Noah Taborda, Kansas Reflector
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The Kansas senate debates Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at the statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)
Topeka The Kansas Senate passed a bill on Thursday that would greatly expand a tax credit program for private school scholarships, with Republican legislators batting away several intraparty dissenters and suggested amendments in a lengthy debate.
The program that the bill would affect uses tax credits to reimburse donations that fund scholarships for private schools up to a 70% reimbursement of a maximum $500,000 donation. But currently, it only applies to scholarships for students who are eligible for free lunch and attend one of the hundred lowest-performing elementary schools in Kansas. Right now, the program serves about 600 students.
Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector
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Sen. Caryn Tyson, the Parker Republican and chairwoman of the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee, offered the Senate a bill cutting state taxes by $175 million, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, at the Statehouse in Topeka. After hours of debate, the bill escalated into a $470 million or more package of tax reform.
TOPEKA The Kansas Senate fought through a flurry of tricky procedural amendments Tuesday to more than double the financial ramifications of a bill throwing tax breaks at multinational corporations sitting on overseas profits, wealthy people keen to itemize deductions, folks excited about higher standardized deductions and retirees weary of having Social Security benefits taxed.
TOPEKA, Kan. Republican legislators in Kansas on Thursday put a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot for the state’s August 2022 primary election. The Senate approved the measure 28-11, giving abortion opponents one more vote than the two-thirds majority they needed. The House approved the same measure last week. Approval […]
Kansas voters will decide whether abortion rights are in the state constitution Katie Bernard and Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Jan. 28 TOPEKA Kansas voters will decide whether to protect abortion rights in the state constitution, after the Legislature on Thursday approved placing the question on the 2022 primary ballot.
The upcoming 18-month fight over an amendment, which says the constitution doesn t guarantee the right to an abortion, is all-but-certain to prove costly and inflame a state with a long history of division and even violence over the issue.
The Senate voted 28 to 11 to put the amendment on the August 2022 ballot, achieving the two-thirds majority needed to advance the proposal to voters. The House approved the amendment last week on the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide.