(a) The consent of the state of Kansas is hereby given in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of Article I of the constitution of the United States, to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, of any land in the state of Kansas, which may hereafter be required for custom houses, courthouses, post offices, national cemeteries, arsenals, veterans administration hospitals or centers or other military purposes, and to the acquisition of a tract or contiguous tracts of land the total of which does not exceed eighty (80) acres in area for any other purpose of the government of the United States.

(b) No tract or contiguous tracts of land the total of which exceeds eighty (80) acres in area may be acquired by the United States for a purpose not specifically authorized under subsection (a) of this section by condemnation or by exercise of a right of first refusal unless consent thereto is granted by concurrent resolution of the legislature of the state of Kansas receiving the affirmative vote of a majority of the members of each house of the legislature then elected (or appointed) and qualified.