Senate Standing Committee on Ways and Means

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

Committee Agenda
Committee Minutes
Testimony
2011 Action Index

Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Bills In Committee
SB2 - Requiring bidders on state contracts to sign a statement they will not hire former state employees that participated in awarding the contract unless otherwise allowed by law.
SB3 - Concerning water; establishing the Kansas natural resources subcabinet.
SB16 - Supplemental appropriations for FY 2011 for various state agencies.
SB42 - Abolishing KTEC: transferring duties to department of commerce and board of regents.
SB78 - Transferring KTEC appointment authority to Governor.
SB89 - Local health departments; funding reduction.
SB113 - Selling KU hospital for not less than $600 million and depositing the proceeds into the Kansas public employees retirement fund.
SB147 - Substitute for SB 147 by Committee on Agriculture -- Funds related to interstate water litigation.
SB156 - Kansas arts commission, transfer of Hiram Price Dillon House, programming, donations, charitable corporation.
SB173 - State educational institutions; tuition and student financial aid.
SB199 - Inmates in correctional facilities; medicaid eligibility.
SB205 - Establishing the Kansas employment initiative act and the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
SB208 - Long-term capital improvement program and facilities plans by public safety state agencies.
SB209 - For fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, five centers of excellence and three centers of innovation receive $2,000,000 from the increase in the tax base from bioscience development and investment.
SB221 - Prohibiting local community corrections programs from using state grant moneys to supplant local moneys; allowing the secretary of corrections to make certain payments in the next fiscal year; capping the costs DOC pays to counties for inmates in county jails.
SB233 - Appropriations for FY2011, FY2012 & FY2013 for capital improvements for various state agencies.
SB235 - University engineering initiative act.
SB236 - Lodging inspection, lodging inspection fees.
SB238 - Vietnam war era veterans' medallions and certificates.
SB240 - Abolishing the joint committee on information technology; creating the committee on technology oversight.
SB243 - Establishing the joint committee on state authorities oversight.
SB245 - Allotments of state expenditures.
SB248 - Legislative compensation and expenses; limited to 90 days.
SB254 - Providing for information technology audits.
SB336 - Adjutant general; funding for disasters; creating the disaster reimbursement fund; insurance fees and premium taxes; KUSF.
SB337 - Adjutant general authority to fix, charge and collect fees; vulnerability assessments; hazardous materials; creating the Kansas emergency management and homeland security fund.
SB351 - Transferring moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.
SB435 - Establishing a conservation reserve enhancement program (CREP).
SB439 - Abstracters' license fees.
SB440 - Creating the creative arts industries commission; abolishing the arts commission and the film commission.
SB456 - Creating the municipality infrastructure improvement program.
SB463 - Extension of the STAR bonds financing act sunset provision regarding STAR bond projects.
SB464 - Developmental disabilities waiver; exemption from the managed care system until July 1, 2013.
SB469 - Confidentiality of health information.
SB473 - Requiring fiscal notes for concurrent resolutions.
HB2017 - School districts; calculating adjusted enrollment if determined that pupils are ineligible for free meals.
HB2031 - Allowing the attorney general or the county or district attorney to request of the district court the convening of a grand jury to investigate alleged violations of serious felonies.
HB2042 - Requiring law enforcement to report pornographic materials found at scene of or in possession of person who commits a sexually violent crime.
HB2128 - Restricting candidate appearances in public service announcements or advertisements prior to an election.
HB2140 - Repealing certain expired committees, task forces and reports to the legislature.
HB2196 - Amending the rules of evidence regarding expert testimony in sexually violent predator commitment cases.
HB2221 - Substitute for HB 2221 by Committee on Government Efficiency -- Relating to the employee award program.
HB2231 - Updating the provisions regarding water bank flex accounts.
HB2249 - Senate Substitute for HB 2249 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare -- Health information; Kansas health information technology and exchange act.
HB2296 - Substitute for HB 2296 by Committee on Aging and Long-term Care -- Establishing the joint committee on oversight of the closure of the Kansas neurological institute.
HB2314 - Finney county drainage district No. 2; election of directors.
HB2357 - Senate Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Bioscience authority; replacing the member appointed by KTEC with the secretary of commerce.
HB2374 - Appropriations for FY 2011, FY 2012 and FY 2013 for various state agenices.
HB2382 - Appropriations for FY2011, FY2012 & FY2013 for capital improvements for various state agencies.
HB2383 - Senate Substitute for HB 2383 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, omnibus appropriation act and omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill.
HB2424 - Relating to HCBS providers; providers that develop plans of care cannot be providers on such plans of care.
HB2537 - Children in need of care, access to records by house committee on children and families.
HB2606 - State legislative redistricting; House districts.
HB2629 - Relating to a product liability claim arising from an alleged defect in a used product.
HB2705 - State building construction, monthly progress reports on capital improvement projects by secretary of administration.
HB2745 - Postsecondary educational institutions; reducing the exception percentage for qualified admissions; eliminating funding for remedial courses.
HB2755 - Allowing the Kansas fairgrounds foundation to construct a building on the state fairgrounds, using private moneys; requires state fair board approval.
