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Kansas champions of administrative reform at public universities offer concessions to calm skeptics
The Republican majority leader of the Kansas House and the governor’s chief of staff worked Thursday to resolve objections to a bill designed to make the state’s three largest public universities more financially efficient by removing layers of administrative red tape.
Kansas champions of administrative reform at public universities offer concessions to calm skeptics
The Republican majority leader of the Kansas House and the governor’s chief of staff worked Thursday to resolve objections to a bill designed to make the state’s three largest public universities more financially efficient by removing layers of administrative red tape.
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Bill would require Kansas schools to stock naloxone, provide fentanyl prevention education
Parents, first responders and educators are urging lawmakers to require schools to stock naloxone and provide fentanyl prevention education to prevent overdoses and deaths.
Trans Kansans and allies use Statehouse restrooms in act of ‘malicious compliance’
For many trans Kansans and allied activists, Friday’s “pee-in” wasn’t their first time in the state Capitol building in Topeka. Years of commitment to the cause led to the day’s event.
Kansas House responds to complaints, unveils bill revamping Board of Nursing’s authority
Three people recounted traumatic nursing regulatory experiences in Kansas House testimony supporting a bill written to force administrative changes at the Kansas State Board of Nursing and void some of the board’s disciplinary actions.
‘Do better’: House Democrats castigate majority party for cutting debate short
Republican legislators abruptly cut off debate on a bill that stops people living unlawfully in the country from getting public benefits, passing it out of the House with an amendment the Senate already defeated.
Kansas House committee plunges paring knife into state’s public university budgets
A Kansas House committee recommended a budget that cuts grants to KU, reduces need-based student aid, ties funding to elimination of DEI, offers faculty one year instead of two to fix their academic shortcomings before they are potentially fired and more.
Kansas GOP House members renew attacks on DEI, CRT at public universities
Kansas House Republicans stirred an academic hornet’s nest Tuesday with a bill imposing a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion as well as critical race theory in most classes counted toward degree requirements at the state’s public universities.
Kansas bill eliminates mail-in ballots if court strikes down signature verification law
A Senate bill would end advance voting by mail if a court strikes down state law requiring election officials to verify a voter’s signature. The prospect of such a ruling is playing out in Shawnee County.
House Republican forces hearing, despite no support, on restrictions for delivering advance ballots
House Democrats heckled Leavenworth Republican Rep. Pat Proctor’s latest idea to undermine advance voting after he forced a hearing on a bill that nobody was willing to support.
Kansas schools could be required to verify family income for every student receiving free lunch
A proposed bill would require school districts to verify the gross household income of every student who receives free or reduced-price lunches. Federal law requires schools to verify a random sample amounting to 3% of recipients.
Kansas Democrats tout bill requiring ICE to display IDs, shed masks and forego warrantless searches
A coalition of Kansas House Democrats urged passage of a bill requiring ICE agents operating in Kansas to forego warrantless raids, undergo a law enforcement training program and clearly identify themselves in public.
‘This bill spits on basic human decency’: Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban without hearing
The GOP-led Kansas House and Senate on Wednesday suspended rules to approve a “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people after House Democrats delayed passage by six hours.
Kansas’ Chiefs deal criticized by both parties over ‘tax giveaways for billionaires’
In a crowded hearing last week, Kansas lawmakers drilled a lawyer for the Kansas City Chiefs on the deal to bring the NFL team across the state line. Republicans and Democrats are forming rare alliances on both sides of the issue.
Kansas Republicans add bathroom ban to anti-trans proposal, shuffle bills to avoid public hearings
The anti-transgender “bathroom bill” made a comeback in Kansas politics Monday after a GOP-led legislative committee pushed out legislation to force anyone using a bathroom in government buildings to use the facility matching their biological sex at birth.
Kansas bill seeks to roll back juvenile justice reforms, favoring stiffer detention sentences
Proposed legislation in Kansas cracks open state guidelines to allow courts to sentence any kid deemed an offender to juvenile prison, reversing a decade-old effort to treat youth incarceration as a last resort.
‘Prevention is important’: Erin’s Law advocates seek child abuse education in Kansas schools
Advocates and survivors of child sexual abuse are urging legislators to pass Erin’s Law, which requires K-12 schools teach about body safety and sexual abuse prevention at an age-appropriate level once per school year.
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