• Introduced
    Feb 05, 2025
  • Passed Senate
    Feb 19, 2025
  • Passed House
    Feb 26, 2026
  • Became Law
SB 197
Kansas Senate Bill
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House Substitute for Substitute for SB 197 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Furthering economic development by providing for authorization of a port authority by the unified government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, authorizing redevelopment of mall facilities as STAR bond projects, allowing vertical construction for certain STAR bond projects, facilitating such projects in less-populated counties in the Wichita and Kansas City metropolitan statistical areas, setting visitor origin requirements for such projects and providing for enforcement of such requirements, expanding transparency of such projects, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue bonds for such projects, making certain other changes and extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act.
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House • Feb 26, 2026: Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 82 Nay: 38

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  • Feb 26, 2026 | House
    • Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Howe
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Howe was withdrawn
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Bergkamp
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Bergkamp was rejected
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Tarwater
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Tarwater was adopted
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to reconsider previous amendment prevailed.
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to rerefer to committee failed
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Tarwater
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Tarwater was adopted
    • Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended
    • Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 82 Nay: 38
  • Feb 10, 2026 | House
    • Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
  • Mar 21, 2025 | House
    • Withdrawn from Calendar, Rereferred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
  • Mar 20, 2025 | House
    • Committee of the Whole - Passed over and retain a place on the calendar
  • Mar 19, 2025 | House
    • Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
  • Mar 10, 2025 | House
    • Hearing: Monday, March 10, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 346-S
  • Feb 25, 2025 | House
    • Received and Introduced
    • Referred to Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
  • Feb 19, 2025 | Senate
    • Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Klemp
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Klemp was adopted
    • Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Shane
    • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Shane was rejected
    • Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended
    • Emergency Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 32 Nay: 8
  • Feb 18, 2025 | Senate
    • Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Commerce
  • Feb 10, 2025 | Senate
    • Hearing: Monday, February 10, 2025, 1:30 PM Room 159-S
  • Feb 06, 2025 | Senate
    • Referred to Committee on Commerce
  • Feb 05, 2025 | Senate
    • Introduced
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