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Senate Committee on Ways and Means

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

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB10 - Increasing the daily rate of compensation and eliminating the annualization of compensation in determining KPERS benefits and contributions for legislators first serving on or after January 13, 2025, and providing a compensation and KPERS benefits election for legislators with service prior to January 13, 2025.
    SB35 - Increasing the rate of compensation for legislators for service during regular and special sessions and the interim period between regular sessions.
    SB67 - Transferring $1,000,000,000 from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund of the department of administration during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
    SB151 - Concerning state agencies; relating to the employee award and recognition program; authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses; increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000; eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations; and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.
    SB153 - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
    SB163 - Creating the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district act to authorize the establishment of the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district in Douglas county.
    SB198 - Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.
    SB275 - Changing the total amount credited to the state gaming revenues fund, increasing the transfer of moneys from such fund to the correctional institutions building fund and decreasing the transfer of moneys to the state economic development initiatives fund.
    SB306 - Including losses from investments in technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions in Kansas adjusted gross income for income tax purposes.
    SB324 - Creating the legislative help grant fund, establishing legislative help grants, state representative grants and state senator grants for cities and counties and prescribing procedures, requirements and limitations for such grants.
    SB326 - Making and concerning appropriations for FY 23 and FY 24 for the department of administration for an income tax rebate to certain Kansas resident taxpayers.
    SB350 - Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas fights addiction act and authorizing members of the Kansas fights addiction grant review board to be paid subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses when attending meetings of the board after January 8, 2024.
    SB378 - Establishing the Kansas trade service scholarship act and making appropriations to the state board of regents for fiscal year 2025 to provide grants to community colleges, technical colleges and the Washburn institute of technology for capital improvements, repairs and maintenance of trade program buildings.
    SB382 - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for state agencies, increasing expenditure limitations, authorizing certain transfers, funding of the fiscal year 2024 salary increase for certain state employees, transferring funds from the legislature employment security fund of the legislative coordinating council to the university of Kansas and Wichita state university health collaboration fund of the university of Kansas, to the Wichita state university and university of Kansas health collaboration fund of Wichita state university and to the state general fund and authorizing certain expenditures from the build Kansas matching grant fund.
    SB395 - Requiring the university of Kansas hospital authority to have prior approval from the legislature or the legislative coordinating council when the legislature is not is session, when purchasing, leasing, trading, exchanging or otherwise acquiring, constructing, repair, remodeling or renovating any real property or facility outside of the state of Kansas.
    SB445 - Establishing minimum training requirements for law enforcement and emergency medical services personnel on interacting with individuals with dementia.
    SB519 - Requiring technical colleges to affiliate with a state educational institution or municipal university.
    SB543 - Prohibiting state educational institutions from endorsing discriminatory ideologies, using diversity, equity and inclusion statements or providing preferential consideration on the basis of such discriminatory ideologies.
    SB557 - Authorizing professional employees employed by a board of education to cease the withholding of professional employees' organization dues from their wages upon request.
    HB2273 - Substitute for HB 2273 by Committee on Appropriations - Making and concerning certain supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.
    HB2418 - 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, state emergency response commission, transportation vision 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.
    HB2449 - Providing that all members of statutory boards or commissions who are authorized by statute to receive compensation shall receive the amount of per diem compensation paid to legislators.
    HB2452 - Eliminating the requirement that the state employees health care commission offer long-term care insurance and indemnity insurance.
    HB2460 - Substitute for HB 2460 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from taking certain actions regarding admission applicants, applicants for employment and faculty concerning diversity, equity or inclusion, exceptions, providing for civil remedies and penalties, submitting a report to the legislature and posting information on the board of regents website.
    HB2495 - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025, for state agencies; increasing expenditure limitations to the foregoing; funding of the fiscal year 2024 salary increase for certain state employees.
    HB2623 - Updating the veterans claims assistance program to include references to veterans affairs medical centers and cross-accreditation requirements.
    HB2646 - Senate Substitute for HB 2646 by Committee on Education - Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.
    HB2705 - Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of Manhattan, Riley county, Kansas, on behalf of Kansas state university.
