Restore Sound Money in Kansas With SB 39 and SB 115
Legislative Alerts
Members of the Kansas Legislature are seeking to enact SB 39 and SB 115, which would help restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
Contact your state legislators
Please help enact SB 39 and SB 115 by contacting your state legislators. Urge them to support strong legislation that enforces the U.S. Constitution and restores sound monetary policy.
Why it Matters
URGENT: A second sound-money bill, SB 115, has been introduced in the Kansas Legislature. Urge your state legislators to support and enact these important bills.
Members of the Kansas Legislature are seeking to enact legislation helping restore sound money and enforce the U.S. Constitution’s monetary provisions.
Senate Bill No. 39 (SB 39), titled the Kansas Legal Tender Act, was introduced by the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs. If enacted, it would officially recognize gold and silver coins as legal tender and eliminate capital-gains taxes on gold and silver — thus bringing Kansas closer to constitutional compliance and treating gold and silver as money. On March 18, SB 39 was passed out of committee.
Meanwhile, Senate Bill No. 115 (SB 115), sponsored by the same committee, would create a billion depository and allow Kansas to hold gold and silver reserves.
These bills are great first steps toward enforcing the Constitution’s monetary provisions. Article I, Section 10, of the U.S. Constitution plainly states that “No State shall…make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” It’s long overdue that states begin to enforce this provision once again.
Additionally, these bills are an important step toward nullifying the unconstitutional Federal Reserve, which has a monopoly on money, and also reducing Kansas’ financial dependence on the federal government. It will also help Kansas avoid the federal government’s planned “Central Bank Digital Currencies,” which severely threaten privacy and individual freedom.
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution obligates state officials to uphold the Constitution and nullify all laws not “made in Pursuance” of it. Officials at all levels of government must push back against the federal government’s many unconstitutional laws and agencies, and robustly enforce the Constitution and only those laws “made in Pursuance thereof.” SB 39 and SB 115 are excellent models for other states to follow.
Urge your state representative and senator to support SB 39 and SB 115, and to fully restore sound money in Kansas.