The Senate has passed the tax bill. 21-19. The governor will sign it. Technically this vote was on the “trailer” to the tax bill as the Senate had already passed the tax bill. It was the final step in passage of the tax bill package, which included passage by the House and Senate of the tax bill itself (HB 2109) and the “trailer” (SB 270) which amended certain provisions in the original tax bill. Here’s the vote count. Yea – (21): Abrams, Arpke, Bowers, Bruce, Donovan, Fitzgerald, Holmes, Kerschen, King, Knox, LaTurner, Longbine, Love, Lynn, Masterson, Olson, Ostmeyer,...
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Sobbing legislators highlight problems with tax bill and process
Oh, how we wish school funding and the timing of school board elections weren’t decided by the legislature and that our legislature would obey the courts. Since that is not the case, over the past few years many of us have evolved from people who barely paid attention to politics to those who watch the legislature carefully, listening to proceedings live and following Twitter at all hours. What we’ve seen is deeply disturbing. We agree with this editorial. “The image of a grown legislator sobbing in the middle of the night would be poignant if it weren’t so...
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This sums up the situation in the Kansas legislature. H/t Matt Jasiczek....
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Leave a Comment Tax bill passes House 4 am on June 12th
The House passed its tax bill at around 4 am. On roll call the vote was: Yea – (63): Alford, Anthimides, Barker, Barton, Billinger, Boldra, Bradford, Brunk, B. Carpenter, W. Carpenter, Concannon, Corbet, Davis, Dove, Esau, Estes, Ewy, Garber, Goico, Gonzalez, Hawkins, Hedke, Hemsley, Highland, Hoffman, Houser, Huebert, Hutchins, Hutton, Johnson, K. Jones, Kelley, Kelly, Kleeb, Lunn, Macheers, Mason, Mast, McPherson, Merrick, O’Brien, Osterman, Peck, Powell, Proehl, Read, Rhoades, Rubin, Ryckman, Ryckman, Sr., Scapa, Schwab, Schwartz, Seiwert, Smith, Suellentrop, Sutton, Thimesch, Todd, Vickrey, Waymaster, Whitmer, Williams, Nay – (45): Alcala, Ballard, Becker, Bollier, Bruchman, Burroughs, Carmichael, Clayton, Couture-Lovelady,...
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