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Votes at a glance: House passes multiple bills, appoints conference conferees
Summary
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.
The Kansas House completed final actions on a bundle of bills, adopting conference committee reports and voting to pass measures on commerce transparency, tourism-board structure, license-plate changes, transportation namings and multiple technical or administrative fixes.
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.
