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 2124 — Providing cities the authority to allow the driving of golf carts upon sidewalks and permitting local authorities with jurisdiction over…	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2117 — Modifying certain business filing and fee requirements for business trusts, foreign corporations and limited partnerships; authorizing…	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2092 — Setting the time for professional employer organization registration expiration, renewal and the filing of audits with the secretary of…	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2062 — Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception, including the direct medical and pregnancy-related…	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2029 — Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2027 — Reorganizing subsections of the public assistance statute.	Yea	Mar 12, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SCR 1611 — Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for direct election of supreme court justices and abolish the supreme court nominating…	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 269 — Providing that future income tax and privilege tax rate decreases be contingent on exceeding revenue estimates and retaining a certain…	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 237 — Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 194 — Providing that covenants, conditions or restrictions established between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1958, that restrict the use of…	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 4 — Requiring the return of advance voting ballots by 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election.	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
HB 2261 — Providing that Kansas highway patrols officers majors are to be within the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and a…	Yea	Mar 6, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SCR 1604 — Making application to the United States congress to call a convention of the states for the purpose of proposing amendments to limit the…	Yea	Feb 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 137 — Authorizing the sale or transfer of forfeited firearms under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act to a licensed firearm…	Yea	Feb 27, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 33 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 33 by Committee on Taxation - Providing that countywide retailers' sales tax is apportioned based on…	Yea	Feb 27, 2025	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	Feb 19, 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	Feb 19, 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…	Nay	Feb 19, 2025	fail	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…	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 241 — Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.	Yea	Feb 19, 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	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 222 — Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer…	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 204 — Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief…	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 199 — Designating the existing fallen firefighters memorial within the Kansas firefighters museum in Wichita as the official fallen firefighters…	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS
SB 197 — House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Setting visitor origin requirements…	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	pass	LegiScan API LegiScan-ToS

Issue areas

Offices & terms

Roll-call votes (687 recorded)

Sponsored legislation (17 as lead sponsor)