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Minutes for HB2656 - Committee on Taxation
Short Title
Discontinuing apportionment of countywide retailers' sales tax imposed for general purposes between the county and cities located therein.
Minutes Content for Thu, Mar 12, 2020
Chairperson Johnson opened the hearing and recognized Adam Siebers, Assistant Revisor, who provided an overview on HB2656. He noted the bill provides that starting on July 1, 2020, the general purpose authority of the countywide retailers' sales tax up to 1.0% would be retained by the county and not distributed pursuant to the distribution formula between the counties and cities and other governmental units (Attachment 1).
In response to a question, Kathleen Smith, Department of Revenue, commented the general use tax would affect 82 counties and does not affect the counties who do not have a countywide sales tax.
Proponents:
J. R. Armstrong, Atchison County Farm Bureau (Attachment 2)
Dwight C. Meyer, Kansas Soybean Association and Justin Knopf, Kansas Association (Attachment 3)
Opponents:
John Smith, Kansas Legislative Policy Group (Attachment 4)
Doug Gerber, Deputy City Manager, City of Topeka (Attachment 5)
Michael Stec, Atchison County, (Attachment 6)
Becky Berger, City Manager, City of Atchison (Attachment 7)
Allen J. Dinkel, City Manager, Junction City, Kansas (Attachment 8)
Trey Cocking, League of Municipalities (Attachment 9)
Blake Jorgensen, City Commission, Ottawa, Kansas (Attachment 10)
Jay Hall, Kansas Association of Counties (Attachment 11)
Conferees stood for questions from Committee members.
Written-only testimony was presented by the following:
Jim Benage, Mayor, City of Bel Aire, Kansas (Attachment 12)
Marianne Kossman, Cherokee City Clerk and Dale Thompson, Mayor (Attachment 13)
Amy L. Lange, City Manager, City of Concordia, Kansas (Attachment 14)
Beth Linn, City Administrator, City of Edgerton (Attachment 15)
Michael Webb, City Manager, City of Edwardsville, (Attachment 16)
Nathan Nogelmeier, City Administrator, Fairway, Kansas (Attachment 17)
Kendal Francis, City Administrator, Great Bend, Kansas (Attachment 18)
Stacy Barnes, City Administrator, City of Greensburg, Kansas (Attachment 19)
Ethan Reimer, City Manager, City of Halstead, Kansas (Attachment 20)
Larry Paine, City Administrator, City of Hillsboro (Attachment 21)
John Deardoff, City Manager and Jade Piros de Carvalho, City of Hutchinson, Kansas (Attachment 22)
Dayle Jeanne Lorenson, City Clerk, City of Johnson City, Kansas (Attachment 23)
Connie L. Seigrist, Calvin H. Burke, Christopher L. Ford, and Alicia Hidalgo, City of Liberal, Kansas (Attachment 24)
Gregory A. DuMars, City Administrator, City of Lindsborg, Kansas (Attachment 25)
Richard LaMunyon, City Administrator, Maize, Kansas (Attachment 26)
Thomas A. Brown, Mayor, McPherson, Kansas (Attachment 27)
Courtney W. Christensen, City Administrator (Attachment 28)
Randy Frazer, City of Moundridge, Kansas (Attachment 29)
Jon Quinday, City Manager, City of Russell, Kansas (Attachment 30)
Jacob J. Wood, Deputy City Manager, City of Salina, Kansas (Attachment 31)
Gary D. Cline, Mayor, City of Scandia, Kansas (Attachment 32)
Caitlin Gard, Assistant City Manager, City of Shawnee, Kansas (Attachment 33)
Lou Cicirello, Mayor, Valley Center, Kansas (Attachment 34)
Joseph Hackney, City Administrator, Valley Falls, Kansas (Attachment 35)
Brandon Whipple, Mayor, City of Wichita, Kansas (Attachment 36)
Usha Reddi, Mayor of Manhattan (Attachment 37)
Overland Park City Hall, Overland Park, Kansas (Attachment 38)
Troy Unruh, Mayor and Duane Drees, Chair Finney County Board (Attachment 39)
Kevin Walker, Overland Park Chamber of Commerce (Attachment 40)
Cherise Tieben, City Manager, Matt Allen, City Manager, and Calvin Burke, Interim City Manager (Attachment 41)
Cherise Tieben, City Manager and Ernestor De La Rosa, Assistant City Manager, City of Dodge City (Attachment 42)
William Black, Chief Administrative Officer, City of Haysville, Kansas (Attachment 43)
Stuart J. Little, Little Government Relations (Attachment 44
Dianna Wright, Director of Resource Management, Olathe, Kansas (Attachment 45)
Anthony Swartzendruber, Harvey County Administrator (Attachment 46)
Mark Tomb, Kansas Association of Realtors (Attachment 47)
Chairperson Johnson thanked the conferees for their testimony and closed the hearing on HB2656.
