D Kansas House · District 66 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. Sydney Carlin

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Total votes

1,621

all sessions

Attendance

97%

45 missed

Lower than 90% of chamber peers

With party

95%

of cast votes

Lower than 78% of chamber peers

Bipartisan score

crosses aisle rarely

Higher than 77% of chamber peers

About Rep. Sydney Carlin

Rep. serving Kansas District 66. Member of the Democratic party. Has been in office 23 years · 7 months. Serves on Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget, Taxation and Veterans and Military.

Sworn in

Jan 13, 2003

23 years · 7 months

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Recent legislative activity

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

5 months ago

HB 2678Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. died

5 months ago

HB 2630Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction. 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 other

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 Nay

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

2 years ago

Voted other

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

Voted other

HB 2010Senate Substitute for HB 2010 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating a statutory cross reference to provide proper jury instruction in cases when a defendant lacks the required mental state to commit a crime; increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm; enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms; providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law; and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.

3 years ago