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2010 House Concurrent Resolution 5031 (Oppose court-ordered appropriations, taxes for lawsuits)

Introduced by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) on February 5, 2010, in his role as committee chair, to declare that courts lack the constitutional authority to order the legislature to make specific amounts of appropriations and to declare that no public moneys derived from the imposition of any tax shall be spent to finance or support litigation challenging the constitutionality of the amount of any legislative appropriation.

2010 House Bill 2647 (Allow new USD property tax for special activities)

Introduced by Rep. Arlen Siegfreid (R) on February 3, 2010, to empower K-12 school districts (USDs) to levy an additional property tax for funding school activities if the USD has already exercised the maximum local option budget (LOB) currently allowed. The new "activities" budget could not exceed 5 percent of the USD's state financial aid and the funds could not be used for scholastic purposes that aid the USD in meeting state accreditation standards. No such activities budget could be adopted without prior approval by a local public vote. USDs are currently allowed to increase their budgets by up to 31 percent by exercising LOB authority that is partially subsidized by the state.

2010 House Concurrent Resolution 5030 (Urge survey about high school games at colleges)

Introduced by Rep. Lance Kinzer (R) on February 3, 2010, to urge support for supporting a statewide survey of high school football players’ families to guage their interest in having high school championship games played at major university football fields in Kansas. The survey costs would be borne by private donations and volunteers and its results would be sent to the heads of the Kansas School Boards Association and the Kansas State High School Activities Association.

2010 House Bill 2636 (Create program against obstructive heart disease)

Introduced by Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R) on February 3, 2010, in her role as committee chair, to create a state program for combatting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that would be administered by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The agency could accept donations and grants from any source for funding the program's development of relevant health care strategies, a public information campaign, treatment recommendations for health care professionals, and more. The agency would also be empowered to create rules and regulations for administering the program.

2010 House Bill 2628 (Mandate USD dating violence policies)

Introduced by Rep. Gail Finney (D) on February 3, 2010, to require every K-12 school district to adopt a policy against dating violence on school property or at school events and to implement a plan for preventing date violence. Such violence is defined by the bill and includes actual or threatened physical, verbal or emotional abuse of a dating partner.

2010 House Bill 2627 (Allow USDs to consolidate from three down to two)

Introduced by Rep. Steve Lukert (D) on February 3, 2010, to authorize any three or more K-12 school districts to negotiate for the purpose of consolidating themselves and reconstituting as two school districts.

2010 House Bill 2624 (Mandate energy efficient schools if cost effective)

Introduced by Rep. Carl Holmes (R) on February 3, 2010, in his role as committee chair, to require a cost comparison before constructing any future K-12 or higher education facility in order to weigh the economic benefit of making it an energy efficient building. If the cost of an energy efficient design is less than 2.5 percent higher than the cost of a non-energy efficient design, or if the avoided costs of an energy efficient design over five years will offset its higher construction cost, then the energy efficient building would be required.

2010 House Bill 2621 (Repeal income tax credits, transferability of credits)

Introduced by Rep. Richard Carlson (R) on February 3, 2010, in his role as committee chair, to repeal various state income tax credits or their transferability to other taxpayers. Newly taxable income would include financial support given to someone who would otherwise qualify for state family welfare aid and for contributions to individual developments accounts for lower-income Kansans. Also, the transferability of certain income tax credits would be repealed, including tax credit transfers relating to investments in qualifying Kansas businesses by "angel investors" and for contributions to colleges and universities for facilities repair or maintenance.

2010 House Bill 2607 (Increase base aid per pupil, reduce other factors)

Introduced by Rep. Clay Aurand (R) on February 2, 2010, to change a variety of funding factors in the state's K-12 school finance formula that computes state aid for local school districts (USDs). The base amount of aid per pupil would rise from the current $4,492 up to $4,650. Other changes would affect each USD differently, but would largely offset this rise in the aggregate: change the "weighting factor" for low-enrollment USDs to distinguish them on a more linear scale; reduce the weighting factor for all bi-lingual education students; reduce the weighting factor for all at-risk (low income) students; and, reduce the weighting factors for both high density at-risk USDs and medium density at-risk USDs.

2010 House Bill 2601 (Modify medium density K-12 at-risk funding)

Introduced by Rep. Clay Aurand (R) on February 2, 2010, in his role as committee chair, to repeal the “medium density at-risk” formula component that gives some K-12 school districts additional state money for low-income students, but to replace it with a more graduated calculation of “high density at-risk” funding. Density refers to the percentage of a district’s students who qualify for free lunches because their families have low income and “at-risk” means students who are at risk of not performing well in school by reason of their low income. The larger a school district’s percent of at-risk students, the more state funding for each at-risk student.