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SB35Introduced in the Senate

Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.

Passed

Introduced by Assessment and Taxation

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas educational building fund and the state institutions building fund and providing for financing therefor from the state general fund.

Where it stands

Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025

April 10, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

SenateStage: Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted - Yea: 40 Nay: 0 · March 27, 2025

40

Yes

0

No

0

Absent or Not Voting

40 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Craig Bowser1Yes
Marci Francisco2Yes
Rick Kloos3Yes
David Haley4Yes
Jeff Klemp5Yes
Pat Pettey6Yes
Ethan Corson7Yes
Cindy Holscher8Yes
Beverly Gossage9Yes
Mike Thompson10Yes

Bill history

  1. Senate Introduced

  2. Senate Referred to Committee on Assessment and Taxation

  3. Senate Hearing: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 9:30 AM Room 548-S

  4. Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Assessment and Taxation

  5. Senate Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

  6. Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Starnes

  7. Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Starnes was adopted

  8. Senate Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Tyson

  9. Senate Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Tyson was adopted

  10. Senate Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended

  11. Senate Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 2

  12. House Received and Introduced

  13. House Referred to Committee on Taxation

  14. House Hearing: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 3:30 PM Room 346-S

  15. House Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Taxation

  16. House Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Smith, A.

  17. House Representative Poetter Parshall raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled germane.

  18. House Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Smith, A. was adopted

  19. House Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

  20. House Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 109 Nay: 9

  21. Senate Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Senator Tyson , Senator Peck and Senator Corson as conferees

  22. House Motion to accede adopted; Representative Smith, A., Representative Turner and Representative Sawyer appointed as conferees

  23. House Conference committee report now available

  24. House Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 96 Nay: 26

  25. Senate Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0

  26. Senate Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 31, 2025

  27. Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025

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