A Baldwin City legislator turned to a procedural device Friday in an attempt to compel Senate action on a proposed state constitutional amendment gradually repealing the statewide sales tax on food by 2019.
Sen. Tom Holland, a Democrat, set the stage for Senate consideration of an amendment to the Kansas Constitution sponsored by six Republican and six Democratic senators. The constitutional resolution altering the sales tax on food is bottled up in a Senate committee. A vote in the 40-member Senate was expected Monday on Holland’s motion to pull the resolution ...