Kansas Legislature

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.

Legislators share frustration with inaction on two bills tied to pricing of medicine

Current law prohibits sexual relations between a student and a "teacher or other person of authority." But the law doesn't currently apply to school resource officers, nurses, bus drivers or other contracted employees.

HB 2727 allows women to shorten proceedings required to file a claim against an abortion provider they believe violated their right to informed consent about an abortion.

Under a bill that also mandates teaching students about the dangers of communism and socialism, high school freshmen would be required to take a 100-question exam based on the civics test that prospective U.S. citizens take during the American naturalization process.

House-passed bill now in Senate creates educational program, elevates criminal penalty

The bill clarifies that landlords are held to “the same standards of honesty and quality as any other business in Kansas,” says sponsor.