Kansas legislative session recap: What happened, what didn t happen and why it matters Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star
May 10 TOPEKA Kansas Republican lawmakers went home last week having accomplished much of what they set out to do in January.
Wielding the more conservative supermajority they won in the 2020 elections, they overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly s vetoes to achieve long-sought victories on tax cuts and gun rights. They set up a vote next year on amending the state constitution to open the door for new limits on abortion.
The GOP lost two big culture war battles school choice and a ban on transgender athletes in K-12 and college sports for girls and women but kept the issues alive for 2022.
GOP ousts Kansas Senate leader charged with DUI from post
By JOHN HANNAApril 10, 2021 GMT
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Republicans on Friday ousted a powerful Kansas lawmaker charged with drunken driving from his leadership job following the release of a document saying he taunted the Highway Patrol trooper who arrested him and called the officer “donut boy.”
Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop’s removal was the first time in at least several decades that a Kansas legislative leader’s colleagues pushed someone out before the end of his or her term. Suellentrop, a Wichita Republican, had been set to be majority leader through 2024.
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Show Transcript New Tonight. The Kansas Senate has passed a bill banning transgender athletes from girls and women s sports LGBT. Our rights advocates say the bill is an attack on transgender Children and will likely increase bullying. Governor Kelly calls it regressive, stopping short of saying she would veto the bill, which now goes to the Kansas House.
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He woke up in a hospital bed three weeks later.
While driving through an intersection near his Overland Park home, a drunken driver who was running a red light struck Kudlacik s car, a blow that nearly cut his sedan in two.
Placed in a medically induced coma for 21 days, Kudlacik said he was twice deemed clinically dead and had to be revived. He spent three months rehabbing from a slate of injuries, including compound fractures in both legs, nine broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
The driver who hit him later pleaded guilty to aggravated battery while driving under the influence and was sentenced to 31 months in prison.
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