The Senate's Tax Bill is in House Bill 2059. 

The Senate passed out House Bill 2045 with a vote of 25-14, I voted yes.  The bill is now on its way to a Conference Committee awaiting the House to pass its Tax Bill sometime this next week.

House Bill 2059 makes a number of adjustments to Kansas' current tax code. Most notably, the bill lowers the state's income tax rates and freezes the current sales tax rate at 6.3 percent.  Keeping the sales tax rate at 6.3% is  in order to pay for this year's $800 million tax cut and protect schools from budget cuts.  The bill also phases out deductions as the personal income tax rates decline, with the exception of charitable contributions and the adoption tax credit. 

Below is a table showing the top rate for individual income taxes in adjacent states. Kansas moved from the second highest to the second lowest individual income taxes.

HB 2022, also known as the Paycheck Protection Act, would ban state or other units of government from processing payroll deductions for members of public sector unions for the purpose of contributing to the union's Political Action Committee (PAC).  Members Union Dues would still be allowed to be processed as a payroll deduction, just not the PAC contributions.

It is important to note members are not prohibited from contributing to their union's PAC. If a member wishes to make a contribution to a PAC, he or she would need only to write a check or implement an electronic debit noting it as a PAC contribution. This protects union members from any self-imposed or peer pressure to check a box authorizing a payroll PAC deduction. Furthermore, it not only is unnecessary, but arguably also inappropriate, for the state or any other local unit of government to be in the business of making payroll deductions for political purposes.  We passed it out with a vote of 24-16, I voted yes.