Kansas Democrat Upper chamber District 25

Silas Miller

silas.miller@senate.ks.gov

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17

Bills sponsored

this session · 64 all-time

0

Bills co-sponsored

this session · 0 all-time

2

Enacted into law

this session · 2 all-time

1665

Recorded votes

99%

Vote participation

voted in 99% of 1665 recorded votes

Voting scorecard

b2025_26 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes

Party unity

95%

based on 420 votes

Votes with own party's majority

Independence

5%

based on 420 votes

Votes against own party's majority

Participation

97.2%

based on 420 votes

Roll calls where a yes/no was cast

Sponsored (introduced)

64 bills
Current session 17 bills
Historical 47 bills

Voting record

Historical 50 votes
Bill Vote Result Date
SB 449 Allowing the transfer upon death and providing for an income tax deduction for contributions to an ABLE account and conforming allowable expenses for 529 plans to federal law.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass May 04, 2018
HB 2136 Establishing the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act to provide partial refunds to certain businesses impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions, discontinuing the first 15 days of the month sales and compensating use tax remittance requirements for certain retailers, providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Atchison county and delaying implementation of the exclusion of separately stated delivery charges from sales or selling price.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass May 23, 2022
HB 2136 Establishing the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act to provide partial refunds to certain businesses impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions, discontinuing the first 15 days of the month sales and compensating use tax remittance requirements for certain retailers, providing countywide retailers' sales tax authority for Atchison county and delaying implementation of the exclusion of separately stated delivery charges from sales or selling price.

Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed

 Yea fail May 23, 2022
HB 2387 Prohibiting the issuance of a request for proposal or entering into a new contract for the administration and provision of benefits under the medical assistance program and removing the authority of the governor to prohibit attending or conducting certain religious services and worship services.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass May 23, 2022
HB 2540 Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and excluding FDA-approved drug products from the definition of marijuana.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass May 23, 2022
SB 84 House Substitute for Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act and historical horse race machines under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2022
HB 2448 Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Nay pass April 28, 2022
SB 58 Establishing the parents' bill of rights for parents of students attending elementary or secondary school in this state.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 28, 2022
SB 160 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.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 28, 2022
SB 34 Substitute for SB 34 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Prohibiting governmental entities and public officials from taking certain actions related to a contagious or infectious disease, limiting powers of the governor and other governmental entities under the Kansas emergency management act to require face masks, requiring judicial review of certain emergency actions to occur without unreasonable delay and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment related to enforcement of quarantine and student inoculation requirements.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 28, 2022
SB 19 House Substitute for SB 19 by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications - Implementing the 988 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline in Kansas.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2022
HB 2495 Senate Substitute for HB 2495 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring retention of fingerprints by the Kansas bureau of investigation for participation in the federal rap back program; imposing restrictions on surveillance by certain employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks on private property; expanding the jurisdiction and powers of law enforcement officers to include situations when an activity is observed leading the officer to reasonably suspect a person is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and reasonably believe that a person is in imminent danger of death or bodily injury without immediate action; allowing a search warrant to be executed within 240 hours from the time of issuance; and directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.

Concurred with amendments;

 Yea pass April 28, 2022
HB 2106 Decreasing the 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 and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed

 Yea fail April 28, 2022
HB 2106 Decreasing the 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 and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 28, 2022
SB 331 Updating the version of risk-based capital instructions in effect.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 28, 2022
HB 2492 Senate Substitute for HB 2492 by Committee on Ways and Means - Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.

Concurred with amendments;

 Yea pass April 27, 2022
SB 313 Providing for the use and regulation of autonomous motor vehicles and establishing the autonomous vehicle advisory committee.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 27, 2022
HB 2237 Enacting the Kansas affordable housing tax credit act, the Kansas housing investor tax credit act, the historic Kansas act, the Kansas rural home loan guarantee act, authorizing certain residential real property appraisals in rural counties to be performed without completing the sales comparison approach to value, allowing the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas rural housing incentive district act for residential vertical development and renovation of certain buildings within economically distressed urban areas and expanding eligibility for the child day care services assistance tax credit and providing a credit for employer payments to an organization providing access to employees for child day care services.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 26, 2022
HB 2387 Prohibiting the issuance of a request for proposal or entering into a new contract for the administration and provision of benefits under the medical assistance program and removing the authority of the governor to prohibit attending or conducting certain religious services and worship services.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 26, 2022
HB 2252 Prohibiting the modification of election laws by agreement except as approved by the legislative coordinating council.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 26, 2022
HB 2138 Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots with a distinctive watermark, requiring the secretary of state and local election officers to develop an affidavit to be signed by election workers regarding handling of completed ballots, requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years, requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period and exempting poll workers from certain election crimes.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 26, 2022
HCR 5022 Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring that a sheriff be elected in each county; exception.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 26, 2022
HB 2487 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 for an exemption from sales and use taxes for sales of farm products sold at farmers' markets, and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.

