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IntroducedJan 27, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 19, 2025
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Signed into Law
Directing the secretary for children and families to request a waiver from supplemental nutrition assistance program rules that would allow the state to prohibit the purchase of candy and soft drinks with food assistance.
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 11, 2025: No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 79
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Government Efficiencysponsor
Votes
NO: 28
ABSENT: 1
- Joseph
YES: 65
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Blex
- Brantley
- Bryce
- Buehler
- B.
- W.
- Chauncey
- Croft
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Hawkins
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Huebert
- Humphries
- Kessler
- Lewis
- Long
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Rhiley
- Roth
- Sanders
- Seiwert
- A.
- Steele
- Sutton
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- White
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Wolf
NO: 58
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Ballard
- Bergquist
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brownlee
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- Carr
- Collins
- Corbet
- Curtis
- Esau
- Featherston
- Haskins
- Helgerson
- Hoheisel
- Hoye
- James
- Johnson
- King
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Mosley
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Poskin
- Resman
- Roeser
- S.
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Simmons
- C.
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sweely
- Vaughn
- Weigel
- Wikle
- L.
- Winn
- Woodard
- Xu
ABSENT: 2
- Poetter
- L.
Actions
- Apr 11, 2025 | House
- No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained
- Apr 10, 2025 | Senate
- Vetoed by Governor; Returned to Senate on Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 29 Nay: 11
- Mar 27, 2025 | Senate
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Mar 19, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carr
- Representative Bergkamp raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane.
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 65 Nay: 58
- Mar 14, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Welfare Reform
- Mar 06, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Thursday, March 6, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 152-S
- Feb 25, 2025 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Welfare Reform
- Feb 19, 2025 | Senate
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 29 Nay: 11
- Feb 18, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Sykes
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Sykes was rejected Yea: 11 Nay: 28
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Schmidt
- Senator Erickson raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane.
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Holscher
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Holscher was rejected Yea: 8 Nay: 29
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 11, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Government Efficiency
- Feb 04, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 9:30 AM Room 144-S
- Jan 28, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Government Efficiency
- Jan 27, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced
Bill Texts
- As introducedPDF
- As Amended by Senate CommitteePDF
- EnrolledPDF
- House Amendment -- Offered by Representative Carr, 03/19/2025PDF
- Senate Amendment -- Offered by Senator Holscher, 02/18/2025PDF
- Senate Amendment -- Offered by Senator Schmidt, 02/18/2025PDF
- Senate Amendment -- Offered by Senator Sykes, 02/18/2025PDF
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by David Wiese, Revisor of Statutes (briefing on SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Dustin Hare, Kansas Action for Children (opposition to SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Eric Stafford, Kansas Chamber (opposition to SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Brian Polser, Fuel True Energy (opposition to SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Carla Whiteside-Hicks, DCF (opposition to SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Haley Kottler, Kansas Appleseed (opposition to SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Roy Lenardson, Opportunity Solutions (proponent of SB79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Karen Siebert, Harvesters (opposition to SB 79)
- House Committee on Welfare Reform, Thu, Mar 6, 2025: Testimony by Derek Hein, Catalyst (opposition to SB79)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Welfare Reform
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Government Efficiency
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