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House Status:
Adjourned until Monday, January 08, 2024 at 02:00 p.m.
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Adjourned until Monday, January 08, 2024 at 02:00 p.m.
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Senate Committee on Ways and Means
Committee Assistant: Nancy Fontaine 785-296-3775
Nancy.Fontaine@Senate.ks.gov
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.
SB198 - Providing a postretirement cost-of-living adjustment for certain KPERS retirants.
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.
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.
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.
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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 - Removing the requirement that municipal courts collect fingerprints from persons convicted of violating certain municipal ordinance provisions related to vehicle registration or 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.
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Chair
Sen. Rick Billinger
Vice Chair
Sen. J.R. Claeys
Ranking Minority Member
Sen. Pat Pettey
Members
Senate
Sen. Larry Alley
Sen. Michael Fagg
Sen. Dan Kerschen
Sen. Ty Masterson
Sen. Carolyn McGinn
Sen. Jeff Pittman
Staff
Nancy Fontaine - Committee Assistant
Amanda Prosser - Legislative Research
Murl Riedel - Legislative Research
David Wiese - Office of Revisor of Statutes
Scott Abbott - Office of Revisor of Statutes
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