MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR

House Bill No. 2098

An Act concerning sales and compensating use tax; relating to motor vehicles; providing for a deduction for calculating tax owed when selling a motor vehicle that is purchased within 120 days of the sale of another vehicle; providing an exemption for certain purchases by disabled veterans of the armed forces of the United States; excluding manufacturers’ coupons from the sales or selling price; providing exemptions for custom meat processing services, purchases for the construction or repair of buildings used for human habitation by the Kansas state school for the blind and the Kansas state school for the deaf, certain purchases by doorstep inc., exploration place, inc., Kansas children’s discovery center, inc. and the Kansas fairgrounds foundation; providing for a sales tax exemption for sales of property and services used in the provision of communications services; amending K.S.A. 12-199 and K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3602 and 79-3606 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 2023 Supp. 79-3602c.

Message to the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

The intent of House Bill 2098 is on the right track to provide Kansans with sales tax relief.

However, the impact these tax cuts would have on the State General Fund cannot be realized without knowing the total cost of all tax bills, including a fair, sustainable, and fiscally responsible tax relief package.

Therefore, under Article 2, Section 14(a) of the Constitution, I hereby veto House Bill 2098.

Laura Kelly, Governor

Dated April 24, 2024.