 548-S

Room 548-S Audio Stream

Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Sponsored Bills
SB21 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
SB44 - Appropriations for the department of education for FY 2019, 2020 and 2021; increasing BASE aid for certain school years; continuing 20 mill statewide levy for schools and exempting certain portion of property used for residential purposes from such levy.
SB54 - Establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program.
SB72 - Supplemental appropriations for FY 2019, FY 2020, FY 2021, FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024 for various state agencies.
SB73 - Amortizing the state and school KPERS actuarial accrued liability over a 30-year period and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.
SB74 - Providing a post-retirement benefit increase (COLA) for certain KPERS retirants.
SB75 - Substitute for SB 75 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY2019, FY 2020, FY 2021 and FY 2022 for various state agencies.
SB76 - Sales tax rate on food and food ingredients.
SB95 - Transferring certain duties concerning substances to be administered in carrying out a sentence of death from the secretary of health and environment to the state board of pharmacy and state board of healing arts.
SB96 - Requiring inspections of areas in a state correctional facility designated by the secretary of corrections for use in carrying out a sentence of death.
SB124 - Prohibiting the state corporation commission from authorizing certain charges for electric service.
SB155 - Cemetery district territory deannexed from the territory of Valley Center.
SB172 - Increasing the limit of healthcare expenses allowed as a workers compensation benefit for injured employees prior to formal authorization of a claim.
SB173 - Authorizing the board of regents on behalf of the university of Kansas to sell certain real property in Douglas county.
SB186 - Creating the transportation planning program.
SB187 - Providing for an increase in permit fees for oversize or overweight vehicles.
SB188 - Providing for an increase in motor fuel taxes and trip permits.
SB189 - Providing for an increase in registration fees for electric and hybrid vehicles.
SB190 - Authorizing transfers from the state general fund to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and county and city revenue sharing fund if the county has a plan for expansion or modernization of a road or bridge improvement and the plan is approved by the secretary of transportation.
SB191 - Tax lid exception for transportation construction projects.
SB192 - Authorizing the secretary of transportation to designate toll projects on new and existing highways and changing the requirement to fully fund toll projects solely through toll revenue.
SB202 - Eliminating the six-month retirement benefit suspension for violating KPERS working after retirement provisions.
SB203 - Providing requirement that only legislators may request bills for introduction to be sponsored by legislative standing committees and certain requirements for printed bills and committee minutes.
SB208 - Increasing reimbursement rates for home and community-based services.
SB209 - Empowering the KPERS board to develop policies and procedures relating to procurement, enter into certain contracts and allow travel for trustees and employees of the system.
SB210 - Providing KPERS membership to certain direct support positions in community developmental disability organizations upon completion of a two-year training period.
SB217 - Requiring the state employee healthcare benefits program to accept participation as a provider by any willing pharmacist.
SB219 - Transferring responsibility for the scrap metal database to the Kansas bureau of investigation, reducing the registration fee for scrap metal dealers, and requiring a tonnage excise tax.
SB225 - Amending the hospital provider assessment rate and uses and membership of the healthcare access improvement panel.
SB228 - Amending license and renewal application fees for insurance third party administrators.
SB231 - Requiring drug rebate revenues associated with medical assistance enrollees to be deposited into the state general fund and monthly reporting thereof.
SB232 - Amending provisions related to adult care home licensure and receivership.
SB233 - Establishing a commercial industrial hemp program.
SB241 - Regarding the local ad valorem tax reduction fund, county and city revenue sharing fund and job creation program fund, no transfers from or credits to such funds without prior specific authorization by an act of the legislature or an appropriation act of the legislature.
SB271 - Extending the sunset provision for the high-density at-risk weighting.
SB299 - Expand the campaign finance act to cover unified school districts having 5,000 or more students and community colleges.
SB321 - Amortizing the state and school KPERS unfunded actuarial liability over a 25-year period and authorizing the transfer of $268,412,000 from the state general fund to the KPERS fund during fiscal year 2020 and eliminating certain level-dollar employer contribution payments.
SB330 - Allowing four-wheel military surplus vehicles to register with the division of vehicles for road use.
SB346 - Authorizing the insurance department to retain the proceeds of the sale of insurance department surplus real estate and any improvements thereon in the insurance department service regulation fund.
