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Establishing the Affordable Healthcare for Kansans program to expand medicaid eligibility.

Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products.

Establishing the no kid hungry in schools program to reimburse school districts for the cost of providing certain meals to students attending public school.

Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans.

Increasing the extent of property tax exemption from the statewide school levy for residential property.

Establishing a refundable income tax credit for tuition payments and fees made to postsecondary educational institutions.

Increasing the eligible credit amount for the earned income tax credit.

Enacting the Kansas paid family leave act.

Establishing a right to paid sick leave for Kansas employees and setting forth minimum requirements and rules for the provision of such sick leave.

Defining emergency opioid antagonist as including an expired emergency opioid antagonist for a person rendering aid to another in reasonable need of medical assistance.

Requiring that certain health insurance plans impose a no-cost sharing requirement for a diagnostic or supplemental breast cancer examination for breast cancer imposed on an insured.

Increasing the Kansas minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Providing a sales tax exemption for feminine hygiene products and diapers.

Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include orders relating to pets in protection from abuse act orders.

Enacting the Kansas tri-share child care act for the sharing of child care costs among employers, employees and the state, establishing the Kansas tri-share child care matching program to be administered by the director of the Kansas office of early …

Enacting the adult use cannabis regulation act to regulate the cultivation, manufacturing, possession and sale of cannabis in this state.

Increasing the minimum wage for employees that receive tips and gratuities.