Kansas Legislative Analysis

Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2007 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Ways and Means
• Voted 40-0 in the Senate
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Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Insurance
• Voted 99-23 in the House
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Including funeral home online obituary notices as sufficient grounds for removal of a deceased voter from the voter registration books; requiring that poll workers be citizens of the United States and live within the state of Kansas; prohibiting the disqualification of active military members, spouses or other dependents who are citizens of the United States as poll workers on the basis of residency or being a registered voter; relating to advance voting ballot applications; modifying the requirements for soliciting registered voters to submit advance voting applications.

Key Points

• Relates to advance voting ballot applications
• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Elections
• Voted 40-0 in the Senate
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Requiring a quarterly report from the director of the division of vehicles listing the names, addresses and alien registration numbers of certain noncitizens who have been issued a driver's license during such quarter.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Pat Proctor (Republican)
• Voted 83-35 in the House
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Requiring special elections be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March or on the same day as a primary or general election.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Elections
• Voted 29-11 in the Senate
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Reorganizing subsections of the public assistance statute.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Welfare Reform
• Voted 31-8 in the Senate
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Reviving a law providing for discounted hunting and fishing licenses for persons who are 65 years of age or older; changing the amount charged for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for children five and younger to $300 and for those children ages six to 15 to $400, prohibiting non-residents from hunting migratory waterfowl on public lands during the hunting season except on Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays; raising certain hunting fees; and requiring the department of wildlife and parks to report to the house and senate committees on agriculture and natural resources on the impact of limiting out of state waterfowl hunters.

Key Points

• Sponsored by Federal and State Affairs
• Voted 65-59 in the House
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Excluding dealers and manufacturers of trailers from certain provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Transportation
• Voted 40-0 in the Senate
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Providing that driving school instructors and motorcycle instructors may possess a driver's license or motorcycle driver's license from any state.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Transportation
• Voted 121-0 in the House
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Including programs and services provided by nonprofit organizations accredited by the international multisensory structured language education council as approved at-risk educational programs.

Key Points

• This bill has passed and is moving through the legislative process
• Sponsored by Education
• Voted 87-38 in the House
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