Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HR6008

Introduced
2/11/25  
Passed
2/11/25  
Enrolled
2/18/25  

Caption

Supporting the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing on being a recipient finalist for a KC-46A Pegasus mission and accompanying aircraft.

Impact

The resolution is particularly relevant as it addresses the 190th Air Refueling Wing's transition from the aging KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft to the newer KC-46A Pegasus. This transition is essential for modernizing the fleet to enhance operational effectiveness and ensure that the wing can continue to fulfill vital national security roles. By advocating for this modernization, the resolution underscores the importance of maintaining robust air refueling capabilities within the Kansas Air National Guard.

Summary

House Resolution 6008 expresses support for the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Air Refueling Wing, based at Forbes Field Air National Guard Base. The resolution highlights the wing's significant contributions to national defense and its critical homeland defense missions in collaboration with the United States Strategic Command and the United States Northern Command. It emphasizes the wing's unique qualifications due to its strategic geographic location and extensive experience.

Contention

While the resolution does not present significant points of contention, it serves as an affirmation of the air wing's capabilities and its suitability for the KC-46A mission. The process of transitioning to new aircraft like the KC-46A Pegasus can sometimes face scrutiny regarding funding and resource allocation, but this resolution opts to present a unified front in support of the 190th Air Refueling Wing without delving into potential political or logistical disputes.

Companion Bills

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Previously Filed As

KS SR1702

A resolution honoring the life, career and trailblazing achievements of Kansas icon Ed Dwight.

KS HB2002

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

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 SCR1602

Approving the creation of a port authority in Wyandotte County Kansas.

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 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 SB8

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

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 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 SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

Similar Bills

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