Ethan Corson

Voted for the final version of a law regulating pharmacy benefit managers, the companies that handle prescription drug benefits, and requiring them to register with the state. The Senate adopted it 32-8 (Senate Bill 20).

March 24, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 314, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of Substitute for SB 29, which stripped county and joint boards of health and local health officers of authority to issue disease-control orders; the override prevailed 31-9.

April 10, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 375, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 391, which barred cities and counties from enacting ordinances requiring landlords to lease to tenants based on source of income such as housing vouchers; the override prevailed 31-8.

April 9, 2026Supports Housing Affordability

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 317, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 79, which directed the Secretary for Children and Families to seek a federal waiver restricting the food items purchasable with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits; the override prevailed 29-11.

April 10, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted against overriding the governor's veto of a bill giving Kansans a tax credit for donations to private school scholarship groups. The Senate overrode the veto 29-10 (Senate Bill 361).

April 9, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

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Voted Nay in the Kansas Senate on the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of HB 2058, the firearms bill reducing underlying felonies for criminal possession of a weapon and extending concealed carry licensing and reciprocity provisions; the override prevailed 31-8.

May 3, 2021Supports Gun Control

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 319, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of HB 2062, which authorized child support orders for unborn children dating from conception and covering direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses; the override prevailed 31-9.

April 10, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 322, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of Senate Substitute for HB 2382, which required school districts to show students a fetal development presentation including ultrasound video and computer-generated animation; the override prevailed 31-9.

April 10, 2025Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 289, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of HB 2749, which required medical care facilities and providers to report to the Secretary of Health and Environment the reason for each abortion performed; the override prevailed 27-10.

April 29, 2024Supports Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 315, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 269, which tied future individual income tax and privilege tax rate reductions to state revenues exceeding estimates; the override prevailed 30-10.

April 10, 2025Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 294, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of House Substitute for SB 169, which set a single 5.25% individual income tax rate, cut the corporate normal tax and privilege tax, and discontinued the food sales tax credit; the override failed 26-14.

April 26, 2023Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 386, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of HB 2437, the Save Kansas Act directing additional resources and data matching for verifying voter registration records; the override prevailed 28-11.

April 9, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 53, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of House Substitute for SB 244, which required multiple-occupancy private spaces such as restrooms and locker rooms in public buildings to be designated by biological sex; the override prevailed 31-9.

February 17, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 251, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 4, which eliminated the three-day grace period and required advance voting ballots to be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day; the override prevailed 30-10.

March 25, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 40, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 63, the Help Not Harm Act restricting state funds used to promote gender transitioning and prohibiting gender transition care for children; the override prevailed 31-9.

February 18, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted against overriding the governor's veto of the Forbidding Abuse Child Transitions Act, which bars health providers from giving gender transition care to minors and lets patients sue providers. The override passed 27-13, so the ban became law (Senate Bill 233).

April 29, 2024Supports Civil Rights

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay on Senate Roll Call 295, the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of SB 180, the Women's Bill of Rights defining biological sex for purposes of statutory construction; the override prevailed 28-12.

April 26, 2023Supports Civil Rights

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Voted Nay in the Kansas Senate on the motion to override Governor Laura Kelly's veto of HB 2183, the elections bill that barred election officials from receiving private election funding, limited how many advance ballots one person may deliver, required matching signatures on advance ballots, and removed the Secretary of State's authority to extend the ballot receipt deadline; the override prevailed 28-12.

May 3, 2021Supports Civil Rights

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Served as Kansas Senate Democratic Caucus Chair and as ranking minority member of the Senate Committees on Assessment and Taxation, Judiciary, and Transportation during the 2025-2026 biennium, having represented Senate District 7 in Johnson County since 2021, as listed on his official Kansas Legislature member page verified on this date.

July 23, 2026

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026

Co-sponsored a Kansas law creating new specialty license plates, including Chiefs, Royals, Sporting KC, Current, two zoos and Support the Troops. The governor signed it in 2024 (Senate Bill 359).

April 22, 2024

Source: kslegislature.gov · researched July 23, 2026