By james art 
Each week during the Kansas legislative session in 2025, we will provide Johnson County legislators to share their thoughts about what is happening in the state capitol.
Below is the presentation of Democratic Representative Jerry Stoogsdil, which is Kansas House Region 21, covering parts of Overland Park and Prairie Village.
The post also expanded the offers of the Republican reputation Carl Turner and the Republican Senator TJ Rose to submit Capitol updates this week.
Only those of the legislator are expressed in each Capitol update.
This is not the update I hoped to send. I was hoping that I could announce that both parties to Kansas House work in a bilateral way to submit legislation that would benefit all Kanzan. It just doesn’t happen.
Fortunately, there are a few exceptions.
I served in the Special Water Committee for five years and we did an exceptional job – in a bilateral way – to make sure that Kansas does not exhaust the water needed for agriculture and that our drinking water remains clean, abundant and easily accessible.
This shows what good things can happen when you have the chairman of the Commission (Jim Minick Reporter, Republican from Scott City), who works with all members of their committee, regardless of party affiliation and all members of the Commission agree to work together, To deal with a problem, this will have a critical impact on our people and our economy.
Concerns about tax priorities
This is my seventh year in the Chamber of Tax Committee and my voters have made it clear that what we need most is the relief of ownership tax.
Although we have an excellent chairman of the Committee (Rep. Adam Smith, a Republican from Wescan), the GOP leadership controls the process and they look more focused on tax reduction for the most rich persons and corporations in Kansas, not the Kansas families, who have difficulty time paying their property taxes.
It is no secret in Topeka that Republicans favorated the initiation of a zero (0%) Corporate income tax! This will bring us back to BrownBack’s Tax Experiment, which almost bankrupt our country in 2016. I will continue to fight for the property tax relief and for 0% corporate tax.
Concerns about financing education
Another basic concern for my voters is that the state continues to fully fund public education in Kansas, including special education.
Each year, we must fight republican efforts to divert public tax dollars in private school offices that can choose and choose students who accept and home schools that have absolutely no state supervision of how these tax is spent Money, neither to spend, nor the quality of education that these children receive.
As the Democrats’ ranking in the Chamber Education Committee for five years, I will continue to fight to see that public tax money is going to our public schools.
Powerlessness from enlargement of Medicaid
Unfortunately, for the ninth consecutive year, the Republican leadership has also been blocking in some way to expand Medicaid.
So now Kansas will continue to send nearly a billion dollars from our Washington Federal Tax Dollars, Colombia County to be distributed to the 40s that had the common and economic sense to undergo Medicaid expansion.
Kanzanas will continue to die because of this action, we will continue to expose many hospitals at risk of closing and reject the creation of thousands of good paying jobs. This makes absolutely no sense!
How to attend a monthly roundtable of the legislator
This is just the tip of the iceberg for what is happening in Topeka.
If you want more detailed information, I would strongly encourage you to attend our composite meeting of the Senate 7, which takes place the 4th Saturday of every month at 9:00 in the center of Sylvester Powell in the mission, 6200 Martway St. St.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in what is happening in Topeka. This will be the 50th consecutive month and other local lawmakers from the Northeast District of Johnson, held the meeting.
This is an excellent opportunity to meet your chosen employees, including Senator Ethan Corson, Rep.
It is an opportunity to communicate with your chosen employees, get an update of what is happening in Topeka, talk policy, ask questions and enjoy some donuts and coffee. I hope to see you there.