HOUSE BILLS SENT TO SENATE (as of 04/30/99)

HB2001 - Expands the local sales tax authority of cities in Finney, Reno, Lyon, and Osage counties for economic development or public infrastructure, and gives Russell and Cowley counties similar authority.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2005 - States that any new health insurance mandate must be given an 18-month trial run with the state employee health care program before it may be applied to the private insurance marketplace.
SubHB2007 -  Partial birth abortion ban.
HB2011 - Exempts from sales tax the purchases of water districts, including indirect purchases made by contractors on behalf of the districts.
HB2012 - Authorizes the State Fire Marshal to develop and implement a statewide Hazmat assessment and response program.  PASSED BY SENATE
SubHB2013 - Major changes to law regulating bingo.
HB2015 - Concerns the manner in which the service of process is made on insurance companies transacting business in Kansas. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2016 -  Establishes the lottery unclaimed prize fund for transfer to the state tourism fund as authorized by the legislature. 
HB2027 - Appropriates $2.8M to the adjutant general from the general fund for disaster relief.
HB2031 - Designates the channel catfish as the official state fish. 
HB2033- Standardizes the statute terminology governing the licensing and practice of professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and master level psychologists. PASSED IN SENATE
HB2034- Modifies the calculation of overtime compensation by defining holiday hours as time worked for state employees performing essential services and defines who such employees are.
HB2035 - Changes definition of a "person with a disability" for eligibility for a disabled parking card, changing the distance that causes walking problem from 200 feet to 100 feet. PASSED IN SENATE
HB2037 - Provides a sales tax exemption for the construction and repair of grain storage facilities and rail spurs leading to them.
HB2040 - Requires owners of amusement rides to carry liability insurance, to have annual safety inspections, to provide training to operators, and to post safety rules.  PASSED
HB2046- Extends for two years the law setting forth when, for distance reasons, a child may attend a school in another school district.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2048 - Provides sales tax exemption for sales of personal or real property damaged or destroyed as a result of natural disasters. Also includes a phase-out of sales tax on food. 
HB2049-  Revises the law that requires employers to pay employees who have quit or been fired the pay due no later than the next regular payday. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2050 - Reduces the reporting requirements by employers on new hires. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2053 - Repeals the KSA sections that set maximum lighting standards for public buildings. PASSED IN SENATE.
HB2056 - Authorizes the KCC to charge a $250.00 fee from companies seeking certificates of necessity to provide local or long distance service. PASSED IN SENATE
HB2060- Gives to the State Board of Education the authority to define the term "credit hour" at community colleges. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2062 - Makes technical changes to vocational education law to properly cite federal law.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2065 - Expands the membership on the Joint Committee on State Building Construction and the Joint Committee on Information Technology.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2066 - Specifies documents that can be used to prove existence of motor vehicle insurance.
HB2071 - ***Transportation Program. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2073- Expands the power of cities and counties over the construction of storm sewers. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2074 - Changes rules for reporting of HIV infections and directs the secretary KDHE to investigate and monitor HIV cases and adopt rules as necessary to protect public health. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2075- Provides liability coverage through the Kansas Tort Claims Act for volunteers of non-profits programs which provide programs for juvenile offenders.
SubHB2076 - Authorizes cable television companies to charge a late fee. PASSED IN SENATE
HB2082 - Changes the laws dealing with statute of limitations in criminal cases.
HB2086- Amends law regarding qualifications for licensure as a cosmetologist by grandfathering certain people from the education requirements for eligibilty to take the licensing examination. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2088 - Revises the law governing health insurance portability to bring it into conformance with federal law. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2090 - Amends law providing tax incentives for small employers to provide health insurance for employees.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2092- Allows the Secretary of Corrections to make direct placement of certain inmates in correctional conservation camps.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2094- Exempts veterans who apply for a United States Military Veteran license plate from the personalized license plate fee.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2096- Puts new regulations on title insurance companies.
HB2099 - Extends sales tax exemption for purchases made by nonprofit health care clinics whose primary purpose is to service medically underserved people.
HB2101- Revises criminal procedure law dealing with pre-sentencing reports. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2102- Requires 12 people on juries in sexual predator cases unless there is written agreement for a lessor amount.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2104- Deletes "turkey" from the definition of "game bird" in the laws governing controlled shooting areas licensed by the Department of Wildlife and Parks. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2105- Reconciles inconsistencies in the Boating Under the Influence Law by specifying what constitutes prima facie evidence of a violation.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2109- Requires insurance companies to provide a premium reduction when the principal operator has successfully completed an accident prevention course and extends from two to three years the reduction after completing the course. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2117- Expands the scope of treatments that are authorized to be accomplished by an optometrist. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2126 - 57-page bill that revises the Kansas Administrative Procedure Act, creating a new central Office of Administrative Hearings.
