Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HR6014

Introduced
3/12/25  
Passed
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  

Caption

Recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the Capitol.

Summary

House Resolution 6014 is a ceremonial resolution recognizing March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the Capitol. It highlights Kansas’s progress in mental health access, notes the continuing need to reduce stigma around mental health treatment, and emphasizes the importance of community support, youth advocacy, and prevention efforts. The resolution specifically references youth mental and behavioral health concerns and the role of organizations such as Youth Leaders in Kansas (YLINK), the Kansas Mental Health Coalition, Youth Crew, and Clay Counts YLINK in promoting awareness and suicide prevention. The resolution also acknowledges the work of the Legislature, the Governor, and state agencies in expanding and improving the state’s behavioral health continuum of care. It frames the Capitol visit by advocacy groups as an opportunity for Kansans to share personal stories and encourage policymakers to continue supporting mental health and wellness programs. As a resolution, it does not create new programs, funding, or regulatory requirements; instead, it serves as an official legislative recognition and statement of support for mental health advocacy efforts.

Impact

HR 6014 does not amend Kansas statutes or impose legal obligations. Its practical effect is limited to formally designating March 13, 2025, as Mental Health Advocacy Day at the Capitol and expressing legislative support for mental health awareness, youth prevention efforts, suicide prevention, and behavioral health services. The resolution may help elevate advocacy efforts and public attention, but it does not change eligibility, funding, licensing, or service-delivery rules for mental health programs or providers.

Sentiment

The overall sentiment around the resolution is strongly supportive and celebratory. The text praises recent state efforts to improve behavioral health access and explicitly commends policymakers and agencies for strategic planning and investment in services. The resolution is framed as a positive recognition of advocacy groups and youth leaders rather than as a contested policy measure, and there is no recorded committee debate or vote opposition in the provided materials.

Contention

There is little to no apparent contention in the available record because the measure is a nonbinding resolution and no committee transcripts or vote breakdowns are provided. The only substantive policy themes are the need for continued investment in mental health services, the importance of reducing stigma, and the urgency of youth mental and behavioral health concerns. Any disagreement would likely center on broader questions of how much state funding or policy attention should be directed to behavioral health, but those issues are not directly litigated in this resolution.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SR1703

Recognizing November 14, 2024, as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.

KS HB2002

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

KS SR1702

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

KS SB8

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

KS SB6

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

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 SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

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 SCR1602

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

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.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.