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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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Kansas Democrat threatens to recruit parents to sue schools for lack of honest history lessons
Rep. Valdenia Winn offered a proposal to House Republicans: If they were to override the governor’s veto of legislation installing a parental bill of rights, she would recruit parents to file lawsuits over the lack of honest history lessons in public schools.
Kansas lawmakers fall a few votes short of banning transgender athletes from women’s sports
Kansas House lawmakers failed to override a veto from the governor, spelling the end for a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports.
Kansas House overrides veto of bill tying food assistance to employment or job training program
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.
Kansas Senate backs gradual elimination of sales tax on food by 2025
A Kansas bill providing a multiyear, staggered elimination of the state sales tax on food moved a step closer Wednesday to becoming law.
Legislature passes bill mandating Kansas counties use watermarked paper ballots
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.
Senate overrides Kelly’s veto of legislation creating parental bill of rights for K-12 education
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 push transgender athlete debate to new extremes in override of governor’s veto
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.
Kansas Senate turns back Democrat’s bid to force action on clergy reporting mandate
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.
Kansas Republican complains about sharing Statehouse restroom with ‘transgender female’
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.
Senator seeks alternative path to making religious ministers mandatory reporters of child abuse
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.
Kansas activists opposed to COVID-19 mandates greet legislators with rally at Capitol
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.
Congressional map drawn by Kansas Republicans is unconstitutional, Wyandotte County judge rules
Wyandotte County District Judge Bill Klapper ruled Monday that Kansas Republicans violated the state constitution by targeting residents on the basis of politics and race when drawing new congressional districts.
Kansas welcomed a pawn shop for the rich in exchange for a promise of rural development
As Brad Heppner faces allegations of fraud and an SEC investigation from past deals, Kansas legislators still support the unique business he describes as a pawn shop for rich people.
Kansas audit questions enforcement of tax credit cap for private school scholarships
A review of a Kansas school choice tax credit program for low-income students raised concerns Friday about the future enforceability of a cap on total write-offs.
KPERS weighs cutting anticipated investment return rate despite political pressure to delay
Trustees of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System deferred Friday until at least next month a decision about lowering the assumed rate of return on pension investments below the current 7.75% target and dramatically inflating the system’s unfunded liability.
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