Bill > HB2793

This bill enacts the Kansas Sports Facilities Authority Act, establishing a public entity responsible for the construction, financing, management, and long-term use of sports facilities and related infrastructure, intended to serve as venues for professional sports, specifically the National Football League (NFL), and a wide range of other civic, community, and commercial events. The Act defines "sports facility" broadly to include stadiums, arenas, fields, practice facilities, and headquarters buildings, along with integrated entertainment or event venues, and "sports facility infrastructure" encompassing plazas, parking, roadways, utilities, and other supporting improvements. The Authority will be a body corporate and politic, a political subdivision of the state, with its obligations not constituting a debt of the state, and will consist of 11 voting members, including the Secretary of Commerce and a representative from the professional sports team, with the remaining members appointed by various state legislative leaders and the Governor, and up to two mayors from cities where a sports facility is located serving as non-voting members under specific conditions related to STAR bond projects. The Authority is empowered to acquire, develop, own, operate, and finance sports facilities and infrastructure, is exempt from certain taxes and state bidding requirements, and can issue special obligation bonds, with all its activities subject to the open meetings and open records acts, and it is required to provide annual reports to the legislature.

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https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/hb2793/