Sherman Smith

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · Kansas Reflector series examines exploited process as lawmakers wrap up session · 13 Apr 2026 podcast

Um, but you know, her plan would give everybody one time $250 tax credit for registering their when they go to register their vehicles. matched

Um, it would create uh a sixty million dollar fund, uh annual fund that would grow with the the rate of inflation that would uh matched

Go to local governments that maintain spending increases below 3% each year, they would get a portion of this to then lower the property tax burden for their local residents. matched

And the state would also, uh, under the governor's plan, um raise the the amount of a home value that is exempt from the state's 20 mil um tax levies. matched

So uh I think that's another 120 million or so in 10. matched

Tax relief. matched

It would go from right now the first seventy-five thousand of your home is uh exempt from the state's tax. matched

This would say the first hundred and fifty thousand would be exempt. matched

So the governor outlined a plan that in total would be about five hundred million in property tax relief. matched

I got no attention during this wrap-up session. matched

I, you know, we're curious to see if there's any appetite for bringing people back to consider that. matched

But wouldn't it be funny for a governor who has already shown with her veto of the legislative budget an appetite for spiting lawmakers on her way out the door to bring them back weeks before the the uh primary election this summer? matched

That's always the dynamic in this calling a special session. matched

I mean frankly we we wrote so many stories as a staff Friday and into the evening that we decided not to publish them all Friday night 'cause we didn't know that people would want to wake up Saturday morning and read twenty stories. matched

Um so you know, we've hung on to some of those we published Saturday and Sunday. matched

We'll continue publishing this week along with our process series. matched

I mean we haven't even matched

Yeah, you know, it started down this path uh at the top of this conversation. matched

You know, the Monday story from senior uh reporter Tim Carpenter is about calling the question. matched

Uh this is just like a magic phrase that you can whisper on the the floor during debate to end the debate and go straight to a vote. matched

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