Stephen Owens

KS Senate District 31

Republican Kansas since Jan 13, 2025

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

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
HB 2729 — Requiring the Kansas department of health and environment to provide forms and notices to physicians pursuant to the woman's-right-to know…	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2727 — Providing for the plaintiff to elect to limit recovery in claims brought for violations of the woman's-right-to-know act and making the…	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2719 — Providing an exception to the rules and regulations filing act for technical amendments, creating a process for certain rules and…	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2603 — Prohibiting regulation of battery-charged security fences by municipalities.	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2593 — Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such…	Yea	Apr 9, 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.	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2437 — Establishing the save Kansas act, authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, imposing…	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2372 — Senate Substitute for HB 2372 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of unlawful approach of a first responder and…	Yea	Apr 9, 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…	Yea	Apr 9, 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…	Yea	Apr 9, 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…	Yea	Apr 9, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 487 — Requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to implement a statewide offender registration system for agencies who register offenders…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 462 — Prohibiting persons who engaged in wrongful conduct from recovering damages in certain civil actions, prohibiting certain public nuisance…	Yea	Mar 27, 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	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 418 — Enacting the by-right housing development act to provide a streamlined permit approval process for by-right housing developments, allowing…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 412 — Imposing a duty on a conservator to notify certain entities and persons of any court order commanding performance or safekeeping of a…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 403 — Providing for the pheasants forever, quail forever and delta waterfowl distinctive license plates, restricting the use of material or…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 391 — Prohibiting cities and counties from adopting or enforcing any ordinance or resolution that requires landlords to lease housing to tenants…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 382 — Providing for the administration of statewide assessments to virtual school students by such students' virtual schools, adding third…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 380 — Requiring retail electric suppliers to provide fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates and services to entities that provide electric…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 374 — Permitting a municipal judge to initiate a psychiatric or psychological examination to determine competence, setting forth relevant…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 368 — Enacting the health care sharing ministries tax deduction act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing…	Yea	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 361 — Electing to participate in the federal tax credit for individual contributions to scholarship granting organizations.	Yea	Mar 27, 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	Mar 27, 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	Mar 27, 2026	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (17 as lead sponsor)