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(April 9, 2026) – Today, the Kansas Legislature returned to Topeka for the final days of the 2026 legislative session. Policymakers returned to focus on items that Governor Laura Kelly vetoed since they last met on March 27.
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(April 9, 2026) – Today, leaders in the House and Senate replaced members of the Tax Conference Committee to directly negotiate tax proposals. The conference committee, composed of House members Dan Hawkins, Chris Croft and Tom Sawyer and Senators Ty Masterson, Chase Blasi and Ethan Corson, met to establish new tax proposals.
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(April 9, 2026) – Today, other items addressed in the House and Senate, unrelated to vetoes
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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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