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28 Feb

Posted at 19:23h 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...

25 Feb

Posted at 20:45h 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...

21 Feb

Posted at 15:33h 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...

14 Feb

Posted at 15:49h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 5 This week saw the override of Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of a Republican-friendly map (Sub Senate Bill 355) that will draw new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts. It is assumed that legal challenges to the bill will follow. Following much consternation over the congressional map veto override vote, Senate President Ty Masterson removed two Republican senators from their committee leadership positions. Masterson also removed Senator Mark Steffen of Hutchinson from his vice chairmanship of the senate commerce committee and from his seat on the...

07 Feb

Posted at 15:19h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 4 This week, the legislature took a day of hiatus when winter storms were predicted to bring heavy snow to the capitol city. On Thursday, as predicted, Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a Republican-friendly map that would have drawn new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts. The House got bogged down in deliberation over the Kelly Administration’s economic development bill aimed at bringing a large national corporate headquarters to the state with a specified capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000. Next week, a legislative committee will consider...

31 Jan

Posted at 14:14h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 3 This week, the Legislature passed a map drawing new lines for the state’s four Congressional districts, held hearings on various bills proposing to exempt “food” from states sales tax, and advanced an economic development bill that would provide for incentives for specified industries to establish their national corporate headquarters in the state with specified capital investment of at least $1,000,000,000. In addition, the Committees on Agriculture received annual reports from the state commodity commissions, and the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing on a bill making...

24 Jan

Posted at 15:56h in Advocacy, Industry News, Regulatory
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Renew Kansas Biofuels Association filed comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency regarding the agency's proposed Renewable Fuel Standard program covering years 2020-2022. Overall, the association supports many of the provisions of the proposed rule with a few suggested modifications with the intent to achieve the underlying intent of the RFS program to reduce GHG emissions, bolster national energy security, and support rural economies through the increased production and use of renewable biofuels. In summary, Renew Kansas asked EPA to work with industry to meet the goals set by Congress and...

24 Jan

Posted at 15:38h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session, Week 2 This week, the Legislature worked through bills and hearings, even while many legislators were absent due to positive COVID tests. The Senate passed a few bills of high importance, as the House also began initial committee work. Here are some of the highlights of the week. Redistricting Aside from passing a budget one of the main objectives of the 2022 session will be adopting new maps and boundaries for the legislature, statewide elected seats, state school board, and our state Congressional districts. On Friday, the Senate passed Sub...

19 Jan

Posted at 21:37h in Industry News
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On January 17, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a "Frequently Asked Questions" resource on the Biofuel Producer Program. This resource outlines helpful information for those applying for relief, including: Eligibility Information Application Development Payment Information USDA announced on December 8, 2021 the agency is now making available $700 million in direct payments to biofuel producers adversely impacted by the health pandemic. These funds were authorized through the COVID relief legislation which was signed into law in late 2020. The program application is open through February 11, 2022. VIEW FAQs...

17 Jan

Posted at 15:38h in Advocacy
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2022 Legislative Session Commences The Kansas legislature gaveled in on Monday, January 10, 2022, and your Association’s government affairs staff was at the capitol monitoring and weighing in on bills affecting our industry. It was a busy week in Topeka which saw hearings on various tax issues related to wildfires in the state and Governor Laura Kelly’s State of the State address. Key issues this session will include reapportionment and redistricting following the 2020 census, a Senate vote on the “Value Them Both” constitutional amendment question on abortion, possible legalization of medical...

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