TOPEKA — Kansas will increase what have been among the lowest benefits in the U.S. for workers who are injured or killed on the job under bipartisan legislation that Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Thursday. The new law is set to take effect in July and includes the first increases in the ...
TOPEKA — In three weeks, senators will decide whether to give Medicaid expansion a full floor debate or block discussion of health insurance coverage for low-income Kansans for another year. Lawmakers rushed to hammer out myriad policy pieces ranging from the tax code to K-12 education ...
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are struggling to overcome political divisions that have prevented their state's residents from seeing major income tax cuts over the past two years even as other states have slashed income tax rates. The Republican-controlled Legislature approved a bill early ...
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators approved on Friday another year's worth of funding for most state agencies and services after a few lawmakers staged a last-minute public protest over a 93% pay increase for themselves coming next year. The Republican-controlled Senate approved, 26-12, a bill with ...
TOPEKA — Kansas senators killed a school finance bill that would have guided state education funding for the next three years, heeding warnings from public schools advocates that the bill’s special education provision could have proven disastrous. Senate Bill 387 allocated billions for ...
The president of Haskell Indian Nations University’s Board of Regents is running for election to the 46th District in the Kansas House of Representatives. Last Friday, Brittany Hall officially filed election paperwork for the seat, which has been filled by Democratic lawmaker Dennis ...