Cindy Neighbor is a Democratic state representative who has represented District 18 since January 2017 and is seeking re-election on November 3, 2026.[1]She is the ranking minority member of the Insurance Committee, and Ballotpedia lists her as a former member of the Shawnee Mission School District board and the Kansas State Board of Education.[1]
Cindy Neighbor attended Johnson County Community College and Kansas City Kansas Community College.[1]According to Ballotpedia, her work experience includes serving as a medical administrator and as a public relations and marketing director.[1]She served as president of a parent teacher association, served on the founding committee of the Ronald McDonald House at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and was a member of the Board of Indigent Defense Services, the Kansas State Board of Education and the Teacher Credentialing Board.[1]
Ballotpedia lists Neighbor as having previously held the District 18 House seat from 2003 to 2004 and from 2007 to 2011, and as having served on the Shawnee Mission School District board from 2005 to 2017.[1]She assumed office in the House again on January 9, 2017.[1]For 2025 and 2026 she is assigned to the Child Welfare and Foster Care, Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications, Insurance (ranking minority member), and Pensions, Investments and Benefits committees.[1]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
›Jobs & cost of living175 with · 16 against191 votes
Lets voters petition against local budgets whose property tax revenue exceeds last year's plus inflation (capped at 3 percent). If 10 percent of registered voters sign, the budget is disapproved and limited to prior-year property taxes. Moves the school budget deadline to October 1.
On the version voted Feb 26, 2026: Makes supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for later fiscal years for state agencies, authorizing certain transfers, capital improvement projects, and fees.
Limits the ban on prepayment penalties more than six months after signing to home loans made for personal, family or household purposes, which lets lenders charge prepayment penalties on business-purpose home loans.
Requires political subdivisions to hold an open meeting and make written findings before approving a contingent-fee legal services contract, and requires Attorney General approval before it takes effect; the provisions expire July 1, 2029.
Repeals the Mail Ballot Election Act and all provisions authorizing elections conducted exclusively by mail ballot, without changing advance voting by mail in primary, general, or special elections.
On the version voted Mar 24, 2025: Renames the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission the Kansas Public Disclosure Commission, requires closing campaign accounts of officeholders who decline to run or lose re-election, and amends other campaign finance rules.
Directs the Department for Children and Families to request a federal waiver to bar buying candy and soft drinks with SNAP food assistance, and to bar those purchases if approved. If denied, it must reapply each year.
Directs the children and families secretary to request a federal waiver barring purchase of candy and soft drinks with SNAP benefits, to re-request it yearly if denied, and to implement it within six months if granted.
Requires nursing school faculty to hold a nursing degree at least one level above the degree of the program they teach, bars the Board of Nursing from requiring more advanced credentials, and lets the Board grant exemptions to schools with hiring hardships.
On the version voted Mar 17, 2026: Has Kansas elect to take part in the federal tax credit for contributions to scholarship granting organizations for tax years after 2026, and raises the aggregate cap on the state's low-income scholarship tax credit program.
Requires nursing school faculty to hold a nursing degree at least one level above the degree of the program they teach, bars the Board of Nursing from requiring more advanced credentials, and lets the Board grant exemptions to schools with hiring hardships.
On the version voted Apr 10, 2025: Bars the Secretary for Children and Families from adopting policies that require out-of-home, adoptive or custodian applicants to affirm governmental policy on sexual orientation or gender identity conflicting with their religious or moral beliefs, or that disqualify them for those beliefs; allows suits against DCF.
Requires local governments to approve or deny single-family building permits within 60 days of a complete application or the permit is deemed approved, and requires the health department to act on construction stormwater notices within 45 days.
Exempts public utilities from civil liability for law enforcement equipment placed on utility poles or other utility structures under an agreement with a police department or sheriff's office.
Mar 24, 2025 · Passed 78–44 · against most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Authorizes the state health department to adopt proposed permanent rules KAR 28-31-10 and 28-31-10b, covering hazardous waste monitoring and permit application fees.
Requires driver's licenses to list citizenship status and lets a person whose license lists them as a noncitizen but who claims to be a citizen obtain a provisional ballot.
Requires the Division of Vehicles to give the Secretary of State a quarterly list of noncitizens with driver's licenses, checked against voter rolls; county officials must remove matching noncitizens within five business days and notify them they can be reinstated with proof of citizenship.
