Kansas Sen. Dinah Sykes (D)

KS - Confirmation Oversight (Senate)

Title:

Vice Chair

KS - Education (Senate)

Title:

Ranking Minority Member

KS - Legislative Coordinating Council

Title:

Member

KS - SB203 Allowing injured employees to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.

KS - SB48 Requiring certain insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.

KS - SB342 Providing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients and providing for the levying of taxes by cities and counties, providing an exemption from sales and use taxes for sales of farm products sold at farmers’ markets, and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

KS - SB426 Eliminating the reduction of child day care services assistance tax credit in subsequent years following facility establishment and limitations on eligible corporations and providing a credit for employer payments to organizations for child day care services access.

KS - SB469 Permitting certain persons convicted of a felony to be eligible for food assistance.

KS - SR1721 Recognizing 25 years of 529 Savings Plans.

KS - SB471 Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer, expanding eligibility for medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months and requiring children's health insurance coverage eligibility to be tied to current federal poverty income guidelines.

KS - SB472 Expanding medical assistance eligibility and providing requirements therefor.

KS - SB470 Requiring a prevailing wage for state public works construction contracts by state agencies and permitting cities and counties to require a prevailing for such contracts.

KS - SB192 Requiring relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders related to domestic violence.

KS - SB202 Enacting the COVID-19 taxpayer and small business owner relief act including the UI fraud protection act exempting unemployment compensation income attributable to identity fraud, the retail storefront small business owner rebate act providing a refundable credit for certain retail storefront property tax and the small business property tax increase relief act establishing a payment plan for certain extraordinary increases in property taxation.

KS - SB330 Authorizing the construction of a memorial honoring Kansas gold star families.

KS - SB385 Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

KS - SB467 Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.

KS - SB479 Authorizing a permanent memorial commemorating the Kansas suffragist movement to be placed in the state capitol and establishing the Kansas suffragist memorial fund.

KS - SR1701 Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2021 session.

KS - SR1702 Assigning seats in the Senate for the 2021 session.

KS - SR1703 Temporary rules of the Senate for the 2021 session.

KS - SR1704 Adopting permanent rules of the Senate for the 2021-2024 term.

KS - SR1705 Adopting the permanent rules of the Senate for the 2021-2024 term.

KS - SR1706 Honoring World War II Medal of Honor recipients

KS - SR1710 Honoring George Washington Carver.

KS - SR1715 Assigning seats in the Senate during the 2021 session.

KS - SR1722 Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2022 legislative session.

KS - SR1723 Assigning seats in the Senate during the 2022 legislative session.

KS - SR1728 Designating February 10, 2022, as JAG-K Day at the Capitol.

KS - SR1733 Congratulating and commending the University of Kansas men's basketball team on their 2022 NCAA Division I national championship.

KS - SCR1601 Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

KS - SCR1610 Providing for the first adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2021 regular session of the legislature.

KS - SCR1612 Withdrawn

KS - SCR1613 Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2021 regular session of the Legislature.

KS - SCR1623 Urging the President of the United States to stop importing oil and gas from Russia.