Melissa Oropeza

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 (primary sponsor)
• HB2689: Enacting the Kansas tri-share child care act for the sharing of child care costs among employers, employees and the state, establishing the Kansas tri-share child care matching program to be administered by the director of the Kansas office of early childhood and creating the Kansas tri-share child care matching program fund
• 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
• HB2632: Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans
• HB2631: Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property
• HB2630: Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction
• HB2629: Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes
• HB2628: Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions
• HB2620: Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit
• HB2598: Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act
• HB2597: Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave
• HB2436: Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance
• HB2432: Providing an excise tax on large employers for certain federal benefits paid to employees
• HB2431: Enacting the student secular bill of rights to establish statutory protections against religious coercion and discrimination in public schools
• HB2421: Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes and requiring school districts to report on the amount of screen time that certain students experience during a typical school day
• HB2278: Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property
• 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
• HB2600: Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility