46-1201. Legislative coordinating council; membership; officers; meetings; notice of meetings to members of legislature and certain legislative officials; copies of minutes. (a) There is hereby established the legislative coordinating council which shall have eight members. Such members shall be the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the vice president of […]
46-1202. Legislative coordinating council; general powers and functions; rules; majority vote of five members required, exceptions. The legislative coordinating council shall have general authority over all legislative services and such authority shall be exercised by such council as it shall determine, except as otherwise provided by chapter 46 of Kansas Statutes Annotated. The legislative coordinating […]
46-1204. Authority to contract for personal property or services; delegation; limitations; employment of attorneys. The legislative coordinating council shall be authorized to contract for purchases of personal property or services, and in the discretion of such council, the same may be made as provided in K.S.A. 75-3739 and amendments thereto. Such council may delegate such […]
46-1205. Legislative study committees; special, select and standing committees; advisory committees; minority party representation on committees. (a) There shall be three principal types of legislative study committees. One principal type of legislative study committee shall be known as “special committees.” The legislative coordinating council shall appoint members of the legislature to serve as members of […]
46-1206. Legislative studies; initiation by resolution or by council; statutory committee authorization retained; inherent powers recognized. (a) Legislative studies shall be initiated in one of the ways specified in this section. (b) The inherent power of the house of representatives or the senate to cause a legislative study to be made without the approval of […]
46-1207. Reports of legislative studies; call of committee meetings; publication of annual report on studies. (a) Whenever a special committee, select committee or a standing committee is authorized to make a legislative study, it shall meet on the call of its chairman as authorized by the legislative coordinating council. At the conclusion of each legislative […]
46-1207a. Sale and disposition of legislative publications, documents, information or records; fees, charges and other proceeds, disposition; deposit of legislative documents with secretary of state; legislative stationery and printed material supplies. (a) The legislative coordinating council may provide for sale or other disposition of copies of any publication, document or other paper, information or record, […]
46-1208. Legislative budget committee. (a) There is hereby established the legislative budget committee which shall consist of seven members of the legislature appointed by the legislative coordinating council for terms ending on the first day of the regular legislative session in odd-numbered years. In making such appointments, preference shall be given to members of the […]
46-1209. Expenses and compensation of members of committees and council; place of meetings; travel authorizations; expenses and allowances of officers and employees of legislature. (a) Any member of the legislative coordinating council, when attending a meeting of such council, shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212, […]
46-1210. Legislative research department; director of legislative research; assistants and employees; duties and functions of department. (a) There is hereby established the legislative research department whose head shall be the director of legislative research and who shall be appointed by the legislative coordinating council to serve under its direction. The director of legislative research may […]
46-1211. Office of revisor of statutes; revisor of statutes; assistants and employees; duties and functions of office. (a) There is hereby established the office of revisor of statutes whose head shall be the revisor of statutes and who shall be appointed by the legislative coordinating council to serve under its direction. The revisor of statutes […]
46-1211a. Authority to authorize travel by officers and employees; delegation. The legislative coordinating council may delegate to the revisor of statutes, director of legislative administrative services and the director of legislative research, respectively, authority to authorize in-state or out-of-state travel of officers and employees of such office, division and department. The provisions of K.S.A. 75-3208 […]
46-1212. Library services for legislative branch of government; state librarian to acquire and maintain books and materials determined essential by legislative coordinating council at approved location; loan of materials by state law librarian; exchange of materials with other states and territories; state librarian to confer with legislative coordinating council. One of the functions of the […]
46-1212a. Division of legislative administrative services established; director and assistants; compensation and expenses; duties. (a) There is hereby established the division of legislative administrative services whose head shall be the director of legislative administrative services and who shall be appointed by the legislative coordinating council to serve under its direction. The director of legislative administrative […]
46-1212b. Transfers relating to the joint committee on legislative services and facilities. (a) On the effective date of this act, such officers and employees as are engaged on said date in the performance of powers, duties and functions of the existing secretary of the joint committee on legislative services and facilities or his or her […]
46-1212c. State agency publications; duties of director of legislative administrative services. (a) Any report, pamphlet, book or other materials required to be submitted by a state agency to the legislature or the members thereof pursuant to K.S.A. 19-2674, 20-320, 20-2204, 22-3710, 25-4119a, 40-2309, 44-566a, 44-1004, 46-408, 50-628, 65-176, 65-4007, 72-8261, 74-32,237, 74-5503, 74-6706, 75-3048, 75-5326, […]
46-1213. Employment of certain legislative employees. The legislative coordinating council may employ such persons as may be necessary or appropriate to perform legislative work under the direction and supervision of the revisor of statutes, the secretary of state, the director of legislative administrative services, the state librarian or any other department or agency of the […]
46-1214. Annual budget requests; estimate of general legislative expense; appropriations. (a) The legislative coordinating council shall prepare and file its annual budget request in three parts; one for the office of revisor of statutes, one for the legislative research department and one for other expenses. The revisor of statutes and the director of legislative research […]
46-1216. Approval of vouchers and payrolls of office of revisor of statutes and legislative research department; other vouchers and payrolls of council. (a) Expenditures from appropriations to the legislative coordinating council for the office of revisor of statutes shall be made on vouchers approved by the revisor of statutes. All claims for salaries, wages or […]
46-1217. Transition; transfer of officers and employees. On the effective date of this act, such officers and employees as are engaged on said date in the performance of powers, duties and functions of the existing revisor of statutes, existing research department of the Kansas legislative council, or existing joint committee on legislative services and facilities […]