    HB2829 - Clarifying the definition of armed forces and updating the definition thereof to include the space force.
    HB2830 - Prescribing documentation requirements to determine eligibility for any benefit derived from a service-connected disability.
    HB2831 - Requiring that federal disability determinations for veterans be probative.
    HB2833 - Modifying the definition of veteran and disabled veteran to create a common definition for each term and clarifying disability evaluations for benefits granted to disabled veterans.
    Resolutions In Committee
    SCR1615 - A Concurrent Resolution rejecting the rates of compensation for members of the Legislature set by the Legislative Compensation Commission.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB45 - Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program.
    SB67 - Transferring $1,000,000,000 from the state general fund to the budget stabilization fund of the department of administration during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023.
    SB150 - Authorizing the division of printing to print for local governments and schools.
    SB151 - Concerning state agencies; relating to the employee award and recognition program; authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses; increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000; eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations; and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.
    SB152 - Concerning the salaries of the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, commissioner of insurance, justices of the supreme court, judges of the court of appeals and members of the governor's cabinet; establishing the rate of pay for such state officers based on the annual rate of pay for members of congress, as adjusted by the specific provisions of this act; and providing that all such rates of pay are subject to appropriations.
    SB153 - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for various state agencies.
    SB155 - Substitute for SB 155 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 for various state agencies.
    SB172 - Increasing the KPERS lump-sum death benefit from $4,000 to $6,000.
    SB194 - Requiring hospital district board members to be qualified electors of the county where the hospital is located or any adjacent county.
    SB195 - Authorizing the children's cabinet to form a 501(c)(3) for fundraising for the Dolly Parton imagination library book gifting program.
    SB203 - Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance at state educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.
    SB215 - Establishing the Kansas rail safety improvement act, providing for safety requirements for railroad operations and crossings and allowing for the transfer of title for abandoned railroad tracks to cities and counties.
    SB225 - Establishing the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program to expand Medicaid eligibility.
    SB231 - Providing postsecondary tuition assistance to certain children of qualifying public school teachers.
    SB246 - Defining in-state and interstate practitioners under the Kansas telemedicine act, establishing certain standards of care, requiring certain insurance coverage of in-state telemedicine services and establishing the Kansas telehealth advisory committee.
    SB256 - Providing KPERS 3 members an additional interest credit of 1% for calendar year 2023.
    SB265 - Requiring a person convicted of an offense that resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who is the parent or guardian of a minor child to pay restitution in the form of child support and increasing the criminal penalties for repeat violations of a protective order.
    SB266 - Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to give certain notices to victims and conduct a lethality assessment.
    SB267 - Defining primary aggressor for domestic violence purposes and requiring law enforcement policies to direct that arrest is the preferred response only with respect to the primary aggressor.
    SB272 - Increasing the transfer from the state highway fund to the public use general aviation airport development fund.
    SB275 - Changing the total amount credited to the state gaming revenues fund, increasing the transfer of moneys from such fund to the correctional institutions building fund and decreasing the transfer of moneys to the state economic development initiatives fund.
    SB277 - Providing for the regulation of supplemental nursing services agencies by the secretary for aging and disability services.
    SB284 - Establishing the blind information access act to require the state library to provide on-demand information access services to persons who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind or print disabled.
    SB294 - Increasing the amount of state moneys distributed to local health departments.
    SB295 - Authorizing the continuation of the 20 mill statewide property tax levy for schools.
    SB301 - Requiring annual filing of a statement of substantial interest by local governmental officers and employees, exempting elected or appointed officers of townships or school districts from such requirements absent a change in substantial interests of such officers.
    SB307 - Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas fights addiction act.
    SB308 - Establishing a state employment preference for persons with disabilities and expanding the veterans preference to include remarried spouses of a deceased veteran who died while, and as a result of, serving in the armed forces and surviving spouses, whether remarried or not remarried of a prisoner of war.
    SB309 - Creating the fixing instant revenue shock for taxpayers fund and the local extraordinary needs fund, establishing the joint committee on local extraordinary needs grants and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.
    SB316 - Authorizing a comprehensive grant program for not-for-profit independent institutions of higher education to be administered by the treasurer.
