Votes at a glance: Kansas Senate moves multiple bills forward during March 12 session

During its March 12, 2025 floor session, the Kansas Senate adopted committee reports and passed a group of House and Senate bills spanning insurance regulation, title-agent rules, county fair boards, and other matters. Several items were taken by committee report or placed on the consent calendar and carried through the Committee of the Whole.

Key bills and outcomes recorded on the Senate floor (as recorded in the transcript excerpt):

- House Bill 2092: An act concerning labor and employment — placed on the consent calendar; the transcript shows the measure was declared passed after the clerk’s tally for consent items.

- House Bill 2117: An act concerning business entities — placed on the consent calendar and declared passed.

- House Bill 2166: An act concerning the Open Records Act — placed on the consent calendar and declared passed.

- House Bill 2027 and House Bill 2062 (discussed separately in coverage): Both consent-calendared items were called; House Bill 2062 generated extended floor debate (see separate article). The clerk announced passage of measures receiving the constitutional majority.

- Senate substitute for House Bill 2145 (county fair boards): The senate substitute to HB 2145 was explained on the floor to set membership sizes for Butler County and Cloud County fair boards and the committee report was adopted; the sponsor said the bill had passed the House 118–1 and was carried to the floor for passage.

- House Bill 2042 (title insurance agents): The committee report was adopted; among other changes, the bill standardizes surety bonds for title agents and adjusts auditing deadlines; the sponsor said the House passed the bill 103–7 and the Senate had passed a mirror bill earlier.

- House Bill 2043 (insurance consumer response and pilot-program extensions): Committee report adopted; the bill sets response deadlines for insurers and allows the Kansas Department of Insurance discretion on pilot-program extensions.

- House Bill 2045 (boards with commissioner appointing authority): Committee report adopted; the bill lets the insurance commissioner reduce the number of board members for certain insurance-related boards and adjust meeting requirements.

- Senate Bill 213, House Bill 2106, House Bill 2045 and others were carried by committee report or received final action on the floor during the Committee of the Whole (see separate articles for SB 213 and HB 2106 where the floor discussion was substantive).

The clerk and presiding officers repeatedly announced the adoption of committee reports and passage of bills as amended or as substitutes; several items were identified as having received a constitutional majority and “declared passed” in the transcript. For items taken on the consent calendar or passed by committee report, the transcript often records adoption by voice vote or the chair’s announcement rather than a detailed roll-call tally.

Where numeric roll-call tallies are recorded in the transcript excerpt, they are cited in the individual item coverage. The transcript does not show numeric tallies for every measure in the provided excerpt; several bills were carried as committee reports or on the consent calendar and were declared passed by the chair after accounting for votes.