Bill Rhiley

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 88(k), 88(m) overridden – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 26(a), 53(b), 54(w) overridden – Yea: 84 Nay: 39)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 37(e) sustained – Yea: 12 Nay: 111)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 54(u), 54(y) overridden – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 15(b), 15(c) overridden – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 37(a) overridden – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 72(l), 74(p) overridden – Yea: 84 Nay: 39)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 74(q) overridden – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 78(dd) overridden – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 81(h) overridden – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 153, 155 overridden – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 87(f), 87(g),88(a), 88(l) overridden – Yea: 84 Nay: 39)

Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers. (House Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 96(d) overridden – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Providing a income tax subtraction modification for amounts received as compensation for serving in the armed forces and providing that a person shall not lose eligibility for a homestead property tax refund claim or the selective assistance for effective senior relief (SAFESR) income tax credit if the appraised valuation of the homestead subsequently exceeds $350,000 after qualifying in a previous tax year. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 116 Nay: 4)

Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 76 Nay: 44)

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources – Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 71 Nay: 49)

Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 76 Nay: 45)

Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 84 Nay: 39)

Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 74 Nay: 47)

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes property based on the fair market value or average fair market value of the residential portion and providing the legislature the authority to establish valuation limits for any classes or subclasses of property. (House Motion to concur with amendments failed – Yea: 59 Nay: 62)

Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 121 Nay: 0)

Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer and removing obsolete reference to global intangible low-taxed income provided for under the federal internal revenue code in determining Kansas adjusted gross income. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 121 Nay: 0)

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught. (House Motion to not adopt Conference Committee Report passed – Yea: 107 Nay: 14)

Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and continuing reimbursements from the taxpayer notification costs fund for an additional five years. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 87 Nay: 35)

Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 78 Nay: 44)

Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary – Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. (House Conference Committee Report not adopted – Yea: 38 Nay: 85)

Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Establishing the save Kansas act, authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, imposing restrictions on websites that can accept and transmit voter registration applications, removing individuals disqualified for voting from such records and providing an open records request exemption for certain information related to such records. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 84 Nay: 39)

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 33 by Committee on Taxation – Providing that countywide retailers' sales tax is apportioned based on total assessed valuations of the county and cities within the county rather than property taxes levied. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 122 Nay: 1)

Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist, fascist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an American civics examination in order to graduate with a high school diploma. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 80 Nay: 43)

Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and regulations to receive priority status in the adoption process, removing references to revival of rules and regulations, clarifying that the department of the budget is not required to approve proposed rules and regulations mandated by the federal government, adding references to department of corrections rules and regulations that are not subject to the act and requiring an agency submit a proposed rule and regulation to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations prior to presentation of a bill to the legislature for ratification. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 89 Nay: 34)

Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a registry kiosk of Kansas military forces killed in action or who died of wounds incurred during active duty to be placed within the state capitol, enacting the safeguarding American veteran empowerment (SAVE) act to limit compensation for assisting in veterans benefits matters, establishing the Kansas military affairs commission and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses and permissive preference in private employment to include current servicemembers and such members’ eligible spouses. (House Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained – Yea: 81 Nay: 42)

Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 89 Nay: 34)

Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Providing for occupational licensing annual reports by agencies to the joint committee on administrative rules and regulations and requiring that adoption of new occupational licenses and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by the legislature by ratification. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 88 Nay: 35)

Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the laws providing for medical malpractice screening inapplicable when such election is made. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash assistance, childcare assistance and food assistance fraud investigations and requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Expanding the Kansas tort claims act to include child placement agencies that contract with the secretary for children and families. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real property, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes personal property based on the fair market value or average fair market value and providing that the legislature may provide by law for the freezing of property tax valuations for owner-occupied residential property of qualifying seniors. (House Conference Committee Report not adopted – Yea: 69 Nay: 54)

Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance claims, providing that only the attorney general may file claims regarding public nuisances that are not wholly contained in one political subdivision unless the attorney general delegates authorization to file such claims and requiring special injury for certain public nuisance actions. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 86 Nay: 37)

