# Barbara Ballard

Barbara Ballard is a Democratic member of the Kansas House for district 44.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Kansas House, district 44
- Serving since: 1993-01-11
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/3bf41768-e1b5-4017-8ab5-8d1fb1d6521c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/3bf41768-e1b5-4017-8ab5-8d1fb1d6521c (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Ballard reported $4,400 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom quarter of State House Democrats (median $40.4K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.40 (standard error 0.02), from 7 donors and 597 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 81% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 28 bills: 20 reached committee, 1 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 3.6% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas House 13.7%; rank 98 of 124).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 6043: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Melody McCray-Miller. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6043/
- HR 6044: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Harold Lane. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6044/
- HR 6040: Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. (introduced, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6040/
- HR 6034: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6034/
- HB 2707: Modifying the definition of abuse in the protection from abuse act to include certain acts or threats related to pets and specifying that courts may include… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2707/
- HB 2678: Enacting the Kansas medical cannabis act to authorize the cultivation, processing, distribution, sale and use of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2678/
- HB 2629: Increasing the amount of the standard deduction for Kansas income tax purposes. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2629/
- HCR 5025: Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas to decrease the assessed valuation for real property used for residential purposes from 111/2% to 9%. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5025/
- HB 2632: Increasing the household income and appraised value thresholds for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2632/
- HB 2630: Providing the authority for counties and cities to levy an additional liquor enforcement tax for property tax reduction. (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2630/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $4,400 (State House Democrats median $40.4K). Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/members/rep_ballard_barbara_1/
- X: https://x.com/BallardforKS
- X: https://x.com/BBallard2012
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepBarbaraBallard
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-ballard-0467166a/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/3bf41768-e1b5-4017-8ab5-8d1fb1d6521c