On the version voted Mar 13, 2025: Authorizes a Hunter Nation license plate starting January 1, 2026, for passenger vehicles and trucks up to 20,000 pounds. Hunter Nation, Inc. sets a royalty of $25 to $100, paid at issuance and renewal.
Limits the ban on prepayment penalties more than six months after signing to home loans made for personal, family or household purposes, which lets lenders charge prepayment penalties on business-purpose home loans.
On the version voted Apr 10, 2026: Bars cities and counties from adopting or enforcing local rules that stop landlords from refusing housing-voucher payments, restrict tenant screening criteria, cap security deposits, or require a right of first refusal for tenants; voids such rules adopted before July 1, 2026.
On the version voted Apr 10, 2026: Proposes a constitutional amendment limiting yearly growth in taxable assessed value of real property and residential mobile homes to 3 percent, with exceptions such as new construction and reclassification, if approved by two-thirds of each chamber and voters.
Enacts the SAVE Act, barring compensation for referring a veteran to others, and for services on claims filed within one year of active-duty release unless the veteran signs a waiver; requires written fee agreements before services.
Expands veteran's preference in government hiring to certain National Guard and reserve members and eligible spouses, creates a Capitol kiosk listing Kansas military members killed in service, creates a Kansas Military Affairs Commission, and limits fees for help with veterans benefits claims.
Declares the World Health Organization, United Nations and World Economic Forum have no jurisdiction in Kansas and bars the state, its agencies and local governments from enforcing any of their rules, fees, taxes, policies or mandates.
Limits online voter registration to .gov websites or sites approved by the Secretary of State under data-protection criteria, and makes running an unapproved voter registration website a crime.
Bars state agencies from letting employees access designated foreign-adversary AI platforms such as DeepSeek on state devices and networks, and bars medical and research facilities from using genetic sequencers and software made by foreign adversaries.
Requires public school districts, and permits accredited nonpublic schools, to adopt policies banning student cell phone use during the school day, with phones turned off and stowed, sets enforcement procedures, and provides indemnity for lost or damaged devices.
Voted against most of their party on 35 of 294 party-divided votes on file.
Most often on: Jobs & cost of living (13), Rights & public safety (12), Housing & rent (5)
Enacting the Kansas sports authority act, authorizing STAR bond projects in major amusement park areas and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on HB 2466, which creates the Kansas Sports Facilities Authority to build a stadium for an NFL team, extends STAR Bonds to 2031, and changes Attracting Professional Sports Fund uses. (AI-written)
What it does: Creates the Kansas Sports Facilities Authority to build a stadium and related infrastructure for an NFL team's home games. Changes STAR Bonds law, extending it to July 1, 2031, and modifies the authorized uses of the…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 16–18, Republicans 62–26
Changing the name of juvenile crisis intervention centers to juvenile stabilization centers, modifying the intake criteria for such centers, prohibiting certain rules and regulations for such centers, modifying the treatment and services provided by such centers, increasing the cumulative detention limit for juvenile offenders and criminal penalties for juvenile offenders who use a firearm in the commission of an offense or who are repeat offenders, providing for increased placement of offenders in non-foster home beds in youth residential facilities, requiring the secretary of corrections to pay for the costs associated with such placements, authorizing the secretary to make expenditures from the evidence-based programs account of the state general fund moneys to contract for such beds and transferring moneys from such account of the state general fund to the department for children and families to provide juvenile stabilization services.
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on HB 2329, which changes juvenile sentencing and placement rules, renames juvenile crisis intervention centers as stabilization centers (adding HB 2639), and lowers a corrections spending cap to $4.5 million. (AI-written)
What it does: On the version voted Apr 9, 2026: Renames juvenile crisis intervention centers as juvenile stabilization centers and changes their intake criteria and services. Directs the corrections secretary to contract for out-of…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 4–31, Republicans 85–1
Relating to housing code requirements, removing the definition of apartment houses from chapter 31 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, providing requirements for adoption of the international fire code, 2024 edition, and providing that certain state accessibility standards are not applicable to moderate income housing program and Kansas investor tax credit housing act projects.
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on HB 2739, which exempts apartment houses from State Fire Marshal fire safety rules and requires the Marshal's regulations under the bill to be ratified by a bill. (AI-written)
What it does: Removes apartment houses from State Fire Marshal fire safety rules and repeals the definition of apartment house. Exempts housing financed through two state housing programs from accessibility standards and creates a…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 11–24, Republicans 86–0
Senate Substitute for HB 2501 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Providing for immunity from civil liability to federal firearms licensees for returning a firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of a firearm hold agreement, removing the criminal prohibition against firearm suppressors and shotgun barrel length qualification requirements and providing enhanced penalties for certain felonies committed while using a firearm suppressor or short-barrel shotgun.
