Representative • Democrat
Dennis Highberger
Kansas • District HD-046
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
30
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
100% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 246
Not Voting: 1
Other: 110
Yea: 764
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Sponsored Bills
KS HB2718•Failed
Eliminating school district open enrollment requirements and authorizing school districts to determine nonresident student enrollment.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2622•Failed
Amending the Kansas indoor clean air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2520•Failed
Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $100,000 of such property's appraised valuation.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2508•Failed
Authorizing a transfer of state general fund moneys to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund in fiscal year 2025 and all fiscal years thereafter, requiring political subdivisions to credit all such moneys to residential property taxpayers in the form of a rebate and providing a formula for such rebate amount.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2496•Failed
Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2374•Failed
Changing the legal public holiday of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2365•Failed
Terminating the KPERS 3 cash balance plan and transferring the members of such plan to the KPERS 2 plan.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2348•Failed
Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2349•Failed
Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2364•Failed
Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $65,000 of such property's appraised valuation.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2363•Failed
Releasing any person convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana from such person's sentence and providing for the expungement of any associated records.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2366•Failed
Providing for transfers to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2341•Failed
Declaring Juneteenth National Independence Day to be a legal public holiday and closing state offices for certain legal public holidays.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2244•Failed
Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2245•Failed
Creating the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2162•Failed
Providing for sales tax exemption for hygiene products.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2091•Failed
Requiring the secretary of agriculture to establish a division of sustainable agriculture that shall apply for federal grant funds under the greenhouse gas reduction fund to assist farmers in converting to renewable energy and sustainable agriculture practices.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2065•Passed
Allowing a court to change a spouse's name to a name that is different than a maiden or former name during a divorce proceeding.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2671•Failed
Requiring statutory due process procedures for a school district's non-renewal or termination of a teacher contract.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2666•Failed
Allowing an individual to have a gender designation of "X" on driver's licenses and allowing an individual to change the gender designation on a driver's license, instruction permit or nondriver's identification card.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2626•Failed
Regarding the teacher service scholarship program; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state board of regents.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2540•Passed
Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and excluding FDA-approved drug products from the definition of marijuana.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2487•Failed
Providing a 0% state rate for sales and use taxes for sales of food and food ingredients and providing for the levying of taxes by cities and counties, providing for an exemption from sales and use taxes for sales of farm products sold at farmers' markets, and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2473•Failed
Removing the requirement that all district court judges in Douglas county serve on the board of trustees of the law library.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2300•Failed
Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
Co-Sponsor
KS HB2140•Failed
Prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun in the state capitol.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2117•Failed
Providing for adjusted income tax rates and sales tax treatment for food and food ingredients and feminine hygiene products.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2002•Failed
Enacting the national popular vote interstate compact for electing the president of the United States.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2006•Failed
Changing the designation of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day.
Primary Sponsor
KS HB2474•Introduced
Allowing a court to change a spouse's name to a name that is different than a maiden or former name during a divorce proceeding.
Primary Sponsor
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