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2015 SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON
ETHICS, ELECTIONS, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Agenda Minutes Report
Senate
Sen. Mitch Holmes, Chairperson
Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau
Sen. Steve Fitzgerald
House
Rep. Mark Kahrs, Vice-chairperson
Rep. Keith Esau
Rep. Tom Sawyer
Rep. John Whitmer
Kansas Legislative Research Dept.
Martha Dorsey
Jill Shelley
Eddie Penner
Office of Revisor of Statutes
Daniel Yoza
Mike Heim
Linda Herrick, Committee Assistant
CHARGE
Review and Study the Change in Election Dates; Potential Conflicts of Interest of School
Board Members; State Campaign Finance Laws; the Potential Reduction in the
Number of Governments; Precinct and School District Lines in Order to Reduce Ballot
Styles; and Whether Governmental Entities Should be Required to Publish Money
Spent for Lobbying Purposes
The Committee is to review and study the following issues:
- The sections of 2015 HB 2104, relating to changing elections to November, with
the purpose of determining if any trailer legislation is needed in order to make transition more seamless, correct
any drafting errors, and avoid unintended consequences;
- Possible conflicts of interest of school board members including a hearing on
2015 HB 2345, which deals with this topic;
- Campaign finance laws of other states for the purpose of considering ways to
modernize Kansas campaign finance statutes;
- Why Kansas has a disproportionate number of local governments and possible
ways to simplify and reduce this number;
- Precinct and school district lines, and ways to simplify and/or standardize for the
purpose of reducing ballot styles; and
- Whether governmental entities should be required to publish, with their budgets,
an accounting of money spent for lobbying purposes (in addition to having
required lobbyists to report similar information pursuant to 2015 HB 2183.)
Please see 2015 SB 42, as amended by the Senate Committee of the Whole, for
further information.
Approved Meeting Days: 2 days
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2015 Interim Information
Approved Topics Memo
Approved Days Listing
Interim Calendar
Interim Committee Membership
Committee Reports to the 2016 Legislature
Committee Reports to the 2016 Legislature-Supplement
Statutory Joint Committees
Special Committees
Other Task Forces, Commissions, Committees
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