    SB318 - Requiring city attorneys to review certain audio and video evidence and removing the requirement that municipal courts collect fingerprints from persons convicted of violating certain municipal ordinance provisions related to driving without a valid driver's license or motor vehicle liability insurance coverage.
    SB319 - Establishing the alternatives to abortion program to provide resources and promote childbirth to women facing unplanned pregnancies.
    SB320 - Creating the born-alive infants protection act to provide legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery.
    SB324 - Creating the legislative help grant fund, establishing legislative help grants, state representative grants and state senator grants for cities and counties and prescribing procedures, requirements and limitations for such grants.
    SB325 - Establishing the transformation of passenger and freight vehicle industry program to attract businesses engaged in electric motor vehicle and hydrogen-powered vehicle production by offering qualified companies that meet certain requirements an investment tax credit, retention of a percentage of total payroll tax, reimbursement of a percentage of eligible employee training and education expenses and a sales tax exemption for construction costs of the qualified company’s qualified business facility.
    SB326 - Making and concerning appropriations for FY 23 and FY 24 for the department of administration for an income tax rebate to certain Kansas resident taxpayers.
    SB348 - Requiring that the appointment of the executive director of the Kansas children's cabinet be confirmed by the senate.
    SB349 - Establishing an intercity passenger rail service program and making transfers annually into the passenger rail service revolving fund.
    SB350 - Adding for-profit private entity to the definition of "qualified applicant" in the Kansas fights addiction act and authorizing members of the Kansas fights addiction grant review board to be paid subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses when attending meetings of the board after January 8, 2024.
    SB355 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.
    SB361 - Increasing criminal penalties for a driver who leaves the scene of a vehicular accident when the accident results in the death of any person or more than one person, if the driver knew or reasonably should have known that such accident resulted in injury or death.
    SB364 - Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
    SB382 - Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for state agencies, increasing expenditure limitations, authorizing certain transfers, funding of the fiscal year 2024 salary increase for certain state employees, transferring funds from the legislature employment security fund of the legislative coordinating council to the university of Kansas and Wichita state university health collaboration fund of the university of Kansas, to the Wichita state university and university of Kansas health collaboration fund of Wichita state university and to the state general fund and authorizing certain expenditures from the build Kansas matching grant fund.
    SB395 - Requiring the university of Kansas hospital authority to have prior approval from the legislature or the legislative coordinating council when the legislature is not is session, when purchasing, leasing, trading, exchanging or otherwise acquiring, constructing, repair, remodeling or renovating any real property or facility outside of the state of Kansas.
    SB481 - Renaming Kansas state university polytechnic campus as Kansas state university Salina.
    SB482 - Providing that county clerks are not required to send revenue neutral rate notices to property owners of exempt property, modifying and prescribing the contents of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice, permitting a tax levy that generates the same amount of revenue as the previous year when the final assessed valuation decreases compared to the estimated assessed valuation and requiring that the governing body's vote be conducted on the same day as the commencement of the hearing.
    SB484 - Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers.
    SB501 - Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
    SB505 - Increasing the KPERS retirement benefit multiplier for members who are security officers of the department of corrections.
    SB514 - Substitute for SB 514 by Committee on Ways and Means - Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.
    SB518 - Establishing the complex rehabilitation technology coverage act.
    SB519 - Requiring technical colleges to affiliate with a state educational institution or municipal university.
    SB524 - Specifying when boards of directors for irrigation districts of 35,000 or more acres may conduct board member elections by mail ballot and establishing the terms for such members.
    SB529 - Creating the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district act to authorize the establishment of the Dwayne Peaslee technical training center district in Douglas county.
    SB542 - Making appropriations for the Kansas department for aging and disability services for FY 2025, creating a program for cities and counties to improve and develop infrastructure for homeless shelters and requiring cities and counties to adopt ordinances regarding camping and vagrancy.
    SB543 - Prohibiting state educational institutions from endorsing discriminatory ideologies, using diversity, equity and inclusion statements or providing preferential consideration on the basis of such discriminatory ideologies.
    SB552 - Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.
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