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
SB 360 — Enacting the Kansas consumer prescription protection and accountability act and providing for regulation and registration of pharmacy…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 356 — House Substitute for SB 356 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 353 — Designating an official Kansas railroad hall of fame and establishing the Kansas railroad hall of fame selection committee.	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 335 — Requiring public construction contracts to include a mutual waiver of consequential damages.	Nay	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 334 — Facilitating nursing workforce development by providing education levels for instructors at nursing schools as a requirement for state…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 325 — Creating the vehicle services modernization task force, providing limitations on expenditures of county treasurer motor vehicle fee funds…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 317 — Providing additional requirements for applications to the water technical assistance fund and the water projects grant fund, including the…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 303 — House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 271 — Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 232 — 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	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 65 — House Substitute for SB 65 by House Committee on Elections - Removing cities, counties, school districts and community colleges from the…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 55 — Prohibiting the assignment of benefits under certain property and casualty insurance contracts and defining such assignment of benefits as…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2329 — Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such…	Nay	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2274 — Designating Kansas as a purple heart state and permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency…	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2223 — Modifying certain provisions of the optometry law relating to scope of practice, definitions and credentialing requirements.	Yea	Feb 18, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 473 — Authorizing Audubon of Kansas to convey certain property in Wabaunsee county and requiring any deeds or conveyances related to such…	Yea	Feb 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 244 — House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring the designation of multiple-occupancy private spaces in public buildings…	Nay	Feb 17, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2004 — Requiring the secretary for children and families and the office of inspector general to exchange information and documents related to cash…	Nay	Feb 16, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 435 — Providing procedures, standards and requirements for the deposit and investment of public moneys, creating the public moneys fee fund and…	Yea	Feb 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 434 — House Substitute for SB 434 by Committee on Taxation - Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing an income tax…	Yea	Feb 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 396 — Reorganizing the Clearwater cemetery district in Sedgwick county to remove Ohio township.	Yea	Feb 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 387 — Requiring school districts to verify the household gross earned income of each student who qualifies for free meals under the national…	Nay	Feb 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 387 — Requiring school districts to verify the household gross earned income of each student who qualifies for free meals under the national…	Yea	Feb 11, 2026	fail	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 367 — Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks.	Yea	Feb 11, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (45 as lead sponsor)