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Introduced Session

AN ACT concerning economic development; enacting the Kansas sports authority act to establish a sports authority to provide for the construction, financing and management of certain sports facilities and sports facility infrastructure and create venues for professional sports and other events; requiring members of the authority to submit to a state and national criminal history record check; authorizing STAR bond projects in major amusement park areas; permitting additional STAR bond districts where a major professional sports complex STAR bond district previously existed; clarifying geographic areas from which STAR bond revenues may be pledged; clarifying the length of time that revenues may be captured within a STAR bond project area; permitting cities or counties to pledge community improvement district or transportation development district revenues for the payment of STAR bonds; clearly establishing the authority of the secretary to set or modify STAR bond project district and STAR bond project areas without effect on local revenue pledges with respect to a major professional sports complex STAR bond district; permitting cities and counties, upon the request of the secretary, to modify their pledge area for a major professional sports complex STAR bond district; extending the expiration date of the STAR bonds financing act by prohibiting new STAR bond district approvals after July 1, 2031; clarifying the definition of a STAR bond project area; permitting the secretary to approve applications for STAR bond project financing more than one year after a STAR bond district has been established; condensing city, county and department of commerce notice, posting and reporting requirements; requiring a reset of the base year revenue for purposes of financing new STAR bonds in certain circumstances; clarifying that revenues from the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund may be used to pay management, operations and other costs of a professional sports team's primary facility; authorizing STAR bond projects in certain counties located in certain metropolitan statistical areas as rural redevelopment projects; setting certain visitor origin requirements and requiring certain enforcement by the secretary against developers that fail to meet such requirements; requiring the secretary to make certain information concerning STAR bond projects publicly available on the website of the department of commerce; prohibiting state general fund moneys from being pledged for the repayment of any special obligation bond issued by a city or county to finance a STAR bond project; prohibiting a city or county from using eminent domain to acquire real property for a STAR bond project; requiring the secretary to add to the secretary's annual report information regarding business movement into and out of STAR bond districts and local sales tax revenues lost as the result of such movement; amending K.S.A. 12-17,160, 12-17,166, 12- 17,172 and 12-17,179 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 12-17,162, 12-17,164, 12-17,169, 22- 4714 and 74-8793 and repealing the existing sections.

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House Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026 (on 04/09/2026)

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