Amending the definition of land devoted to agricultural use for property tax purposes to include trail rides as a ranching activity to qualify as an agritourism activity.
HB 2035 amends Kansas property tax law to include trail rides as a qualifying ranching activity for agritourism classification. This change allows ranches offering trail rides to qualify for the same lower property tax rate currently available to traditional agricultural operations. The bill specifically updates K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 79-1476 to expand the definition of "agricultural use" to cover trail rides as a ranching activity. This directly affects ranchers who operate trail ride businesses by potentially qualifying their land for reduced property tax assessments under agritourism provisions.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2025
Last action Feb 20, 2025
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As Amended by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
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MINOR
The bill was amended to add 'agriltourism' to its title and to include 'trail rides' as a qualifying ranching activity for agritourism tax benefits. The amendment also inserted new definitions for agritourism terms into the statute and reorganized the text to insert these definitions before the main property tax valuation rules.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded to explicitly include trail rides as a ranching activity eligible for agritourism classification, and the bill now formally defines agritourism activities and related terms within the statute.
SCOPE
The bill title and scope were updated to explicitly include 'agriltourism' and 'trail rides' as a qualifying ranching activity.
DEFINITION
New definitions were added for 'Agritourism activity', 'Inherent risks of a registered agritourism activity', 'Participant', 'Registered agritourism activity', 'Registered agritourism location', 'Registered agritourism operator', and 'Secretary'.
TECHNICAL
The bill text structure was modified to insert the new definitions into a new Section 1 (32-1432) before the existing property tax valuation section (79-1476).
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Committee
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Feb 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
lower
Jan 21, 2025
Committee
Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
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Jan 21, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Party
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Pat Proctor
RRepublican
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