Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HR6035

Introduced
3/10/26  
Passed
3/10/26  
Enrolled
3/12/26  

Caption

Commending Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve and acknowledging the patriotic commitment of all Kansas employers who support their employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve.

Summary

House Resolution 6035 is a ceremonial resolution that commends Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) and recognizes Kansas employers that support employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. The resolution praises service members as citizen warriors who balance civilian employment and family responsibilities with military duties, including deployments and emergency response roles. It also highlights ESGR’s role in helping resolve conflicts between military obligations and civilian employment. The resolution emphasizes the importance of employer flexibility, leave policies, and job protection for Guard and Reserve members, noting that these protections are consistent with the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). It frames employer support as a contribution to both state and national security and as an expression of patriotism and civic responsibility.

Impact

HR6035 does not create, amend, or repeal any Kansas statutes and has no direct regulatory or fiscal effect. Its impact is symbolic: it formally recognizes ESGR, applauds supportive employers, and reinforces awareness of existing federal employment protections for service members under USERRA. The resolution may encourage continued employer cooperation with Guard and Reserve obligations, but it does not change legal rights or duties in state law.

Sentiment

The sentiment around the resolution is strongly positive and noncontroversial. The bill’s language is appreciative and supportive of military service members, their families, and employers who accommodate service-related absences. No opposition, committee controversy, or recorded dissent appears in the provided materials, and the House adopted the resolution.

Contention

There are no notable points of contention in the available record. Because the measure is a commendation rather than a policy change, it does not present competing legal or budgetary interests. The only substantive policy reference is to USERRA, but that appears as background recognition of existing federal protections rather than an issue of dispute.

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 SR1702

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

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 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 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 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 SCR1601

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

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.

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.