Rep. Barbara Ballard
District 44•(D)•Kansas House
Summary
Rep. Barbara Ballard (D) represents Kansas in the House. This session, Rep. Ballard has sponsored 4 bills, co-sponsored 24 bills, voted Yes 354 times, and No 148 times.
Record
Rep. Barbara Ballard is the prime sponsor of 4 bills and a co-sponsor of 24 this session.
Bills
HB 2257Enacting the interstate compact on the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote.Feb 4, 2025 · In House CommitteeHB 2258Terminating the secretary of state's authority to appoint election commissioners and transferring the jurisdiction, powers and duties for conducting elections in those counties with an election commissioner to the county clerk for such county.Feb 4, 2025 · In House CommitteeHB 2198Enacting the gun violence restraining order act to authorize the issuance of protective orders prohibiting the acquisition and possession of firearms by certain individuals.Jan 31, 2025 · In House CommitteeHB 2196Providing a permanent exemption for postsecondary educational institutions from the public buildings requirements under the personal and family protection act.Jan 31, 2025 · In House Committee
Votes
Rep. Barbara Ballard has voted Yes on 354 bills and No on 148 this session.
HB 2763Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.Apr 10, 2026 · Vetoed · Voted AyeHB 2651Limiting the use of a summons instead of a warrant for the arrest of a defendant to misdemeanor crimes and requiring that any bond set on a warrant issued after a failure to appear in response to a summons shall not allow release on the defendant's own recognizance.Apr 10, 2026 · Vetoed · Voted AyeSB 430Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code.Apr 10, 2026 · Signed by Governor · Voted AyeHB 2587Authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies.Apr 10, 2026 · Vetoed · Voted AyeHB 2535Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.Apr 10, 2026 · In House Committee · Voted Aye
