D Kansas House · District 17 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Jo Ella Hoye

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Session

Total votes

870

all sessions

Attendance

100%

of floor votes

Higher than 83% of chamber peers

With party

96%

of cast votes

Near the chamber average

Bipartisan score

2%

crosses aisle rarely

Near the chamber average

Sponsored

71

bills & resolutions

Near the chamber average

Committees

4

assignments

Biography

About Rep. Jo Ella Hoye

Rep. serving Kansas District 17. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 5 years · 8 months. Serves on 4 committees, including J. Russell (Russ) Jennings Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight, Transportation and Public Safety Budget and Appropriations.

Sworn in

Jan 11, 2021

5 years · 8 months

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Recent legislative activity

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HB 2296Requiring that certain health insurance plans impose a no-cost sharing requirement for a diagnostic or supplemental breast cancer examination for breast cancer imposed on an insured. died

5 months ago

HB 2598Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act. died

5 months ago

HB 2074Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims. died

5 months ago

HB 2656Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school. died

5 months ago

Voted Yea

HB 2545Providing for the sale of property not retrieved by an occupant after notice, allowing electronic signatures and delivery for rental agreements, defining property that has no commercial value, providing for the deemed effectiveness of rental agreements not signed or delivered by an owner or occupant and specifying custody of abandoned or towed property under the self-service storage act.

2 years ago

Voted Yea

HB 2103Substitute for HB 2103 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Eliminating the statutory 15% alternative investment limit for the KPERS fund and requiring the KPERS board to establish an alternative investment percentage limit.

2 years ago

Voted Yea

SB 15Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund.

2 years ago

Voted Nay

HB 2284Providing an income tax rate of 5.25% for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment, increasing the Kansas personal exemption, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients on April 1, 2024, and increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

2 years ago

Voted Yea

HR 6030Condemning the October 7 attacks on the State of Israel.

2 years ago

Voted Nay

SB 113House Substitute for SB 113 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 23, FY 24 and FY 25; establishing the mental health intervention team program; authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association; requiring school districts to post certain enrollment and academic information on school district websites; revising school district open-enrollment procedures; authorizing local school board members to receive compensation from their school district; authorizing current-year student enrollment for determinations of state foundation aid; continuing the 20 mill statewide tax levy for schools; amending the school districts that qualify for and the amount that school districts are able to levy pursuant to the cost-of-living weighting.

3 years ago