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Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct.
This bill provides protections for municipal employees who report or disclose illegal or dangerous conduct. It aims to encourage employees to speak up without fear of retaliation.
Specifying that sheriffs have liability for official acts related to charge and custody of jails.
This bill makes sheriffs responsible for their official actions related to jail charges and custody. It means they'll be held accountable if something goes wrong.
Substitute for HB 2152 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Mandating financial institutions to secure governmental unit deposits in excess of the amount insured or guaranteed by the FDIC by utilizing a public moneys pooled method of securities, prohibiting investment advisers that execute bids for the investment of public moneys from managing moneys directly from such bid, allowing governmental unit deposits to be invested at a rate agreed upon by the governmental unit and the financial institution, requiring certification from a governmental unit that deposits in the municipal investment pool fund were first offered to a financial institution in the preceding year and allowing financial institutions to file complaints upon the failure to comply.
This bill requires financial institutions to secure government deposits exceeding FDIC insurance by using a public moneys pooled method. It also regulates investment advisers and allows for complaints if there's non-compliance.
Substitute for HB 2149 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Requiring distributed energy retailers to disclose certain information to residential customers who are offered or seeking to install a distributed energy system, requiring the attorney general to convene an advisory group to develop, approve and periodically revise a standard form for such disclosures and requiring publication thereof, establishing requirements for interconnection and operation of distributed energy systems, increasing the total capacity limitation for an electric public utility's provision of parallel generation service and a formula to determine appropriate system size.
This bill requires companies selling small-scale energy systems to residential customers to provide clear information about their products. It also sets rules for connecting and operating these systems.
Substitute for HB 2145 by Committee on Local Government - Establishing the Butler county fair board to consist of 15 members, providing for the appointment of members to such board and allowing up to five members of such board to be appointed from the county at large.
This bill establishes a Butler County Fair Board with 15 members. The board will be appointed, and up to five members can come from outside the county.
Increasing the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles, trucks and electric motorcycles and distributing the fees to the state highway fund and the special city and county highway fund, modifying the threshold limit for allowing quarterly payments of certain truck and truck tractor annual vehicle registration fees and eliminating the two-quarter grace period for truck or truck tractor owners that have delinquent quarterly payments before certain penalties apply.
This bill increases annual license fees for electric and hybrid vehicles, trucks, and motorcycles. The fees will go towards state highway funds and local city and county highway funds.
Authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in Riley county, Kansas, and Douglas county, Nebraska, on behalf of Kansas state university and Kansas state university veterinary medical center.
This bill allows the state board of regents to sell and convey certain properties in Riley County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Nebraska, on behalf of Kansas State University and its veterinary medical center.
Requiring any person who solicits a fee for filing or retrieving certain documents from the federal government, the state, a state agency or a local government to give certain notices to consumers and providing that violation of such requirements is a deceptive act or practice subject to penalties under the Kansas consumer protection act.
This bill requires companies or individuals that charge a fee for filing or retrieving documents from government agencies to give consumers certain notices. This applies to federal, state, and local governments.
Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing professional corporations or limited liability companies formed or organized to render a professional service to participate in transactions under the business entity transactions act; and making certain information provided by registered agents a public record.
This bill updates filing requirements for certain business types, allows professional businesses to participate in transactions, and makes information provided by registered agents publicly available.
Eliminating the requirement that the state 911 board shall contract with a local collection point administrator for services, rescheduling the date on which the state 911 operations fund, state 911 grant fund and state 911 fund shall be established, requiring certain transfers to be made to the state 911 operations fund and rescheduling the date for transferring all 911 fee moneys currently held outside the state treasury to the state treasury.
This bill changes how Kansas handles 911 fees. It eliminates a requirement for local administrators and adjusts when funds are established and transferred.
Exempting public utilities from civil liability relating to the attachment, access, operation, maintenance or removal of law enforcement equipment on any utility pole or other structure that is owned or operated by the public utility.
This bill protects public utilities from being sued if law enforcement equipment is attached or removed from their poles or structures. This means that if a utility company's property is used for police surveillance or other purposes, they won't be held responsible.