HB2135- Gives the secretary of corrections authority to issue an arrest warrant for escaped prisoners and offer an award up to $5,000.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2136- Adds the department of corrections, the parole board, and court services officers to the list of individuals that are afforded legal counsel if summoned to appear before a grand jury. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2137 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Dept. of Corrections to issue arrest warrants for out-of-state parolees who violate release terms under the Uniform Act for Out-of-State Parolee Supervision.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2140 - ***Amends the eminent domain law regarding the qualification of appraisers, who they can talk to under what circumstances, and defines the term "fair market value" as the amount in money that a well informed buyer is justified in paying and a well informed seller is justified in accepting in an open and competitive market, assuming that the parties are acting without undue compulsion. (What does justified mean?)  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2141- Designates a bridge as the Mike Hayden Bridge and a set of bridges as the Herman G. Dillon Bridges.  KILLED IN SENATE
HB2142 - Raises in steps the service fee paid to counties for vehicle registration from current $2.25 to $4.50 in CY2004. (This represents a $6.5M total increase in revenue for counties in CY2004.)  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2145 - Changes the solid waste disposal laws to allow the transfer of a permit for a disposal site in certain limited conditions involving business transactions and requires that the permittee must own the land upon which a disposal site is located.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2146 - ***Removes a limitation on the amount of money that could be paid for restoration of wetlands in the Republican River floodplain out of the general fund in cooperation with the Corps of Engineers.  The COE said remove the limitation or lose $1.08M of federal funding. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2150 - In the alternate dispute resolution statutes, clarifies that mediators have a confidentiality privilege and gives the mediator due process when accused of ethical violations. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2154- Revises wording in the law governing wills. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2155- Revises the law governing grants of immunity for people appearing before grand juries.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2156- Revises corporation law by allowing proxy voting by means of electronic transmissions. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2161 - Amends the laws dealing with the submission of corporation reports to the Secretary of State. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2166 - ***The Oz bill.  Extends the maturity of bonds with statewide as well as local importance from 20 to 30 years.  Gives redevelopment
districts the right to charge an extra one percent sales tax to retire the bonds. Clarifies that swine production facilities on ag land that are owned by various corporate entities are not considered to be part of an agricultural business enterprise for purposes of the Kansas Development Finance Authority Act.  That the legislature attaches a pig bill to the Oz bill must have some inner meaning.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2168- Gives advanced registered nurse practitioners the authority to prescribe drugs and deliver professional samples to patients. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2184-  Requires a judge to approve a property bond to recover personal property in limited action cases.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2191 - Changes law from mandatory to permissive dealing with the requirement that school boards require volunteers to obtain a health certification. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2192 - Requires trustee to advertize in local papers for creditors of a decedent
HB2197 - Protects consumers against being billed for unordered property and services, including negative option solicitations.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2205 - Amends law regarding land surveys. Repeals law creating elected land surveyors in Shawnee and Wyandotte counties.  Makes it a misdemeanor to mess with a U.S. public land survey corner.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2206- Replaces the term Administrative with the word Chief in all statutory references to the head district court judge. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2212 - Abolishes the emergency medical services board and transfers functions to KDHE.
HB2213 - Amends law regulating professional counselors. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2214 - Amends law regulating the licensing of who can fit and dispense hearing aids. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2215- Makes changes in the law governing the credentialing of respiratory therapists and the practices of respiratory therapists.   PASSED BY SENATE
HB2221- Clarifies the law regarding limited actions to allow for the adoption of civil actions on worthless checks to be brought under Chapter 61. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2222- Allows landlords to file an action for possession of premises only and then pursue collection of rent in a later action. PASSED IN SENATE
 HB2224 - Provides that attorneys who are also licensed social worker professionals from having to report abuse cases when such would violate attorney duty of confidentiality.
HB2226 - Expands income tax credits for people who make expenditures for alternative-fuel fueling stations and qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicles..
HB2227 - Allows the Wyandotte County Board of Commissioners to serve as the community mental health or mental retardation governing board for the county.  PASSED IN SENATE
S.SubHB2228- Amends existing law to allow the voting squares for ballots to be printed on a different piece of paper than the one on which candidates names and statements of questions are printed. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2230 - Allows SRS to convey parcels that are part of Osawatomie State Hospital to the city of Osawatomie and to the Miami County Mental Health Center.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2240 -  Concealed carry.
HB2254 - Revises law governing how dentists and dental hygienists are licensed. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2259 - Gives lienholders 20 days to file security interest notices with Dept. of Vehicles and allows vehicle owners assigning a title to file an affidavit to such effect with the DV, thereby getting off the hook for liability resulting from operation of the vehicle.  PASSED BY SENATE.
HB2261 - Eliminates the authority to create designated smoking areas in public places or at public meetings.
HB2266 - Amends insurance law relating to the conversion of a mutual insurance company into a domestic stock company.  PASSED IN SENATE
HB2272 - Increases from 50 to 100 the number of customers who may be served by a nonprofit utility.
HB2276 - 46-page bill revising the Limited Liability Company law. PASSED IN SENATE
HB2280 - Allows the "redomestication" of insurance companies authorized to do business in Kansas but located in another state.   PASSED BY SENATE
HB2289 - Establishes the Commission on Surface Water Quality Standards, appointed by the Governor. Tacked on to the end of the bill is authorization for the state to join the Southern Dairy Interstate Compact.
