Kansas has a new anti-DEI law, but the governor has vetoed bills on abortion and even police dogs
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Students walk down Jayhawk Boulevard, the main street through the main University of Kansas campus, Friday, April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. The Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees higher education, has drafted a new policy against requiring diversity, equity and inclusion statements on applications for students, job seekers and staff promotions. (AP Photo/John Hanna)FILE - Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions from reporters following an event at the Shawnee County, Kan., jail, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Topeka, Kan., as her communications coordinator, Grace Hoge, watches behind her. Kelly on Friday, April 29, 2024, vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature to become law without her signature(AP Photo/John Hanna, File)This photo from Friday, April 12, 2024, shows the sign above the door to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging inside the main administration building on the main University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan. Republican lawmakers across the U.S. are seeking to restrict diversity initiatives on colleges campuses, arguing that they enforce a liberal orthodoxy. (AP Photo/John Hanna)This photo from Friday, April 12, 2024, shows the door to the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in the main administration building on the main University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kan. Republican legislators in Kansas and other states are trying to restrict diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education. (AP Photo/John Hanna)In this photo from Wednesday, March 27, 2024, three anti-abortion lobbyists sit in the second row of the main Kansas House gallery, monitoring its debates and votes, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. They are, left to right, Lucrecia Nold, of the Kansas Catholic Conference; Brittany Jones, of the Kansas Family Voice and Jeanne Gawdun, of Kansans for Life. (AP Photo/John Hanna)Kansas state Sen. Dennis Pyle, left, R-Hiawatha, confers with Sen. Brenda Dietrich, R-Topeka, during the Senate session, Friday, April 5, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Pyle supports a bill to make it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion, while Dietrich passed the last time senators considered it. (AP Photo/John Hanna)In this photo provided by the Kansas House of Representatives, Oz, a Wichita, Kan., police dog, sits on a leash from his handler, Sedgwick County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Brooks, during a Senate committee hearing on a bill to increase the state's penalties for killing a police dog or horse, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Brooks' former K-9 partner, Bane, was strangled to death by a domestic violence suspect, and Brooks had a hand in drafting the bill. (Carrie Rahfaldt/Kansas House of Representatives via AP)In this photo provided by the Kansas House of Representatives, Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, poses on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, with law enforcement officers from the Wichita area and Oz, a Wichita police dog, in the House chamber in Topeka, Kan. Oz's handler, Sedgwick County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Brooks, appears left of the dog, while Hawkins appears to the dog's right. The photo behind the group is of Brooks' former K-9 partner, Bane, who was strangled to death by a domestic violence suspect. Brooks had a hand in drafting a bill to increase the penalties for killing police dogs. (Carrie Rahfaldt/Kansas House of Representatives via AP)Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins, R-Wichita, turns to talk to colleagues following a House vote on legislation to increase the state's penalties for killing police dogs and horses, Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Hawkins pushed for the bill and it has passed and gone to Gov. Laura Kelly. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Students walk down Jayhawk Boulevard, the main street through the main University of Kansas campus, Friday, April 12, 2024, in Lawrence, Kan. The Kansas Board of Regents, which oversees higher education, has drafted a new policy against requiring diversity, equity and inclusion statements on applications for students, job seekers and staff promotions. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
