Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2150

Introduced
1/29/25  

Caption

Establishing the advisory commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander affairs.

Impact

The commission is mandated to conduct studies, gather information, and cooperate with state departments to improve services in multiple areas such as culture, education, employment, and health specifically catered to Asian-American Pacific Islanders. This will enhance public awareness regarding the challenges these communities face and facilitate a platform for proposing new programs and evaluating existing services. The establishment of this commission signifies a step towards inclusivity and recognition of the unique issues faced by Asian-American Pacific Islander individuals in Kansas.

Summary

House Bill 2150 establishes the Advisory Commission on Asian-American Pacific Islander Affairs in Kansas, aimed at addressing the concerns and needs of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities. The commission will advise the governor and consist of seven appointed members representing different political parties and congressional districts within the state. The appointments will reflect balanced representation to ensure diverse perspectives are included in discussions of policies affecting these communities. Members will serve three-year terms, ensuring continuity and stability within the commission.

Contention

While the bill is largely viewed as a positive move toward representation, potential concerns could arise regarding how effectively the commission will operate within the state bureaucracy and whether its recommendations will be acted upon by the governor and state agencies. Questions about the commission's funding and resources necessary for executing its responsibilities may also emerge as stakeholders look to ensure that the commission has the capacity to fulfill its intended role in service of the Asian-American Pacific Islander community.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SCR1603

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for residential property.

KS SCR1604

Proposing to amend section 1 of article 11 of the constitution of the state of Kansas to limit property tax valuation increases for real property and personal property mobile homes.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS SB3

Clarifying the procedures and restrictions on accepting a nomination for an elected office.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

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