State Government

GOP bill to create flat rate income tax in Kansas wins supermajority vote in Senate

A plan to create a new flat rate income tax system in Kansas has won a key vote in the state Senate. Sen. President Ty Masterson, R-Andover, said the new flat tax plan was approved in the Senate Thursday night with a “bipartisan supermajority.” The bill — Senate Bill 539 — would ...

Kansas House advances ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors

TOPEKA — State employees would no longer be able to so much as call transgender children by their chosen pronouns under a bill that would block transgender minors in the state from receiving gender-affirming care. The legislation is barreling toward the governor’s desk. Passed by the ...