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Joint commerce committees introduce three bills including Film and Television Development measure
Summary
Stewart Little, a lobbyist with Little Government Relations, and representatives of multiple organizations asked a joint House and Senate commerce committee to introduce three bills — a revived Film and Television Development Production Act, a data-center measure and a bill on credit-card transaction fees — and the committee approved introduction without objection.
Stewart Little, a lobbyist with Little Government Relations, and representatives of several business groups formally asked the joint House and Senate commerce committees to introduce three bills on Wednesday.
The committee agreed to introduce each bill without recorded objection after brief presentations. The bills are: a renewed Film and Television Development Production Act (House RS 2025-0221; Senate RS 25-0445), a data-center bill (RS 2025 RS 306) offered by NetChoice, and a measure on merchant credit-card fees (RS 25-0312) submitted by the Kansas state director of the National Federation of Independent Business.
The requests were procedural: Stewart Little stated, “My name is Stewart Little of Little Government Relations. I'm here on behalf of an organization, Grow Kansas Film. I'm requesting an introduction of the bill.” Brad Smoot of NetChoice identified his RS number for a data-center bill and asked the committee to introduce it in the Senate. Dan Murray, Kansas state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, asked the committee to introduce the credit-card-fee bill to the House commerce committee and later summarized its scope as, “It has to do with the transaction fees assessed on gratuities and sales tax. So exempting those from being assessed a fee.”
Senator Tyson asked procedural questions about cost and chamber placement. He asked, “How much does it cost to introduce the bills in both chambers?” The presenters said they did not have that procedural cost information. After questions, the chair asked whether there were objections to introduction; none were raised and the committee approved introduction of the three measures.
The committee did not debate the merits of the bills during these introductory requests. No formal recorded roll-call votes were taken; the committee accepted the introductions by unanimous consent.
Looking ahead, each bill will proceed through the typical referral and committee hearing process in its assigned chamber. Sponsors, full text and fiscal notes were provided to committee staff as RS numbers during the introductions but were not read into the record during the session.
