Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SCR1613

Introduced
2/19/25  
Passed
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Passed
2/20/25  
Enrolled
2/28/25  

Caption

Providing for the first adjournment of the senate and the house of representatives for a period of time during the 2025 regular session of the legislature.

Impact

The resolution calls for the Senate and House members to not receive subsistence allowances during the designated adjournment period unless they are involved in authorized legislative meetings. This provision aims to manage the financial implications of extended breaks within the legislative schedule while ensuring that essential operations continue, even when the full legislature is not in session.

Summary

SCR1613 pertains to the scheduled adjournment of the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives during the 2025 regular legislative session. Specifically, the resolution mandates that the legislature will adjourn at the close of business on February 20, 2025, and will reconvene on February 25, 2025. This decision reflects a structured approach to legislative management, providing legislators with a specific timeframe during which they will not conduct regular sessions.

Contention

While the resolution itself seems straightforward and procedural in nature, it could bring to light discussions regarding legislative efficiency and the necessity of breaks in the legislative calendar. There might be differing opinions on the appropriateness of such adjournments, especially concerning how they affect legislative progress and the ability to engage in timely discussions on pressing issues facing the state.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS HCR5002

Providing for the adjournment sine die of 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 HR6001

Providing for the organization of 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 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 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 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 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

No similar bills found.