Representative • Democrat

Susan Ruiz

Kansas • District HD-023

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Aggregate Impact (Sponsored Bills):

100% Positive

Voting Pattern

Nay: 377

Other: 22

Yea: 1055

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Susan Ruiz

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Including homestead renters as eligible to participate in certain homestead property tax refund claims.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

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.

Establishing a feminine hygiene product grant program and grant fund to award moneys to qualifying title I schools to provide feminine hygiene products to students at no cost.

Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers.

Eliminating school district open enrollment requirements and authorizing school districts to determine nonresident student enrollment.

Requiring that certain health insurance plans impose no-cost sharing requirement on insured individuals for diagnostic breast examinations for breast cancer.

Directing the Kansas turnpike authority to establish a toll exemption program for current members of the armed forces whose orders direct a permanent place of duty within Kansas.

Amending the Kansas indoor clean air act to prohibit smoking on the gaming floor of a lottery gaming facility or racetrack gaming facility.

Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.

Prohibiting district magistrate judges from issuing search warrants.

Terminating the KPERS 3 cash balance plan and transferring the members of such plan to the KPERS 2 plan.

Restoring local government control over wages, compensation and benefits for construction projects.

Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property to $65,000 of such property's appraised valuation.

Releasing any person convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana from such person's sentence and providing for the expungement of any associated records.

Providing for transfers to the local ad valorem tax reduction fund.

Discontinuing property tax exemption for new qualifying pipeline property that experiences a spill or leak and providing for recoupment of certain property taxes.

Declaring Juneteenth National Independence Day to be a legal public holiday and closing state offices for certain legal public holidays.

Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.

Creating the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.

Amending the Kansas act against discrimination to include sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and status as a veteran.

Removing statutory provisions that require marriage to be between two parties of the opposite sex.

Providing for sales tax exemption for hygiene products.

Repealing the adoption protection act.

Enacting the social work licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for social workers.

Amending the Kansas act against discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

Requiring statutory due process procedures for a school district's non-renewal or termination of a teacher contract.

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.

Authorizing a permanent memorial commemorating the Kansas suffragist movement to be placed in the state capitol and establishing the Kansas suffragist memorial fund.

Directing the capitol preservation committee to develop and approve plans for a mural honoring the 1st Kansas (Colored) Voluntary Infantry regiment.

Creating the crime of elector fraud to make it a crime to falsify presidential elector certificates.

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.

Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a hospital, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof and increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider who is employed by a hospital.

Updating schedules I, II, IV and V of the uniform controlled substances act and excluding FDA-approved drug products from the definition of marijuana.

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