Enacting the Kansas public investments and contracts protection act concerning environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, prohibiting the state and political subdivisions from giving preferential treatment to or discriminating against companies based on such ESG criteria in procuring or letting contracts, requiring KPERS fiduciaries to act solely in the financial interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the system, restricting state agencies from adopting ESG criteria or requiring any person or business to operate in accordance with such criteria, directing registered investment advisers to provide ESG criteria notice to clients and providing for enforcement of such act by the attorney general.
Legislative Session
2023-2024 Regular Session
Sponsors
No sponsors available.
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2023-03-29 | House Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions |
| 2023-03-29 | House Received and Introduced |
| 2023-03-28 | Senate Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 29 Nay: 11 |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Senator Holscher raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane. |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Steffen |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Tyson was adopted |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Tyson |
| 2023-03-27 | Senate Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted |
| 2023-03-23 | Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| 2023-03-21 | Senate Withdrawn from Calendar, Rereferred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| 2023-03-15 | Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| 2023-03-07 | Senate Hearing: (proponents) Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 10:30 AM Room 144-S |
| 2023-03-06 | Senate Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| 2023-03-06 | Senate Introduced |