Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HR6039

Introduced
3/17/26  
Passed
3/17/26  
Enrolled
3/24/26  

Caption

Recognizing and honoring SparkWheel for its outstanding service on Kansas youth and families.

Summary

House Resolution 6039 is a ceremonial resolution recognizing and honoring SparkWheel, a Kansas-based nonprofit organization, for its service to Kansas youth and families. The resolution praises SparkWheel’s work in student-centered programming, including mentorship, leadership development, mental health support, career exploration, and wraparound services intended to address the holistic needs of students. The resolution highlights SparkWheel’s partnerships with schools, businesses, and community organizations across Kansas and credits the organization with helping students build confidence, resilience, and practical life skills. It also commends SparkWheel for removing barriers to opportunity by providing resources, trusted relationships, and individualized support to students facing academic, social, and personal challenges. As a house resolution, HR 6039 does not change Kansas statutes, create new legal duties, or appropriate funds. Its effect is symbolic and expressive: it places the House of Representatives on record as recognizing SparkWheel’s contributions and encouraging continued support for its mission. The only formal legislative action reflected in the text is adoption by the House. The general sentiment around the resolution is strongly positive and supportive. The language is celebratory throughout, emphasizing SparkWheel’s innovation, accountability, measurable impact, and alignment with Kansas values. The sponsorship by Representative Jason Goetz and the absence of recorded opposition, committee controversy, or vote details suggest the measure was noncontroversial. There are no substantive points of contention in the available materials. Because the resolution is honorary rather than regulatory, any discussion would likely center on the value of public recognition for a nonprofit and the importance of youth services, mental health support, and school-community partnerships, rather than on policy disagreements.

Impact

HR 6039 has no direct impact on Kansas statutes, regulations, or state spending. It is a nonbinding House resolution that formally recognizes SparkWheel and encourages continued support for its mission, but it does not create legal obligations for the state, schools, or the nonprofit. Its practical effect is limited to public commendation and legislative acknowledgment.

Sentiment

The sentiment is overwhelmingly favorable. The resolution uses laudatory language to praise SparkWheel’s service to youth and families, and the available record shows no committee debate, recorded opposition, or dissenting vote. The measure appears to have been adopted as a routine honorary resolution.

Contention

No notable contention is evident in the bill text or available legislative history. Because HR 6039 is a ceremonial recognition resolution, it does not appear to have raised policy disputes, fiscal concerns, or legal objections. Any discussion would likely have been limited to whether SparkWheel’s work merited formal recognition, a point the resolution answers affirmatively.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

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 SR1703

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

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 SB8

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

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.

Similar Bills

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