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Kansas Legislative Revision or Suspension of Administrative Rules and Regulation Amendment (August 2026)

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Kansas Legislative Revision or Suspension of Administrative Rules and Regulation Amendment
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Election date
August 4, 2026
Topic
State legislatures measures
Status
Proposed
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The Kansas Legislative Revision or Suspension of Administrative Rules and Regulation Amendment may appear on the ballot in Kansas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on August 4, 2026.[1]

The measure would amend the Kansas Constitution to authorize the Kansas State Legislature to revise or suspend administrative rules and regulation via a concurrent resolution.[2]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the amendment is available here.

Path to the ballot

Amending the Kansas Constitution

See also: Amending the Kansas Constitution

A two-thirds vote is required during one legislative session for the Kansas State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 27 votes in the Kansas State Senate and 84 votes in the Kansas House of Representatives, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.

House Concurrent Resolution 5008 (2025)

The Kansas House of Representatives Judiciary Committee introduced the constitutional amendment into the Kansas State Legislature as House Concurrent Resolution 5008 (HCR 5008) on January 28, 2025.[3]

  • January 28, 2025: The Kansas House of Representatives Judiciary Committee introduced HCR 5008.
  • February 18, 2025: The House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the resolution's adoption.
  • February 20, 2025: The Kansas House of Representatives voted 86-37, with two members absent, to pass HCR 5008.
  • March 10, 2025: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend the resolution's adoption.


Kansas House of Representatives
Voted on February 20, 2025
Votes Required to Pass: 84
YesNoNV
Total86372
Total %68.8%29.6%1.6%
Democratic (D)0361
Republican (R)8611

See also

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External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kansas State Legislature, "HCR 5008," accessed February 21, 2025
  2. ↑ Kansas State Legislature, "HCR 5008 Text," accessed February 21, 2025
  3. ↑ Kansas State Legislature, "House Concurrent Resolution 5008," accessed February 20, 2025
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