SB347 - Concerning insurance department regulations for financial examinations, including requirements for hiring consultants, examination fees and examiner compensation.
SB348 - Increasing reimbursement rates for providers of home and community-based services under the intellectual or developmentally disabled waiver.
SB363 - Making appropriations to KDHE, division of public health, for fiscal years 2021 and 2022 for primary care clinics or dental clinics.
SB364 - Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfers from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
SB365 - Amendments regarding the licensure and regulation of barbering.
SB375 - Providing for the FORWARD transportation program.
SB385 - Supplemental appropriations for FY 2020 and FY 2021 for various state agencies.
SB386 - Substitute for SB 386 by Committee on Ways and Means - Appropriations for FY 2020, 2021 and 2022 for various state agencies.
SB392 - Creating eligibility requirements for compensation of the unemployment benefit waiting week.
SB393 - Changing customer-generator rates in the net metering and easy connection act.
SB394 - Setting the number of weeks a claimant is eligible to receive unemployment benefits.
SB395 - Allowing the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of conducting carbon dioxide in pipes.
SB406 - Sedgwick county charter commission created to review and recommend changes regarding the structure of county government.
SB407 - Requiring the Kansas department for aging and disability services to operate acute psychiatric inpatient beds for children in Hays and Garden City.
SB408 - Allowing consumption of beer and wine on the Kansas state fairgrounds and transferring moneys collected from the liquor enforcement tax to the state fair capital improvements fund.
SB409 - Making permanent the quality care assessment imposed on skilled nursing care facilities.
SB413 - Applying assault and battery of a law enforcement officer to correctional officers and employees employed by private prisons.
SB423 - Establishing the Sedgwick county urban area nuisance abatement act.
SB437 - Enacting the Kansas electricity bill reduction bonds act and authorizing the state corporation commission to issue securitized ratepayer-backed KEBRA bonds for electric utility property.
SB458 - Increasing the compensation of members of the state banking board.
SB459 - Creating the distracted driving violation and prohibiting the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle.
SB463 - Providing requirements for the use of handheld portable x-ray systems.
SB464 - Requiring specified insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
SB465 - Decreasing the amount of net electronic gaming machine income credited to the expanded lottery act revenues fund from racetrack gaming facilities.
SB469 - Imposing a civil fine for operating a child care facility without a license.
SB470 - Providing a tax lid exception for transportation construction projects.
SB471 - Providing a hiring preference for persons with disabilities for state jobs.
SB472 - Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install and operate school bus cameras.
SB474 - Permitting student athletes to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation when 15 other states adopt similar legislation.
SB475 - Enacting protections for healthcare providers to not participate in healthcare services that violate their conscience.
SB478 - Authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a state veterans home in Leavenworth or Wyandotte county.
SB479 - Requiring the Kansas commission on veterans affairs office to submit an initial application for a VA state veterans home construction grant.
SB480 - Authorizing the issuance of bonds for the construction of a state veterans home.
SB481 - Authorizing the Kansas department of wildlife, parks and tourism to purchase land in Kingman county.
SB482 - Prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from amending or adopting rules and regulations that would create new or increase air quality control fees.
SB484 - Authorizing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from certain limitations under the food assistance program.
SB485 - Providing an additional option to fulfill work participation requirements under the cash assistance program.
SB487 - Authorizing the department of administration to issue bonds to renovate the Docking state office building and construct and equip a department of health and environment laboratory on parking lot No. 4 of the capitol complex in Topeka.
SB488 - Requiring senate confirmation of the director of the Kansas energy office established pursuant to executive reorganization order no. 46.
SB491 - Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain statutes related to crimes in which bodily fluids may have been transmitted from one person to another.
SB492 - Allowing public utilities to implement demand-side programs to increase energy efficiency.
SB493 - Amending healthcare stabilization fund coverage requirements and membership on the board of governors and providing for the dissolution of the fund under specified circumstances.
SB501 - Amending employer contribution rates.
Sponsored Resolutions - 2020 Legislative Session
SR1763 - Approving executive reorganization order No. 45 that transfers certain powers, duties and functions to the division of the state employee health benefits plan within the department of administration.
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