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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 52: Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 52 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacting the Kansas film and digital media industry production development act, providing a tax credit and sales tax exemption to incentivize film, video and digital media production in Kansas, establishing a program to be administered by the secretary of commerce for the purpose of developing such production in Kansas and requiring the secretary of commerce to issue reports to the legislature regarding the program. Primary sponsor: Committee on Commerce. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died on House Calendar.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on CommercePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died on House Calendar
  2. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Taxation
  3. Received and Introduced
  4. Referred to House Committee on Taxation
  5. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 33, Nay 7
  6. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  7. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  8. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Commerce
  9. Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce
  10. Introduced

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source