State Senate · KS-36
Elaine Bowers
440 bills with a recorded vote
SB 82 · Apr 11Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax credit for qualified alternative-fueled motor vehicle property or fueling station expenditures, repealing the agritourism liability insurance, assistive technology contributions, declared disaster capital investment, owners promoting employment across Kansas and swine facility improvement tax credits and expanding the eligibility for applicable expenses under the child day care services assistance tax credit.Pass 36–2No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Feb 19Bowers:YesHCR 5008 · Apr 11Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes property based on the fair market value or average fair market value of the residential portion and providing the legislature the authority to establish valuation limits for any classes or subclasses of property.Pass 27–12No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentBowers:NoHB 2535 · Apr 11Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.Pass 30–8No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Mar 19Bowers:NoHB 2731 · Apr 10Substitute for HB 2731 by Committee on Welfare Reform -Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek federal approval to establish continuous medicaid eligibility for certain individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who are receiving services through a home and community based services waiver, requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to enter into data-matching agreements with state agencies to verify eligibility for food and medical assistance, directing the department of health and environment to submit certain data to the centers for medicare and medicaid services, prohibiting certain public assistance program waivers or exemptions without legislative approval, prohibiting self-attestation for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance programs, limiting retroactive enrollment in the medical assistance program, increasing the age limit for able-bodied adults without certain dependents and prohibiting certain exemptions from work requirements under the food assistance program.Pass 29–10No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Mar 19Bowers:YesHB 2043 · Apr 10Property taxpayers could challenge certain proposed tax revenue increasesPass 27–13No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Mar 13Bowers:YesHB 2515 · Apr 10Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.Pass 29–11No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Mar 19Bowers:YesHB 2044 · Apr 10Measure would exempt some military pay and protect homestead claimsPass 40–0No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Mar 18Bowers:YesHB 2111 · Apr 10Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Exempting certain registered agritourism operations from local code and regulation enforcement.Pass 27–13No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Mar 19Bowers:No