Daily Legislative Update 🐝
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Below is today’s morning update on published activities in the Kansas Legislature.

Table of Contents

• Top Stories of the Day

  • Bills arrive in opposing chambers, head to committ …

  • Editorial note on Constitutional Conventions

• Upcoming Actions

  • House of Representatives

  • Senate

Top Stories of the Day

Bills arrive in opposing chambers, head to committees

This week, the bills passed in last weeks’ vote-apalooza are being introduced in their non-originating chambers: House bills sent to the Senate, Senate bills sent to the House. Exempt committees also continue their work, mostly in the domains of tax and appropriations but also federal and state affairs. Most of these bills get routed to committees in the receiving chamber.

For the remainder of the 2025 session, Topeka Buzz will focus on the progress (or not) of these ~200 bills that have the potential to be sent to the Governor. We’ve added information on BillBee that displays the current status of each bill (according to what’s published on kslegislature.gov, anyway!¹ )

To make it slightly easier to navigate all of this information, we’ve added Bill Status to the BillBee platform:

Conveniently, this also makes it possible to bookmark important lists, such as:

• Bills on the floor of the opposite chamber: These are bills that passed one chamber and have reached the floor of the other chamber, approaching a final vote.

• Bills sent to the Governor: This is a pretty empty list right now, but will show everything that’s awaiting the Governor’s signature (or veto).

• Bills in Committee (other chamber): These bills have been assigned to a committee and are on the path towards a recommendation for a vote.