Providing for claims to recover economic damages from fire events caused by electric public utilities, establishing a statute of limitations for such claims and requiring the state corporation commission to convene a workshop on utility wildfire risk and mitigation.
This bill allows people who suffered economic damages from fires caused by electric public utilities to seek compensation. It also sets a deadline for making these claims and requires the state corporation commission to discuss ways to reduce the risk of wildfires.
Banning contributions from foreign nationals for the support or defeat of a proposed amendment to the Kansas constitution.
This bill bans foreign nationals from contributing money to support or oppose proposed changes to the Kansas Constitution. This means no foreign donations can be used to influence votes on constitutional amendments.
Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Education - Providing for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and correcting federal statutory citations in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.
This bill allows military families to enroll their children in Kansas schools before they actually move here. It also updates a compact between states that helps military kids continue their education when their family moves.
Prohibiting municipalities from adopting and implementing a guaranteed income program.
This bill prohibits Kansas municipalities from creating a guaranteed income program. This means cities and towns cannot implement programs that provide regular financial assistance to residents.
Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of state, limiting the method of providing surety for professional employer organizations with insufficient working capital to bonds and eliminating a market value measure of the sufficiency of such bonds.
This bill sets new deadlines for professional employer organizations (PEOs) to register and renew their status with the Secretary of State. It also changes how PEOs with limited financial resources provide surety bonds.
Requiring local governments to meet specified deadlines for issuing building permits and requiring the department of health and environment to issue a response to an applicant's submitted notice of intent to discharge stormwater runoff from construction activities within 45 days of submission.
This bill requires local governments to issue building permits within certain deadlines and for the Department of Health and Environment to respond to stormwater runoff notices within 45 days.
Extending the expiration of permits issued under the water pollution control permit system from five to 10 years.
This bill extends the time period for water pollution control permits from five years to 10 years. This change applies to permits issued under Kansas' water pollution control permit system.
Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requiring that the secretary provide support to such law enforcement officers, the court review involvement in permanency planning and a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months from such child's removal from the and every subsequent hearing 6 months thereafter.
This bill sets rules for when law enforcement can take a child into custody and requires support for officers. It also ensures courts review permanency planning and hold hearings within certain timeframes.
Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges.
This bill allows professionals like school psychologists, dietitians, cosmetologists, and physicians assistants to practice across state lines without needing separate licenses. This makes it easier for these workers to move or work in multiple states.
Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses of the mother as a factor in child support orders and providing for an income tax exemption for unborn and stillborn children, requiring courts to consider the value of retirement accounts in certain circumstances, authorizing payment from certain retirement accounts to pay child support arrearages and eliminating the exemption of pension and retirement moneys from claims to fulfill child support obligations.
This bill changes how child support works in Kansas. It says that courts should consider the mother's medical and pregnancy-related expenses when setting up a child support plan for an unborn child. The bill also allows retirement accounts to be used to pay back child support debt.
Including aboveground and belowground lines, cables and wires in the definition of a critical infrastructure facility used for telecommunications or video services for the crimes of trespassing on a critical infrastructure facility and criminal damage to a critical infrastructure facility.
This bill updates the definition of a critical infrastructure facility for telecommunications and video services. It now includes aboveground and belowground lines, cables, and wires.
Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Providing for the treatment of the reimbursement for expenses incurred for travel and activities in attending conferences or events by certain specified nonprofit organizations and discounted or free access to entertainment, sporting events or other activities.
This bill allows certain nonprofit organizations to reimburse their members for expenses related to attending conferences and events. It also provides discounted or free access to entertainment and sporting activities.
Senate Substitute for HB 2056- Requiring specific intent as an element of the crime of false representation of an election official; requiring that any person nominated for an elected office accept such nomination by signing a notarized statement of acceptance and restricting the number of nominations a person may accept to one nomination per election cycle.
This bill makes it a crime for someone to intentionally mislead an election official. It also requires candidates to accept nominations by signing a statement and limits how many times they can be nominated per election cycle.
Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the campaign finance act.
This bill increases the limits on certain campaign contributions under Kansas' campaign finance act. This means candidates and political committees can accept more money from donors without violating state laws.