Chapter 46 — LEGISLATURE

46-151. History: L. 1969, ch. 251, § 5; Repealed, L. 1971, ch. 184, § 42; L. 1971, ch. 183, § 1; April 19. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived S…

46-152. Preparation of vouchers and payrolls of legislators and legislative officers and employees in certain cases; selection of certain employees. (a) Except as may otherwise be provided by law, the director of legislative administrative services shall prepare vouchers for expe…

46-153. Approval of vouchers for payment from legislative appropriations. Expenditures of any amounts from appropriations for legislative expense shall be made only when vouchers therefor have been approved by either the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of repr…

46-154. History: L. 1973, ch. 157, § 25; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 271, § 11; February 3. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Docume…

46-155. Items of appropriation; limitations and exceptions. Except as provided in K.S.A. 40-3405 and K.S.A. 75-4704b, no item of appropriation, or combination of items of appropriation for the same purpose, shall be for a period greater than one (1) ensuing fiscal year in additio…

46-156. Terms of members of the legislature; commencement. The regular terms of state representatives and senators shall commence on the second Monday of January of the year following election. Representatives shall be elected for two year terms. Senators shall be elected for fou…

46-157. Convening of legislature. The senate and the house of representatives shall convene in regular session of the legislature annually at 2:00 o'clock p.m. of the second Monday of January. History: L. 1975, ch. 205, § 2; July 1. Revisor's Note: Constitutional provisions, see …

46-158. Legislative pages; compensation. Legislative pages shall receive remuneration having a value of not less than $5 per day. The director of legislative administrative services shall implement the provisions of this section. Any amount of remuneration having a value of more …

46-159. Legislator's absence from employment to be treated as continuous service for retirement purposes. When a member of the legislature is or has been absent or on leave from such member's employment on or after January 1, 1977, due to attendance at a regular or special sessio…

46-160. Resignation of member of senate or house of representatives; filing of notice; duty of secretary of state. Any member of the senate or house of representatives resigning from such office shall file a written notice of such resignation in the office of the secretary of sta…

46-161. Compensation; expense allowances and mileage of legislators attending meetings of senate or house. Members of the legislature attending a meeting called to fill a vacancy as provided by rules of the senate or rules of the house of representatives, or attending a meeting o…

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46-205. History: L. 1909, ch. 170, § 5; R.S. 1923, 46-205; L. 1970, ch. 366, § 18; L. 1970, ch. 197, § 1; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 273, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUT…

46-211. History: L. 1965, ch. 328, § 1; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 273, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents US…

46-212. History: L. 1965, ch. 328, § 2; L. 1968, ch. 349, § 1; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 273, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Scho…

46-213. History: L. 1965, ch. 328, § 3; Repealed, L. 1975, ch. 273, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents US…

46-214. History: L. 1970, ch. 366, § 21; Repealed, L. 1973, ch. 157, § 26; February 16. Revisor's Note: Held unconstitutional on grounds that section too vague and indefinite to meet the due process requirements of the fourteenth amendment. Hiatt v. State, District Court of Shawn…

46-214a. Title. K.S.A. 46-215 through 46-293 and K.S.A. 46-237a, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the state governmental ethics law. History: L. 1998, ch. 29, § 3; July 1. Attorney General's Opinions: Judicial Council employee is not "state officer or em…

46-215. Application of definitions. As used in K.S.A. 46-215 to 46-280, inclusive, and any amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 46-248a, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in K.S.A. 46-216 to 46-231, inclusive, and any amendments thereto, shall have the …

46-216. "Compensation" defined. "Compensation" means any money, thing of value, or economic benefit conferred on, or received by, any person in return for services rendered, or to be rendered, by such person or another. History: L. 1974, ch. 353, § 2; March 28. Governmental Ethic…

46-217. "Economic opportunity" defined. "Economic opportunity" means any purchase, sale, lease, contract, option, or other transaction or arrangement involving property or services wherein a state officer or employee or candidate for state office may gain a personal economic bene…

46-218. "Preceding calendar year" defined. "Preceding calendar year" shall have its usual meaning, except that in the case of candidates and individuals newly appointed to state office or employment, it shall mean the twelve (12) months immediately preceding a required filing dat…

46-219. "Legislative matter" defined. "Legislative matter" means any bill, resolution, nomination, or other issue or proposal pending before the legislature or any committee, subcommittee, or council thereof. History: L. 1974, ch. 353, § 5; March 28. Governmental Ethics Commissio…

46-220. "Legislator" defined. "Legislator" means a member or member-elect of the legislature. History: L. 1974, ch. 353, § 6; March 28. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived…

46-221. State officer or employee, candidate and state officer elect defined. (a) "State officer or employee" means (1) any individual who is an elected or appointed state officer, (2) any individual who is in the classified service or unclassified service of the Kansas civil ser…

