(April 30, 2024) – Today, the legislature continued taking up legislation formerly vetoed by Governor Laura Kelly, including the following:
House Bill 2648 (override): Requires the director of the budget to independently determine the costs of compliance and implementation for all proposed rules and regulations and authorizes the director of the budget to disapprove proposed rules and regulations. The House voted 87-38 to override. The Senate voted 27-12 to override.
House Bill 2436 (override): Creates the crime of coercion to obtain an abortion and provides enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed with the intent to coerce a woman to obtain an abortion. The House voted 85-40 to override. The Senate voted 28-10 to override.
House Bill 2465 (override): Enacts the Adoption Savings Account Act, which allows individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions, provides eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishes addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas Income Tax Act, increases the income tax credit amount for adoption expenses, establishes an income, privilege and premium tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities and provides for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities. The House voted 85-40 to override. The Senate voted 29-7 to override.
House Bill 2749 (override): Requires medical care facilities and providers to report the reasons for each abortion performed at such facility or by such provider to the secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The House voted 84-41 to override. The Senate voted 27-10 to override.
House Bill 2583 (override): Increases the criminal penalties for harming or killing certain dogs and horses and requires restitution for such offense to include certain expenses. The House voted 105-20 to override. The Senate voted 29-10 to override.
House Substitute for Senate Bill 233 (sustained): Forbidding Abuse Child Transitions Act, which restricts the use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibits health care providers from treating children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizes a civil cause of action against health care providers for providing such treatments, requires professional discipline against a health care provider who performs such treatment, prohibits professional liability insurance from covering damages for health care providers providing gender transition treatment to children and adds violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians and nurses. The Senate voted 27-13 to override. The House didn't receive enough votes to override, on a vote of 82-43.
House Bill 2618 (sustained): Prohibits the use of funds provided by the United States government for the conduct of elections and election-related activities unless approved by the legislature and requires specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official. The House voted 84-41 to override. The Senate vote didn’t reach the threshold to override on a vote of 26-11.
Senate Bill 28: Budget Line-Items:
Southwest Border Mission (override) - Secs. 29(b), 121(a) (part) and 121(a) (part). The Senate voted 28-12 to override. The House voted 84-41 to override.
Pregnancy Compassion Awareness Program (override) - Sec. 35(a). The Senate voted 28-11 to override. The House voted 86-39 to override.
Disability and I/DD Waiver (override) - Secs. 83(dd) and 83(ee). The Senate voted 28-12 to override. The House voted 97-28 to override.
Changes to Targeted Case Management (sustained)- Secs. 83(aa). The Senate was sustained on a vote of 25-15.
Residency Funding and Osteopathic Service Scholarship (override) - Secs. 112(a) (part) and 116(a) (part). The Senate voted 27-13 to override. The House voted 97-28 to override.
Senate Bill 271 (sustained): Prohibits governmental agencies from acquiring critical components of drone technology from countries of concern and prohibits state-level agencies from procuring final or finished goods or services from countries of concern. The veto was sustained on a vote of 21-16.
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2036 (sustained): The tax package that would restructure individual income tax brackets, exempt social security income from the individual income tax, increase the standard deduction and personal exemption amounts; reduce privilege tax rates, abolish the Local Ad Valorem Tax Reduction Fund and County and City Revenue Sharing Fund, increases the amount of the appraised value of residential property exempt from the statewide uniform school finance levy and reduces the mill levy, and accelerates the elimination of the state sales and compensating use tax rate on food and food ingredients. The Senate sustained the veto on a vote of 26-14.