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Votes at a glance: key House actions on April 11, 2025
Summary
On April 11 the Kansas House adopted multiple conference committee reports and resolutions. This roundup lists each formal action recorded on the floor during the session.
The Kansas House recorded a series of formal actions on April 11. Below are the principal motions and floor outcomes recorded in the session's journal entries.
- House Resolution 6019 (Representative Penn) — Motion to adopt HR 6019 recognizing April 15, 2025 as Jackie Robinson Day. Motion carried; words spread across the journal. (Floor introduction and adoption recorded.)
- Motion to adopt agree-to-disagree on Senate Bill 82 (conference appointments and procedural motions) — Motion carried; conferees appointed (Adam Smith, Turner, Sawyer appointed to conference committees at various points in the record).
- Change of conferees on Senate Bill 98 — Speaker announced changes to conferees (procedural action recorded).
- Final adoption of assorted conference committee reports (selected): - House Bill 2,275 — local sales-tax authority bundle for several counties and technical sales-tax distribution freezes; final action recorded and bill declared passed. - House Bill 23-35 — distinctive license plate (conference committee report adopted); final action recorded and bill declared passed. - House Bill 2,125 — renewal of the statewide 20-mill school levy and related technical changes; final action recorded and bill declared passed. - House Bill 2,007 — reviser's reconciliation/cleanup bill; final action recorded and bill declared passed (121-0). - House Bill 2,289 — low-income housing tax credit cap and related changes (conference committee report adopted; floor recorded 98 yeas, 23 nays).
- Veto reconsiderations: The House recorded several attempted reconsideration votes of gubernatorial vetoes and sustained vetoes in the absence of successful motion to reconsider for some bills (journal notes on reconsideration and the speaker's rulings are on record).
Why this matters: The listed actions include both policy adoptions (tax and budget-related conference reports) and procedural items shaping committee memberships and veto-reconsideration outcomes.
Provenance: Each entry corresponds to floor journal entries during the April 11 session; vote tallies and procedural actions are recorded in the House transcript.
