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Sedgwick County commissioners briefed on multiple state bills, tax lid and juvenile corrections outreach
Summary
County commissioners heard updates on a range of state bills including proposals on cremains, elections timing for bond measures, sales tax freeze and competing property-tax lid proposals; staff urged outreach to Johnson County on a juvenile corrections bill.
Sedgwick County commissioners on Tuesday received a detailed update on several state legislative proposals that could affect local taxes, elections and juvenile corrections policy.
The briefing covered a laundry list of bills the county’s lobbyists and staff are tracking, including a bill commonly called the cremains bill (House Bill 23 31), an elections bill (House Bill 20 22) that would limit bond elections to primary or general elections, a treasurer fee bill (Senate Bill 119) and a sales-tax freeze measure (House Bill 23 77) that had passed the Kansas Senate and, according to staff, was moving in the House. Staff also described dueling House and Senate proposals on property-tax growth limits (variously referenced in the meeting as House Bill 23 96 and related measures), and a Senate vehicle (Senate Bill 35) that had been amended to incorporate aspects…
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