(Wichita Eagle) State prevents cities from restricting where sex offenders live: Melissa Alley learned there was a sex offender in her neighborhood after enrolling her son in kindergarten at Riverside Cultural Arts and History Magnet School. Alley has since learned that Kansas has no laws that restrict where convicted sex offenders can live. In fact, the state prohibits Wichita and other cities from imposing restrictions on their own.(Harris News Service) Mays back as lobbyist: Former House Speaker Doug Mays no longer serves in the Legislature but he hasn’t left the Capitol behind. The former Topeka lawmaker, who officially ended his tenure as speaker last month, is now registered to work on behalf of several different interest groups as a lobbyist.(Kansas Health Institute News Service) Panel proposes changes to health care: A Kansas Senate task force is urging passage of a package of health reform measures including two that would make significant changes in the state’s HealthWave program and the private insurance market.(AP) Wichita lawmaker tops free-food list: A Republican legislator from Wichita received the most dollars’ worth of meals, small gifts or tickets to sporting or entertainment events from lobbyists last year, according to Governmental Ethics Commission figures. Rep. Joe McLeland’s total was $2,786.(Wichita Eagle) Panel holds up `Alexa’s Law’: A Kansas House committee on Thursday heavily amended and then held up “Alexa’s Law,” a bill that would make it a crime to harm a fetus.(KTKA) Bill would limit robo calls: Campaign robo-calls are just one more alternative to the TV and newspaper ads that pop up around election time, but some people say they’re a nuisance, and lawmakers are on the case.(Topeka Capital-Journal) Sides clash on mandatory kindergarten: Educators on Thursday tossed their support to a Senate bill that would mandate that all Kansas children attend kindergarten by age 6. Members of an Amish and Mennonite community, however, said the mandate was unnecessary.(AP) Bio-defense lab bills go to governor: Legislators OK’d the final pieces of a bundle of bills on Thursday designed to put the state in a better position to attract a proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility.(LJW) Task force far from consensus on deferred maintenance: From higher taxes to higher student fees, a task force studying how to pay for a huge repair bill at state universities produced a lot of ideas but little consensus.(LJW) Breast cancer license plate proposed: Kansans would be reminded about the risks of breast cancer under a bill considered Thursday that would provide a specialized breast cancer research license plate.(KC Star) JoCo legislators seek local school tax hike: Johnson County lawmakers unhappy with their slice of school funding increases the past two years began work Thursday on a bill they think gives their districts a better deal.