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House Committee on Federal and State Affairs

  • Committee Assistant: Connie Bahner 785-368-7166
  • Connie.Bahner@house.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 9:00 am Location: 346-S

    Room 346-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB84 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act and historical horse race machines under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.
    SB158 - House Substitute for SB 158 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act.
    HB2048 - Extending certain provisions of the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.
    HB2056 - Regulating the sale and distribution of kratom products as a part of and supplemental to the Kansas food, drug and cosmetic act.
    HB2057 - Allowing an alcoholic liquor manufacturer to obtain a drinking establishment license under certain conditions.
    HB2058 - Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating a new class of concealed carry license for individuals 18 to 20 years of age, and creating the Kansas protection of firearm rights act to restore the right to possess a firearm upon expungement of certain convictions.
    HB2059 - Providing reciprocity for licenses to carry concealed handguns and creating two classes of concealed carry licenses.
    HB2060 - Establishing daylight saving time as the permanent standard time for the state of Kansas.
    HB2061 - Increasing the minimum age to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco products from 18 to 21, and prohibiting cigarette vending machines and flavored vaping products.
    HB2087 - Limiting the review of certain rules and regulations by the director of the budget and requiring review of rules and regulations every five years.
    HB2088 - Requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation.
    HB2089 - Substitute for HB 2089 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Standardizing firearm safety education training programs in school districts.
    HB2108 - Concerning the study and investigation of maternal deaths in the state of Kansas and requiring the secretary of health and environment to establish an external review committee to review black maternal death cases.
    HB2122 - Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for adults who want decision-making assistance.
    HB2137 - Making amendments regarding licensure to sell alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages, authorizing transfers of bulk alcoholic liquor by certain licensees and authorizing the sale of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages on specified days and times and subject to certain conditions by licensees under the Kansas liquor control act and the club and drinking establishment act.
    HB2138 - Club and drinking establishment liquor license eligibility; spouse is a law enforcement officer in another county.
    HB2184 - Creating the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act.
    HB2199 - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act.
    HB2212 - Eliminating Kansas residency requirements for various liquor licenses.
    HB2224 - Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain statutes related to crimes in which bodily fluids may have been transmitted from one person to another.
    HB2251 - Requiring relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders related to domestic violence.
    HB2252 - Creating fulfillment house licenses to authorize storage and shipping services provided to winery special order shipping licensees.
    HB2340 - Increasing the minimum age to 21 to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco products.
    HB2393 - Providing workers compensation benefits for first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    HB2400 - Enacting the massage therapist licensure act, to provide for regulation and licensing of massage therapists.
    HB2403 - Establishing the community defense act to regulate sexually oriented businesses and impose criminal penalties for violations.
    HB2406 - Sunday start time for the sale of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage in retail stores changed from 12 noon to 9 a.m.
    HB2407 - Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to adopt a policy on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking.
    HB2408 - Authorizing the state historical society to convey certain real property to the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska.
    HB2409 - Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
    HB2410 - Creating the gun violence restraining order act authorizing the issuance of court orders prohibiting the purchase or possession of firearms by a person.
    HB2415 - Providing the state fire marshal with law enforcement powers and requiring an investigation of deaths resulting from fire.
    HB2416 - Modifying the procedure for declaring and extending a state of disaster emergency, limiting powers granted to the governor during a state of disaster emergency, authorizing the legislative coordinating council and the legislature to take certain action related to a state of disaster emergency and prohibiting the governor or the state board of education from closing private schools during a state of disaster emergency.
    HB2417 - Allowing clubs and drinking establishments to sell beer and cereal malt beverage for consumption off the licensed premises.
    HB2422 - Requiring all persons to be 18 years of age to be eligible to give consent for marriage and eliminating exceptions to such requirement.
    HB2424 - Amending the definition of "race" in the Kansas act against discrimination to include traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles.
    HB2427 - Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crime of breach of privacy.
    HB2430 - Creating the Kansas cannabis legalization act to authorize the cultivation, manufacture, sale, possession and use of cannabis and cannabis products.
    HB2433 - Protecting consumers and preventing online retail crime by requiring online marketplaces to verify and authenticate the identity of third parties who sell products on their platforms.
    HB2434 - Requiring business entities and public employers to register and use the e-verify program for employment purposes and disallowing certain income tax deductions.
    HB2436 - Enacting the Kansas medical marijuana regulation act and enacting the Kansas innovative solutions for affordable healthcare act to expand medical assistance eligibility.
    HB2439 - Creating the crime of unauthorized disclosure of a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.
    HB2444 - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas lottery act.
    HB2449 - Prohibiting stay-at-home orders and curfews and certain public and private entities from requiring vaccinations, requiring the capitol and legislative meetings be open to the public and protecting the freedom of worship and operation of private businesses.
    HB2450 - Authorizing the Kansas lottery to offer sports wagering with an existing contract provider or to issue a request for proposal for such purpose.
    HB2453 - Authorizing the sale and delivery of cereal malt beverages and beer containing not more than 6% alcohol by volume to patrons under the Kansas cereal malt beverage act.
    HB2454 - Creating additional violations of criminal discharge of a firearm for discharges that are near a school or projectiles that leave the property from which they are discharged.
    HB2501 - Creating the defend the guard act to establish when the Kansas national guard may be released into active duty combat and to prohibit COVID-19 vaccination requirements for national guard members.
    HB2502 - Authorizing retail liquor stores to sell and deliver alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages to a caterer, public venue, club or drinking establishment located in any county.
    HB2528 - Removing inflatable devices that are owned and operated by a nonprofit organization from the requirements of the Kansas amusement ride act.
    HB2565 - Requiring county election officers to provide precinct level election results in machine readable format within 30 days of any final canvas.
    HB2566 - Creating a microwinery license to manufacture and sell wine, and requiring a farm winery licensee to engage in farm-related activities.
    HB2570 - Requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years.
    HB2611 - Authorizing home delivery of alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverage by a licensed retailer, including delivery through a third-party delivery service.
    HB2643 - Prohibiting sexually oriented businesses from obtaining a club and drinking establishment license and prohibiting the sale or consumption of alcohol or cereal malt beverage on such business premises.
    HB2644 - Designating the Sandhill plum as the official state fruit.
    HB2645 - Requiring county election officers to ensure electronic data and digital images of ballots are protected from physical or electronic alteration or destruction and making digital images of ballots open records and searchable by precinct.
    HB2646 - Providing security specifications for paper ballots purchased from vendors and requiring reimbursement of county expenditures needed to comply.
    HB2675 - Expanding medical assistance eligibility and directing unemployed adults seeking coverage to a work referral program.
    HB2676 - Authorizing counties to create a code inspection and enforcement fund and expanding the scope of the equipment reserve fund to include other computer and electronic technologies.
    HB2677 - Prohibiting persons in charge of a building from requiring off-duty police officers carrying a concealed handgun from providing certain personal information or wearing anything identifying such persons as a law enforcement officer or as being armed.
    HB2681 - Requiring all forfeited or seized firearms in the possession of a law enforcement agency to be disposed of in accordance with the Kansas code of criminal procedure.
    HB2689 - Limiting cost recovery of replacing coal-fired electric generation facilities in rates, requiring public utilities to purchase certain electricity generated from coal-fired facilities and exempting certain coal-fired electric generation facilities from regulation.
    HB2696 - Establishing electric generation requirements for certain renewable energy resources that provide baseload generation supply to public utilities.
    HB2705 - Removing the rebuttable presumption of an intent to distribute controlled substances and replacing it with a permissive inference.
    HB2706 - Specifying that final hemp products may contain a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% and allowing certain prohibited hemp products to be manufactured, marketed, sold or distributed.
    HB2707 - Expanding the election crime of corrupt political advertising to be consistent with the campaign finance act and clarifying the scope of its application.
    HB2708 - Establishing standards for laboratory licenses that test medical marijuana and requiring the director of alcoholic beverage control to adopt rules and regulations regarding testing laboratories.
    HB2710 - Increasing the percentage of alcohol by volume allowed to not more than 16% for domestic table wine and the domestic fortified wine threshold to more than 16% alcohol by volume.
    HB2714 - Prohibiting discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccination status under the Kansas act against discrimination.
    HB2715 - Establishing a certification program for county election officials to be developed by the secretary of state and the Kansas county clerks and election officials association.
    HB2717 - Prohibiting any municipality from preventing the enforcement of federal immigration laws, requiring municipal law enforcement agencies to provide written notice to each law enforcement officer of the officer's duty to cooperate with state and federal agencies in the enforcement of immigration laws and requiring any municipal identification card to state on its face that it is not valid for state identification.
    HB2722 - Creating a procedure for appointment of delegates to a convention under article V of the constitution of the United States and prescribing duties and responsibilities therefor.
    HB2725 - Creating a presumption that joint legal custody in temporary parenting plans are in the bests interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.
    HB2730 - Prohibiting certain restrictions on freedom of worship by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities, limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and limiting local health officers to making recommendations.
    HB2731 - Requiring online marketplaces to obtain certain information from and to require the disclosure of certain information by third parties that sell products on their platforms.
    HB2736 - Limiting the liability of optometrists and ophthalmologists who report information to the division of vehicles relating to a person's vision.
    HB2737 - Proposing state representative redistricting plan free state three.
    HB2740 - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act.
    HB2743 - Enacting the covert firearms act and establishing criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, distribution, transportation, shipping or receiving of certain firearms or components.
    HB2745 - Characterizing separation from Kansas national guard service due to non-compliance with a COVID-19 vaccine requirement as a general discharge under honorable conditions.
    HB2746 - Creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo, except when necessary to save the life the mother, and restricting the use of fetal tissue.
    HB2748 - Enacting the no patient left alone act to require certain healthcare facilities to allow in-person visitation of patients or residents.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    HCR5003 - Amending the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to reserve to the people the right to regulate abortion through their elected state representatives and senators.
    HCR5013 - Urging congress to propose the "keep nine" amendment to the United States constitution to prohibit expanding the number of justices on the United States supreme court.
    HCR5017 - Supporting the adoption of the COVID-19 Vaccine Bill of Rights
    HCR5018 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove legislative immunity from arrest in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting, or during the continuance of the legislative session and from civil service of process during the legislative session or 15 days prior to the commencement of the legislative session.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    HCR5003 - Amending the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to reserve to the people the right to regulate abortion through their elected state representatives and senators.
    HCR5013 - Urging congress to propose the "keep nine" amendment to the United States constitution to prohibit expanding the number of justices on the United States supreme court.
    HCR5017 - Supporting the adoption of the COVID-19 Vaccine Bill of Rights
    HCR5018 - Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove legislative immunity from arrest in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting, or during the continuance of the legislative session and from civil service of process during the legislative session or 15 days prior to the commencement of the legislative session.
    HCR5022 - Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring that a sheriff be elected in each county; exception.
    HCR5033 - Proposing a constitutional amendment imposing consecutive term limits for state legislators.
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