The Missouri House of Representatives this week passed bills that would give tax breaks for the planned expansion of the Kansas City Nuclear Security Campus in Missouri.
The state’s 163-member House of Representatives passed the bills Thursday, sending them on to the Senate, which had not scheduled a vote as of deadline for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor.
The bills would exempt from local sales tax nearly all materials or services procured to construct new buildings for use by the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC), the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) manufacturing hub for non-nuclear nuclear-weapon parts.
The tax exemptions in House Bill 2710 and 2681 would expire on Aug. 28, 2034 and apply to “any portion of a nuclear security enterprise located in any city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more than one county” in Missouri, according to the bills.
Rep. Chris Brown (R-District 16), a realtor whose district includes Clay County, sponsored the bills. The south edge of Brown’s sixteenth district is about 30 miles north by road of the Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC).
Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, a Honeywell subsidiary, is the NNSA’s prime contractor at KCNSC. The company’s contract expires Sept. 30, 2025, but NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby in February said the agency planned to extend the incumbent.
