Senator • Democrat
Dinah Sykes
Kansas • District SD-021
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Activity Summary
Bills Sponsored
31
Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):
94% Positive
Voting Pattern
Nay: 363
Not Voting: 11
Other: 1
Yea: 980
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Sponsored Bills
KS SB218•Introduced
Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB216•Introduced
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.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB179•Introduced
Establishing a child income tax credit.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB200•Introduced
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.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB195•Introduced
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
KS SB215•Introduced
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.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB220•Introduced
Increasing the penalty for unlawful employment under child labor laws.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB219•Introduced
Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB212•Introduced
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
KS SB217•Introduced
Increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy.
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KS SB202•Introduced
Transferring teachers from the KPERS 3 cash balance plan to the KPERS 2 plan and defining teachers for purposes of KPERS.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB180•Introduced
Requiring previous convictions to be considered in determining bond when a person is arrested for certain sex offenses.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB189•Introduced
Providing injured employees the freedom of choice to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB118•Introduced
Imposing conditional term limits on members of the legislature and requiring nomination for office by petition after such term limits have run.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB211•Failed
Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB140•Failed
Allowing cites, counties or other local units of government to raise the minimum wage by ordinance, resolution or law.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB139•Failed
Expanding newborn screening services and increasing transfer from the medical assistance fee fund to the Kansas newborn screening fund.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB467•Failed
Enacting the making work pay act to increase the Kansas minimum wage.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB471•Failed
Imposing certain health insurance coverage requirements for screening and diagnostic examinations for breast cancer, expanding eligibility for medicaid postpartum coverage to 12 months and requiring children's health insurance coverage eligibility to be tied to current federal poverty income guidelines.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB472•Failed
Expanding medical assistance eligibility and providing requirements therefor.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB470•Failed
Requiring a prevailing wage for state public works construction contracts by state agencies and permitting cities and counties to require a prevailing for such contracts.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB469•Failed
Permitting certain persons convicted of a felony to be eligible for food assistance.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB426•Failed
Eliminating the reduction of child day care services assistance tax credit in subsequent years following facility establishment and limitations on eligible corporations and providing a credit for employer payments to organizations for child day care services access.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB342•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 an exemption from sales and use taxes for sales of farm products sold at farmers’ markets, and discontinuing the nonrefundable food sales tax credit.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB203•Failed
Allowing injured employees to designate their healthcare provider and requiring the employer to pay for the services of such healthcare provider with regard to workers compensation.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB202•Failed
Enacting the COVID-19 taxpayer and small business owner relief act including the UI fraud protection act exempting unemployment compensation income attributable to identity fraud, the retail storefront small business owner rebate act providing a refundable credit for certain retail storefront property tax and the small business property tax increase relief act establishing a payment plan for certain extraordinary increases in property taxation.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB192•Failed
Requiring relinquishment of firearms pursuant to certain court orders related to domestic violence.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB48•Failed
Requiring certain insurance coverage for diagnostic examinations for breast cancer.
Primary Sponsor
KS SB479•Passed
Authorizing a permanent memorial commemorating the Kansas suffragist movement to be placed in the state capitol and establishing the Kansas suffragist memorial fund.
Co-Sponsor
KS SB330•Passed
Authorizing the construction of a memorial honoring Kansas gold star families.
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KS SB385•Engrossed
Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.
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