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Homelessness is rising in Kansas and state lawmakers aren’t doing much to help
A bill in the Kansas Legislature would have provided millions of dollars to build homeless shelters across the state. But lawmakers let the bill stall in committee and left Topeka for the year without taking any meaningful action to address the growing problem.
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Education advocate: Kansas school finance bill would ‘permanently underfund’ special education
Kansas lawmakers are trying to overhaul special education funding for public schools in a move condemned by public school advocates.
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House, Senate negotiators seeking income, sales and property tax bills capable of dodging vetoes
Legislators engaged Tuesday in opening rounds of conversation about using the state’s large revenue surplus to draft legislation delivering property, income and sales tax relief that Gov. Laura Kelly won’t veto.
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Want more young Kansans to run for office? A coming pay raise in the Statehouse might help
Kansas lawmakers are set to receive a substantial pay raise next year. Some say that’s key to recruiting more young and working class people to run for office.
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Lawrence school district superintendent denounces bill banning gender-affirming care for youths
The Lawrence school district superintendent has spoken out against state legislation that would block transgender youths’ access to gender-affirming health care in Kansas.
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Kansas Legislature sends Democratic governor bill banning under-18 transgender health care
The Kansas Legislature voted to send an intensely divisive bill Wednesday to Gov. Laura Kelly forbidding gender transition surgery, prescribing of puberty blockers and delivery of other gender-affirming care by medical professionals in Kansas to people younger than 18.
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Kansas senators vote on police dog bill, pass plastic bag ban that would nullify Lawrence order
Republican lawmakers in Topeka are trying to snuff out liberal Lawrence’s reign as a plastic bag-free city. If history is a guide, the GOP likely won’t have enough votes to overturn a veto from the governor.
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Kansas bill limiting privacy advances as lawmakers opine on ‘regret and emptiness’ of abortion
Senate Republicans say 11 questions proposed to survey pregnant people in the state before they can receive an abortion will help lawmakers make better decisions. Critics say the proposed survey is overly invasive, offensive and a blatant attempt to push an anti-abortion agenda.