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1 | Page February 7 I ssueFebruary 7 Weekly Legislative Update & One Big ThingWelcome to the 2025 Kansas Legislative Session. This is the first year of the biennium, so bills and resolutions from the 2024 Session do not carry over to the 2025 Session. Bill numbers do not carry over, meaning they start over at 1 (Senate) or 2001 (House). It also means that legislation that was %u201cdead%u201d last year is gone and must be reintroduced this year during the legislative session to be debated and considered.For a review of common legislative terms, legislative districts, committee assignments and other legislative tools, visit KAC%u2019s Advocacy Overview here.Summaries of all legislation passed during the 2024 session can be found at www.klrd.gov under the Publications and Research tab by searching the Summary of Legislation and Legislative Highlights. This includes legislation passed during the 2024 Special Session.What Happened This WeekFirst, a big thank you to everyone that participated in County Day at the Capitol. It is always important to connect with legislators to discuss the work that you all do at the county level. Having this dialogue with legislators allows them to better understand the work you are doing and how that is affected by the legislation that they are working on.Turnaround is just a couple of weeks away. As a reminder, Turnaround is the day by which all nonexempt bills have to be considered in their chamber of origin. That means that a non-exempt House Bill cannot be considered anymore if it has not already passed the House, and a non-exempt Senate Bill cannot be considered anymore if it has not already passed the Senate. This helps keep legislation moving in the process. It also helps thin out the amount of legislation that is still potentially moving forward.In the meantime, though, that means lots of legislators and interested parties are scrambling to get their bills heard and passed across the floor before Turnaround. This past week saw a very full calendar and I would anticipate that continuing through the next two weeks with committees working nearly every day to hear bills or pass them out of committee.Leading off the week, HB 2152, which deals with how the idle funds of governmental units are deposited or invested, was heard in House Financial Institutions and Pensions on Monday. The hearing has a lot of interest from different parties, as it would impact investment income of idle funds. KAC was opposed to this bill, but is still taking feedback from members on what, if any, changes they would like to see in the bill. Given the timing, it will be difficult for this bill to advance this year.SB 70, which would establish fees for electronic records under KORA, as well as allow for minor deviations in executive sessions, was heard in Senate Judiciary. This is generally a good bill. There