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Topeka Buzz: Wednesday, March 12
Income tax deductions for unborn children, and the Budget Continuity Bill moves forward...but appears vulnerable.
Jason Anderson
March 12, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
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Continued expansion of prenatal personhood?
During floor debate in the Senate on House Bill 2062, which previously passed in the House and is now on the Senate floor for debate, proposes three significant changes:
Enforcing pregnancy and delivery costs in child support calculations;
Establish parental rights between mother and unborn child, and between father and unborn child; and
Blocks any child support burden from elective abortions.
Yesterday, Senator Schmidt (D) submitted an amendment that includes unborn children as qualifying dependents for income tax deductions. The amendment was adopted, and so now the version of HB2062 that will see a final vote (1) includes an unborn child dependent tax credit and (2) differs from the version passed by the House…so it will need to go through a conference committee to reconcile the differences.
