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04 Apr

Posted at 14:04h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 12 Last week was the final week of regular session for the 2022 Kansas legislature. Both chambers deliberated for hours, with final action on Friday concluding about 1:30 am. Legislators will take off most of the month of April before returning on Monday, April 25 for a, likely brief, veto session to consider bills vetoed by Governor Laura Kelly. In addition, multiple bills of significant interest that failed to be passed Friday evening could still be addressed during the veto session. State Budget Passed The House and Senate agreed on a budget for state agencies in House...

28 Mar

Posted at 11:07h in Industry News
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KDOT’s strategy for pursuing competitive grants under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) isfocused on maximizing Kansas’ likelihood of success. About 40% of BIL funding will be through competitive grants. U.S. DOT has indicated grant applications which benefit multiple communities/states and those that connect and build toward long-term priorities across the state will be the most competitive. With this in mind, KDOT’s strategy for pursuing and supporting federal BIL grants for highway modernization and expansion projects is focused projects in the development/construction pipeline. KDOT will support highway modernization and expansion projects in the IKE...

25 Mar

Posted at 09:01h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 11 This week was Drop Dead week for the Kansas legislature, where any non-exempt bill not passed both chambers may be dead unless it is referred to a conference committee which meets next week to work out differences in bills. Both the House and Senate debated and passed numerous bills this week, with the Senate, on Wednesday, working until close to 2:00 am. The House passed its budget bill and overwhelmingly approved Sub HB 2737 which will draw new House district lines for the next 10 years. Legislators will return on Monday, March 28 for one final...

21 Mar

Posted at 07:23h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 10 The Kansas legislature’s final day for non-exempt committees to meet passed without much fanfare on Friday, March 18. As a rain and snow mixture fell on Topeka Friday, a few lawmakers navigated the statehouse hallways, while the majority of legislators returned home to gear up for a week of late-night floor debate on big-ticket issues as time winds down on the 2022 session. This week the Senate passed two high-priority pieces of legislation to the House: the 2023 state agency budget and redistricting maps. The House meanwhile is holding off on completing its version...

12 Mar

Posted at 08:19h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 9 A snow front on Thursday caused abbreviated work in the Kansas Legislature this week. One major action item was the release of newly proposed state Senate district maps which would pair multiple incumbent Senators against each other in the coming 2024 elections. The Democrats’ proposed Eisenhower Senate map plan creates only one incumbent v. incumbent battle in the 2024 elections, while the Republicans’ Liberty 2 map creates two, and the Kansas League of Women Voters’ BluestemSenate creates three such scraps. Also, this week, on a vote of 32-5, the Senate confirmed Janet Stanek as the Governor’s...

06 Mar

Posted at 11:45h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 8 The legislature returned to work this week to begin further consideration of bills. On Thursday afternoon, while debating a bill that would provide income tax credits to graduates of aviation-related programs and their employers, the Senate amended the bill multiple times to add other income and property tax bills and programs with a total cost of over $100 million to the state. The bill now includes such items as an income tax credit for schoolteachers, a freeze on property taxes for seniors and veterans, property tax breaks on school taxes, and a rural housing development...

04 Mar

Posted at 09:54h in Industry News, Regulatory
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SOURCE WIBW NEWS OF TOPEKA The Kansas Corporation Commission and Kansas Gas Service have reached a settlement to recover nearly all of the incurred costs from February 2021′s severe winter weather from its transportation customers. On Thursday, March 3, the Kansas Corporation Commission says it approved a settlement agreement that outlines how Kansas Gas Service will recover costs sustained to meet the demand of its transportation customers during February 2021′s severe winter storm. Unlike sales customers, who contract directly with KGS for gas, the KCC said transportation customers buy gas from gas producers or through a...

28 Feb

Posted at 12:21h in Industry News, Regulatory
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced the selection of ten geographically varied roundtables with participants representing diverse perspectives. The agencies will work with each selected roundtable to facilitate discussion on implementation of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS), while highlighting regional differences. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of the Army (the agencies) announced the selection of ten geographically varied roundtables with participants representing diverse perspectives. The agencies will work with each selected roundtable to facilitate discussion on implementation...

25 Feb

Posted at 13:42h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 7 (Turnaround) This was Turnaround week in the Kansas legislature, where the House and Senate debated dozens of bills before adjourning on Wednesday afternoon. Any bill that was either not passed by its chamber of origin by Wednesday, or is otherwise exempt, will no longer be an active bill this session. This week, the House passed and sent 29 bills to the Senate, and the Senate sent 37 bills to the House. The legislature will return to work next Tuesday to begin further consideration of bills. The major issues remaining for the session include various...

21 Feb

Posted at 08:30h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 6 The Legislature passed a Republican-friendly Congressional redistricting map last week (Sub Senate Bill 355), overriding Governor Laura Kelly’s veto. As anticipated, multiple legal challenges to the bill were filed. Major floor action in the House this week included the attempted passage of a resolution on a proposed constitutional amendment giving the Legislature oversight of rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies. The vote failed to gain the super majority votes required to pass, but it will likely come up for reconsideration on Monday. In the Senate, the Senate Tax Committee passed a large bill full...

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