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Senate Bill 199 would expand the sales season for seasonal consumer-fireworks retailers and allow year-round sales by permanent retailers, require registration with the State Fire Marshal for certain retailers, prohibit Internet or mail sales of consumer fireworks, and create distributor categories for display and pyrotechnic articles.

Following testimony and committee discussion, Senator Tyson offered an amendment that removed the registration requirement for small, seasonal fireworks sellers while retaining state registration for permanent, year-round retailers; the amendment also cleaned up language regarding online sales. The chair confirmed the registration in the bill is a state requirement and that local permitting and local restrictions on discharge remain unaffected.

A subsequent amendment and committee discussion clarified that local jurisdictions would still control permitting and the timing of fireworks discharges; registration would be for state oversight and inspection. After the amendment was moved and seconded, the committee adopted the amendment and then voted to report SB199 favorably as amended.

Committee members spoke in favor of allowing permanent retailers to operate year-round in locations that accommodate local permitting, and noted advantages such as flexibility to hold displays on alternate dates (for example, New Year's Eve or delayed Fourth of July events). The bill preserves local authority to permit or prohibit discharges and to set local permitting requirements.

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A bill sponsor told the committee that SB117 would amend KSA language to include property owned by the political subdivisions that make up the Strother Field Airport Commission and depicted on the airport’s federally approved airport layout plan, whether the property is used for aviation-related purposes, to promote aviation commerce, or to provide revenue to operate Strother Field components. SB117 also removes the prior requirement that the property must have been owned on or before Jan. 1, 1992 (as recited in the bill text presented orally to the committee).

The sponsor moved the bill and it received a second from Senator Owens. The committee carried the motion and reported SB117 favorably.

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Senate Bill 52 would establish two types of tax incentives for eligible film and digital media projects produced in Kansas: an income-tax credit tied to production or post-production expenditures (subject to Secretary of Commerce approval) and a possible sales-tax exemption for production-related purchases. The bill as presented would have applied for tax years 2025 through 2034 and included an initial annual cap on credits.

Committee members adopted an amendment offered by Senator Tyson that reduced a $10,000,000 cap to $5,000,000; that amendment passed. Committee staff explained that the bill's basic credit structure can produce a production credit of 30% (for larger productions) or a Kansas-based production company credit of 25%, and additional incremental credits could raise an eligible project’s total to about 40% under certain qualifying conditions.

A later amendment that would have removed transferability of the credits was debated and failed. Senator Dietrich and staff noted that comparable credits in other states are often transferable to allow entities without Kansas tax liability to monetize the incentive; opponents of transferability argued for preventing resale of credits. The chair called a voice vote; the motion to make credits nontransferable failed.

The committee also debated the sales-tax exemption component. Senator Tyson proposed amendments to narrow the sales-tax exemption: after initial debate about removing the exemption entirely, the committee adopted a dollar-cap amendment that limits sales-tax-exempt purchases to $1,000,000 per production company per year. Supporters of retaining a meaningful sales-tax exemption argued that many productions have little or no Kansas income-tax liability in early years and that sales-tax relief is often the principal incentive that attracts productions.

After amendment activity, a motion to report Senate Bill 52 favorably as amended was made and seconded; the committee carried the bill by voice vote.

Key details recorded in committee discussion: the adopted cap reduction to $5,000,000 (from a prior $10,000,000 proposal); the credit structure described by staff (base credits of 30% or 25% with additional increments up to roughly 40%); and a per-company sales-tax exemption limit of $1,000,000 per year as adopted by amendment.

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Senate Bill 51 would provide sales-tax exemptions for construction or remodeling of a \"qualified data center\" in Kansas and for eligible data-center purchases and certain labor. The measure sets minimum investment thresholds and tiered exemption durations tied to investment size.

The bill drew particular attention to electricity use and long-term grid capacity. Senator Titus proposed an amendment that would have required applicants to provide and publicly share estimated energy consumption and information about on-site generation; the amendment failed. Supporters of the amendment said the requirement would help local governments weigh long-term power impacts when courting large data centers; opponents argued the information is already addressed in feasibility processes or that public disclosure could harm competitiveness.

Senator Titus said the amendment would \"require the data center before they can get the sales tax exemption... to provide a report\" estimating their energy consumption and whether they plan on-site generation such as solar. He argued the information should be \"available to the public\" so municipalities can assess whether a data center's energy demand could limit other development. Senator Titus moved adoption of his amendment; Senator Tyson seconded the amendment. After a voice vote the chair announced, \"The noes have it,\" and the amendment failed.

Committee members also debated fiscal uncertainty and the structure of the incentive. A committee member voiced concerns about the unknown fiscal note, referencing past incentives and utility impacts: \"We have no idea what we're looking at on a fiscal note here.\" Another member said a rough analysis suggested a $250 million qualified investment (with an assumption that about 60% of that investment would be sales-tax exempt) could yield an estimated initial revenue loss of about $9.8 million and an estimated 10-year sales-tax loss of roughly $17.9 million, while also anticipating roughly $20 million in collected revenue over 10 years under certain assumptions; that speaker also noted utilities were not included in the exemption calculation.

The bill defines minimum investment thresholds and related exemption durations in the bill text as presented to the committee: a minimum $250,000,000 investment qualifies for a 15-year exemption, $500,000,000 for 30 years and $1,000,000,000 for 60 years.

After debate, Senator Tyson moved that the committee pass Senate Bill 51 favorably; the motion was seconded by Senator Klent. Following additional discussion and recorded remarks of concern, the committee voted to report the bill favorably.

Votes at a glance: The committee voice votes produced the following formal actions recorded in the hearing: the Titus amendment to require public energy-use reporting was moved by Senator Titus and seconded by Senator Tyson and failed by voice vote; the motion to report SB51 favorably was moved by Senator Tyson, seconded by Senator Klent, and carried by voice vote.

The committee advanced SB51 to the next stage without the energy-reporting amendment. The bill as presented does not exempt utilities from sales tax, per committee discussion.

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