(April 29, 2024) – Today, the legislature began taking up legislation Governor Laura Kelly had formerly vetoed. Including the following:

House Substitute for Senate Bill 233 – the Forbidding Abuse Child Transitions Act. 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 who provide 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.

House Bill 2648 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.

House Bill 2436 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.

House Bill 2465 enacts the Adoption Savings Account Act allowing 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 operates 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.

House Bill 2749 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.

House Bill 2583 increases the criminal penalties for harming or killing certain dogs and horses and requires restitution for such offenses to include certain expenses. The House voted 105-20 to override.

House Bill 2618 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.

Senate Bill 28: Budget Line Items:

Southwest Border Mission - Secs. 29(b), 121(a) (part) and 121(a) (part). The Senate voted 28-12 to override.

Pregnancy Compassion Awareness Program - Sec. 35(a). The Senate voted 28-11 to override.

Disability and The Intellectual/Developmental Disability Waiver - Secs. 83(dd) and 83(ee). The Senate voted 28-11 to override.

Changes to Targeted Case Management - Secs. 83(aa). The Senate voted 25-15 to override.

Residency Funding and Osteopathic Service Scholarship - Secs. 112(a) (part) and 116(a) (part). The Senate voted 27-13 to override.

Senate Bill 271 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. The motion could be reconsidered later this evening.

Senate Substitute for House Bill 2036 – the tax package that restructures individual income tax brackets, exempts social security income from the individual income tax, increases the standard deduction and personal exemption amounts; reduces privilege tax rates, abolishes 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 reduce 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.