Gov. Laura Kelly promises to sign bipartisan bill eliminating Kansas sales tax on food by 2025 - Kansas Reflector

Gov. Laura Kelly promises to sign bipartisan bill eliminating Kansas sales tax on food by 2025

House Majority Leader Dan Hawkins, left, defended the Legislature's plan to phase out over three years the state's 6.5% sales tax on groceries. Gov. Laura Kelly said she would sign the bill, but preferred a July termination of the state's tax on food. (Noah Taborda/Kansas Reflector)

Gov. Laura Kelly embraces Legislature’s bill eliminating the state’s 6.5% sales tax on groceries by 2025, but Democrats still want to end of tax in July.