1999
HOUSE BILLS SENT TO THE SENATE:
Last revised:
09/26/99
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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