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State Senator
Caryn Tyson
(R) - Kansas
Kansas Senate District 12
In Office - Started: 01/14/2013
contact info
Capitol Office
Kansas State Capitol Building
300 SW 10th St.
Topeka, KS 66612
300 SW 10th St.
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: 785-296-6838
Home Address
P.O. Box 191
Parker, KS 66072
Parker, KS 66072
Phone: 913-898-2366
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCR1603 | Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes. | A PROPOSITION to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas; relating to property taxation; limiting valuation increases for real property and for personal property classified as mobile homes used for residential purposes valuing residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value. | Crossed Over |
| SR1717 | Denouncing the planned satanic worship ritual scheduled to take place on March 28, 2025. | A RESOLUTION denouncing a satanic worship ritual on the grounds of the Kansas state capitol that is scheduled to take place on March 28, 2025. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB200 | Designating Kansas as a purple heart state, requiring the governor to proclaim August 7 of each year as purple heart day and urging veterans organizations to plan special activities in observance thereof. | AN ACT concerning purple heart awards; designating Kansas as a purple heart state; requiring the governor to declare August 7 of each year as a purple heart day. | In Committee |
| SR1714 | Recognizing the members of the Kansas Task Force 1 for their outstanding efforts as responders during Hurricanes Helene and Milton. | A RESOLUTION recognizing the members of Kansas Task Force 1 for their outstanding efforts as responders during Hurricanes Helene and Milton. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SR1715 | Recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the capitol. | A Resolution recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the Capitol. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SB10 | Providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers. | AN ACT concerning property taxation; relating to exemptions; providing exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and , and certain trailers and aircraft; amending K.S.A. 79-213 and 79-5501 and repealing the existing sections. | Crossed Over |
| SR1712 | Congratulating and commending the 2025 Kansas Master Teachers. | A RESOLUTION congratulating and commending the 2025 Kansas Master Teachers. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SCR1608 | Proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require individuals to be citizens of the United States, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the voting area in which such person seeks to vote in order to vote in this state. | A PROPOSITION to amend section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require individuals to be citizens of the United States, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the voting area in which such person seeks to vote in order to vote in this state. | In Committee |
| SCR1610 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to amend section 4 of the Kansas bill of rights to recognize the right to bear arms as a fundamental right that includes the possession and use of ammunition, firearm accessories and firearm components, and that any restrictions on such right are subject to the strict scrutiny standard. | A PROPOSITION to amend section 4 of the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to recognize the right to bear arms as a natural and fundamental right; clarifying that such right includes the possession and use of ammunition, firearm accessories and firearm components; making restrictions on such right subject to strict scrutiny. | In Committee |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB2007 | Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/11/2025 | Yea |
| SB24 | Expanding the postsecondary educational institutions eligible to participate in the Kansas promise scholarship program and increasing the maximum annual appropriation limit. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/11/2025 | Yea |
| HB2125 | Senate Substitute for HB 2125 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Modifying the deadline for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk, providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget, modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice for property tax purposes, extending reimb | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 04/11/2025 | Yea |
| SB98 | Providing a sales tax exemption for the construction or remodeling of a qualified data center in Kansas and the purchase of data center equipment, eligible data center costs and certain labor costs to qualified firms that commit to a minimum investment of at least $250,000,000 and meet new Kansas jobs and other requirements. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 26 Nay: 8 | 04/11/2025 | Nay |
| HB2275 | Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Finney, Pawnee, Seward and Jackson counties, providing that countywide retailers' sales tax apportionment based on tangible property tax levies remain unchanged until December 31, 2026, and excluding exempt sales of certain custom meat processing services from sales tax exemption certificate requirements. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/11/2025 | Yea |
| HB2289 | Limiting and discontinuing the Kansas affordable housing tax credit and expanding transferability of Kansas housing investor tax credits. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 33 Nay: 7 | 04/11/2025 | Nay |
| HB2335 | Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 04/11/2025 | Yea |
| SR1716 | Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska concerning sports wagering. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 04/11/2025 | Nay |
| SB5 | Prohibiting the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB29 | Substitute for SB 29 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Removing the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB14 | Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2033 | Including programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the international multisensory structured language education council as approved at-risk educational programs. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 32 Nay: 8 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2045 | Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| HB2062 | Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB79 | Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 29 Nay: 11 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB125 | Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state. | Senate Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto all line items overridden - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2217 | Expanding the scope of the inspector general to audit and investigate all state cash, food or health assistance programs and granting the inspector general the power to subpoena, administer oaths and execute search warrants thereto. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB156 | Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimbursement maximum. