Sen. Jim Denning

Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency. Bipartisan

Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency. Bipartisan

Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act; requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns; authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct; extending certain income and privilege tax return filing and payment deadlines.

Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing the state board of regents on behalf of Kansas state university to sell certain real property in Saline county; providing payment or waiver of tuition for certain dually or concurrently enrolled students; authorizing the practice of the healing arts by healing arts school clinics; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to nonpublic school students.

Senate Substitute for HB 2118 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Concerning property taxation; establishing notice and public hearing requirements prior to approval by a governing body to exceed its revenue neutral rate; providing a waiver of interest and fees on certain delinquent property taxes for a period of time and delaying preparation of delinquent real estate tax list and notice; prohibiting valuation increase for real property solely as the result of normal repair, replacement or maintenance of existing structure.

Amending oversight, administration and regulation of certain duties, responsibilities and activities of the insurance department relating to risk-based capital instructions, definition of long-term care insurance, conversion plans of reciprocals to mutual insurance companies, appointment and removal of securities commissioner and assessing penalties from excess lines and creating and authorizing certain transfers to the cancer research and public information trust fund for the university of Kansas medical center and changing the rate of the hospital provider assessment imposed by the department of health and environment and granting Wichita state university bonding authority for certain capital improvement projects.

Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance - Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency. Against party

House Substitute for SB 173 by Committee on Appropriations - Providing for the Eisenhower legacy transportation plan.

Ratifying and providing the continuation of the March 12, 2020, state of disaster emergency declaration for the state of Kansas.

Increasing the rate and expanding the base of the hospital provider assessment and extending the quality care assessment imposed on skilled nursing care facilities.