Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SR1715

Introduced
3/13/25  
Passed
3/13/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  

Caption

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

Summary

Senate Resolution 1715 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 importance of reducing stigma around treatment, and emphasizes the need for community support, especially for youth facing mental and behavioral health challenges. The resolution specifically acknowledges the work of Youth Leaders in Kansas (YLINK), the Kansas Mental Health Coalition, and related youth advocacy groups that are visiting the Capitol to meet with legislators and promote mental health services, wellness programs, prevention messaging, and suicide prevention efforts. It also commends the Legislature, Governor, and state agencies for recent planning, implementation, and investment in the behavioral health system.

Impact

SR 1715 does not change state law, create new programs, or appropriate funds. Its effect is symbolic and commemorative: it formally designates a day of recognition at the Capitol and publicly supports advocacy efforts for mental health and behavioral health services. The resolution may help elevate awareness among lawmakers and the public, but it does not alter statutory duties, benefits, or agency authority.

Sentiment

The sentiment around the resolution is strongly supportive and noncontroversial. The bill text praises recent state efforts to improve behavioral health services and frames mental health advocacy as a shared priority for lawmakers, agencies, families, providers, and youth advocates. The broad list of bipartisan sponsors also suggests general agreement with the resolution’s message.

Contention

There is little visible contention in the bill text or available legislative history because the measure is a recognition resolution rather than a policy change. The only implied policy emphasis is on continued investment in mental health and behavioral health services, youth advocacy, and suicide prevention, but no opposing viewpoints are recorded in the provided materials. Any differences would likely be about broader mental health funding or service priorities rather than the resolution itself.

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.