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Key final actions recorded on the floor included the following (motions are as stated on the House floor):

- House Bill 2,304 (concur in Senate amendments): A transparency measure requiring additional detail on the Department of Commerce incentive programs website and extending a reporting timeframe from 30 to 45 days. Final action: passed; clerk recorded 88 yeas and 37 nays on final action earlier in the day when the House voted on the measure's concurrence and final passage.

- House Bill 2,037 (concur in Senate amendments): Tourism board restructuring with changes to percentage allocations leaving more discretion to the tourism board. Final action: passed 119 yeas, 6 nays.

- House Bill 2,040 (concur in conference on Senate amendments): Extended a Kansas Corporation Commission deadline for final orders on high-voltage transmission lines from 120 days to 180 days. Final action: recorded as 23 yeas and 2 nays on the floor action noted in the transcript.

- House Bill 2,107 (concur in conference on Senate amendments): Adjustments related to statute of repose and other liability/timing clarifications discussed in committee; final passage recorded 109 yeas, 16 nays.

- House Bill 2,030 (adopt conference committee report): Exempted certain trailer dealers and manufacturers from specified provisions of the vehicle dealers and manufacturers licensing act; final passage recorded 120 yeas, 2 nays.

- House Bill 2,168 (adopt conference committee report): Extended time for land surveyors to file public land survey reference and restoration reports from 30 to 90 days and allowed a county commission to designate an office to file reference reports if no county surveyor exists; final passage recorded 115 yeas, 7 nays.

- House Bill 2,201 (adopt conference committee report): Multiple license-plate provisions and specialty plates; final passage recorded 110 yeas, 12 nays.

- House Bill 2,263 (adopt conference committee report): Transportation-related naming measures and memorial highways/bridges; final passage recorded 122 yeas, 0 nays.

- House Bill 20 60 (concur in Senate amendments; substituted bill): Changes to rules about nonpartisan nonprofit-sponsored travel reimbursements and related ethics provisions; final passage recorded 75 yeas, 47 nays.

- Senate Bill 139 (adopt conference committee report): Conference report adopted earlier in the day with final passage recorded 122 yeas, 0 nays.

Many of these motions included appointment or reappointment of conferees where House and Senate positions differ; the chair named conferees on the floor for multiple bills after motions carried.

Several measures were described on the floor in summary by the members carrying the motions; most passed with recorded roll calls and will move forward per the normal enrolled-bill process or return to conference where an agree-to-disagree report was adopted. The House also announced multiple committee and conference meetings to continue work on budget and policy items.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Chamber Proceedings 03/25/2025","oneSentenceSummary","On March 25, the Kansas House adopted conference reports and passed a range of bills on transportation, licensing, transparency and administrative changes; the House also appointed conferees for several conference committees.","taxTitle","HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Kansas","taxId",15102,"location","Kansas","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_46":81,"_48":82,"_50":83,"_52":84,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":85,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":86,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":71,"_72":73,"_74":73},6624355,"Kansas House overrides governor, eliminates three-day mail-ballot grace period",1793,15104000,16897000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2766507-e2c08db71a001bd474de051e69c29f82&start=15104&end=16897","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2766507-e2c08db71a001bd474de051e69c29f82/thumbnail_15104000.jpg","/articles/6624355/Kansas/Kansas-House-overrides-governor-eliminates-three-day-mail-ballot-grace-period","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6624355-12828b4bb6ca9e220a483e1ab6c104f7/orig.mp4?Expires=1773574108&Signature=AIZ82RCQUilEkm8j2Aspe0HNRR9-EWCi~X-XqwN3ddFiad5myq86u70lROAnbR8~jMlgBfDxybnUpmfS8rEYR4OQnqioy4d2XCF8Jyyrn9q2w0YpwrH85IvXJ1qEuaPUXpezeMBGovlgYnU0XPoGw9bT30B3INlaP9DYTJ0MEf52V6du~ZzJQ3gvWaV2IneOCNFFznjEasGTv5cAGlIX7ytofERoSPE0Cfrm9uvfZB~CS0m6fjAD-edaZ8nP5wBK61BprVg3BAzsCLg1xCgllv4ZZdTO~DVm8T-CaJJ2TPeCXInj5jq8vOH2KtuZRZpaCvCKJOrCHg~Epgi~7JFvUg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Kansas House voted to pass Senate Bill 4 notwithstanding the governor's veto, ending the three-day grace period that allowed mail ballots received shortly after election day to be counted.

Representative Adam Proctor moved the reconsideration and passage of the bill despite the governor's veto, saying the change would ensure ballots are received and processed on election night. \"Mail in ballots are sent out 20 days before the election. And so we all need to encourage our voters as soon as they get those mail in ballots, if they choose to vote by mail, vote them and get them back in the mail and send them back or drop them off,\" Proctor said.

Supporters argued the measure aligns Kansas with other states and helps restore voter confidence by requiring ballots to be in clerks' hands by 7 p.m. on election day. Opponents said removing the three-day grace period will disproportionately affect rural voters, seniors, college students and Kansans who rely on advanced voting options, and they urged sustaining the governor's veto.

\"This is voter suppression. Just plain and simple,\" Representative Kirk Haskins said during debate, saying the grace period was adopted in 2017 as a bipartisan response to postal delays and that mail delivery has not improved sufficiently. Representative Brandon Simmons said the minority party had been given inadequate notice of the veto-override vote and criticized the process and the information circulating about ballot counts.

Representative Proctor cited statements by the secretary of state during earlier committee work about ballots arriving after election day and said other states already end acceptance on election night. Opponents pointed to public records and news reporting that showed far fewer ballots affected during the grace period than some proponents had asserted; Representative Simmons noted a public-records finding of 78 ballots that arrived within the three-day window without a postmark in 2024.

The clerk opened and closed the roll for the motion; members offered explanations of vote on the record. Representative Nikki McDonald read a statement opposing the override, saying the change would disenfranchise rural and disabled voters. Representative Proctor closed urging passage.

On the roll call, the motion to pass Senate Bill 4 notwithstanding the governor's veto carried. The clerk announced 84 votes in favor and 41 against; the bill was declared passed and the clerk recorded the vote.

The House debate included repeated references to the 2017 bipartisan adoption of the grace period, the secretary of state's filings about postmark problems, and concerns about the effect of postal delivery times on voters in different parts of the state. Several members urged voter education and other procedural fixes but disagreed on whether repeal was the right remedy.

With passage of the override, county election offices will follow the new statutory requirement that advanced ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day (the text of the enacted law appears in the enrolled bill and the governor's veto message was read into the record earlier). The House record shows members from both parties described the vote as consequential for rural residents, college students and those who depend on mail voting.

The House then proceeded to additional business and conference committee appointments related to other pending bills.","The Kansas House voted to pass Senate Bill 4 notwithstanding the governor's veto, removing the three-day grace period for mail ballots and drawing extended debate over voter access and election administration.","actionData","errors"]

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Votes at a glance: House passes multiple bills, appoints conference conferees

Kansas House overrides governor, eliminates three-day mail-ballot grace period