NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — As Kansas legislators continue to await Gov. Laura Kelly's promise of a special session to work on tax policy, Hutchinson Democrat Jason Probst isn't sure a special session is a great idea overall.
"The sense I have is that leadership probably just wants to address taxes and get out," Probst said. "What I expect to see is that they'll try to keep the session short, they'll address taxes and they will adjourn, but they'll leave the ending date open, so that we can come back and do a veto override, if necessary."
However, with a special session being a brand new session with the ability to do brand new things, anything is possible.
"It could run the gamut," Probst said. "We could get a whole bunch of bills that are ugly. We could get this Chiefs package that was not finalized before the end of the session. There were several pieces of legislation, just anything. Anything that anyone could imagine can come up in a special session. It's a really dangerous play."
A reminder that the last major changes to school finance in the Kansas Constitution happened when legislators were in special session.
According to the Revisor of Statutes, the current constitutional provisions in Article 6 came from a 1966 constitutional amendment that was passed by the Legislature during the 1966 special session and later ratified by the people of Kansas in the November general election of 1966.
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