List of Kansas ballot measures

This page provides a list of ballot measures that have appeared on the statewide ballot in Kansas.

List of ballot measures by year

Measures are listed in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent and upcoming elections appearing first. Tables include brief summaries, relevant topics, and the election results for each measure.

2026

See also: Kansas 2026 ballot measures

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result
LRCA	Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment	Citizenship voting requirements	Amend the state constitution to state that only a citizen of the United States is eligible to vote

August 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result
LRCA	Elections for Supreme Court Justices Amendment	State judicial selection	Make the Kansas Supreme Court an elected office and to abolish the court's nominating commission

2022

See also: Kansas 2022 ballot measures

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Constitutional Amendment 1	State legislative authority	Authorize the Legislature to veto or suspend rules or regulations adopted by executive agencies via a simple majority vote	d	472,074 (50%)	480,719 (50%)
LRCA	Constitutional Amendment 2	Local government officials and elections; Recall process	Require the election of county sheriffs in counties that had not abolished the office and provide that sheriffs may be recalled from office	a	588,417 (62%)	366,167 (38%)

August 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment	Abortion policy; Constitutional rights	Provide that the state constitution does not create a right to an abortion or public abortion funding	d	378,466 (41%)	543,855 (59%)

2019

See also: Kansas 2019 ballot measures

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Eliminate Revision of Census Population Amendment	Census policy	The Kansas Eliminate Revision of Census Population Amendment is on the ballot in Kansas as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 5, 2019.	a	203,572 (60%)	137,483 (40%)

2016

See also: Kansas 2016 ballot measures

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Constitutional Amendment 1	Constitutional rights; Right to hunt and fish	Provide for a state constitutional right to hunt, fish, and trap, including traditional methods	a	926,970 (81%)	213,104 (19%)

2014

See also: Kansas 2014 ballot measures

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	SCR 1618	Gambling policy	a	612,582 (75%)	208,695 (25%)

2012

See also: Kansas 2012 ballot measures

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	HCR 5017	Taxes; Property	a	551,479 (53%)	479,792 (47%)

2010

See also: Kansas 2010 ballot measures

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Question 1	Firearms policy; Constitutional rights	a	720,102 (88%)	95,957 (12%)
LRCA	Question 2	Constitutional wording changes; Election administration and governance	a	503,143 (62%)	302,966 (38%)

2005

See also: Kansas 2005 ballot measures

April 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Family-related policy; LGBTQ issues	Defined marriage as "a civil contract between one man and one woman only," and stated that "any other marriage is contrary to public policy and void," and prohibited the state from recognizing any other legal relationship that would "entitle the parties in the relationship to the rights or incidents of marriage."		417,675 (70%)	179,432 (30%)

2000

See also: Kansas 2000 ballot measures

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Retirement and Pensions Plans Amendment	Public employee retirement funds	a	556,715 (62%)	348,323 (38%)
LRCA	Tax Classifications Amendment	Taxes	d	433,627 (49%)	445,904 (51%)

1999

See also: Kansas 1999 ballot measures

April 6

Type	Title	Subject	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Exempt Oil and Gas Production Equipment from Property Tax Amendment	Taxes	d	112,938 (42%)	155,967 (58%)

1990

See also: Kansas 1990 ballot measures

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Public education governance	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 6, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4. The amendment proposed that the state would offer intellectual, educational, vocational and scientific improvement by establishing a system of public education which may be organized and changed according to the law; public elementary and secondary schools would be governed by local elected boards, overseen by the state; public institutions and postsecondary education would be maintained by the state; the legislature would be able to levy taxes for the funding of public education; no tuition shall be charged for those who would be required to attend such a school; no religious sect shall have control over any part of the public educational funds; all the laws in force at the time of the adoption of the amendment will remain in effect until the legislature amends or repeals them; and any laws in effect prior to July 1, 1991 that do not conform with the above amendments would no longer be valid after said date.	d	245,132 (39%)	377,625 (61%)

