Members of the Kansas Legislature, with masks in hand and social distancing the rule, convene Thursday for the final day of the 2020 session with plans to usher through pandemic-inspired reforms on emergency oversight, taxation and budgeting. Details of the legislative packages were being crafted by House and Senate leadership Wednesday as Gov. Laura Kelly spent the day in Washington, D.C., for a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. She is to discuss response and recovery to the COVID-19 pandemic with an emphasis on rural economic challenges. Sudden departure of state legislators from the Capitol in mid-March as the coronavirus infiltrated Kansas meant consequential legislation in formative stages was left on the table. Instead of reconvening for a lengthy period in May to complete that work, legislative leaders settled on a one-day event.
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