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ACTION ALERT on SB 188: The Senate will be debating SB 188 tomorrow (2/16/17). Please urge your senator to vote YES and allow Kansas to fund its schools and other essential needs. This bill has bipartisan support, and Game On submitted testimony in favor of this bill on Tuesday. Here’s a summary of what SB 188 does. “A key feature of the budget-balancing package put together by Democrats is the repeal, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017, of the income tax exemption granted farmers, dentists and other owners of LLCs and other business structures. That business-owner tax was signed...

ACTION ALERT: Sub HB 2178 passed quickly on an initial vote 83-39. Rep. Clayton warned this looks suspicious. Please contact your representative and urge him or her to vote for Sub HB 2178 on final action tomorrow. We’re attaching a photo of the votes. (Photo credit Jonathan Shorman, Topeka Capital Journal on Twitter) We support this bill which provides a path out of our current budget crisis. Please note it takes 84 votes to override a veto. Here is a link to the bill summary: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/supp_note_hb2178_01_0000.pdf Here is a link to the bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/hb2178_01_0000.pdf Voting Yea on the initial vote...

ACTION ALERT: Yesterday in the House Education Committee, Chair Clay Aurand indicated he would not “work” the bill to restore teacher due process (which was originally removed in 2014, during late night hours, at the end of the session, tacked onto the initial bill to fund the original Gannon equity decision). This new bill to restore due process has bipartisan support in the committee. According to the story we’re linking, Rep. Aurand indicated the issue was divisive and passing the bill could “jeopardize support for a yet-to-be-written bill overhauling the state’s system of financing K-12 public schools.” Game...