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Establishing certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.

Providing a remittance credit to retailers for the collection of sales and compensating use tax.

Prohibiting law enforcement agencies and officers from participating in immigration enforcement in places of religious worship, elementary and secondary schools and hospitals.

Adding consideration of whether the offender has physical custody of such offender's minor child or is a legal guardian or custodian with physical custody of a minor child to the factors considered for diversions and dispositional departures.

Prohibiting certain conduct and improper collection of veterans benefits fees.

House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.

Providing requirements for agreements between a school district and a postsecondary educational institution for the provision of postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools.

Requiring a competitive bid process for the permitting of electric transmission lines.

Establishing the property tax use value for residential real property, real property used for commercial and industrial purposes and mobile homes used for residential purposes.

Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness.

Authorizing judges to commit juvenile offenders to detention for technical violations of probation, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and increasing criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders.

Requiring cause for evictions from residential property, modifying the petition and notice requirements for eviction cases and removing the requirement to post bond before the court may grant a continuance.

Providing for continuous state budgets until amended, lapsed or eliminated by the legislature, temporary reallocations and establishing conditions and limitations.

Providing naturopathic doctors a certificate of authorization for a business entity to practice medicine.

Providing a sales tax exemption for certain purchases and sales by care to share cancer support group of Bourbon county, Kansas, inc.

Requiring interest earnings of the parks fee fund to be transferred to such fund each month.

House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

Requiring landlords to return the security deposit and certain portions of rent payments that would be due when a dwelling unit is condemned due to action or inaction of the landlord.

Enacting the Kansas consumer prescription protection and accountability act and providing for regulation and registration of pharmacy benefits managers.

Enacting the help not harm act, restricting use of state funds to promote gender transitioning, prohibiting healthcare providers from providing gender transition care to children whose gender identity is inconsistent with the child's sex, authorizing a civil cause of action against healthcare providers for providing such treatments, requiring professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatment, prohibiting professional liability insurance from covering damages for healthcare providers that provide gender transition treatment to children and adding violation of the act to the definition of unprofessional conduct for physicians.