Stephen Owens

KS Senate District 31

Republican Kansas since Jan 13, 2025

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Issue areas

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Government Operations & Budget 3 Civil Rights & Liberties 2 Defense & Military 2 Economy & Taxes 2 Elections & Voting 2 Veterans Affairs 2 Banking & Finance 1 Criminal Justice & Policing 1 Education 1 Gun Policy 1 Other 1 Technology & Privacy 1 Transportation & Infrastructure 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
KS Senate District 31 current Kansas	Republican	Jan 13, 2025	—	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
SB 269 — Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 250 — Enacting the right to try for individualized treatments act to permit a manufacturer to make an individualized investigative treatment…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 218 — Increasing the Kansas minimum wage of employees.	Nay	Mar 27, 2025	fail	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 216 — Establishing the Kansas paid sick time act, setting accrual, usage and employer obligations regarding earned paid sick time and making it…	Nay	Mar 27, 2025	fail	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 179 — Establishing a child income tax credit.	Nay	Mar 27, 2025	fail	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 126 — House Sub for SB 126 - Establishing an advance universal newborn screening program, providing for the reimbursement of certain treatment…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 125 — Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state…	Nay	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 64 — Adjusting certain internal KPERS act statutory references, extending the time for filing administrative appeals and updating provisions…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 50 — Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarship programs administered by the Kansas board of regents, authorizing the…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 45 — Substitute for SB 45 by Committee on Education - Requiring the state board of education to calculate graduation rates for all school…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 42 — Providing for the establishment of a web-based online insurance verification system for the verification of evidence of motor vehicle…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 35 — Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 21 — Amending the Kansas parimutuel racing act regarding qualifications for an organization license, the definition of horsemen's associations…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2371 — Amending the Kansas revised limited liability company act, the business entity transactions act and the business entity standard treatment…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2347 — Changing the culpability required for certain types of theft and increasing the criminal penalty for theft to a felony when the property is…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2342 — Authorizing the attorney general and the state gaming agency to receive certain additional criminal history records, updating criminal…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2334 — Enacting the Kansas protected cell captive insurance company act, providing for the redomestication of a foreign or alien captive insurance…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2280 — Adding a citation to the code of federal regulations to the definition of veteran and disabled veteran and removing the active requirement…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2183 — Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2169 — Providing for an exemption from remediation costs or other liability from prior commercial pesticide application by the United States army…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	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…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2122 — Increasing the annual license fees of electric and hybrid passenger vehicles, trucks and electric motorcycles and distributing the fees to…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2054 — Senate Substitute for HB 2054 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Increasing the limits on certain campaign contributions under the…	Nay	Mar 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HCR 5011 — Senate Substitute for HCR 5011 by Committee on Assessment and Taxation - Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of…	Nay	Mar 26, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 227 — Providing for different credit percentages for the tax credit for expenditures for the restoration and preservation of historic structures…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (17 as lead sponsor)