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2231 | Providing an additional personal exemption for head of household tax filers and increasing the personal exemption for certain disabled veterans for purposes of income tax, modifying the definition of household income related to increased property tax homestead refund claims, providing for the apportionment of business income by the single sales factor and the apportionment of financial institution income by the receipts factor, providing for the apportionment pursuant to the three-factor test of | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2240 | Senate Substitute for HB 2240 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program, increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to act on agency requests | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB186 | Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testim | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2291 | Creating the regulatory relief division within the office of the attorney general and establishing the general regulatory sandbox program to waive or suspend rules and regulations for program participants. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| HB2284 | Directing the department of administration to adopt written policies governing the negotiated procurement of managed care organizations to provide state medicaid services pursuant to a contract with the Kansas program of medical assistance. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB204 | Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county and requiring the case, warrant and subpoena information be sealed in criminal and juvenile offender cases. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2311 | Prohibiting the secretary from adopting and enforcing policies for placement, custody and appointment of a custodian that may conflict with sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity and creating a right of action for violations. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB237 | Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 38 Nay: 2 | 04/10/2025 | Nay |
| SB269 | Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain amount in the budget stabilization fund. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| HB2382 | Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 04/10/2025 | Yea |
| SB35 | Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB21 | Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations and horsemen's nonprofit organizations and the distribution of certain tax revenues. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 37 Nay: 3 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB50 | Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment and charge fees for administration costs, requiring eligible students to enter into agreements with the board of regents as a condition to receiving a grant under the adult learner grant act and sunsetting the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program in 2028 and redu | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB42 | Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle liability insurance, eliminating the requirement that the commissioner of insurance submit certain reports to the governor and requiring certain reports be available on the insurance department's website, removing certain entities from the definition of person for the purpose of enforcing insurance law, requiring that third party administrators maintain separate f | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB45 | Substitute for SB 45 by Committee on Education - Requiring the state board of education to calculate graduation rates for all school districts for purposes of accreditation using an alternative calculation. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2054 | Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 26 Nay: 14 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB64 | Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions relating to compliance with the federal internal revenue code. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2122 | Increasing the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles, trucks and electric motorcycles and distributing the fees to the state highway fund and the special city and county highway fund, modifying the threshold limit for allowing quarterly payments of certain truck and truck tractor annual vehicle registration fees and eliminating the two-quarter grace period for truck or truck tractor owners that have delinquent quarterly payments before certain penalties apply. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2169 | Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army for owners of certain nonresidential property located in Johnson county. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2164 | Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 36 Nay: 4 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2183 | Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purp | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB126 | House Sub for SB 126 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment services and extending the transfer of moneys to the Kansas newborn screening fund, increasing state financial assistance for local health departments under certain circumstances and increasing the annual assessment rate on hospital providers. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB125 | Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 24 Nay: 16 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SCR1609 | Proposing to amend the Kansas Constitution to repeal section 12 of article 15, regarding membership and nonmembership in labor organizations. | Senate Citing Rule 11(b), motion to withdraw from committee failed. - Yea: 9 Nay: 30 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB179 | Establishing a child income tax credit. | Senate Citing Rule 11(b), motion to withdraw from committee failed. - Yea: 10 Nay: 29 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2280 | Adding a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran and removing the active requirement from military service members for occupational licensure. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB218 | Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees. | Senate Citing Rule 11(b), motion to withdraw from committee failed. - Yea: 9 Nay: 30 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB216 | Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act. | Senate Citing Rule 11(b), motion to withdraw from committee failed. - Yea: 9 Nay: 30 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2342 | Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal history record language related to the state bank commissioner, requiring the secretary of labor to conduct criminal history record checks on employees who have access to federal tax information and authorizing the secretary of commerce to conduct such checks on final applicants for and employees in certain sensitive positions. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2371 | Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment act. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2334 | Enacting the Kansas protected cell captive insurance company act, providing for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance company and updating certain terms, requirements and conditions of the captive insurance act, reducing insurance company premium tax rates, creating parity between the insurance agent and public adjuster licensing requirements, authorizing insurers to file certain travel insurance policies under the accident and health line of insurance and authorizing the c | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HB2347 | Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft and increasing the criminal penalty for theft to a felony when the property is a motor vehicle of the value of at least $500. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB250 | Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment available to a requesting patient. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| HCR5011 | Senate Substitute for HCR 5011 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 27 Nay: 13 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB269 | Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain amount in the budget stabilization fund. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 03/27/2025 | Yea |
