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Kansas Legislature shields crisis pregnancy centers with anti-abortion bill
Crisis pregnancy centers could reap protections under a bill passed by Kansas Republicans. Medical experts have found that the centers can delay access to health care and promulgate inaccurate information.
Kansas Legislature shields crisis pregnancy centers with anti-abortion bill
Crisis pregnancy centers could reap protections under a bill passed by Kansas Republicans. Medical experts have found that the centers can delay access to health care and promulgate inaccurate information.
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Kansas anti-abortion groups are celebrating legislative wins. Here’s what that means for patients
Republican lawmakers passed measures that will force abortion patients to report more information to state officials, make it easier to prosecute people for coercing someone to get an abortion and allot more money to anti-abortion counseling centers.
‘Incredibly positive’: Disability advocates commend Kansas Republicans’ effort on waitlists
As the dust settles on the legislative maneuvering of the chaotic 2024 session, disability rights advocates applaud a budget provision meant to shorten wait times for disabled Kansans who need services.
August Rudisell/Lawrence Times
Douglas County Commission approves revised wind energy regulations
Douglas County commissioners voted Wednesday to approve revisions to local wind energy regulations.
Kansas lawmakers pass trio of crime bills dealing with juvenile justice, fentanyl
New bills passed in the last frenzied days of the legislative session would allow Kansans to seek potentially life-saving drug overdose treatment without fear of arrest, expand parameters for teenagers held in state custody and increase penalties for fentanyl-related crimes.
Kansas Legislature adopts $2.3 billion, 5-year tax cut despite bipartisan forecast of veto
The Kansas Legislature passed a tax reduction plan early Wednesday that closely mirrors the package vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly and includes property tax relief, elimination of sales tax on groceries and more.
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East Lawrencian, Air Force veteran kicks off campaign for Kansas House
Brooklynne Mosley, an Air Force veteran and community organizer living in East Lawrence, has kicked off her campaign for Kansas House District 46.
Jackson County dropped the ball, so Kansas making last-minute drive to lure KC sports teams
Kansas House and Senate members worked Monday to consider whether to approve an economic development package designed to attract the Kansas City football team, Kansas City Royals or professional hockey or basketball franchises to Kansas.
Kansas Senate fails to override governor’s veto of tax cut package
Three Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Monday to sustain Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a massive tax cut package over concerns about reshaping income tax brackets and the state’s long-term fiscal vitality.
Kansas House fails to override veto on bill that would ban gender-affirming care for kids
As the Kansas Legislature renewed its yearslong assault on transgender children, Sen. Mary Ware told her Senate colleagues Monday she had a “simple” question for them: ”What is the acceptable number of youth suicides?”
Kansas school finance bill, passed without ‘poison pill,’ on its way to governor
Kansas lawmakers have sent a bipartisan school finance bill that will shape state education funding for the next three years to the governor’s desk, packaging a $75 million increase in special education funding into the bill.
Kansas House overrides governor’s veto of tax cut bills despite gloomy five-year forecast
House members voted to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s vetoes of income, property and sales tax cuts that would lower state revenue by about $520 million per year.
Kansas governor slices border funding, anti-abortion program, ESU earmark from state budget
Gov. Laura Kelly sliced tens of millions of dollars from the state budget through a series of line-item vetoes, striking out funding to deploy the Kansas National Guard to the Mexico border, support for anti-abortion programs, and another earmark for Emporia State University’s enrollment-cratering “model.”
Kansas governor vetoes bipartisan plan to slash income, property and sales taxes
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly rejected a bipartisan package of tax cuts Wednesday and proposed a cheaper […]
Kansas places into state law blueprint for reforming K-12 instruction in reading
Gov. Laura Kelly affirmed in law Wednesday a flurry of bills on reading literacy, employing people with disabilities, parking railroad cars adjacent to intersections and creating the crime of egging on someone to commit suicide.
Gov. Laura Kelly approves bill creating independent agency devoted to child welfare
Gov. Laura Kelly signed bipartisan legislation placing into state law establishment of an independent agency dedicated to serving as an advocate for children involved with the state welfare system.
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