1988

See also: Kansas 1988 ballot measures

November 8

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Redistricting policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 10, Section 1. The amendment proposed that in the 1989 regular session, the legislature would reapportion all legislative districts according to the census; the state attorney general has 15 days to petition the state Supreme Court with the newly apportioned districts for validation; the state Supreme Court has 30 days to approve the reapportionment; and once the decision is filed, concerned persons would be able to present their views. The amendment would establish a regular schedule by which the legislature would reapportion districts.	a	181,546 (63%)	105,904 (37%)

1986

See also: Kansas 1986 ballot measures

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Taxes; Gambling policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 15, Section 3b. The amendment proposed that state may permit, regulate, license and levy a tax between 3% and 6% of all money wagered.	a	483,924 (60%)	324,143 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Alcohol laws; Taxes	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 15, Section 10. The amendment proposed that the legislature may prohibit liquor in certain areas; the legislature may regulate, license and tax the manufacture and sale of liquor in addition to the possession and transportation of liquor; and the sale of individual drinks in public places is prohibited except where the legislature may permit, regulate, license and tax the sale of liquor by the drink in a county where the majority vote has approved such a measure. The limitations of the sale of individual drinks is limited to: 1) public places where gross receipts from the sale of food on the premises constitute not less than 30 percent of the gross sales of food and beverages on the premises, or 2) public places for which a temporary permit has been issued as authorized by law.	a	489,646 (60%)	325,505 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Property; Taxes	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 11, Sections 1 and 2. The amendment proposed that legislature introduce property tax guidelines, whereby property tax is assessed annually for its taxable value. The amendment would establish the rates of taxation as follows, beginning January 1, 1989: A) residential property at 12 percent, B) agricultural land valued upon the basis of its income and productivity, at 30 percent, and C) vacant lots at 12 percent. Tangible properties would be taxed accordingly: A) residential mobile homes at 12 percent, B) mineral leaseholds interests at 30 percent, C) public utility tangible personal property at 30 percent, D) all categories of vehicles at 30 percent, E) commercial and industrial machinery and equipment which, if its economic life is seven years or more, would be valued at its retail cost when new, less a seven-year straight-line depreciation, or which, if its economic life is less than seven years, would be valued at its retail cost when new less straight-line depreciation over its economic life, at 20 percent, and F) all other tangible personal property not otherwise specified at 30 percent. All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, farm machinery and equipment, merchant’s and manufacturer’s inventories and livestock and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income, shall be exempt from property taxation.	a	534,799 (68%)	253,123 (32%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Gambling policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 15, Section 3. The amendment proposed that legislature may provide for a state-owned and operated lottery until June 30, 1990, after which time a concurrent resolution would need to pass for the continuance of the such a lottery. Whenever possible, the state would make public the odds of winning.	a	515,893 (64%)	291,411 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Public education governance; Higher education governance	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 6, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. The amendment proposed that legislature would provide for a state board of regents and a state board of education. The state board of regents would oversee higher education, which include universities and colleges granting baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate degrees. The state board of regents would have nine members with overlapping terms; and members would be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate. There will be 10 members on the state board of education with overlapping terms; there would be 10 member districts, each comprised of four contagious senatorial districts and each member district would elect one person residing in the district as a member of the board. The commissioner of education will be appointed by the board of education. Local public schools would elect a local school board. The legislature may levy a tax for funding public education. Until repealed, these laws will remain in effect.	d	365,235 (49%)	385,093 (51%)

August 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State and local government budgets, spending, and finance	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended via SCR 1635: Article 11, Section 9. The amendment proposed that legislature be permitted to participate in works of internal improvement by forming a capital formation system and the investment of state funds for the purpose of creating jobs and wealth, and that such an authorization pass by a two-thirds vote.	a	211,058 (60%)	141,600 (40%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Public economic investment policy; Taxes	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended via HCR 5047: Article 11, Section 13. The amendment proposed that the governing body of any city or county be permitted to exempt property of a new manufacturing, research and development or commodity or goods storing business or property necessary to facilitate the expansion of any such existing business, if, as a result of such expansion, new employment is created, from property taxation for a period of 10 years.	a	181,685 (51%)	171,166 (49%)

