Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HR6001

Introduced
1/13/25  
Passed
1/13/25  
Enrolled
1/17/25  

Caption

Providing for the organization of the House of Representatives for the 2025 legislative session

Impact

The resolution affects the internal workings and leadership structure of the House of Representatives. By clearly identifying the key officials, it ensures that the legislative body can function efficiently and maintain order throughout the session. The organization outlined in HR6001 is essential for coordinating legislative activities, scheduling discussions, and managing the workflow of bills and resolutions during the term of the new government.

Summary

HR6001 is a resolution that formalizes the organization of the House of Representatives for the 2025 legislative session in Kansas. It outlines the officers of the House, including the Speaker, Speaker Pro Tempore, Majority Leader, and Minority Leader, among others. The bill serves as a procedural mechanism to declare that the House is duly organized and ready to conduct its legislative business. Importantly, this resolution sets the framework for the operation of the House moving forward into the legislative session.

Sentiment

The sentiment surrounding HR6001 is largely procedural and supportive, as resolutions of this nature typically enjoy broad bipartisan backing. Since it primarily focuses on organizational aspects, there are generally fewer points of contention. Legislative resolutions that establish order and define leadership roles are essential, and they benefit from consensus among House members.

Contention

Given the nature of HR6001, notable contention is minimal. Resolutions concerning organizational procedures tend not to provoke significant debate; rather, they are mechanisms to ensure that necessary administrative proceedings are acknowledged and put into action. While individual perspectives on the leadership choices may differ, such discussions often occur outside the scope of the resolution itself.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HR6001

Providing for the organization of the House of Representatives for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS HR6002

Providing for assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS SR1701

Providing for the organization of the Senate for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS HCR5002

Providing for the adjournment sine die of the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS SCR1601

Informing the Governor that the two houses of the Legislature are organized and ready to receive communications.

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 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 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 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 HB2002

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

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.