A Kansas House committee has been gathering testimony on a wide range of reform options for Kansans with disabilities. That includes a four-year plan endorsed by advocates to invest $13.6 million to help people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Republicans and Democrats want to cut Kansas property taxes this year. But they can’t decide on the best way to do it — and some worry that core local services like schools, roads and law enforcement could suffer as a result.
State and federal lawmakers from Kansas convened Monday at the Celtic Fox pub in Topeka to celebrate legislation to exempt tipped earnings of service and hospitality workers from income taxation.
Legislation that would cement child support payments for pregnancy-related costs before birth turned into a debate at a hearing Wednesday over whether the bill would establish “fetal personhood” in Kansas law.
House Republicans dispatched eight amendments proposed by Democrats on Thursday before granting first-round approval of a bill preventing Kansas health professionals from providing individuals under the age of 18 with gender-affirming care.
The Kansas Senate approved with a bipartisan supermajority a bill prohibiting health professionals from providing gender-affirming care to minors and enforcing that statewide ban with civil, financial and regulatory sanctions for violators.
A crowd clamored today at the Kansas Statehouse to see the state’s suffragist icons and family members memorialized in paint. Gov. Laura Kelly marked the day as an occasion to celebrate “bold, visionary, badass” women.
In packed hearings Tuesday at the Kansas Statehouse, lawmakers heard testimony on legislation that would bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and other gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors.
”Today it’s our transgender population, but who’s next? … State-sponsored discrimination has no place in our democracy, and this is what this bill is all about,” an attorney for the Kansas Department of Revenue told Kansas Court of Appeals judges Monday.
Public school advocates are asking lawmakers to proceed with caution as they consider slashing the statewide property tax that directly funds public education.
