Kansas House of Representatives

Legislators pocket 4.4% bump, executive branch gets 1%, judicial branch — zilch.

Exits due to retirement from politics and campaigns for other public offices

Kansas lawmakers are on their annual break and will return next week to vote on potentially overriding the governor's vetoes.

The resolution, which would have been on the August ballot for voters to decide, limits the assessed valuation of residential, commercial, and agricultural property from jumping more than 9% in any one year.

Bill clears liquor businesses to run 23 hours a day, removes local barriers to home rentals

More than 40% of the population lives in a rural part of the state but only 20% of the state’s attorneys practice there.

Senate majority leader’s amendment forbid sports on Sundays, Wednesday evenings

A proposed bill would allow governments to privately award higher-value construction contracts for county buildings, bridges, highways, dams, turnpikes and parking lots.

Rep. Dan Osman, an Overland Park Democrat, opposed the bill’s passage, pointing to projected costs to the state general fund in excess of $1.5 million each year.

Senate Bill 360 was the original bill introduced to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.