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22 Feb

Posted at 02:12h in Advocacy
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The Kansas legislature powered through this week’s winter storm in order to meet its self-imposed Turnaround Deadline, where most bills are required to advance through their house of origin by Friday, February 21. The House of Representatives sent 89 bills to their Senate counterparts, including the first budget bill of the year, while the senators in the upper chamber passed 64 pieces of legislation across the rotunda. Both chambers’ Republican supermajority paid dividends for legislative leadership as the legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill banning certain gender-affirming care,...

16 Feb

Posted at 02:50h in Advocacy
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Inclement weather in the middle of the week forced the legislature to postpone committee meetings, work later into the evenings and, in a rare occurrence, hold hearings on Friday afternoon ahead of the session’s first major deadline next week. Lawmakers have one remaining day of committee work next Monday before spending long hours on the floor of their respective chambers, prior to ‘Turnaround,” or the mid-point of the session where most bills must be passed out of their house of origin to stay alive for the year. A bill is subject...

08 Feb

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Kansas legislative committees worked rapidly throughout the session’s fourth week, holding more than 75 hearings as the ‘Turnaround’ week quickly approaches on February 20. ‘Turnaround’ refers to the mid-point of the session where most bills must be passed out of their house of origin for hearings to begin in the opposite chamber. A bill is subject to the ‘Turnaround’ deadline unless it is “blessed” by legislative leadership or resides in an exempt committee (Federal and State Affairs, Appropriations, Tax and Ways and Means). Lawmakers and advocates work to have their interests advanced...

07 Feb

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Renew Kansas Biofuels Association encouraged its congressional delegation in the United States House of Representatives to join a bipartisan letter to newly-confirmed United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on the importance of fulfilling the Renewable Fuels Standard. The letter, available to view via the link below, emphasized the important role the American biofuels industry plays in maximizing energy abundance and affordability. "Steady growth in U.S. biofuel production means more American fuel in the marketplace and lower prices at the pump for hardworking families who have spent years suffering under high...

31 Jan

Posted at 23:11h in Advocacy
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Schools from around the state brought students to the statehouse this week to celebrate Kansas Day as lawmakers scrambled against the clock to get their bills introduced in this truncated 2025 legislative session. Social issues including gender affirming care dominated the headlines this week. Meanwhile, the first major piece of property tax legislation cleared the Senate chamber eliminating the state’s 1.5 mill property tax levy. With the legislature’s, “Turnaround,” scheduled for Feb. 20, a date by which all non-exempt bills must be passed out of their house of origin, committee chairs...

24 Jan

Posted at 23:19h in Advocacy
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Following Monday’s holiday, lawmakers took advantage of the short work week and quickly introduced a flurry of bills ahead of the Jan. 27 deadline concluding the window for individual bill drafts. In all, nearly 170 pieces of legislation have been introduced in the 2025 Kansas legislative session, with many more ideas still in the drafting queue. The House of Representatives passed its resolution of the joint rules for the 2025-2026 biennium to the Senate for consideration, however, most of the heavy-lifting was conducted in committees during the legislature’s second week in...

17 Jan

Posted at 21:55h in Advocacy
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As your eyes and ears at the capitol, we were in attendance to welcome legislators into the new biennium on your behalf on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. Following the election in November, where all 125 House of Representatives seats and 40 Senate seats were open, more than 30 new lawmakers were sworn in to represent their districts’ interests. Governor Laura Kelly delivered the annual State of the State address on Wednesday where she focused on economic development initiatives, a new strategic plan to conserve water and her disagreement toward republican leadership’s...

13 Dec

Posted at 21:59h in Advocacy
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On Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, Renew Kansas Biofuels Association submitted responses to a request for information on biofuel tax credit policy by the United States House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. On Nov. 18, 2024 Congressman Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, of the House Ways and Means Committee released a joint letter seeking stakeholder input on biofuel tax policy. The request for information (RFI) pertains to biofuel tax credits created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 which extended the existing 40A $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit through 2024 and created the...

06 Nov

Posted at 16:33h in Advocacy
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2024 Election Report The 2024 election was full of surprises. Below is an initial overview. Mail in ballots will continue to be counted until Friday, meaning a couple of close races may still change. The final votes will be certified sometime next week. All unofficial election results can be found on the Kansas Secretary of State’s website. President of the United States Former president Donald Trump won 57 percent of the vote in Kansas, roughly the same as in 2016 and 2020. United States Congress District 1: Incumbent Republican Tracey Mann won reelection in the...

27 Sep

Posted at 17:32h in Advocacy
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Members of the United States House of Representatives, including the entirety of the Kansas congressional delegation, worked to introduce the Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act, which is a bipartisan effort to allow for the year-round availability of E15 fuel nationwide. Renew Kansas Biofuels Association has been in frequent contact with the Kansas congressional delegation on the issue of year-round E15 and has frequently encouraged their support of the effort. The association applauds representatives Sharice Davids, Ron Estes, Jake LaTurner and Tracey Mann for their support of the legislation. "We thank...

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