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on Senate Sub. for HB 2501, which removes suppressors from weapons crimes, raises sentences for felonies using them or short-barrel shotguns, and uses House Sub. for SB 356's firearm hold agreement provisions. (AI-written)
What it does: Sets rules for firearm hold agreements, where a licensed dealer stores an owner's firearm, including dealer civil immunity. Removes suppressors and the 18-inch shotgun barrel minimum from state weapons crimes; raises…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 14–21, Republicans 85–1
House Subsitute for SB 260 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Relating to campaign finance; concerning a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor; relating to reasons for withdrawal of candidacy from national, state and local offices; relating to the election of the board of directors of certain irrigation districts; specifying when such elections may be conducted by the mail ballot election law; relating to the crime of corrupt political advertising; removing the requirements that treasurers be listed in political advertising attributions; clarifying campaign finance reports regarding vendor information.
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on SB 260, which replaces the bill with provisions on candidate withdrawal, vacancies in the governor-lieutenant governor ticket, "paid for" attributions and campaign vendor expenditure reports. (AI-written)
What it does: Changes election and campaign finance law: lets some local candidates withdraw for severe medical hardship, sets rules for a vacancy in the Governor and Lieutenant Governor joint candidacy, changes paid-for attributio…
Voted yes · most Democrats voted no · Democrats 11–26, Republicans 87–1
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
HB 2763 · KS HOUSE
Requiring 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.
Not votingNO VOTE
Motion: Conference Committee Report was adopted
A yes vote adopted the conference committee report on HB 2763, the elementary school recess bill, accepting the compromise text negotiated between the House and Senate. (AI-written)
Requires public school districts to give elementary students 30 minutes of organized recess daily from 2027-28, bars withholding recess as discipline unless a student is an immediate threat, and requires an annual state physical fitness test for grades 1 through 12.
Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to value residential real, commercial and industrial real property and mobile homes property based on the fair market value or average fair market value of the residential portion and providing the legislature the authority to establish valuation limits for any classes or subclasses of property.
Not votingNO VOTE
Motion: Motion to concur with amendments failed
A yes vote agreed to the Senate's amendments to HCR 5008, the constitutional amendment on valuing residential, commercial and industrial property. (AI-written)
Proposes a constitutional amendment, from tax year 2028, taxing residential, commercial, industrial and farm-building property at the lesser of fair market value or average fair market value, and letting the Legislature set valuation limits for property classes.
Providing 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.
Not votingNO VOTE
Motion: Motion to not adopt Conference Committee Report passed; (Bill is killed)
As rewritten by the conference report voted on, lets Butler, Labette and Leavenworth counties ask voters to approve extra countywide sales taxes for property tax relief, fire departments and emergency management, and keeps the current city-county sales tax sharing formula through 2027.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 88(k), 88(m) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item veto of two provisions in the state budget bill (HB 2513) creating a school-district penalty process for student walkouts and setting education program spending. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 26(a), 53(b), 54(w) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item vetoes in the budget bill (HB 2513), including a provision letting state employees and legislators park in ungated state lots from 5 to 11 p.m. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto 37(e) sustained
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item veto of the budget bill's aviation loan program, which authorizes loans to airport authorities and aircraft maintenance firms funded by up to $50 million. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 54(u), 54(y) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item vetoes of two budget provisions: performance-metric requirements for state-funded program applicants, and unlimited access to state accounting systems for legislative fiscal auditors. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 15(b), 15(c) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item vetoes in the budget bill (HB 2513) of the Board of Nursing's nurse fair treatment and recovery fund and a $500,000 transfer into it. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 37(a) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item veto of the State Treasurer's $3 million pregnancy compassion awareness program (formerly the alternatives to abortion program) in the budget bill. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2026 and appropriations for fiscal years 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers.
NoVOTED
Motion: Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto 72(l), 74(p) overridden
A yes vote overrode the governor's line-item vetoes of two budget provisions requiring spending to implement the CDC immunization schedules in effect July 1, 2026, including Medicaid coverage. (AI-written)
Sets state agency spending for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, including about $27.8 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $26.8 billion in fiscal year 2027 from all funds, and funds a new Office of Early Childhood.
