The state should not spend new money to provide services to developmentally disabled Kansans on waiting lists unless they are included in the state’s new privatized Medicaid system, a Republican-dominated House panel decided Thursday.
TOPEKA – Lawmakers and the governor have corrected a legislative oversight that was making life difficult for poor people who have traffic tickets they can’t afford to pay all at once.
A bill requiring DNA swab samples of people who are arrested for felony crimes and expanding the state’s existing DNA collections was sent by the House to Gov. Sam Brownback on Thursday.
Hundreds of Kansans with developmental disabilities and their supporters rallied at the Capitol on Wednesday in an effort to pressure the Legislature to leave long-term disability services out of the KanCare managed-care health program.
State lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Wednesday to find the same tax policy gridlock they walked away from a month ago.
A penny doesn’t buy much these days. Let alone six-tenths of one.
Lobbyists seeking to influence state laws have spent $380,000 feeding, entertaining and giving gifts to legislators in the first three months of this year.
Kansas lawmakers are close to giving Secretary of State Kris Kobach new power he's sought for his office to investigate and prosecute potential election fraud cases.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he's considering an appeal of a federal court order requiring Kansas to cover $389,000 worth of attorneys' fees and expenses for parties in a lawsuit over political redistricting.
One day after Gov. Sam Brownback signed new gun legislation into law, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder wrote him a letter saying the measure is unconstitutional and he is willing to go to court to fight it.
As the debate in the Kansas Statehouse continues over how to pay for tax cuts, a new report shows Kansans claim the home mortgage tax deduction at a slightly lower rate than the national average.
TOPEKA — Two days of talks aimed at settling a lawsuit that challenges Kansas’ school finance system were unsuccessful, attorneys for both sides said in a status report filed Wednesday with the state Supreme Court.
TOPEKA — Three federal judges on Tuesday ordered Kansas to cover $389,000 worth of attorneys’ fees and expenses for individuals involved in a lawsuit last year that stemmed from the Legislature’s inability to redraw political boundaries to ensure equal representation.
Conservative Republican state senators pushed back Thursday on Gov. Sam Brownback’s request that Kansas issue $202 million more in bonds to help finance a federal biosecurity lab in Manhattan.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas' attorney general is warning legislators that the state faces potential lawsuits and more than $1.2 million in costs because of laws enacted this year, including a pro-gun policy aimed at the federal government and a sweeping anti-abortion measure declaring that life begins “at fertilization.”
Fueled by a big marketing campaign to protect the home mortgage tax deduction, the Kansas Association of Realtors spent nearly $100,000 on lobbying in March, according to a new report by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told a Senate panel in Washington on Monday that a pending immigration reform bill could make life easier for terrorists like the alleged bombers of the Boston Marathon.
Gov. Sam Brownback called proposed cuts to higher-education funding “a momentum killer” Monday after meeting with Wichita State University officials in Wichita.
Bob Dole tries to go to work every day. On April 10, for this interview in his law firm office, he wore a crisp white shirt with a pen in his pocket and a blue necktie festooned with tiny American flags.
If lawmakers walk away this year without an agreement to bring new revenue into the state by extending a temporary sales tax hike and cutting the value of popular tax deductions, the state could quickly fall into deep financial trouble, according to an analysis of new budget projections.
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