Motion to withdraw from Committee on Taxation not adopted;

 Yea fail April 26, 2022
HB 2109 Prohibiting the disclosure of personal information about a person's affiliation with an entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code and continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 01, 2022
HB 2644 Designating the Sandhill plum as the official state fruit.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
HB 2377 Revising laws relating to operating an aircraft under the influence, including prescribing criminal and administrative penalties and providing for testing of blood, breath, urine or other bodily substances, and preliminary screening tests of breath or oral fluid; authorizing reinstatement of a driver's license for certain persons with an ignition interlock device restriction; requiring persons with an ignition interlock device restriction to complete the ignition interlock device program before driving privileges are fully reinstated; providing for reduced ignition interlock device program costs for certain persons; providing that the highway patrol has oversight of state certification of ignition interlock manufacturers and their service providers; modifying the criminal penalties for driving a commercial motor vehicle under the influence and driving under the influence; increasing the period of disqualification for certain offenses committed by a person with commercial driving privileges; and prohibiting prosecuting attorneys from concealing certain traffic violations from the CDLIS driver report.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
HB 2361 Senate Substitute for HB 2361 by Committee on Judiciary - Removing the requirement that all district court judges in Douglas county serve on the board of trustees of the law library, authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty court programs, creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources fund, authorizing courts to order defendants to participate in specialty court programs and allowing expungement of certain convictions when defendants complete the requirements of such programs.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
SB 453 Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
SB 84 House Substitute for Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act and historical horse race machines under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 01, 2022
SB 200 Expanding the pharmacist scope of practice to include initiation of therapy for certain conditions, updating provisions of the prescription monitoring program act relating to program data, storage and access and increasing the membership of the advisory committee.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
HB 2279 Senate substitute for HB 2279 by committee on public health and welfare - Amending the advanced practice registered nurse authorized scope of practice to permit the prescribing of drugs without a supervising physician.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
HB 2508 Modifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code, modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child, requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances, permitting testimony to be presented using a two-way electronic audio-video communication device during a preliminary hearing, making changes to the process for evaluating and treating people who are undergoing evaluation for competency to stand trial and allowing mobile competency evaluations.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
SB 267 House Substitute for Substitute for SB 267 by Committee on Appropriations - Appropriations for FY 2022, FY 2023, FY 2024, FY 2025, FY 2026 and FY 2027 for various state agencies.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
SB 261 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.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 01, 2022
SB 84 House Substitute for Substitute for SB 84 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing sports wagering under the Kansas expanded lottery act and historical horse race machines under the Kansas parimutuel racing act.

Substitute motion to not adopt and appoint a conference committee failed

 Yea fail April 01, 2022
HB 2087 Limiting the review of certain rules and regulations by the director of the budget and requiring review of rules and regulations every five years.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2448 Senate Substitute for HB 2448 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Requiring able-bodied adults without dependents to complete an employment and training program in order to receive food assistance.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass March 31, 2022
HB 2005 Excluding hot water supply boilers that have a nominal water capacity not exceeding 120 gallons from the provisions of the boiler safety act; creating the elevator safety act to require safety standards, permit requirements, and insurance coverage for elevator contractors; requiring inspections of elevators and licensure for persons installing, repairing and inspecting elevators; creating an elevator safety advisory board; establishing duties for the state fire marshal.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
SB 91 House Substitute for SB 91 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing liability protection for businesses, municipalities and educational institutions that participate in high school work-based learning programs and providing that schools are responsible for injuries to students participating in such programs.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2456 Establishing the Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and fishing license.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass March 31, 2022
SB 366 Creating a mechanism to seek relief from the Kansas offender registration act requirements for drug offenders, allowing expungement of offenses when such relief is granted and 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.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2595 Making certain antique vehicle titling procedures applicable to vehicles having a model year 60 years old or older.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
SB 446 Allowing restricted driver's license holders beginning at age 15 to drive to and from religious activities held by any religious organization and providing for the electronic renewal of nondriver's identification card.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2478 Designating a portion of United States highway 166 as the SGT Evan S Parker memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 56 as the PFC Shane Austin memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Tom R Van Sickle memorial highway, a certain bridge on K-126 as the Dennis Crain memorial bridge, a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway and bridges on K-66 highway as veterans memorial bridge.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2559 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.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2489 Amending provisions of the technology-enabled fiduciary financial institutions act relating to out-of-state financial institutions, banks and trust companies conducting fidfin transactions, fees and assessments, examinations, disclosures to consumers and requiring such institutions to be mandatory reporters for purposes of elder abuse.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
SB 2 Allowing consumption of beer, wine or other alcoholic liquor on the Kansas state fairgrounds; increasing the number of temporary permits an applicant may receive from four to 12 permits per year; limiting what cities, counties or townships may charge for a temporary permit to not more than $25 per day; crediting a portion of moneys collected from the liquor drink tax and the liquor enforcement tax to the state fair capital improvements fund; requiring that licensed farm wineries be issued a cereal malt beverage retailer license if the statutory requirements for such retailer license are satisfied; authorizing retail liquor stores to sell and deliver alcoholic liquor and cereal malt beverages to a caterer, public venue, club or drinking establishment located in any adjacent county any county with a comer located within two miles measured along the adjacent county boundary; Increasing the percentage of alcohol by volume allowed to not more than 16% for domestic table wine and the domestic fortified wine threshold to more than 16% alcohol by volume.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
HB 2476 Providing for the silver star medal, bronze star medal, city of Hutchinson and daughters of the American revolution distinctive license plates and four distinctive license plates for the Kansas department of wildlife and parks; authorizing the printing of the international symbol of access for disabled veteran distinctive license plates and parking privileges for certain physically disabled veterans; allowing veteran distinctive license plate applicants to provide a DD214 form, DD form 2 (Retired) or a Kansas veteran driver's license as proof of veteran status.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022
SB 421 Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass March 31, 2022
SB 408 Increasing the criminal penalties for multiple thefts of mail; specifying that the crime of burglary includes, without authority, entering into or remaining within any locked or secured portion of any dwelling, building or other structure, with intent to commit another crime therein; providing guidance to determine how offenders under the supervision of two or more supervision agencies can have supervision consolidated into one agency; requiring an offender who raises error in such offender's criminal history calculation for the first time on appeal to show prejudicial error and authorizing the court to correct an illegal sentence while a direct appeal is pending; and transferring the responsibility to certify drug abuse treatment providers that participate in the certified drug abuse treatment program from the department of corrections to the Kansas sentencing commission.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass March 31, 2022