Legislature screeches to a stop, flinging lousy bills everywhere. Now, the governor has to clean up.

By: Clay Wirestone

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: March 30, 2026

Words: 1,158

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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The Kansas Legislature shuddered to a bone-crunching stop early Saturday, with the House and Senate coughing up a property tax proposal and then lumbering sheepishly away.

The spectacle of the Statehouse in its final week — both lawmakers and the bills they shredded like so many caffeinated zombies — left onlookers aghast. State budget director Adam Proffitt, not normally an overheated sort, savaged “the worst budget I’ve seen come through this building during …

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