46-222. "Lobbyist" defined; exceptions. (a) "Lobbyist" means: (1) Any person employed in considerable degree for lobbying; (2) any person formally appointed as the primary representative of an organization or other person to lobby in person on state-owned or leased property; (3) …

46-223. "Person" defined. "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, association, trust, estate, business trust, group, or corporation, whether or not operated for profit, or a governmental agency unit, or subdivision. History: L. 1974, ch. 35…

46-224. "State agency" and "rules and regulations" defined. (a) "State agency" means the legislature, legislators, legislative committees and councils and all executive departments, institutions, offices, officers, commissions, boards and authorities of the state, but does not in…

46-225. "Lobbying" defined; exceptions; employment of legislator as a lobbyist prohibited. (a) Except as otherwise provided, "lobbying" means: (1) Promoting or opposing in any manner action or nonaction by the legislature on any legislative matter; (2) promoting or opposing in an…

46-226. "Representation case" defined. "Representation case" means the representation of any person, client, principal, or third person, with compensation, in any matter before any state agency where the action or non-action of the state agency involves the exercise of substantia…

46-227. "Associated person" defined. "Associated person" means a person associated with a state officer or employee in a partnership, limited partnership, association or professional service corporation as a partner or officer. History: L. 1974, ch. 353, § 13; L. 1975, ch. 272, §…

46-228. "Special interest" defined. "Special interest" means an interest of any person as herein defined (1) concerning action or non-action by the legislature on any legislative matter affecting such person as distinct from affect upon the people of the state as a whole, or (2) …

46-229. "Substantial interest" and "client or customer" defined. "Substantial interest" means any of the following: (a) If an individual or an individual's spouse, either individually or collectively, has owned within the preceding 12 months a legal or equitable interest exceedin…

46-230. "Business" defined. "Business" means any corporation, association, partnership, proprietorship, trust, joint venture, or a governmental agency unit, or a governmental subdivision and every other business interest, including ownership or use of land for income. History: L.…

46-231. "Contract" defined. "Contract" means any agreement including but not limited to sales and conveyances of real and personal property and agreements for the performance of services. History: L. 1974, ch. 353, § 17; March 28. Governmental Ethics Commission Opinions: State em…

46-232. Lobbying by state officer or employee; prohibited acts; exception. No state officer or employee shall engage in lobbying his own state agency, if he accepts compensation specifically attributable to such lobbying, other than that provided for the performance of his offici…

46-233. Contracts involving state officer or employee or legislator; prohibited acts, exceptions; challenging constitutionality of legislative action or enactment by legislator; prohibited acts. (a) (1) No state officer or employee shall in the capacity as such officer or employe…

46-234. Restrictions on appointments of state officers to other state offices. No elected state officer shall within one year after the expiration of such officer's last term receive any civil appointment to a state office which was created by law during the last term for which s…

46-235. Restrictions on compensation of state officers and employees. No state officer or employee shall accept compensation for performance of official duties, other than that to which such person is entitled for such performance. No person shall pay or offer to pay any state of…

46-236. Certain solicitations by state officers and employees, candidates for state offices and state officers elect prohibited; exceptions. (a) No state officer or employee, candidate for state office or state officer elect shall solicit any economic opportunity, gift, loan, gra…

46-237. Gifts to state agencies, state officers and employees, candidates for state office and state officers elect, members, members elect and employees of the judicial branch; limitations and prohibitions; exceptions; hospitality; honoraria; gifts from foreign governments; reim…

46-237a. Gifts or meals solicited or accepted by certain state officers, employees and members of boards and commissions, exceptions; limitations and prohibitions; penalties. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to: (1) The governor; (2) the lieutenant governor; (3) the…

46-238. Restrictions on sale or lease of property and furnishing services by state officers and employees and candidates for state offices. No state officer or employee or candidate for state office or associated person shall charge to or accept from a person known to have a spec…

46-239. Disclosure statements; state officers and employees accepting representation cases; legislators contracting to perform services for state agencies; state agencies contracting with legislators or legislators' firms, reports by; time and procedure for filing statements; inf…

46-240. Same; restrictions on compensation. No state officer or employee shall accept or agree to accept compensation, or any part thereof, for employment in a representation case of any kind, before a state agency, except workmen's compensation cases, which is contingent upon th…

46-241. Disclosure or use of confidential information by state officer or employee. No state officer or employee shall disclose or use confidential information acquired in the course of his or her official duties in order to further his or her own economic interest or those of an…

46-242. Restrictions on acceptance of representation case and conduct therein by state officer or employee. (a) No state officer or employee shall accept a representation case before a state agency where such officer or employee knows or should know that it is obviously without m…

46-243. Censure or forfeiture of office or employment for violation. (a) Any state officer or employee or candidate for state office who violates any provision of this act, and such violation is a misdemeanor, shall be subject to censure or forfeiture of office. Whenever the comm…