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KANSAS SENATE BILLS for Year 2002:
Last Updated 02/09/2002
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SB-368. Senator Jackson. Appropriates $500K from the state general fund to the Dept. of Corrections for "Local jail payments."
SB-369. Senator Schmidt. Designates the portion of US-169 in Allen County as the Robert V. Talkington Highway and directs KDOT to erect signs so designating the highway at proper intervals. Authorizes KDOT to accept gifts to obtain and install the signs.
SB-370. Senators Clark and Huelskamp. Designates US-83 in the state as the Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Highway and directs KDOT to erect signs so designating the highway at proper intervals. Authorizes KDOT to accept gifts to obtain and install the signs.
SB-371. Senator Emler. Changes recreational trail law (KSA Supp 58-3215) regarding cities and counties proceeding against responsible parties. Current law says cities/counties may procede; SB-371 changes the "may" to "shall," forcing action.
SB-372. Special Comm. on Assessment and Taxation. Extends the sales tax to the gross receipts for all mobile telecommunication services and incorporates the provisions of the Federal Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act by citation, giving the Secretary of Revenue the authority "to perform any act deemed necessary to properly implement" the federal act.
SB-373. Joint Comm. on Arts and Cultural Resources. Directs the transfer of $1M of state gaming revenues in 2002 to the Arts Programming Grants Fund, $2M in 2003, and $3M in 2004 and out years. Directs the transfer of $300K of state gaming revenues in 2002 to the Kansas Humanities Council Fund, $600K in 2003, and $1M in 2004 and out years.
SB-374. Legislative Budget Comm. Gives various state agencies and departments authority to fix, charge and collect fees for various services offered by the agencies/departments: for documents, training programs, official banquets, workshops, conferences, the processing of applications for student financial assistance programs administered by the regents, computer processing services, Dillon House room rental, etc, etc. for 20 pages. The charges apply both to the public and other state organizations using the service. On face of it, appears to be implementing one of Doug Bandow’s principles of governance: Those who use a service pay for it.
SB - 375. Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments and Benefits. Revises the law dealing with school board early retirement incentive programs, deleting requirement to employ an actuary and adding reports that have to be made to the state board. The state board has to prepare the form to be used for the triannual reports.
SB-376. Joint Comm. on Administrative Rules and Regulations. Reguires the state fire marshal to establish a hazardous material response program and gives the state fire marshal responsibility for coordinating response by all agencies at all levels of government to a HazMat incident, including adjutant general and the division of emergency management. Gives fire marshal authority to write rules/regs covering all aspects of response to a HazMat incident and to establish advisory committees.
SB-377. Special Committee on Judiciary. Requires health care providers to provide copies of health care records within 30 days to patient or authorized representative upon presentation of written request, establishes fees that can be charged, and says that provider, patient, or authorized representative can go to court to force compliance.
SB-378. Special Committee on Redistricting. Establishes new congressional district lines.
SB-379. Special Committee on Redistricting. Establishes new state senate district lines.
Note: Unless you are a
cartographer with access to all sorts of data files, understanding where the
lines are drawn by reading these bills is impossible. You can see them
graphically displayed at http://skyways.lib.ks.us/ksleg/KLRD/Redistrct/redistr.htm
- follow the links, but don't spend much time agonizing over the lines. Rob
Mealy, Redistricting Assistant, Senate Staff, said that neither bill is in
final form. In 378, the final home of Douglas County has not yet been settled.
In 379, the dividing up of Sedgwick County has not yet been settled.
SB380. Legislative Coordinating Council. Amends law concerning reports, books, and other printed material by state agencies to say that such material is considered delivered and available to the public if posted on a web-site, retained on the site for six months, and a copy kept in agency files. Will make it harder for members of the public who are not into computers.
SB381. Senator Hensley. Democrat's version of Congressional redistricting.
SB382. Senator Schmidt. Makes it illegal to profit from a disaster. Raising prices 25% or more is prima facie evidence of guilt.. The senator is trying to directly control the market place and repeal the law of supply and demand. Studies have shown that such constraints actually increase the scarcity of goods at a time when most needed.
SB383. Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations. Gives any public agency authority to enter into agreements with Native American Indian tribes for joint or cooperative actions, subject to provisions of interlocal cooperation act - except that does not give authority for entering into a gaming compact.
SB384. Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations. Gives governor authority to enter into agreements with tribes, except for gambling compacts.