Enacting the proxy advisor transparency act, requiring proxy advisors to make certain disclosures when recommending an action against company management, authorizing the attorney general to investigate and take enforcement actions against violators and establishing a private right of action for a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 87 Nay: 36)

Creating the crime of unlawful approach of a first responder and providing penalties therefore, requiring traffic laws that apply to local and state law enforcement to apply to federal law enforcement; including federal law enforcement in the definitions used in the crime of interference with law enforcement; including buildings owned by the United States in the crime of interference with the conduct of public business of public buildings; including enforcement of federal laws and executive orders in the exceptions from liability in the tort claims act, relating to the enforcement of detainers issued by the United States immigration and customs enforcement by a county sheriff operating a county jail; requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage of law enforcement agencies enforcing federal law; requiring the state to pay certain judgements in federal civil actions and provide legal representation by the attorney general, exempting section 287(g) federal immigration agreements from certain provisions of the interlocal cooperation act. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 85 Nay: 38)

Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 124 Nay: 0)

Requiring that certain contractual provisions be incorporated in all contracts for certain cities and counties, including the provisions of form DA-146a, with certain exceptions. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 122 Nay: 0)

Creating the crime of unlawful approach of a first responder and providing penalties therefore, requiring traffic laws that apply to local and state law enforcement to apply to federal law enforcement; including federal law enforcement in the definitions used in the crime of interference with law enforcement; including buildings owned by the United States in the crime of interference with the conduct of public business of public buildings; including enforcement of federal laws and executive orders in the exceptions from liability in the tort claims act, relating to the enforcement of detainers issued by the United States immigration and customs enforcement by a county sheriff operating a county jail; requiring municipal insurance pools to provide coverage of law enforcement agencies enforcing federal law; requiring the state to pay certain judgements in federal civil actions and provide legal representation by the attorney general, exempting section 287(g) federal immigration agreements from certain provisions of the interlocal cooperation act. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 85 Nay: 39)

Establishing a registry for child abuse and neglect to be maintained by the secretary for children and families, providing for registration and expungement processes that include administrative hearings and opportunities for subsequent appeals, requiring reports of abuse or neglect to include information regarding a custody dispute concerning the child who is the subject of the report and directing the secretary to submit a report to the legislature on such information. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 124 Nay: 0)

Allowing licensed physical therapists to perform certain capillary blood tests, adding advanced practice registered nurse to the definition of healthcare provider for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act, adding an advanced practice registered nurse position to the board of governors of the healthcare stabilization fund and requiring advance practice registered nurses to maintain professional liability insurance as a condition of active licensure. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 92 Nay: 33)

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development – Setting visitor origin requirements for STAR bond projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 74 Nay: 49)

Substitute for HB 2114 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources – Clarifying which structures shall be considered water obstructions and not a dam, increasing application fees for a permit to construct, modify or add to a dam, requiring post-construction permit fees and requiring any licensed professional engineer who conducts inspections required by the act to be approved by the chief engineer or a certified intern engineer who is under the supervision of a licensed professional engineer. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 110 Nay: 11)

Adding and removing certain substances in schedules I, III and IV of the uniform controlled substances act and making conforming changes to the criminal code definition of fentanyl-related controlled substances. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 76 Nay: 49)

Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for allowing an adult to receive decision-making assistance from one or more other adults, requirements for decision-making agreements and duties related thereto. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 123 Nay: 0)

Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual. (House Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 87 Nay: 37)

Providing for the crime victims compensation board to establish fees chargeable for conducting examinations of persons who may be victims of sexual assault, authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations to administer such fees and to use moneys in the crime victims compensation fund for the payment of such fees and allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of records and information given to the board. (House Concurred with amendments in conference – Yea: 96 Nay: 27)

Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 80 Nay: 43)

Requiring the secretary of health and environment to adopt rules and regulations that allow for the direct and indirect potable reuse of treated wastewater, providing additional requirements for applications to the water technical assistance fund and the water projects grant fund and extending the current expiration date of such funds. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 121 Nay: 3)

Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act. (House Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 124 Nay: 0)