Agriculture and Natural Resources

KS - Senator Dan Kerschen (R)

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Chair

KS - Senator Alicia Straub (R)

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Vice Chair

KS - Senator Mary Ware (D)

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Ranking Minority Member

KS - Senator Larry Alley (R)

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Member

KS - Senator William Clifford (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Michael Fagg (R)

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Member

KS - Senator Marci Francisco (D)

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KS - Senator Carolyn McGinn (R)

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KS - Senator Virgil Peck (R)

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KS - SB27 Amending the Kansas storage tank act to extend the sunsets of certain funds and to increase certain liability and reimbursement amounts.

KS - HB2102 Senate Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Updating egg repackaging requirements for retailers.

KS - HB2103 Establishing the Kansas pesticide waste disposal program and permitting up to $50,000 to be transferred annually from the Kansas agricultural remediation fund to a new Kansas pesticide waste disposal fund.

KS - SB38 Establishing the Kansas pesticide waste disposal program and implementing the provisions of 2011 executive reorganization order No. 40 relating to the Kansas department of agriculture's division of conservation.

KS - SB39 Changing Kansas department of agriculture division of animal health license, permit and registration renewal deadlines and allowing the animal health commissioner to recover the actual cost of official calfhood vaccination tags.

KS - SB40 Prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to the COVID-19 health emergency, adding the vice president of the senate to the legislative coordinating council, modifying the procedure for the declaration and extension of a state of disaster emergency under the Kansas emergency management act, prohibiting certain actions by the governor related to...

KS - HB2155 Providing for department of health and environment response operations for water and soil pollutant release, discharge or escape.

KS - HB2172 Modifying water usage calculations and fees for multi-year flex accounts and permitting alternative base average water use calculations and prorated terms.

KS - SB89 Exempting the transport of agricultural forage commodities from secured load requirements.

KS - HB2203 Establishing the asbestos remediation fund for fees collected as part of the Kansas asbestos control program.

KS - HB2244 Establishing requirements for the effective disposal of industrial hemp and requiring industrial hemp processors to register with the state fire marshal.

KS - SB142 Amending certain department of wildlife, parks and tourism statutes by requiring coast guard-approved personal flotation devices as prescribed by the secretary of wildlife, parks and tourism in rules and regulations and updating the reference to the guidelines of the American fisheries society in the commercialization of wildlife statute.

KS - SB143 Updating definitions and increasing maximum functional unit license and storage fees relating to grain and public warehouse laws.

KS - SB160 Enacting the fairness in women's sports act to require that student athletic teams only include members who are of the same biological sex unless designated as coed.

KS - SB261 Substitute for SB 261 by Committee on Agriculture -- Prohibiting the use of identifiable meat terms on the labels of meat analogs when such labels do not include proper qualifying language to indicate that such products do not contain meat.

KS - SB269 Prohibiting the sale, slaughter and acquisition of live dangerous regulated animals, including nonhuman primates and wolves as dangerous regulated animals and requiring sufficient distance and barriers between dangerous regulated animals and the public.

KS - HB2456 Establishing the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license.

KS - HB2480 Amending the public water supply project loan program's definition of "project" to remove the definition's current exclusion of projects that are related to the diversion or transportation of water acquired through a water transfer.

KS - SB345 Authorizing the animal health commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations related to transporting animals into the state.

KS - SB346 Allowing for the on-farm retail sale of milk and milk products, authorizing the secretary of agriculture to declare an imminent health hazard, extending certain milk and dairy license fees and establishing certain standards for milk.

KS - SB358 Amending the public water supply project loan program's definition of "project" to remove the definition's current exclusion of projects that are related to the diversion or transportation of water acquired through a water transfer.

KS - HB2559 Creating the Kansas cotton boll weevil program and requiring the program to levy an assessment upon Kansas produced cotton and monitor and mitigate the risk of boll weevils; concerning the Kansas seed law and the commercial industrial hemp act; relating to labeling; seeds treated with certain substances; definitions; labeling; unlawful actions; certain registrations; inspections; live plant dealers; and testing services.

KS - HB2560 Extending certain penalties, fees and maximum amounts of fees and the expiration dates of certain programs of the Kansas department of agriculture.

KS - HB2563 Concerning the Kansas seed law and the commercial industrial hemp act; relating to labeling; seeds treated with certain substances; definitions; labeling; unlawful actions; certain registrations; inspections; live plant dealers; and testing services.

KS - SB417 Establishing minimum and maximum permit renewal fees for certain solid waste disposal areas and processing facilities.

KS - HB2605 Increasing the rural population requirement maximum for the veterinary training program for rural Kansas and creating a food animal percentage requirement that may be fulfilled in lieu thereof.

KS - SB451 Requiring an individual to maintain enrollment on a tribal membership roll to receive a free permanent hunting license.

KS - SB498 Establishing the animal facilities inspection program under the supervision of the secretary of agriculture.

KS - SB548 Excepting matters relating to the administration or processing of individual water rights and applications from the advice and assistance that groundwater management districts may provide.

KS - SB549 Allowing certain water right holders to withdraw from a groundwater management district under certain circumstances.

KS - SB551 Establishing the division of pet animal facilities inspection within the department of agriculture under the administration of the pet animal facilities director.