Barbara Ballard

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
• 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
• HB2272: Providing that no person shall be sentenced to death for crimes committed after July 1, 2025, and creating the crime of aggravated murder
• HB2258: Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in those counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county (primary sponsor)
• HB2257: Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote (primary sponsor)
• 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
• HB2198: Enacting the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals (primary sponsor)
• HB2196: Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act (primary sponsor)
• HB2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes
• SB17: Excepting haulers of grain and certain other agricultural goods from gross weight limitations for vehicles (primary sponsor)
• SB16: Prohibiting discrimination by financial services companies on the basis of social credit score and requiring registered investment advisers to obtain written consent from clients prior to investing client moneys in mutual funds, equity funds, companies and financial institutions that engage in ideological boycotts (primary sponsor)