Dinah Sykes

Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 29 Nay: 11)

Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources – Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 27 Nay: 13)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 87(f), portion 88(a) – Yea: 21 Nay: 18)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 87(g), portion 88(a) 88(l) – Yea: 23 Nay: 16)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 88(m) overridden – Yea: 27 Nay: 12)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 15(b), portion 15(c) – Yea: 10 Nay: 28)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 54(y) – Yea: 25 Nay: 14)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 37(a) 74(Q) overridden – Yea: 31 Nay: 8)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 40 Nay: 0)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 27 Nay: 13)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 30 Nay: 8)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)

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. (Senate Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 26(a) 53(b) 54(w) 54(u) 78(dd) 81(h) 88(k) 96(d) 153 155 overridden – Yea: 28 Nay: 11)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 36 Nay: 2)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)

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. (Senate Emergency Final Action – Adopted as amended by Required 2/3 Majority – Yea: 27 Nay: 12)

Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 38 Nay: 0)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 31 Nay: 8)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 31 Nay: 8)

House Substitute for SB 51 by Committee on Legislative Modernization – Authorizing the chief information security officer to receive audit reports, updating statutes related to services provided by the chief information technology officer and authorizing the office of information technology services to provide certain services to political subdivisions and hospitals. (Senate Concurred with amendments in conference – Yea: 38 Nay: 1)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 38 Nay: 1)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 29 Nay: 11)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)

Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know act. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 31 Nay: 8)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 31 Nay: 8)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)

Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)

Expanding the Kansas tort claims act to include child placement agencies that contract with the secretary for children and families. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 27 Nay: 12)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 28 Nay: 11)

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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 31 Nay: 9)

Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders under the offender registration act, providing for a petition to determine that an offender is indigent and authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for a violation of the act involving nonpayment of a fee. (Senate Concurred with amendments in conference – Yea: 39 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. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 28 Nay: 11)

Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing third-party review of new residential construction development documents and inspection of improvements, requiring political subdivisions to allow certain building provisions for certain single-family residences of a certain size, excluding owner initiated rezoning to a single-family residential district from protest petition provisions and providing for all land within the corporate limits of a city that is zoned for any type of residential use to be considered zoned for single-family residential use. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 35 Nay: 4)

Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a conservatee's estate assets. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson memorial bridge, a bridge on interstate 135 in Sedgwick county as the Don Snyder memorial bridge, a portion of interstate 35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway, a portion of K-49 highway as the Pvt Michael E Gerber memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division memorial highway for interstate 35. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or objects covering a license plate for motor vehicles and modifying the definition of conviction in the Kansas uniform commercial drivers' license act. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 37 Nay: 2)

Requiring school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and maintain a supply of naloxone in all schools, requiring the department of education to establish guidelines for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools, regulating active shooter simulations in such schools and modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals in school district at-risk student accountability plans. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Authorizing the chief executive officer of the board of regents to negotiate and settle repayment obligations arising under financial aid programs administered by the board, providing requirements for agreements between postsecondary educational institutions and school districts for postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools, directing the governor to approve short-term workforce training programs for Pell grant eligibility, modifying requirements under the every child can read act and prohibiting Kansas promise scholarship awards for remedial hours. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for distribution of informational materials regarding certain government-administered savings accounts. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Extending the expiration date for provisions that authorize an electric utility to not offer parallel generation service to certain large load customers and exempt certain large load customers from the determination of the utility's peak demand. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant procedures and requiring further consideration of evaluation and treatment during the course of competency proceedings for defendants charged with the most serious offenses. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 38 Nay: 1)

Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric vehicle charging services. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 0)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 33 Nay: 7)

Enhancing the criminal penalty for an offense committed with the intent to commit transnational repression, requiring the development of transnational repression recognition and response training, providing that theft of livestock or implements of husbandry is a severity level 5, nonperson felony, providing that the theft of grain or hay is a severity level 6, nonperson felony and 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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 40 Nay: 0)

Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 39 Nay: 1)

Senate Substitute for HB 2402 by Committee on Education – Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception to such participation, requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation, extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming such applications approved if not approved or denied within 45 days of submission. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 31 Nay: 9)

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 by changing the connection to breach of privacy and describing the content of the image, video or other recording. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 36 Nay: 4)

Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 40 Nay: 0)

Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary – Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in eviction actions in which the underlying rental agreement is governed by the residential landlord and tenant act. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 36 Nay: 4)

Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide life-affirming care. (Senate Motion to override veto prevailed – Yea: 30 Nay: 9)

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. (Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted – Yea: 29 Nay: 10)