HB2766 - Creating the creative industries commission; abolishing the art commission and the film commission.
HB2768 - Substitute for House Bill No. 2768 by Committee on Appropriations -- Appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY 2015 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
HB2773 - Authorizing the expenditure of unencumbered balances held by school districts; reducing local option budget authority in certain circumstances.

Sponsored Bills
SB10 - Countywide retailer's sales tax, periods of limitation for certain refunds and credits; property taxation, delinquent or underpaid taxes and overpayment of taxes, clerical errors, rate of interest.
SB11 - Authorizing USD 207 to transport students to and from the Leavenworth military base.
SB12 - Allowing debtors to exempt the right to receive earned income tax credits from bankruptcy proceedings.
SB16 - Supplemental appropriations for FY 2011 for various state agencies.
SB57 - School districts; amendments to base state aid per pupil for local option budget purposes.
SB70 - Limitation on entitlement to capital improvement state aid.
SB114 - Uniform common interest owners bill of rights act; changes.
SB115 - State agencies; employee award and recognition program; repealing certain committees, commissions and task forces.
SB116 - Unclaimed property; disclosure of tax information to the state treasurer.
SB117 - Drug utilization review program; subject to KOMA; rules and regulations.
SB118 - Changes to fees collected by the board of barbering.
SB119 - Rail service improvement program loans and grants.
SB120 - Vessel titling act
SB121 - Increasing licensing fees for real estate salespersons and brokers.
SB150 - Cities; incorporation; number of residents.
SB151 - Highway advertising; permitting spot zoning
SB153 - Authorizing contributions to accounts under the Kansas individual data on students program.
SB154 - Increasing the abstracter license fee to $75.
SB155 - Assessed valuation of certain school districts.
SB182 - EMS board operating fund, fire service training program fund of university of Kansas and fire marshal fee fund share administrative expense reimbursement to general fund.
SB183 - Concerning motor vehicles; relating to safety belts.
SB184 - Adult care home minimum nursing care requirements.
SB185 - Insurance; allowing trust companies as a nominee.
SB192 - Kansas dental board; licensure of dental practitioners.
SB199 - Inmates in correctional facilities; medicaid eligibility.
SB203 - Relating to the size of the Kansas legislature.
SB204 - County consolidation commission established.
SB205 - Establishing the Kansas employment initiative act and the Kansas employment first oversight commission.
SB206 - Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact.
SB208 - Long-term capital improvement program and facilities plans by public safety state agencies.
SB209 - For fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, five centers of excellence and three centers of innovation receive $2,000,000 from the increase in the tax base from bioscience development and investment.
SB210 - Assessment on providers of developmental disability waiver program.
SB211 - Pharmacists; dispensing prescriptions.
SB213 - Lightweight roadable vehicles; registration and taxation.
SB214 - Redefining "person" in the groundwater management district act.
SB215 - Abolishing the liquefied petroleum gas advisory board.
SB216 - Emergency medical services; licensure of attendants.
SB217 - Civil commitment of sexually violent predators; reimbursement for costs related to habeas corpus actions to the county from the sexually violent predator expense fund.
SB218 - Kansas Highway Patrol; vehicle inspection fees.
SB220 - Abolishing the office of the state fire marshal and transferring the duties and functions thereof to the division of facilities management, the Kansas bureau of investigation and the division of emergency management.
SB221 - Prohibiting local community corrections programs from using state grant moneys to supplant local moneys; allowing the secretary of corrections to make certain payments in the next fiscal year; capping the costs DOC pays to counties for inmates in county jails.
SB222 - Voter identification requirements.
SB223 - Public facilities; accessibility standards, disabled persons.
SB227 - Requiring anemometer towers to be marked or flagged so as to be identifiable in clear air during daylight hours.
SB228 - Continuation of statewide tax levy for public schools.
SB229 - Fee agencies; implementing a 10% transfer for FY2012 then repealing the 20% transfer requirement.
SB232 - Reduction to state income tax rates based on selected actual state general fund receipts computations, and sales tax rates and distribution.
SB233 - Appropriations for FY2011, FY2012 & FY2013 for capital improvements for various state agencies.
SB234 - Substitute for SB 234 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, capital improvements, special claims.
SB235 - University engineering initiative act.
SB236 - Lodging inspection, lodging inspection fees.
SB238 - Vietnam war era veterans' medallions and certificates.
SB239 - Abolishing the death penalty; creating the crime of aggravated murder.
SB240 - Abolishing the joint committee on information technology; creating the committee on technology oversight.
SB243 - Establishing the joint committee on state authorities oversight.
SB244 - Municipalities; power to enter into agreements for renewable energy generation facilities.
SB247 - Reconciling amendments
SB248 - Legislative compensation and expenses; limited to 90 days.
SB311 - Supplemental appropriations for FY 2012 and FY 2013 for various state agencies.
SB312 - Sales and compensating use tax; rate of taxation and distribution of revenues.
SB336 - Adjutant general; funding for disasters; creating the disaster reimbursement fund; insurance fees and premium taxes; KUSF.
