Kansans face new laws on smoking gun carry BYOB and betting
Kansas begins a wave of legal changes with a 50 cent cigarette tax increase and free concealed carry, while BYOB expands to more businesses and powdered alcohol is banned. The state also loosens public drinking rules and requires moose identification for off ranch moves amid a tight budget fight. Gov Brownback has signed 103 laws, vetoed one, with 24 legislative days left to act.
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Kansas lawmakers pass varied new laws on crime voting and animals
New laws address civil suits for human trafficking victims and harsher penalties for drunken or drugged driving causing injuries. They regulate cervids transfers, shift local elections to odd numbered years, expand fraud prosecutions, tougher DUI record rules, limit restraints in schools, empower the attorney general to enforce open meetings and records laws.
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Five years of Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act impact
Kansas cities began smoking bans in 2002 with Salina leading the way. By 2009 more than three dozen Kansas towns, cities, and counties enacted bans, expanding to the statewide act. Public support was high, and health metrics show declines in lung disease and heart attack discharge rates since 2009, though direct attribution remains cautious.
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