Total votes
285
all sessions
Attendance
98%
6 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
95%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
17
bills & resolutions
Lower than 88% of chamber peers
Committees
4
assignments
285 roll-call votes
Voting record
Yea
252
voted in favor
Nay
27
voted against
Absent
6
missed votes
Total cast
285
across all sessions
Crossed party
12
votes against own party
This page
285
matching current filters
Bill
Description
Vote
Result
Tally
Date
SB 194
Requiring hospital district board members to be qualified electors of the county where the hospital is located or any adjacent county.
Yea
Passed
37–2
Feb 23, 2023
SB 174
Increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider, adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and for manufacturing or distributing any controlled substances that are likely to be attractive to minors because of their appearance or packaging, creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment, excluding materials used to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid from the definition of drug paraphernalia, adding domestic battery and violation of a protection order to the crimes that a person can have the intent to commit when committing burglary or aggravated burglary, increasing criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute certain crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.
Yea
Passed
31–6
Feb 23, 2023
SB 208
House Substitute for SB 208 by Committee on Elections - Amending provisions relating to the governmental ethics commission's authority to investigate and enforce the campaign finance act and limitations on the receipt and expenditure of contributions. Against party
Nay
Passed
20–19
Feb 23, 2023
SB 210
Allowing nonpartisan candidates for office to include such candidate's political party affiliation on the ballot with the candidate's name. Against party
Nay
Failed
15–24
Feb 23, 2023
SB 209
Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.
Yea
Passed
22–17
Feb 23, 2023
SB 96
House Substitute for House Substitute for SB 96 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
Yea
Passed
27–11
Feb 23, 2023
SB 33
Exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, providing income tax subtraction modifications for retirement plan amounts, federal work opportunity tax credit and employee retention credit disallowances and the carryforward of certain net operating losses, increasing the Kansas standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment and excluding social security payments from household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased homestead property tax refund claims.
Nay
Failed
12–25
Feb 23, 2023
SB 13
Permitting certain local broadcasters to provide broadcast services of a school's postseason activities notwithstanding if the state high school activities association enters into an exclusive broadcast agreement for postseason activities.
Yea
Passed
38–0
Feb 23, 2023
SB 243
Providing requirements and procedures for settlement agreements involving a minor.
Yea
Passed
38–0
Feb 23, 2023
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