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(March 27, 2026) – After midnight, the House and Senate voted to pass CCR on HB 2513, the budget for fiscal years 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030.
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(March 27, 2026) – Late yesterday, Governor Laura Kelly vetoed SB 368. The legislation enacts the Health Care Sharing Ministries Tax Deduction Act to provide a subtraction modification for qualified health care sharing expenses paid by a qualified individual and certain qualified health care shares received by a qualified individual.
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(March 27, 2026) – Health-related bill bundles have been making their way through the House and Senate, as they head toward what is known as the first adjournment, where the legislature will return home to their districts until the veto session, scheduled for April 9. The health-related bills are listed here.
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(March 26, 2026) – Today, the conference committee reports for the health-related bills were taken up in both the House and the Senate.
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(March 26, 2026) – The conference committee report for the budget bill is now in CCR for House Bill 2513.
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(March 26, 2026) – Today, the House and Senate Taxation Committees continued to meet. In the early afternoon, the House conferees made an offer that would include SCR 1603, which proposes amending the Constitution to limit property tax valuation increases for real property.
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(March 25, 2026) – Yesterday, the Health Conference Committee met again. The members of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee and the House Health Committee agreed to these changes.
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(March 25, 2026) – Yesterday, the House Welfare Reform Committee and the Senate Government Efficiency Committee Conference Committee discussed HB 2004. The committee is also planning to move and amend the contents of SB 363 into HB 2731.
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(March 25, 2026) – Yesterday, the House and Senate conferees at the budget meetings agreed to finalize the budget.
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(March 25, 2026) – The reform of Pharmacy Benefit Managers, now in Senate Bill 20, passed the House 104-17 and then the Senate 32-8. The legislation will now go to the governor.
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