Gannon v. State

*480 Article 6, § 6(b) of the Kansas Constitution imposes a duty on the legislature to "make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state." On October 2, 2017, we ruled that the State had not met its burden of showing that its remedial legislation-2017 Senate Bill 19 (S.B. 19)-met Article 6's adequacy and equity requirements. Gannon v. State , 306 Kan. 1170 , 1172, 402 P.3d 513 (2017) ( Gannon V ).

We stayed the issuance of our mandate until June 30, 2018. We reasoned this gave the State ample time to satisfactorily demonstrate that its additional remedial legislation…