Dinah Sykes, Dinah

Sponsored bills

• SCR1626: Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2026 regular session of the Legislature
• SB474: Enacting the Kansas short-term, limited duration insurance act; establishing definitions, disclosure, premiums, renewal and underwriting requirements relating thereto and authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt rules and regulations to implement and oversee the act (primary sponsor)
• SB444: Authorizing interior inspections of residential property without the consent of the occupant pursuant to an administrative warrant or if there is probable cause of imminent danger related to health and safety and allowing cities to abate certain interior code violations or delegate such authority to the county (primary sponsor)
• SB443: 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 (primary sponsor)
• SB442: Increasing the criminal penalties for exposing another to a communicable disease and modifying the elements of such crime to include otherwise lawful or unlawful sexual intercourse or sodomy (primary sponsor)
• SB423: Requiring certain cost-sharing assistance be applied toward a covered individual's deductible or annual out-of-pocket limit under the individual's health benefit plan (primary sponsor)
• SB371: Requiring landlords to offer to sell certain rental properties to the tenants of such properties before offering such properties for sale to the public (primary sponsor)
• SB370: Modifying how a rental agreement terminates in the case of material noncompliance by the landlord with the rental agreement (primary sponsor)
• SB369: Requiring certain disclosures to be made to prospective tenants and providing restrictions on fees for the late payment of rent under the residential landlord and tenant act (primary sponsor)
• SB302: Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes
• SB220: Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws (primary sponsor)
• SB219: Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer (primary sponsor)
• SB218: Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees
• SB217: Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy
• SB216: Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it unlawful for employers to retaliate against employees exercising rights under the act
• SB215: Excluding social security payments from household income and increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax homestead claims
• SB212: Enacting the prescription drug cost and affordability review act to establish the prescription drug pricing board and prescription drug affordability stakeholder council to review the cost of prescription medications and establish upper payment limits for certain prescription drugs (primary sponsor)
• SB202: Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS
• SB200: Designating Kansas as a purple heart state, requiring the governor to proclaim August 7 of each year as purple heart day and urging veterans organizations to plan special activities in observance thereof
• SB195: Establishing the property tax task force that shall study the property tax system in Kansas and develop recommendations and suggest improvements to law (primary sponsor)