| SB9 | House Substitute for SB 9 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Prohibiting foreign principals from acquiring interests in real estate in proximity to military installations, state agencies and local government from purchasing drones or critical components of drones from foreign principals or that are manufactured in countries of concern and foreign principals from receiving benefits from economic development programs. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 38 Nay: 1 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2016 | Including funeral home online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from the voter registration books; requiring that poll workers be citizens of the United States and live within the state of Kansas; prohibiting the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents who are citizens of the United States as poll workers on the basis of residency or being a registered voter; relating to advance voting ballot applications; modifying the requir | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2022 | Requiring special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 29 Nay: 11 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2028 | Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to rep | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2050 | Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to set the amount of certain fees and cause the publication of such fees in the Kansas register, authorizing the commissioner to reduce the number of board members on certain insurance-related boards, renaming the Kansas insurance department as the Kansas department of insurance, renaming the office of the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, securities division, renaming the securities commissioner as the department of insurance, assi | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2039 | Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be autho | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB54 | Substitute for SB 54 by Committee on Judiciary - Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requiring reporting of such agreements to courts. | Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB44 | Declaring antisemitism and antisemitic acts to be against public policy and establishing a statutory definition of such terms. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2062 | Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2056 | Senate Substitute for HB 2056- Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official; requiring that any person nominated for an elected office accept such nomination by signing a notarized statement of acceptance and restricting the number of nominations a person may accept to one nomination per election cycle. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 34 Nay: 6 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2069 | Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2134 | Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2160 | Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2172 | Senate Substitute for HB 2172 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Establishing the water program task force to evaluate the state's water program and funding for such program and requiring the task force to establish a water planning work group and submit a report the legislature and the governor. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB114 | Authorizing nonpublic and virtual school students to participate in ancillary public school activities and making it unlawful for the Kansas state high school activities association and school districts to discriminate against such students based on enrollment status. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 32 Nay: 8 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB135 | Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act. | Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB139 | Updating certain definitions, terms and conditions relating to the state banking code. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2249 | Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to grant physical environment waivers for certain rural emergency hospitals to provide skilled nursing facility care and establishing the south central regional mental health hospital. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2228 | Senate Substitute for HB 2228 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 28 Nay: 12 | 03/26/2025 | Nay |
| HB2255 | Amending definitions concerning weights and measurers increasing minimum invoice fees, requiring licenses and education for service company operators and mandating annual device inspections, except for devices with a nominal capacity of 250 pounds or greater used in grain elevators; increasing the CREP acreage cap to 60,000 acres, clarifying eligibility and criteria, allowing exceptions for specific conditions and modifying reporting requirements to cover the last five years. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2240 | Senate Substitute for HB 2240 by Committee on Government Efficiency - Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program, increases cost to the state or makes certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities and authorizing the legislative coordinating council to act on agency requests | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB199 | Designating the existing fallen firefighters memorial within the Kansas firefighters museum in Wichita as the official fallen firefighters memorial of the state of Kansas and replacing the Kansas firefighters memorial advisory committee with the Kansas firefighter memorial council; defining the fireworks sales season for seasonal retailers of consumer fireworks, providing for year-round sales by permanent retailers of consumer fireworks, requiring permanent retailers to register with the state f | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 28 Nay: 12 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB227 | Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures based on city populations and the amount of the expenditures. | Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 03/26/2025 | Nay |
| HCR5011 | Senate Substitute for HCR 5011 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property classified as mobile homes. | Senate Motion to not adopt Conference Committee Report passed - Yea: 26 Nay: 14 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| HB2382 | Senate Substitute for HB 2382 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to include a fetal development presentation as part of the curriculum for any course that addresses human growth, human development or human sexuality and authorizing the state board of education to establish the rate of compensation for members of the board. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 03/26/2025 | Yea |
