State House · KS-36
Lynn Melton
440 bills with a recorded vote
HCR 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.Fail 59–62Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Feb 20Melton: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 107–14Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Feb 19Melton:YesHB 2763 · Apr 11Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.Pass 74–47No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Feb 19Melton: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 84–39Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Feb 19Melton:NoHB 2043 · Apr 10Property taxpayers could challenge certain proposed tax revenue increasesPass 87–35No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Feb 7Melton:YesSB 391 · Apr 10Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants receiving financial assistance from or through the housing choice voucher program or any other housing assistance program or that otherwise restricts a landlord's ability to consider the income source of a prospective tenant.Pass 85–38Procedural vote · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Mar 18Melton:NoHB 2515 · Apr 10Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction modification for sales of specie.Pass 76–44No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted Yes · Feb 5Melton:NoHB 2044 · Apr 10Measure would exempt some military pay and protect homestead claimsPass 116–4No confirmed vote on the bill itself · Excluded from alignmentEarlier qualifying vote: Voted No · Feb 7Melton:Yes
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