Article 7, Kansas Constitution

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Article 7 of the Kansas Constitution is labeled Public Institutions and Welfare. It has four sections.

Section 1

	Text of Section 1: Benevolent Institutions Institutions for the benefit of mentally or physically incapacitated or handicapped persons, and such other benevolent institutions as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the state, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Section 4

	Text of Section 4: Aged and Infirm Persons; financial Aid; State Participation The respective counties of the state shall provide, as may be prescribed by law, for those inhabitants who, by reason of age, infirmity or other misfortune, may have claims upon the aid of society. The state may participate financially in such aid and supervise and control the administration thereof.

Section 5

Text of Section 5: Unemployment Compensation; Old-Age Benefits; Taxation The state may provide by law for unemployment compensation and contributory old-age benefits and may tax employers and employees therefore; and the restrictions and limitations of section 24 of article 2, and section 1 of article 11 of the constitution shall not be construed to limit the authority conferred by this amendment. No direct ad valorem tax shall be laid on real or personal property for such purposes.

Section 6

Text of Section 6: Tax Levy for Certain Institutions The legislature may levy a permanent tax for the creation of a building fund for institutions caring for those who are mentally ill, retarded, visually handicapped, with a handicapping hearing loss, tubercular or for children who are dependent, neglected or delinquent and in need of residential institutional care or treatment and for institutions primarily designed to provide vocational rehabilitation for handicapped persons, and the legislature shall apportion among and appropriate the same to the several institutions, which levy, apportionment and appropriation shall continue until changed by statute. Nothing herein contained shall prevent such further appropriation by the legislature as may be deemed necessary from time to time for the needs of said charitable and benevolent institutions. Nothing in this amendment shall repeal any statute of this state enacted prior to this amendment, and any levy, apportionment or appropriation made under authority of this section before its amendment, and any statute making the same, shall remain in full force and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature.

See also

• State constitution
• Constitutional article
• Constitutional amendment
• Constitutional revision
• Constitutional convention
• Amendments
  • Initiated constitutional amendment
  • Legislatively-referred constitutional amendment
  • Publication requirements for proposed state constitutional amendments
  • Rules about constitutional conventions in state constitutions
  • State constitutional articles governing state legislatures

External links

Suggest a link

• Kansas State Library, "Kansas Constitution"
• Kansapedia: Kansas State Historical Society, "Wyandotte Constitution"
• Kansapedia: Kansas State Historical Society, "Kansas Constitutions"

Additional reading

• Heller, Francis H. (2011) The Kansas State Constitution, New York, New York: Oxford University Press
• Wilder, D.W. (1875). The Annals of Kansas
• Cutler, William G. (1883) History of the State of Kansas, Chicago, Illinois: A. T. Andreas