TOPEKA, Kan. (KAKE) - Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says the state needs to make it more affordable for parents to prepare their kids for school and she's proposing a tax-free weekend next August. 

Every year around August, Missouri and Oklahoma have a Tax-Free Weekend where parents can buy things like clothes and school supplies without paying a penny in taxes. 

"I propose a 3-day sales tax holiday for back-to-school items in August 2023," the Democratic governor said on Twitter. "We owe it to our kids to give them the tools they need to succeed."

So hasn't Kansas done it?

"It's been suggested in the past in Kansas. It wasn't this current year, but this would have been a good year to do it," Kansas State Treasurer Lynn Rogers said last month.

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Rogers said in the past, the reason it didn't fly was that it would have cost too much in an already razor-thin state budget – something he says now he doesn't think would be a problem.
 

"Kansans really just want legislation just to help them. To work with them and help them. This would affect grandparents as well, anybody that's helping families get their kids back to school," said Rogers.

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Rogers said for this to become a reality here in Kansas, the governor or a lawmaker would have to introduce a bill, get it passed through the House and Senate, then signed into law.
 
Gov. Kelly is running for reelection in November. She faces three-term state Attorney General Derek Schmidt.