Kansas Democrat Lower chamber District 16

Linda Featherston

linda.featherston@house.ks.gov

Contact

Email · linda.featherston@house.ks.gov

Reaching Linda Featherston? Do it at scale.

Run a one-click campaign that sends personalized messages from your whole list — with the highest deliverability in the category.

See advocacy software → Book a call

31

Bills sponsored

this session · 79 all-time

14

Bills co-sponsored

this session · 14 all-time

0

Enacted into law

this session · 1 all-time

1251

Recorded votes

99%

Vote participation

voted in 99% of 1251 recorded votes

Voting scorecard

b2025_26 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes

Party unity

93.1%

based on 450 votes

Votes with own party's majority

Independence

6.9%

based on 450 votes

Votes against own party's majority

Participation

100%

based on 450 votes

Roll calls where a yes/no was cast

Sponsored (introduced)

79 bills
Current session 31 bills
Historical 48 bills

Co-sponsored

14 bills
Current session 14 bills

Voting record

Historical 50 votes
Bill Vote Result Date
HB 2545 Providing for the sale of property not retrieved by an occupant after notice, allowing electronic signatures and delivery for rental agreements, defining property that has no commercial value, providing for the deemed effectiveness of rental agreements not signed or delivered by an owner or occupant and specifying custody of abandoned or towed property under the self-service storage act.

Final Action - Passed;

 Yea pass February 06, 2024
HB 2103 Substitute for HB 2103 by Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions - Eliminating the statutory 15% alternative investment limit for the KPERS fund and requiring the KPERS board to establish an alternative investment percentage limit.

Final Action - Substitute passed;

 Yea pass February 01, 2024
HB 2284 Providing an income tax rate of 5.25% for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment, increasing the Kansas personal exemption, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients on April 1, 2024, and increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass January 18, 2024
HR 6030 Condemning the October 7 attacks on the State of Israel.

Emergency Final Action - Adopted;

 Yea pass January 08, 2024
SB 25 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies; constituting the omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill for the 2023 regular session.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2023
HR 6026 Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation concerning sports wagering.

