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Specifically, the House wants the governor and state health department to give up the authority to ban in-person school or sports in response to a health emergency, transferring that power to local health departments. Although Whitmer and the state health department issued orders through authority granted to the executive by previous legislatures, lawmakers continue to try and grab that power back from the governor s office.
“I have reviewed the governor’s budget request and it is off the mark by a wide margin,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Thomas Albert, R-Lowell, said in a news release.
“The governor’s plan is focused on corporate giveaways and growing government. Our plan will provide hope that people might still have a livelihood. Her plan has talking points about supporting summer school our plan actually puts forth funding to help schools make it a reality.
If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.
That is the motto for state legislators intent on giving Kansans an income tax break but the COVID-19 pandemic has given a new sense of urgency to both advocates and opponents of the legislation.
Tax policy is always a charged debate in Topeka, in large part thanks to the controversial tax cuts passed by the Legislature at former Gov. Sam Brownback’s behest in 2012. They were repealed five years later after they failed to produce the desired economic boost and have been touted by Democrats as a cautionary tale in years since.
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