| SB4 | Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election. | Senate Motion to override veto prevailed - Yea: 30 Nay: 10 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HCR5004 | Proposing an amendment to section 1 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to require individuals to be citizens of the United States, at least 18 years of age and a resident of the voting area in which such person seeks to vote in order to vote in this state. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Adopted by required 2/3 majority - Yea: 37 Nay: 3 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| SB18 | Providing for the hunter nation distinctive license plate. | Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 28 Nay: 10 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2030 | Excluding dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2054 | Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended - Yea: 21 Nay: 17 | 03/25/2025 | Nay |
| HB2075 | Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requiring that the secretary provide support to such law enforcement officers, the court review involvement in permanency planning and a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months from such child's removal from the and every subsequent hearing 6 months thereafter. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 38 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2168 | Extending the amount of time required for reports to be filed with the state historical society for certain United States public land surveys from 30 to 90 days. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2201 | Providing for the FFA, route 66 association of Kansas and blackout distinctive license plates, creating the license plate replacement fund and modifying requirements for the issuance and production of license plates and the documentation requirements for military license plate applications. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 39 Nay: 1 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| HB2263 | Designating a future interchange on K-10 highway as the Kris Norton memorial interchange, a portion of K-5 highway as the Rep Marvin S Robinson memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 160 as the CPL Monte Wayne Forrest memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 77 as the POW MIA memorial highway and bridge No. 82-14-6.88 (026) in Clay county as the POW MIA memorial bridge, and redesignating a current portion of the Harry Darby memorial highway for interstate highway 635. | Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| SB193 | Sub for SB 193 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Exempting law enforcement agencies who do not provide emergency opioid antagonists pursuant to the statewide protocol from the requirement to procure a physician medical director. | Senate Concurred with amendments in conference - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| SB241 | Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances. | Senate Concurred with amendments - Yea: 38 Nay: 0 | 03/25/2025 | Yea |
| SB1 | Exempting the state of Kansas from daylight saving time but providing for moving to permanent daylight saving time upon an act of Congress requiring such move. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 33 Nay: 7 | 03/20/2025 | Nay |
| HB2028 | Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to rep | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 37 Nay: 3 | 03/20/2025 | Nay |
| SB29 | Substitute for SB 29 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Removing the authority of the county or joint board of health or local health officer to prohibit public gatherings when necessary for the control of infectious or contagious disease. | Senate Concurred with amendments - Yea: 31 Nay: 9 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| SB39 | Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 28 Nay: 12 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| HB2039 | Adding maternity center to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, amending definitions in the Kansas credentialing act to provide that certain entities providing physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology are not home health agencies, clarifying that the authorized activities of paramedics, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technicians and emergency medical responders may be autho | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| HB2052 | Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforce | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 34 Nay: 6 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| HB2052 | Updating cross references in the personal and family protection act regarding the eligibility requirements to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, requiring the surrender of a suspended or revoked license, providing for a transition from a provisional license to a standard license and prohibiting the collection of personal information of an off-duty law enforcement officer entering buildings while armed or requiring such officer to wear any item identifying such person as a law enforce | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Holscher was rejected - Yea: 9 Nay: 29 | 03/20/2025 | Nay |
| HB2060 | Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 36 Nay: 4 | 03/20/2025 | Nay |
| HB2056 | Senate Substitute for HB 2056- Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official; requiring that any person nominated for an elected office accept such nomination by signing a notarized statement of acceptance and restricting the number of nominations a person may accept to one nomination per election cycle. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 34 Nay: 6 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| HB2125 | Senate Substitute for HB 2125 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Modifying the deadline for mailing property tax statements to taxpayers and the deadline for governing bodies to certify the amount of property tax to be levied to the county clerk, providing for the county clerk's use of the previous year's budget when a taxing subdivision fails to timely file its budget, modifying the content requirements of the revenue neutral rate hearing notice for property tax purposes, extending reimb | Senate Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | 03/20/2025 | Yea |
| HB2109 | Exempting public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility. | Senate Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended - Yea: 29 Nay: 9 | 03/20/2025 | Nay |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Kansas Joint Administrative Rules and Regulations Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Kansas Joint Information Technology Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Kansas Joint Legislative Post Audit Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Kansas Joint Unemployment Compensation Modernization and Improvement Council | 2 | |
| Detail | Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee | Chair | 1 |
| Detail | Kansas Senate Commerce Committee | 11 | |
| Detail | Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee | 11 | |
| Detail | Kansas Senate Transportation Committee | 10 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KS | Kansas Senate District 12 | Senate | Republican | In Office | 01/14/2013 | |
| KS | District 4 | House | Republican | Out of Office | 01/10/2011 | 08/08/2024 |