[Home-on-the-Range] Kansas legislative update

[slstanzel at kc.rr.com]

Hi Rob,

Since I had written two weeks ago I wrote a short letter to remind her and
ask her to urge other senators to support.

You forgot to send the link.

You did a good job tonight.

Susie

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From: Home-on-the-Range <home-on-the-range-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
Rob Tabor via Home-on-the-Range
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 8:22 PM
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Cc: Rob Tabor <rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [Home-on-the-Range] Kansas legislative update

Good evening in Kansas Federation family, friends, and allies,

The Kansas Senate has had a very busy day working its way through several
bills. Action was taken on some two dozen bills, but unfortunately our bill,
SB 276, was not one of them. The Senate has been working through bills in
the order in which they are listed on the 23 page Senate calendar which I
reviewed today. To give you a sense of where things are, they stopped in
about the middle of Page 7, and our bill is on page 18. I should note that
the rate at which the Senate moves through its calendar is determined by how
many bills are controversial and consume a lot of the senators time with
debate and questions. With just 2 days left before the turnaround deadline
at the close of business on Thursday, there is still a good possibility that
the Senate will take up SB 276 before deadline. However, if the Senate runs
out of time before it can get to our bill, it will likely be referred to one
of the exempt committees, which by rule is exempted from most deadlines
except for final adjournment on April 1. The most likely exempt Committee is
the federal and state affairs committee. I predict this for two reasons.
First, the bill was introduced in federal and state last year during the
first session of the current legislature, and the bill was assigned to that
committee for hearings and markup. Secondly, the language of our bill is
closest in subject matter to the work of that committee as opposed to the
other 2 exempt committees. If this does occur, rest assured that we will
devise a strategy to make our best attempt to keep the bill moving through
the legislative process.

Having study the Senate calendar, I am of the opinion that we do not need to
contact Senator Masterson with a request that he move the bill, as it is
already on the Senate general orders calendar. At this point, we simply need
to contact our senators and ask them to support the bill when it comes up
for consideration. If you have already written to your senator, thank you
for doing so. If this is still on your to do list, thanks in advance. I will
continue to keep you all updated as the Senate works its way through the
pile of bills on its agenda.

Best regards,
Rob Tabor | first vice president/legislative Director national Federation of
the blind of Kansas
(785) 865-9959
Rob.tabor at sbcglobal.net

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