Alexis Simmons

Sponsored bills

• HB2707: Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders
• HB2694: Enacting the opioid patients right to know act to require the disclosure of the risks associated with prescribed opioid use (primary sponsor)
• HB2670: Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which such advertisement is placed
• HB2668: Mandating health insurers to provide coverage for pain management services (primary sponsor)
• HB2656: Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school
• HB2629: Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes
• HB2620: Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit
• HB2278: Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property
• HB2692: Establishing standards of conduct for agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) prohibiting facial covering of agents, requiring vehicles be clearly marked, requiring judicial search warrants, prohibiting raids in places of worships, schools, daycare centers, hospitals and courts, requiring minimum training (primary sponsor)
• HB2679: Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state
• HB2678: Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products
• HB2296: Requiring that certain health insurance plans impose a no-cost sharing requirement for a diagnostic or supplemental breast cancer examination for breast cancer imposed on an insured
• HB2224: Requiring a law enforcement officer executing a search warrant at residential premises to be uniformed and to knock and announce themselves before entering the property (primary sponsor)
• HB2151: Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour
• HB2123: Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities
• HB2074: Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims
• HB2073: Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers
• HB2067: Establishing a feminine hygiene product grant program and grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost
• SB428: Requiring the secretary for children and families and the secretary of health and environment to execute a memorandum of understanding, data use agreement or other written data-sharing instrument upon written request of the United States department of agriculture or the United States department of health and human services and comply with data requests from such federal agencies (primary sponsor)
• HB2068: Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice, permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain, adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards and removing the authority of the state board of pharmacy to authorize individuals to access the prescription monitoring program database by rules and regulations (primary sponsor)