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There were 55 votes in favor of the Back to School Act, and 69 votes against. While the 39 Democratic members mostly voted against Senate Bill 235, Republicans were split. At least 25 of the 86 GOP members voted 'no.' The bill's failure came as a surprise to many, as the act was personally being backed by Senate President Ty Masterson, R-Andover. Only one Republican had voted against his bill in the Kansas Senate. Masterson and proponents had called the Back to School Act as necessary and important, after many schools in the state and nationwide moved to hybrid or remote learning due to the...

JOHN HANNA and ANDY TSUBASA FIELD Associated Press/Report for America TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with a measure designed to help courts and prosecutors deal with a backlog of criminal cases caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a proposal to limit state and local officials’ power in setting restrictions in future pandemics. The House gave first-round approval to a bill that would suspend until May 2024 a Kansas law that sets deadlines for criminal trials to protect defendants’ constitutional right to a speedy resolution of their cases. Those deadlines ha...

More than 134,000 Kansans have suspended driver’s licenses.  The insurance industry estimates at least one in five of them ends up driving anyway just to get to work and pay the bills.