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Kansas House approves revised Astra plan tying local tax increases to state distribution but drops protest petition
Summary
The Kansas House on April 11 passed Senate Bill 82, a conference committee version of the Astra property-tax relief plan that removes a protest-petition and election path and replaces it with higher local vote thresholds and tiered distribution rules for state funds.
The Kansas House voted to approve Senate Bill 82 on April 11, adopting a conference committee report that alters how local governments may exceed revenue-neutral property tax thresholds while tying eligibility for state Astra distribution funds to how large a local increase is.
The conference report kept the core incentive: local governments that remain revenue neutral qualify for state Astra funds. But Representative Adam Smith, the member who carried the conference report, said the measure removes the protest-petition and election options that had appeared in earlier versions and instead requires supermajority local approval in many cases. “We removed the protest petition piece. We have removed the…
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