House Republicans took the first step Thursday toward an override of the governor’s veto of a bill requiring able-bodied Kansans without dependents to hold a job for 30 hours a week or enroll in a job-training program if they want federal food assistance.
A Kansas bill providing a multiyear, staggered elimination of the state sales tax on food moved a step closer Wednesday to becoming law.
The Kansas Legislature sent Gov. Laura Kelly a multifaceted election reform bill containing an unfunded mandate that local governments use ballots printed on watermarked paper.
The Kansas Senate accomplished the first of two steps Tuesday required to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a parental bill of rights for K-12 public education that encouraged skepticism of classroom instructional materials and challenges to books on the shelf in school libraries.
Kansas senators pushed debate over a proposed ban on transgender athletes to new extremes involving the KU championship-winning men’s basketball team and child genital inspections.
Sen. Tom Holland found little support for a motion designed to bring to the full Senate a resolution that would require religious leaders in Kansas to become mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect.
Andrea LaRayne Etzel via Office of the Governor
Gov. Laura Kelly welcomed the University of Kansas men’s basketball team and coach Bill Self to the Statehouse Monday to recognize their success in the NCAA Tournament.
Rep. Cheryl Helmer told a transgender college student she doesn’t appreciate sharing a restroom at the Statehouse with a “huge transgender female” and falsely claims transgender people are assaulting “wee little girls” in school restrooms.
Sen. Tom Holland is hoping to kickstart the process for a slow-moving measure requiring duly ordained ministers of religion to report child abuse and neglect.
Rep. Tatum Lee and Sen. Mark Steffen heartily embraced anti-vax activists Monday at the Capitol ahead of the Legislature’s consideration of limited-government policy tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and potential overrides of a cluster of vetoes issued by Gov. Laura Kelly.
