Tom Sawyer
Born
1958
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21
Bills sponsored
this session · 133 all-time
11
Bills co-sponsored
this session · 11 all-time
1
Enacted into law
this session · 2 all-time
2271
Recorded votes
98%
Vote participation
voted in 98% of 2271 recorded votes
Voting scorecard
b2025_26 session · computed from recorded roll-call votes
Party unity
92.9%
based on 426 votes
Votes with own party's majority
Independence
7.1%
based on 426 votes
Votes against own party's majority
Participation
94.7%
based on 426 votes
Roll calls where a yes/no was cast
Sponsored (introduced)
133 billsCurrent session 21 bills
- HR 6042 Strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan. Introduced
- HR 6043 Commemorating the life and service of Representative Melody McCray-Miller. Introduced
- HR 6044 Commemorating the life and service of Representative Harold Lane. Introduced
- HB 2629 Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes. Failed
- HCR 5023 Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas to provide that property tax exemptions be approved by the electors of the state. Failed
- HB 2678 Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. Failed
- HB 2600 Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility. Failed
- HR 6040 Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. Introduced
- HB 2628 Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions. Failed
- HCR 5030 Urging Congress to enact immigration reform. Failed
- HB 2631 Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property. Failed
- HR 6010 Strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan. Introduced
- HB 2620 Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit. Failed
- HB 2073 Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers. Failed
- HB 2707 Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders. Failed
- HCR 5034 Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by revising article 11 by establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas citizens freedom review board, authorizing the board to review tax exemptions and approve or eliminate such exemptions and eliminating the motor vehicle property taxes and fees, state-mandated and state-imposed property taxes and state-imposed income and privilege taxes. Failed
- HB 2029 Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. Signed
- HB 2074 Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims. Failed
- HR 6034 Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. Introduced
- HB 2278 Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property. Failed
- HB 2296 Requiring that certain health insurance plans impose a no-cost sharing requirement for a diagnostic or supplemental breast cancer examination for breast cancer imposed on an insured. Failed
Historical 112 bills
- HR 6042 Celebrating the historic and immense contributions of the Hispanic and Latino communities to the Kansas economy. Died
- HR 6036 Recognizing and commending the NCSL on its 50th anniversary. Died
- HB 2364 Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $65,000 of such property's appraised valuation. Failed
- HB 2366 Providing for transfers to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund. Failed
- HB 2162 Providing for sales tax exemption for hygiene products. Failed
- HB 2508 Authorizing a transfer of state general fund moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund in fiscal year 2025 and all fiscal years thereafter, requiring political subdivisions to credit all such moneys to residential property taxpayers in the form of a rebate and providing a formula for such rebate amount. Failed
- HB 2363 Releasing any person convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana from such person's sentence and providing for the expungement of any associated records. Failed
- HB 2520 Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $100,000 of such property's appraised valuation. Failed
- HR 6006 Congratulating and commending the 2023 Kansas Teacher of the Year team. Died
- HR 6012 Commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Friends University. Died
- HB 2497 Prohibiting district magistrate judges from issuing search warrants. Failed
- HB 2349 Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder. Failed
- HCR 5021 Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Kansas to decrease by 1/2% a year for five years from 111/2% to 9% the assessed value for real property used for residential purposes. Failed
- HR 6031 Supporting the strengthening of Kansas' trade partnership with Ireland. Died
- HB 2365 Terminating the KPERS 3 cash balance plan and transferring the members of such plan to the KPERS 2 plan. Failed
- HB 2348 Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects. Failed
- HR 6047 Commemorating the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Died
- HB 2496 Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote. Failed
- HB 2003 Expanding medical assistance eligibility by enacting the KanCare bridge to a healthy Kansas program. Failed
- HB 2661 Authorizing a permanent memorial commemorating the Kansas suffragist movement to be placed in the state capitol and establishing the Kansas suffragist memorial fund. Failed
- HCR 5039 Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit partisan and racial gerrymandering when reapportioning congressional and state legislative districts. Failed
- HB 2660 Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a mural honoring the 1st Kansas (Colored) Voluntary Infantry regiment. Failed
- HR 6023 Condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Failed
- HCR 5031 Providing for the adjournment of the Senate and House of Representatives for a period of time during the 2022 regular session of the legislature. Died
- HB 2300 Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder. Failed
Co-sponsored
11 billsCurrent session 11 bills
- HB2600 Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility. Introduced
- HB2620 Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit. Introduced
- HB2628 Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions. Introduced
- HB2629 Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes. Introduced
- HB2631 Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property. Introduced
- HB2678 Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. Introduced
- HB2707 Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders. Introduced
- HCR5034 Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by revising article 11 by establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas citizens freedom review board, authorizing the board to review tax exemptions and approve or eliminate such exemptions and eliminating the motor vehicle property taxes and fees, state-mandated and state-imposed property taxes and state-imposed income and privilege taxes. Introduced
- HR6040 Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. Signed
- HB2029 Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. To Executive
- HCR5030 Urging Congress to enact immigration reform. Introduced
Voting record
Historical 50 votes
| Bill | Vote | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
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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; |
Not Voting | pass | February 06, 2024 |
|
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 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 |
|
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 |
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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; |
Nay | pass | April 28, 2023 |
|
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 |
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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 |
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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; |
Nay | 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 |
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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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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HB 2304
Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.
Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained; |
Nay | pass | April 26, 2023 |
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HB 2304
Standardizing firearms safety programs in school districts.
Motion to override veto failed; Veto sustained; |
Nay | pass | April 26, 2023 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |