Full Name:
Will Kraus
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Carmen; 2 Children: Tylor, Tannor
Birth Date:
03/22/1973
Birth Place:
Excelsior Springs, MO
Home City:
Lee's Summit, MO
Religion:
Christian
Graduated, Flight School, 1999
BS, Business Administration, Central Missouri State University, 1997
Senator, Missouri State Senate, 2010-2017
Representative, Missouri State House of Representatives, 2004-2010
Member, Administrative Law Judge Review Committee
Former Member, Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy, and the Environment Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Member, Economic Development Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Member, Government Accountability Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Member, Local Government & Elections Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Member, Seniors, Families and Children Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Chair, Tax Policy Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Member, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, Missouri State Senate
Former Chair, Ways and Means Committee, Missouri State Senate
Officer, Missouri National Guard, present
Former Mechanized Infantryman, United States Army
Former Captain, United States Army Reserve
Member, First Baptist Church, present
Member, Lee Summit Chamber of Commerce, present
Member, Lee's Summit American Legion, present
Board Member, Missouri Workforce Investment
Member, Raytown Crossroads Chamber of Commerce, present
Member, Raytown South Middle Parent Teacher Student Association, present
Member, Raytown Veterans of Foreign Wars, present
Member, Southwood Parent Teacher Association, present
Former Coach, Upward Basketball and Soccer
Awards:
2005 Sacred Heart (Sedalia) High School Alumnus of the Year
2006 Missouri PTA "A Better Missouri for Children" Award
2008-9 Veteran of Foreign Wars Legislator of the Year
2012 American Conservative Union Award
2012 Locke and Smith Award
Priority Issues:
As a Representative and Senator, Will has focused on implementing real solutions for Missouri's problems. Will states, "I believe providing our children with a quality education should be the state's number one priority." He will continue to fight for more education funding for our schools. A strong defender of our children, Will led an effort to strengthen child sex offender laws.
Moreover, Will wants to make sure our taxes are used for the purposes that they were intended. He will fight for accountability in our government and fight to cut waste. Another priority of his is to bring jobs and economic development to our area. He wants to encourage new business and will work hard to ensure we attract high quality jobs with great pay and benefits to Eastern Jackson County.
Will sponsored and passed legislation to provide a state income tax exemption on military retirement pay. In addition, he works to find solutions to help seniors such as freezing property tax increases on seniors with fixed incomes.
Will is constantly looking out for Missouri voters. He sponsored legislation to make it easier for deployed military to vote, and he is also leading the efforts to pass a voter identification law in Missouri.
In everything that he does, Will brings sound conservative principles and a dedication to ethical standards of legislative conduct.