Pat Pettey

KS Senate District 6

Democratic Kansas since Jan 14, 2013

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Issue areas

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Labor & Employment 7 Education 4 Criminal Justice & Policing 3 Economy & Taxes 3 Civil Rights & Liberties 2 Social Services & Welfare 2 Veterans Affairs 2 Defense & Military 1 Government Operations & Budget 1 Healthcare 1 Housing 1 Immigration 1 Other 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
KS Senate District 6 current Kansas	Democratic	Jan 14, 2013	—	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
SB 321 — Designating certain bridges on U.S. highway 69 and 18th street expressway in Johnson county as the Representative Robert M Tomlinson…	Yea	Mar 27, 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	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 260 — Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for…	Yea	Mar 27, 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	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 92 — Extending the expiration date for provisions that authorize an electric utility to not offer parallel generation service to certain large…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 84 — Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for allowing an adult to receive decision-making…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2745 — Senate Substitute for HB 2745 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2731 — Requiring the department of health and environment in coordination with the Kansas department for aging and disability services to seek…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2651 — Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a…	Nay	Mar 27, 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 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2626 — Expanding veterans preference in government employment to include current members of the national guard and such members' eligible spouses.	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2594 — Modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2587 — Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2560 — Concerning postsecondary education; authorizing the state board of regents to sell and convey certain real property in the city of…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2534 — Requiring school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and maintain a supply of naloxone in all schools, requiring the…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2521 — Expanding the Kansas tort claims act to include child placement agencies that contract with the secretary for children and families.	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2518 — Enacting the Kansas transparency in consumer legal funding act.	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2485 — Authorizing the chief executive officer of the board of regents to negotiate and settle repayment obligations arising under financial aid…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2466 — Enacting the Kansas sports authority act, authorizing STAR bond projects in major amusement park areas and extending the expiration date of…	Yea	Mar 27, 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 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2412 — Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist, fascist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2402 — Senate Substitute for HB 2402 by Committee on Education - Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2357 — Substitute for HB 2357 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for expungement of certain court records and consideration of mediation in…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2333 — Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2164 — Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending…	Nay	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (20 as lead sponsor)