Kansas Democrat Upper chamber District 6

Pat Pettey

pat.pettey@senate.ks.gov

Born

1946

Contact

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20

Bills sponsored

this session · 105 all-time

1

Bills co-sponsored

this session · 1 all-time

0

Enacted into law

this session · 3 all-time

1838

Recorded votes

96%

Vote participation

voted in 96% of 1838 recorded votes

Voting scorecard

b2025_26 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes

Party unity

97.3%

based on 408 votes

Votes with own party's majority

Independence

2.7%

based on 408 votes

Votes against own party's majority

Participation

97.6%

based on 408 votes

Roll calls where a yes/no was cast

Sponsored (introduced)

105 bills
Current session 20 bills
Historical 85 bills

Co-sponsored

1 bill
Current session 1 bill

Voting record

Historical 50 votes
Bill Vote Result Date
SB 15 Increasing the maximum amount of yearly income tax credits available for purchases under the disability employment act from qualified vendors, continuing in existence such credits beyond tax year 2023 of eligible purchases available for such credit and further defining qualifying vendors and employees eligible for the credit, establishing a grant program to facilitate transitions by employers to minimum wage employment for persons with disabilities and creating the Kansas sheltered workshop transition fund.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass January 31, 2024
SB 331 Removing the definition of lead-free and an exception for leaded joints in the public water supply systems law and updating terminology relating to hazardous waste generated by certain persons.

Consent Calendar Passed

 Yea pass January 31, 2024
SCR 1615 A Concurrent Resolution rejecting the rates of compensation for members of the Legislature set by the Legislative Compensation Commission.

Motion to withdraw from Committee on Ways and Means not adopted;

 Not Voting pass January 31, 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.

Motion to adopt the CCR. Substitute motion to not adopt, send back to conference committee and appoint a new conference. Motion failed.

 Yea fail January 17, 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 17, 2024
SR 1729 Condemning the October 7 attacks on the State of Israel.

Emergency Final Action - Adopted;

 Yea pass January 08, 2024
SB 113 House Substitute for SB 113 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the department of education for FY 23, FY 24 and FY 25; establishing the mental health intervention team program; authorizing certain students to participate in activities regulated by the Kansas state high school activities association; requiring school districts to post certain enrollment and academic information on school district websites; revising school district open-enrollment procedures; authorizing local school board members to receive compensation from their school district; authorizing current-year student enrollment for determinations of state foundation aid; continuing the 20 mill statewide tax levy for schools; amending the school districts that qualify for and the amount that school districts are able to levy pursuant to the cost-of-living weighting.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 28, 2023
SR 1725 Approving an amendment to the gaming compact with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation concerning sports wagering.

Emergency Final Action - Adopted;

 Not Voting pass April 28, 2023
HB 2285 Requiring the secretary of health and environment to study drug overdose death cases and providing for the confidentiality of related records, restricting the authority of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers to control the spread of infectious or contagious diseases, repealing the authority of the secretary to quarantine individuals and impose penalties for violations thereof and prohibiting the secretary of health and environment from requiring COVID-19 vaccination for children attending a child care facility or school.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 28, 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 27, 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 138(f) sustained;

 Nay pass April 27, 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 39(e) overridden;

 Nay pass April 27, 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 failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 27, 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 27, 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 27, 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 27, 2023
SB 131 Substitute for SB 131 by Committee on Public Health and Welfare - Authorizing the state board of healing arts to issue a sports waiver to practice healing arts professions in this state on a limited basis during certain sporting events, authorizing pharmacy technicians to administer certain vaccines, licensing of professional counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, behavior analysts, psychologists and master's level psychologists, requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to process applications within a certain time and establish an expedited application process, establishing license categories for applicants from social work programs in candidacy for accreditation and for temporary reinstatement; extending the license period of temporary licenses, establishing a community-based license for certain licensed professions.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 27, 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 42(a) overridden;

 Nay pass April 27, 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.

Motion to reconsider previous action failed.

 Nay pass April 27, 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 27, 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;

 Nay pass April 27, 2023
SB 228 Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.

Motion to override veto prevailed;

 Yea pass April 26, 2023
SB 26 Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 2023
SB 209 Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 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 26, 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.

Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained;

 Nay pass April 26, 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;

 Nay pass April 26, 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 06, 2023
HB 2039 Designating Lehigh Portland state park and exempting disabled veterans from certain requirements and fees relating to hunting and fishing licenses.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2336 Increasing bonding authority and simplifying the approval process for public airport construction and improvement projects under the surplus property and public airport authority act and increasing the cost threshold for state construction projects when the convening of a negotiating committee to obtain professional services is required.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 217 Including the conduct of utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted persons location, movement or travel patterns in the crime of stalking when done as part of an unlawful course of conduct and authorizing orders to prohibit such conduct under the Kansas family law code, the revised Kansas code for care of children, the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act and increasing the time of an initial restraining order and possible extensions issued in a protection from abuse order or a protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking order.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2170 Senate Substitute for HB 2170 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the donor intent protection act to provide enforcement of donor-imposed restrictions on philanthropic gifts of endowment funds or to endowment funds.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2100 Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, indemnifying KPERS with respect to actions taken in compliance with such act, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.

Conference Committee Report not adopted;

 Nay fail April 06, 2023
SB 221 Amending statutes concerning election officials, election crimes and election procedures.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 244 House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating the Kansas general corporation code, the business entity transactions act, the business entity standard treatment act, the Kansas revised uniform limited partnership act and the Kansas uniform partnership act.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 228 Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2014 Designating a portion of United States highway 69 in Crawford county as the Robert Lessen memorial highway.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 85 Enacting the Kansas travel insurance act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 17 Expanding the use of bond proceeds under the Kansas reinvestment housing incentive district act and the transferability of income, privilege and premium tax credits issued under the Kansas housing investor tax credit act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 26 Creating a civil cause of action against a physician who performs childhood gender reassignment service and requiring revocation of a physician's license who performs childhood gender reassignment service.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
SB 75 Providing a statutory interest rate for prejudgment interest in all civil tort actions.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2100 Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, indemnifying KPERS with respect to actions taken in compliance with such act, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023
SB 123 Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to establish a grant program for adult learners to pursue certain fields of study, enacting the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act to require school districts to pay for the cost of assessments for students to obtain an approved career technical education credential, designating military veterans and spouses or dependents of such veterans who were stationed in Kansas for at least 11 months as residents for purposes of tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions and expanding the eligible fields of study under the Kansas promise scholarship act.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
HB 2058 Senate Substitute for HB 2058 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing any gaming compact regarding sports wagering to include provisions governing sports wagering outside the boundaries of Indian lands and crediting tax revenue generated from wagers on historical horse races to the horse breeding development fund and the horse fair racing benefit fund.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 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 not adopted;

 Nay fail April 06, 2023
SB 189 Authorizing state and local law enforcement agencies to receive files and information about an applicant from other agencies that received an application for employment from the applicant or conducted an employment background investigation on the applicant.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea 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 not adopted;

 Nay fail April 06, 2023
HB 2234 Increasing and changing the measure of the cost threshold when state construction projects require a negotiating committee and the selection of professional services from a list of qualified firms.

Conference Committee Report was adopted;

 Yea pass April 06, 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;

 Yea pass April 06, 2023
SB 209 Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7 p.m. on election day.

Concurred with amendments in conference;

 Nay pass April 06, 2023