SB337 - Adjutant general authority to fix, charge and collect fees; vulnerability assessments; hazardous materials; creating the Kansas emergency management and homeland security fund.
SB350 - Graduated increases in base state aid per pupil.
SB351 - Transferring moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.
SB353 - Board of barbering; powers and duties; fees; licensure.
SB362 - Relating to certain persons making reports of abuse or neglect of children.
SB376 - Comprehensive plan for reduction of sales tax rate and income tax rates, elimation of certain sales tax exemptions, imposition of sales tax on certain services and provision of sales tax exemption for certain purchases of food.
SB397 - Terminology change from mental retardation and similar terms to intellectual disability and similar terms.
SB407 - Patient to receive certain information about patient's mammography examination.
SB426 - $3500 tax credit for certain children 5 years or older or children with special needs.
SB427 - Kansas housing loan deposit program; expanding the program to include the building or rehabilitation of adult care homes.
SB428 - Reducing sales and use tax rate on food and food ingredients and providing eventual exemption thereof.
SB429 - Enacting the Kansas public employees retirement system act of 2014.
SB430 - Income tax rates, adjustments, procedure and requirements; eliminate refund ability of income tax credits; presumptions relating to nexus for sales tax purposes; and severance tax exemptions.
SB431 - Credit Union Administrator: appointment of and salaries for certain unclassified positions.
SB432 - Solid waste; yard waste disposal.
SB433 - Substitute for Senate Bill 433 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY 2015 for various state agencies; capital improvement project.
SB434 - Granting the secretary of corrections the authority to purchase the Saint Francis boy's home in Ellsworth, Kansas.
SB435 - Establishing a conservation reserve enhancement program (CREP).
SB436 - Creating the Kansas newborn screening fund.
SB439 - Abstracters' license fees.
SB440 - Creating the creative arts industries commission; abolishing the arts commission and the film commission.
SB441 - Vehicle-theft recovery title for certain vehicles.
SB442 - Providing property tax exemption, and sales tax exemption on dues for health clubs.
SB444 - Relating to employment of disabled individuals and competitive bids for state contracts.
SB445 - Earned income tax credit and homestead property tax refunds.
SB446 - Removing sunset on tax credits for restoration, preservation or operation of certain historic sites.
SB447 - Wildlife, Parks and Tourism: Fees
SB448 - Authorizing the payment for paraprofessional services by school districts to the state school for the deaf and the state school for the blind.
SB449 - Substitute SB 449 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2012, FY 2013, FY 2014, and FY 2015 for various state agencies; capital improvement projects; claims against the state.
SB450 - School finance; amendment to base state aid per pupil; increasing state prescribed percentage for local option budget for fiscal years 2013 and 2014.
SB456 - Creating the municipality infrastructure improvement program.
SB457 - Apportionment of business income for certain taxpayers under Kansas income tax act.
SB458 - Income tax credit for certain bioscience companies relocating in Kansas.
SB459 - Substitute for SB 459 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Creating joint committee on KanCare oversight.
SB460 - Elections; voter education program by secretary of state.
SB461 - Election workers and voter registration personnel; education training; secretary of state, county election officer duties.
SB463 - Extension of the STAR bonds financing act sunset provision regarding STAR bond projects.
SB464 - Developmental disabilities waiver; exemption from the managed care system until July 1, 2013.
SB465 - Right-of-way violations; increased penalties.
SB466 - Prior service credit for certain service under KPERS.
SB467 - Allowing members of a unitary group to share certain income tax credits.
SB468 - Extending the renewable electric cogeneration facility income tax credit.
SB469 - Confidentiality of health information.
SB470 - Congressional redistricting.
SB471 - Redistricting of state board of education member districts.
SB473 - Requiring fiscal notes for concurrent resolutions.
HB2133 - Senate Substitute for HB 2133 by Committee on Ways and Means -- State funds; relating to moneys recovered from water litigation; relating to funding for local health departments.
HB2149 - Senate Substitute for HB 2149 by Committee on Ways and Means -- University engineering initiative act.
HB2158 - Senate Substitute for HB 2158 by Committee on Ways and Means -- School districts; use of funds from tax levies on motor vehicles and recreational vehicles.
HB2241 - Senate Substitute for HB 2241 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Authorizing transfer of moneys to local ad valorem tax reduction fund.
HB2249 - Senate Substitute for Senate Substitute for HB 2249 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice -- Confidentiality of health information.
HB2357 - Senate Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Bioscience authority; replacing the member appointed by KTEC with the secretary of commerce.
HB2382 - Senate Substitute for HB2382 by Committee on Ways and Means - concerning economic development
HB2383 - Senate Substitute for HB 2383 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Appropriations for FY 2011 through FY 2016 for various state agencies, omnibus appropriation act and omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill.
HB2454 - Senate Substitute for HB 2454 by Committee on Ways and Means -- Creating the creative arts industries commission; abolishing the arts commission and the film commission; creating the arts commission checkoff.
HB2619 - Joint committee on KanCare oversight.
HB2650 - Senate Substitute for HB 2650 by Ways and Means Committee -one map act; geographic information systems policy board.