SB385. Committee on Ways and Means. A budget bill adding tens of million $$$ to this year's budget.
SB386. Committee on Ways and Means. Messing again with KPERS definitions and eligibility.
SB387. Committee on Ways and Means. Revises ending balance carryover by lowering to 5% for current year, 5.5% for next year, rising to 7.5% for FY2006 and beyond. Number crunching to reduce funding problem this year.
SB388. Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance. Appears to be a technical revision, updating a citation to a document included by reference.
SB389. Committee on FI&I.. Gives the insurance commissioner authority to enter into agreements that establish information sharing and exchange with other agencies to reduce the potential for duplicative and burdensome filings, examinations, and other regulatory activities.
SB390. Committee on FI&I.. Inserts into the law covering reinsurance matters the definition of a "qualified United States financial institution." One definition is that the insurance commissioner may determine that an institution qualifies if it meets standards of financial condition and standing.
SB391. Committee on Transportation. Minor change in the law governing the termination of the suspension of a drivers license.
SB392. Committee on Transportation. Adds a new KSA citation to the law governing habitual violators of traffic rules.
SB393. Committee on Education. Deletes the number of Teacher Service Scholarships that can be awarded each year. Current law limits the number to 50.
SB394. Committee on Education. Gives school boards the ability to close any school building for any reason and deletes the requirements for a public hearing that current law has for school districts with less than 1,600 enrollment.
SB395. Committee on Agriculture. Makes it a crime to knowingly bring into the state a plant with a contagious or infectious disease, or exposed to such a disease. Makes bringing an infected plant or animal into the state an "inherently dangerous felony." Changes the criminal classification of bringing an infected animal into the state from a misdemeanor to a felony.
SB396 to SB459 not analyzed.
SB460. Senator O'Connor. Modifies the Kansas/Missouri metropolitan cultural district compact law requiring that at least 45% of the funds be spent in each party state. The entire cultural district idea is an abomination, but may as well ensure that all our $$$ don't go to MO.
SB461. Senator O'Connor. Repeals the cultural district compact law. Would withdraw Kansas from the Kansas/MO compact.
SB462. Senator O'Connor. Exempts food for human consumption and non-prescription drugs from the tax imposed in cultural districts.
SB463. Committee on Federal and State Affairs. Deletes the requirement that common carriers must be designated before they can transport alcoholic liquor to a bonded warehouse.
SB464. Committee on Federal and State Affairs. Technical changes to the law regarding furnishing booze to minors.
SB465. Committee on Federal and State Affairs. Revises liquor law to prevent issuing a liquor license of any kind to a person delinquent in payment of taxes unless taxes are being formally appealed or there is a payment agreement in place.
SB466. Committee on Federal and State Affairs. Establishes a three-year statute of limitations on the payment of gallonage tax on booze.
SB467. Committee on Commerce. Enacts the Commercial Electronic Mail Act, placing limitations on the use of e-mail for commerce to prevent consumer fraud, with civil penalties up to $10,000 for non-compliance. Gives private citizens cause of action for private civil action.
SB468. Committee on Elections and Local Government. Requires the circulator of a nomination petition to sign an affidavit that to the best of knowledge, every signer of the petition is a qualified elector of the county.
SB469. Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance. Establishes conditions for the entry of entities into the Kansas state employees health care system.
SB470. Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance. Gives the bank commissioner the authority to appoint regional managers and financial examiner administrators.
SB471. Committee on Assessment and Taxation. Imposes an excise tax of $.10 per mcf on the consumption of natural gas for residential or agricultural use, and repeals the city/county sales tax on the same uses of natural gas. This smells like a tax increase, but without data to make comparison.
SCR-1613. Legislative Budget Comm. Adds a new rule to the Joint Rules, limiting appropriations bills to the allocation and expenditure of money and preventing the use of appropriations bills to change or amend existing laws on subjects other than the allocation or expenditure of money.
SCR1614. Committee on Ways and Means. Asks state to undertake program to educate citizens about the high cost of long-term health care and to invest in long-term health care insurance. How soon before there is a demand that gov't subsidize such a program?
SCR1615. Special Committee on Agriculture. Urges Congress to enact country of origin labeling requirements.
SCR1616. Special Committee on Agriculture. Urges various state agencies and departments to work closely with each other to have the most current information relating to water in regard to developing a nutrient utilization plan and issuing water pollution control permits for confined animal feeding operations.