Emergency Final Action - Adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2023
SB 106 Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2023
HB 2021 Requiring the secretary for children and families to assess certain children and the secretary of corrections to provide certain services to juveniles in detention, changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center, allowing evidence-based program account money to be used on certain children, requiring the department of corrections to build data systems and allowing for overall case length limit extensions for certain juvenile offenders.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2023
HB 2010 Senate Substitute for HB 2010 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating a statutory cross reference to provide proper jury instruction in cases when a defendant lacks the required mental state to commit a crime; increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm; enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms; providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law; and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 28, 2023
HB 2060 Senate Substitute for HB 2060 by Committee on Education - Authorizing payments from the state safety fund to community colleges for the provision of driver's education, authorizing the provision of tools, supplies and examinations to AO-K career pathway program participants and including high school equivalency credentials in performance-based payments for postsecondary educational institutions.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 27, 2023
HB 2236 Establishing parents' right to direct the education, upbringing and moral or religious training of their children including the right to object to harmful and inappropriate educational materials.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 27, 2023
SB 174 Increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider, adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and for manufacturing or distributing any controlled substances that are likely to be attractive to minors because of their appearance or packaging, creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment, excluding materials used to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid from the definition of drug paraphernalia, adding domestic battery and violation of a protection order to the crimes that a person can have the intent to commit when committing burglary or aggravated burglary, increasing criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute certain crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 27, 2023
HB 2002 Providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Dickinson and Grant counties, providing for a sales tax exemption for area agencies on aging and purchases made by Kansas suicide prevention HQ, inc., providing that the secretary of revenue file a release of warrant in the county where such warrant is docketed, granting authority to the director of property valuation to develop qualifying courses and providing that certain tax notices and statements may be transmitted by electronic means by the county treasurer and county appraiser if consented to by the taxpayer.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 27, 2023
HB 2344 Senate Substitute for HB 2344 by Committee on Commerce - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 27, 2023
SB 180 Establishing the women's bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 27, 2023
HB 2094 Requiring work registrants ages 50-59 to complete an employment and training program to receive food assistance, establishing periods of ineligibility for child care subsidy based on cooperation with child support services and requiring the secretary to conduct reviews of cooperation with child support.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 115h sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2304 Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2350 Creating the crimes of human smuggling and aggravated human smuggling and providing penalties therefor.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2325 Amending the definition of "healthcare provider" for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act to include maternity centers and not include facilities where elective abortions are performed.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 15b sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 115a 116a sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 143 overridden;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2313 Creating the born-alive infants protection act to provide legal protections for infants who are born alive regardless of the intent of the delivery.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 42a overridden;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2264 Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible and revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2138 Senate Substitute for HB 2138 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school district sponsored trips, requiring contracts for exclusive broadcasts of state high school activities association activities to permit certain local broadcasts and providing for administrative review of resolutions to permanently close a school building of a school district.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 39e overridden;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 138f overridden;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
HB 2350 Creating the crimes of human smuggling and aggravated human smuggling and providing penalties therefor.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2264 Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible and revising the definition of "abortion" to clarify procedures that are excluded from such definition.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Not Voting pass April 06, 2023
HB 2019 Implementing additional reporting requirements for information technology projects and state agencies, requiring additional information technology security training and status reports, requiring reporting of significant cybersecurity audits and changing the membership requirements, terms of members and the quorum requirements for the information technology executive council.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Not Voting pass April 06, 2023
HB 2196 Providing membership affiliation in the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system for certain law enforcement officers and employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks, expanding deferred retirement option program (DROP) membership to all Kansas police and firemen's retirement system members and extending the expiration date on DROP.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2214 Changing the name of the Larned correctional mental health facility to the Larned state correctional facility and removing references to facilities that no longer exist.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2322 Revising the definition of "children with disabilities" for purposes of providing special education to replace emotional disturbance with emotional disability.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2292 Promoting Kansas workforce development by enacting the Kansas apprenticeship act to expand apprenticeships with businesses, healthcare organizations and nonprofit organizations through tax credits and grants and to develop teaching apprenticeships with public schools through scholarships for professional teaching degrees and by establishing a program to provide matching grants to public and private professional engineering schools for engineering scholarships and program development costs.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2138 Senate Substitute for HB 2138 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to provide separate accommodations for students of each biological sex on overnight school district sponsored trips, requiring contracts for exclusive broadcasts of state high school activities association activities to permit certain local broadcasts and providing for administrative review of resolutions to permanently close a school building of a school district.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
HB 2024 Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Not Voting pass April 06, 2023
HB 2184 Making and concerning appropriations for fiscal years 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028 for various state agencies.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
SB 83 House Substitute for SB 83 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the state department of education for FY 2024, establishing the sunflower education equity act to provide education savings accounts for qualified students, requiring school districts to provide a salary increase to all licensed teachers and defining enrollment of small school districts as the highest enrollment from the preceding four years under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
SB 169 House Substitute for SB 169 by Committee on Taxation - providing an income tax rate of 5.15% for individuals and decreasing the normal tax for corporations, increasing the income limit for the income tax subtraction modification for social security income, increasing the standard deduction by a cost-of-living adjustment, discontinuing the food sales tax credit, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, establishing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for food and food ingredients on January 1, 2024, and increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
SB 229 House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Legislative Modernization - Creating the legislative compensation commission, prescribing powers and duties of the commission and the legislature, establishing the rate of pay for statewide elected officials based on the salary for members of Congress and establishing the rate of pay for judges and justices based on the salary for district judges of the United States.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 8 Reducing penalties for the late filing of and the failure to file personal property renditions and the discovery of escaped personal property, requiring filing only an initial statement with county appraiser for personal property, decreasing the penalties for failing to timely remit withholding income taxes of employees by employers, extending reimbursement from the taxpayer notification costs fund for printing and postage costs for county clerks for calendar year 2024, modifying and prescribing the contents of the revenue neutral rate public hearing notice, providing two prior years' values on the annual valuation notice, allowing for filing of an appraisal by a certified residential real property appraiser for appeal purposes, discontinuing the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal, accounting for adverse influences in the valuation of agricultural land, including properties used for registered agritourism activities as land devoted to agricultural use for purposes of classification, providing a property tax exemption for certain business property operated in competition with property owned or operated by a governmental entity, providing income tax subtraction modifications to permit the carryforward of certain net operating losses for individuals and for the federal work opportunity tax credit and the employee retention credit disallowances, increasing the tax credit amount for adoption expenses and making the credit refundable, increasing the amount of income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 and defining qualifying vendors and eligible employees, establishing a tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities, clarifying the determination of taxable income of an electing pass-through entity and providing for the passing through of tax credits to electing pass-through entity owners for purposes of the salt parity act, excluding social security payments from household income and expanding eligibility for seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead refund claims, providing a sales tax exemption for sales of property and services used in the provision of communications services and excluding manufacturers' coupons from the sales or selling price.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Not Voting pass April 06, 2023
HB 2236 Establishing parents' right to direct the education, upbringing and moral or religious training of their children including the right to object to harmful and inappropriate educational materials.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
HB 2344 Senate Substitute for HB 2344 by Committee on Commerce - Establishing child care licensing requirements relating to license capacity and staff-to-child ratios, eliminating certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for a temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
HB 2325 Amending the definition of "healthcare provider" for purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act to include maternity centers and not include facilities where elective abortions are performed.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
HB 2125 Providing for charitable event permits and demonstration permits for body art services, authorizing cease and desist orders against unlicensed providers of body art services and requiring related administrative actions to be in accordance with the Kansas administrative procedure act and reviewable under the Kansas judicial review act and exempting adult care homes from statutes governing cosmetology and barbering facilities.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 42 House Substitute for SB 42 by Committee on Appropriations - Exempting rural emergency hospitals from the hospital provider assessment and establishing residency and other requirements for membership on a hospital board.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
HB 2302 Senate Substitute for HB 2302 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Making appropriations for the state treasurer for fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2024, providing for a transfer of moneys from the state general fund to the state water plan fund for fiscal year 2024, establishing the water technical assistance fund and the water projects grant fund for water-related infrastructure projects.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2094 Requiring work registrants ages 50-59 to complete an employment and training program to receive food assistance, establishing periods of ineligibility for child care subsidy based on cooperation with child support services and requiring the secretary to conduct reviews of cooperation with child support.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023