TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers could transform elections with a series of bills that squeeze advance voting timelines, stamp out rare instances of noncitizen voting and tinker with some candidate filing and advocacy rules. One bill sought to eradicate elections exclusively conducted by ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other states on listing gender identities in government documents. The new ...
TOPEKA — Democratic Rep. Brooklynne Mosley told Kansas House members she would pray for those who favor corporate landlords over renters, lashed out at a Republican who complained about “filthy” renters, and told another Republican she was sorry for putting him to sleep with her ...
As a bill targeting illicit e-cigarettes makes its way through the Kansas Legislature, a health official in Lawrence says the problem of unauthorized vape products is real, and that underage buyers here might have access to them. The bill is Senate Bill 355, and it passed the Kansas Senate and ...
TOPEKA — Kansans will soon be required to use the bathroom of their biological sex at birth in all government buildings after the House joined the Senate Wednesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto. House Substitute for Senate Bill 244 will go into effect immediately after paperwork is ...
TOPEKA — A bill heard Monday would list kratom as a Schedule 1 drug, moving the previously unclassified substance into the same category as methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. Senate Bill 497 classifies both Kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, as controlled substances. Proponents and ...