Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SR1730

Introduced
3/10/26  
Passed
3/10/26  
Enrolled
3/13/26  

Caption

Celebrating the YMCA's 175th Anniversary.

Summary

Senate Resolution 1730 is a ceremonial resolution celebrating the YMCA’s 175th anniversary and recognizing the organization’s long history of service in Kansas and across the United States. The resolution recounts the YMCA’s origins in 1851, highlights major milestones such as its role in child care, youth development, education, fitness, and humanitarian efforts, and notes its continued presence in communities nationwide. It also emphasizes the YMCA’s Kansas footprint, including service to hundreds of thousands of Kansans through programs, meals, volunteers, employees, and financial assistance. The resolution further praises the YMCA for providing programs and spaces that promote health, belonging, and community connection, including swim lessons, youth sports, camping, meal programs, and services for older adults. It encourages continued support for the YMCA’s efforts to address social isolation and loneliness by fostering relationships and community engagement. The measure is honorary in nature and does not create or amend statutory law, impose regulatory requirements, or change funding or program eligibility rules.

Impact

SR 1730 has no direct legal effect on Kansas statutes, agencies, or private parties. It is a nonbinding Senate resolution that expresses legislative appreciation for the YMCA, recognizes its public service contributions, and encourages continued support for its community-building mission. Its practical impact is symbolic, serving to formally commend the organization and highlight its role in child care, youth services, health and wellness, and social connection.

Sentiment

The sentiment around the resolution is strongly positive and celebratory. The bill text itself is written in laudatory terms, and the available context shows no recorded committee debate, amendments, or votes indicating opposition. The resolution reflects broad appreciation for the YMCA’s charitable and community-oriented work, especially its service to youth, families, older adults, and Kansans generally.

Contention

There is little to no apparent contention surrounding SR 1730. Because it is a ceremonial resolution, it does not appear to have raised policy disputes over spending, regulation, or government authority. The only substantive theme is a policy-adjacent emphasis on combating social isolation and loneliness through community spaces, but the resolution frames this as a positive public good rather than a controversial issue. No opposing viewpoints are reflected in the provided record.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SR1703

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

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 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 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 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 SB8

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

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 SB6

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

KS SCR1602

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

Similar Bills

No similar bills found.