Kansas Governor Laura Kelly was busy issuing vetoes Monday.
The governor vetoed almost 10 bills, including the following:
*Senate Bill 254, written to remove the in-state college tuition option for immigrants
*House Bill 2468, prompting the state’s budget director to determine compliance and implementation costs for proposed rules and regulations — also giving the budget director the power to disapprove proposed rules
*House BIll 2727, allowing plaintiffs to limit recovery with Woman’s Right to Know claims and essentially overriding laws for medical malpractice screening
*House BIll 2729, saying Kansas Department of Health and Environment needs to provide certain forms and notices to doctors as part of the Woman’s Right to Know Act
Governor Kelly signed several bills Monday:
*House Bill 2537, also known as Caleb’s Law, which bolsters criminal penalties to expand the types of sexual exploitation, widens the definition of extortion and mandates statewide education efforts
*Substitute for House Bill 2595, which develops the Attorney Training Program for Rural Kansas Act designed to expand opportunities for attorneys or law students in rural areas
*House Bill 2524, which lets the Department for Children and Families license family foster homes when other people in the home meet exceptions that would have disqualified the family from fostering under prior law
The veto session goes Thursday through possibly Saturday.