HB2290 - Repeals a law governing what a utility must do to loan money or credit pledged to persons having an affiliated interest in the company. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2296- Clarifies the contracting trustee law in the banking code. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2310 - Revises the city unsafe or dangerous structures and abandoned property act to permit any person, not just not for profit corporations to rehabilitate property. Requires cities in Wyandotte County to establish an abandoned property review authority.
HB2320 - Allows the participants in a cooperative agreement to create a joint port authority the ability to amend the agreement without approval of the legislature. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2321 - Expands the authority of the Livestock Commissioner to contain and control contagious or infectious diseases among certain domestic animals, including, but not limited to goats, llamas, poultry, birds, nonhuman primates, and ferrets.  PASSED BY SENATE
SubHB2322 - Requires cable company or any utility to provide a customer bill in one or more of the formats specified in act if the customer is visually impaired. Supposedly this is an ADA requirement. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2337- Allows cremation of bodies if no next of kin claim body.   PASSED BY SENATE
HB2339 - Allows cities/counties to pay compensation and expenses to planning commission members.
HB2352- Requires district magistrate judges to be a resident of the county while holding office.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2357 - Creates the Kansas Postsecondary Education Savings Program, allowing people to contribute to education savings accounts for postsecondary education and giving tax advantages.
HB2362 - ***Requires every newborn child to have a screening examination for the detection of major hearing defects within 3 to 5 days of normal birth and 5 to 8 days of a premature birth.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2368 - Revises the law concerning the Kansas Antiquities Commission. PASSED IN SENATE.
HB2380 - Changes the definition of "job training agency" to include certain apprenticeship programs so that they become eligible for grant dollars. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2404 - Increases from 2 to 3 the years that a water right may not be used and not be considered to be abandoned.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2405 - Parental notification when minor seeks an abortion.
HB2410 - Gives cemetery boards authority to apply to Board of Tax Appeals for OK to issue no-fund warrants to buy land if they don't have the cash on hand.
HB2427 - Limits the practice-of-engineering exemption for homeowners only to the homeowner's structure or work that is not used for human habitation, is not used as a place of employment, and is not open to the public. PASSED IN SENATE.
HB2429 - Reauthorizes a charter commission to propose and submit to the voters a charter for the Johnson county government. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2438 - Provides property tax exemption for real property subject to state-assessed valuation upon which is located facilities that produce electricity by renewable energy sources.
HB2440 - Amends the hard 40 law, adding a list of actions that aggravate the crime. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2446 - Allows CPA firms to use fictitious names, such as trade names, as the formal name of their corporation. PASSED BY SENATE
SubHB2469 - ***Amends the Chemical Control Act to aid the "war on drugs." Contains provisions that target law abiding citizens and gives law enforcement new seizure powers. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2471 -  Establishes the office of district attorney in Reno county. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2476 - Enacts the Kansas Partnership for Faculty of Distinction Program to encourage private donations to be used to attract/retain faculty of distinction.
HB2479 - Establishes the Dental Hygienists Student Loan Program, administered by Board of Regents.
HB2489 - Revises travel and expense reimbursement law. PASSED BY SENATE 
HB2492 -  Authorizes secretary of Wildlife and Parks to issue lifetime furharvester licenses. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2500 - Amends law regarding the ID of criminals by requiring convicted sex offenders to submit blood and saliva specimens, and revises sex offender law to cover the Romeo/Juliet situations.
Sub.HB2505 - Allows Montgomery County Commissioners to form a sewer district upon petition of citizens. PASSED BY SENATE.
HB2513 - Appropriations bill for capital improvement projects for many state departments and agencies.
HB2519 - Appropriations bill authorizing fund transfers and capital improvement projects.
HB2521 - Appropriations bill for many state departments and agencies.
SubHB2527 - Provides for agricultural production loans.
HB2530 - Amends the Community Services Tax Credit Program.
HB2538 - Outlaws to sell prescription drugs through a vending machine and puts controls on nonprescription drugs sold by vending machine.  PASSED BY SENATE
SubHB2540 - Reserves to the state the right to initiate/recover lawsuits against gun makers.
HB2543 - Provides refundable income tax credits for property taxes paid on certain low-producing oil and gas leases, and expands the sales tax exemption for certain machinery and equipment which is an integral part of a manufacturing production process.
HB2548 - Authorizes SRS to transfer control of property at Winfield State Hospital. PASSED BY SENATE
HB2549 - Clarifies estate tax law to conform to previously made changes in federal law. The changes would "virtually eliminate the need for nontaxable estates to file returns." PASSED BY SENATE
HB2553 - Changes to law dealing with the civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
HB2565 - Imposes a 0.65 percent sales tax in Shawnee County to support Washburn University.  PASSED BY SENATE
HB2568 - Enacts model legislation relating to the administration of tobacco settlement money.
Sub.HB2571 - Revisions to Kansas child welfare reform act.
HB2576 - Appropriations bill.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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