Doug's Bills

SB 70 Providing for reasonable fees for electronic copies of records under the open records act, exempting from disclosure formally closed investigations with no found violations, requiring county or district attorneys to file reports of violations with the attorney in December instead of January, determining the membership calculation of subordinate groups under the open meetings act, requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe and providing for a five minute deviation to resume an open meeting at the conclusion of executive sessions.

NOTE: Enrolled into law in HB 2134

SB 93 Providing for the statewide election of commissioners of the state corporation commission

SB 102 Clarifying the identifying information in mandatory reports of abuse or neglect of children and increasing the penalty for failing to report such abuse or neglect.

SB 112 Prohibiting cities and counties from requiring land as part of a right-of-way as a condition for issuing a building permit unless the property owner consents and is paid fair compensation.

SB 124 Imposing unilateral annexation restrictions on cities and expanding the causes of action for landowners to challenge such annexations.

SB 134 Authorizing school districts to request and receive an applicant teacher’s employment files from another school district if such teacher was previously employed by such other school district and establishing which school district is responsible for and the custodian of teacher employment files that are records under the Kansas open records act.

SB 140 Requiring school districts to provide certain information on school district annual budget forms.

SB 145 Requires immediate notification of a report of abuser neglect to a law enforcement agency and provides for law enforcement agencies to request resources from the secretary for children and families.

SB 159 Requiring school district budget forms and summaries to include all expenditures of bond proceeds.

SB 160 Granting the attorney general concurrent authority to prosecute any crimes related to schools.

SB 163 Prohibiting school employment contracts from excluding documentation of disciplinary actions or behavioral corrective actions taken with regard to an employee.

SB 165 Requiring school district bond elections and other tax levy question submitted elections to be held only on primary or general election dates and only permitting one such bond election to be conducted each calendar year.

SB 172 Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order.

SB 185 Victims Bill of Rights. Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.

SB 202 Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.

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