Kansas legislators approved a plan on Tuesday aimed at luring the Kansas City Chiefs away from Missouri by helping to finance a new stadium for the Super Bowl champions, and another for Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals.
The bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and sent to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly would allow Kansas to issue bonds to cover up to 70% of the costs of a new stadium in the state for the Chiefs and another for Major League Baseball's. The plan also encourages the teams to move their practice facilities to the Kansas side of the metropolitan area, which is split by the two states' border.
"We're excited about what happened here today," he said after the bill cleared the Legislature."This is incredibly real." Kelly called a special session to have lawmakers consider reducing taxes after she vetoed three tax-cutting plans before legislators adjourned their regular annual session May 1. Once legislators convened the special session, Kelly couldn't control what they considered, and that created an opening to consider the stadium-financing plan.
"There are no blank checks," Tarwater told GOP colleagues during a briefing on the plan before the House began debating it. "Most of the money that gets spent on the Chiefs is money that would otherwise be spent on other entertainment projects," said Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College in central Massachusetts who has written multiple books about sports.
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