Dinah Sykes

KS Senate District 21

Democratic Kansas since Dec 19, 2018

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Issue areas

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Government Operations & Budget 10 Healthcare 6 Housing 6 Labor & Employment 6 Civil Rights & Liberties 4 Criminal Justice & Policing 4 Economy & Taxes 4 Education 4 Social Services & Welfare 3 Veterans Affairs 2 Defense & Military 1 Elections & Voting 1 Foreign Policy & Trade 1 Other 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
KS Senate District 21 current Kansas	Democratic	Dec 19, 2018	—	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
HB 2533 — Enacting the occupational therapy licensure compact, respiratory care interstate compact, esthetics licensure compact and athletic trainer…	Yea	Mar 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2519 — Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the Kansas open records act.	Yea	Mar 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2511 — Permitting moneys received from agricultural production on a state-owned property to be used for the management of all state-owned…	Yea	Mar 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2471 — Designating a portion of I-35 as the deputy Sam Smith memorial highway and redesignating a current portion of the 35th infantry division…	Yea	Mar 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2099 — Senate Substitute for HB 2099 by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics - Authorizing the secretary of corrections on…	Yea	Mar 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2468 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations and increasing the…	Nay	Mar 16, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 515 — Authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities…	Nay	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2652 — Requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2605 — Designating a portion of U.S. highway 36 as the undersheriff Brandon Gaede memorial highway.	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2568 — Authorizing the adoption of certain rules and regulations related to fees, registrations and other charges by the department of wildlife…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2540 — Exempting contingent deferred annuities from certain requirements of the standard nonforfeiture law for individual deferred annuities act…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2507 — Removing the requirement for migratory waterfowl stamps to be validated by a signature across the face of each such stamp and increasing…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2478 — Requiring that advanced practice registered nurses and registered nurse anesthetists submit to a criminal history check upon application…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2433 — Clarifying county authority over the transfer or appropriation of water by placing such authority, except for domestic use, with the chief…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2413 — Enhancing the criminal penalty for an offense committed with the intent to commit transnational repression, requiring the development of…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2250 — Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted infections, authorizing a licensed private psychiatric…	Yea	Mar 13, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 406 — Directing the governor to approve eligible programs for workforce Pell grants and providing requirements for the state workforce…	Yea	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 384 — Extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming…	Nay	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 381 — Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an…	Nay	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 340 — Prohibiting promise scholarship awards from being used to fund corequisite courses.	Yea	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 304 — Establishing the born to invest act and requiring the office of vital statistics to provide data to the office of the state treasurer for…	Yea	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2635 — Enacting the pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act to protect the ability of private pregnancy centers to provide…	Nay	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2212 — Senate Substitute for HB 2212 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing the governor to make a declaration of need for enhanced public safety…	Yea	Mar 12, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 299 — Requiring the supreme court nominating commission to release certain records under the Kansas open records act.	Yea	Mar 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SR 1728 — Approving the gaming compact with the Wyandotte Nation.	Yea	Mar 10, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (45 as lead sponsor)