- Chief justice cancels court furloughs
- May 21, 2012
- Kansas courts will remain open through the rest of the 2012 fiscal year after legislators approved $1.1 million in supplemental funding to cover operating expenses.
- Legislature approves budget; tax cuts at center of dispute
- May 20, 2012
- Kansas legislators adjourned their contentious annual session Sunday with Gov. Sam Brownback’s conservative Republican allies crowing that they’ve set the state on a new and prosperous economic course with a coming wave of income tax cuts.
- Kansas Senate passes budget, awaits House action
- May 18, 2012
- The Kansas Senate approved a new budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year on Friday, but there’s no clear indication the proposal will go any further.
- Immigration measure rejected in budget talks
- May 14, 2012
- A proposal to require government contractors in Kansas to use the federal E-Verify database to ensure employees aren’t illegal immigrants won’t survive legislative negotiations over the state budget.
- Budget talks resume with much work remaining
- May 14, 2012
- Legislators are returning to the Statehouse to finish work on the proposed $14 billion Kansas budget for 2013.
- Statehouse Live: Senators seek alternative funding for contract providing services to domestic violence victims
- May 11, 2012
- Kelly and several other legislators have criticized SRS for putting into the program new requirements, such as requiring victims submit to psychological evaluations. The Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, which has contracted for the services for 13 years, said the requirements would put victims at greater risk. The coalition withdraw from bidding for the contract.
- Kansas lawmakers see quick 2013 budget resolution
- May 9, 2012
- Budget negotiators said Wednesday they expect to resolve most of their differences over spending priorities in the 2013 Kansas budget by the Legislature’s Friday deadline.
- House debates whether to commission study on whether to sell KU Hospital
- May 9, 2012
- House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, said the proposal “would be an awful decision” as the KU Cancer Center seeks National Cancer Institute designation. Even House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, criticized the move. “This is not a problem that needs to be fixed,” he said.
- House rejects state employee raises, allocates funds for disabled
- May 8, 2012
- In another decision on the $14.4 billion budget, House Republicans, who hold a strong majority, rejected several efforts by Democrats to provide a pay raise to state employees, who haven’t had an increase in three years. But on a close vote, 60-56, the House approved allocating $5.8 million to reduce waitings lists for services for those with physical and developmental disabilities and senior citizens.
- Kansas Senate approves $14.4 billion budget plan
- May 2, 2012
- The Kansas Senate on Wednesday approved a $14.4 billion state budget for the next fiscal year after adding money for public schools and property tax relief.
- House panel advances proposed state budget
- May 1, 2012
- A Kansas House panel has finished writing a proposed $14 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts in July.
- Lawmakers struggling with effects of income tax elimination on state budget
- April 30, 2012
- Kansas legislators are still trying to pin down how a compromise plan for cutting income and sales taxes will affect the state budget.
- Brownback administration proposes $2 million to address staffing concerns at Larned State Hospital
- April 26, 2012
- Kansas Department on Aging Secretary Shawn Sullivan said Thursday $993,000 is needed to hire 23 direct care staff at the hospital for the mentally ill. Another $940,000 is needed to increase pay for nurses.
- State employee association calls on Legislature to fund under-market pay increase
- April 24, 2012
- A recent report to the Legislature cites low pay as a major factor in the inability of several agencies, specifically state mental health hospitals, in filling needed positions, such as physicians, psychiatrists, nurses and mental health technicians.
- Supreme Court postpones next two scheduled court closings, gives Legislature time to fund judicial system
- April 23, 2012
- In a prepared statement, Chief Justice Lawton Nuss said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Marc Rhoades’ statements on Friday were enough to persuade the court that the Legislature would work to provide the required $1.1 million for the judiciary to make payroll for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends June 30.
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