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(April 5, 2024) – Yesterday, the House rejected the tax plan contained in S. Sub for HB 2036 on a voice vote. H. Sub. for SB 300 will likely be revisited in a conference committee and handled later in the veto session. The education funding legislation contained in the CCR for H. Sub. for SB 387 also stalled. The Senate voted to reject an election reform bill included in CCR on SB 14 and voted to send the CCR for SB 423 back to the conference committee.
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(April 5, 2024) – This week, Governor Laura Kelly signed bills into law including SN360, SB 331, SB 362, SB 381, SB 433, SB 491, HB 2590, HB 2604, HB 2605, HB 2632, HB 2661 and HB 2783.
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(April 5, 2024) – Today, the House and Senate began working through conference committee reports.
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(April 5, 2024) – Today, the House and Senate Health conferees met to reopen the previously agreed-upon version of the Conference Committee Report of SB 287.
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(April 5, 2024) – The KHA Bill Tracker is designed to keep you up-to-date on current legislation. KHA will update and share this document weekly while the legislators are in session.
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(April 4, 2024) – Today, the subcommittee of Appropriations members studying the issue of supplemental nurse staffing agencies made recommendations.
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(April 4, 2024) – Today, the House and Senate took up conference committee reports, which are straight up or down votes on CCR on SB 356, CCR on HB 2498, CCR on Sen. Sub. for HB 2036. Late yesterday, the House and Senate Local Government Conference Committee agreed to compromise to SB 384.
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(April 3, 2024) – Today, the Budget Conference Committee, made up of House and Senate members, continued to work through the list of items with differences in the budget bill.
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(April 3, 2024) – Today, the subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee heard from Blake Flanders, Kansas Board of Regents; Heather Morgan, Kansas Community College Association; Jim Genandtt, Kansas Association for Career and Technical Education; Carol Moreland, Kansas Board of Nursing; Kyle Kessler, Association of Community Mental Health Centers; Jaron Caffrey, KHA; Kylee Childs, LeadingAge Kansas; and Amy Garcia, Kansas Nursing Workforce Center.
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(April 2, 2024) – Yesterday, saw the first of a three-day sub-committee discussion, made up of House Appropriations members including Chairman Les Mason (R-McPherson), Brenda Landwehr (R-Wichita), Barbara Ballard (D-Lawrence), Susan Concannon (R-Beloit) and Henry Helgerson (D-Wichita).
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