[Steven Scharf]

HB 2465

Enacting the adoption savings account act allowing individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas income tax act, increasing the income tax credit amount for adoption expenses, establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities and providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities.

This bill appears to have nothing to do with actual abortion, but tax credits by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities, which I assume are conservative places for pregnant woman to get resources, etc.

This bill has only been overridden in the state house, not the state senate.

https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2465/

First the idea that the governor would veto such a bill is ridiculous, but to use this as some sort of limit test is also ridiculous. I could think of several reasons I might not support this bill on a taxation argument.

[fidelis]

Enacting the adoption savings account act allowing individuals to establish adoption savings accounts with certain financial institutions, providing eligible expenses, requirements and restrictions for such accounts and establishing addition and subtraction modifications for contributions to such accounts under the Kansas income tax act, increasing the income tax credit amount for adoption expenses, establishing an income, privilege and premium tax credit for contributions to eligible charitable organizations operating pregnancy centers or residential maternity facilities and providing for a sales tax exemption for purchases by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities.

This bill appears to have nothing to do with actual abortion, but tax credits by pregnancy resource centers and residential maternity facilities, which I assume are conservative places for pregnant woman to get resources, etc.

That pro-lifers "only care about unborn babies and not born babies and their mothers" is a frequently used talking point from abortion advocates. Legislation like this exposes this lie and is a threat to the effectiveness of this talking point, which means they need to make every effort to quash it.