Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2385 - Authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax if approved by the electors of a city or county, requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years, allowing certain credits and exemptions against the tax, providing for deductions by public and private employers of the tax from employee earnings and providing that revenue from any such tax be pledged for certain purposes.
AN ACT concerning taxation; relating to income tax; authorizing cities and counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question and to levy such tax upon nonresidents of the city or county if approved by the electors of a city or county; requiring resubmission of the question, if approved, to the electors every 10 years thereafter; allowing certain credits and exemptions against such tax; providing for the deduction by public and private employers of such tax from employee earnings; providing for revenue to be pledged for certain purposes; amending K.S.A. 12-140 and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 19-101a and repealing the existing sections.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-14 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-02-04 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-02-04 | Latest Action | Hearing: Monday, February 9, 2026, 3:30 PM Room 346-S |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2036 | HB2036 - Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. | unknown |
| HB 2773 | HB2773 - Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a general manufacturer. | in_committee |
| HB 2798 | HB2798 - Substitute for HB 2798 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents. | in_committee |
| SB 303 | SB303 - House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing certain sales tax exemptions, imposing sales tax on certain sales of lottery tickets, imposing an excise tax on all sports wagers as a rate of 2% of the amount wagered, creating the property tax relief fund and providing for transfers therefrom to the state school district finance fund and creating the sports wagering privilege tax refund fund. | in_committee |
| SB 329 | SB329 - Requiring the county appraiser to submit a single property appraisal report at the valuation appeal hearing before the regular division of the state board of tax appeals. | introduced |
| SB 427 | SB427 - Clarifying that the chairperson and vice chairperson of the senate committee on confirmation oversight shall have access to review tax information from the department of revenue and Kansas bureau of investigation background checks on persons appointed to state offices who are subject to senate confirmation. | enrolled |
| HB 2018 | HB2018 - Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providing criminal penalties therefor and providing for a civil cause of action for damages. | passed_lower |
| HB 2437 | HB2437 - Authorizing the use of additional resources for verifying voter registration records, removing individuals disqualified for voting from such records and providing an open records request exemption for certain information related to such records. | passed_lower |