1980

See also: Kansas 1980 ballot measures

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Highways and bridges; Bond issue requirements; Flood infrastructure and management	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 11, Section 9. The amendment proposed that would not be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that: 1) it may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain state system of highways, but no general property tax would be levied nor general obligation bonds issued by the state of such highways; 2) it may be a party to flood control works and works fro the conservation or development of water resources; 3) it may, whenever any work of internal improvement not authorized by the above stipulations, a separate bill must be voted on and pass by a two-thirds majority.	a	513,971 (72%)	199,747 (28%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Administration of government	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 14, Section 1. The amendment proposed that constitutional amendments may be proposed by either the House or Senate, must pass with a two-thirds vote in each legislature, and the said amendment would be published for the next election, in full, including title, would not use technical language, and the amendments will be presented individually, with a limit of five amendments in a single election.	a	488,357 (71%)	196,021 (29%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Business regulations; Banking policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 13, Sections 1 and 2. The amendment proposed that a bank must be established under a general banking law, and shall be run as a duly organized corporation. The state shall not be a stockholder in any banking institution.	a	582,367 (80%)	146,278 (20%)

1976

See also: Kansas 1976 ballot measures

November 2

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Agricultural Land Assessed on Use Amendment	Taxes; Property; Agriculture policy	Allow agricultural land to be assessed for property tax purposes based on agricultural income or agricultural productivity	a	433,347 (56%)	343,259 (44%)

1974

See also: Kansas 1974 ballot measures

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Taxes	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended. The amendment proposed that the legislature shall regulate, license and tax the operation or conduct of games of “bingo” by bona fide nonprofit religious, charitable, fraternal, educational and veteran organizations.	a	499,701 (70%)	210,052 (30%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Election administration and governance; Recall process	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 4, Sections 1, 2 and 3. The amendment proposed that all voting shall be done by ballot or voting device; general elections would be held biennially on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November in even-numbered year; no less than three county commissioners would be elected in each county; and all elected public officials, except judicial officers, would be subject to a recall by the voters.	a	484,399 (79%)	131,159 (21%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Administration of government	The amendment proposed that the constitution be repealed: Article 15, Section 4. The amendment proposed that the state repeal the section that requires an elected state printer who is to do all public printing.	a	381,934 (64%)	218,382 (36%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Administration of government	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 2, Sections 1-5, 8-10, 12-22, 24, 27, 28 and 30. The amendment proposed that the legislative power of this state shall be vested in a house of representatives and senate. The number of representatives and senators shall be regulated by law, but shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five representatives and forty senators. Representatives and senators shall be elected from single-member districts prescribed by law. Representatives shall be elected for two year terms. Senators shall be elected for four year terms. The terms of representatives and senators shall commence on the second Monday of January of the year following election. The members of the legislature shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law or such compensation as is determined according to law. During the time that any person is a candidate for nomination or election to the legislature and during the term of each legislator, such candidate or legislator shall be and remain a qualified elector who resides in his or her district. No member of congress and no civil officer or employee of the United States or of any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof shall be eligible to be a member of the legislature. Any member of the legislature who accepts any appointment or election contrary to the foregoing shall be disqualified as a member of the legislature. The legislature shall meet in regular session annually commencing on the second Monday in January, and all sessions shall be held at the state capital. The duration of regular sessions held in even-numbered years shall not exceed ninety calendar days. Such sessions may be extended beyond ninety calendar days by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house. Bills and concurrent resolutions under consideration by the legislature upon adjournment of a regular session held in an odd-numbered year may be considered at the next succeeding regular session held in an even-numbered year, as if there had been no such adjournment. The legislature shall be organized concurrently with the terms of representatives except that the senate shall remain organized during the terms of senators. The president of the senate shall preside over the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives shall preside over the house of representatives. A majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified of the house of representatives or the senate shall constitute a quorum of that house. Neither house, without the consent of the other, shall adjourn for more than two days, Sundays excepted. Each house shall elect its presiding officer and determine the rules of its proceedings, except that the two houses may adopt joint rules on certain matters and provide for the manner of change thereof. Each house shall provide for the expulsion or censure of members in appropriate cases. Each house shall be the judge of elections, returns and qualifications of its own members. All vacancies occurring in either house shall be filled as provided by law. Each house shall publish a journal of its proceedings. The affirmative and negative votes upon the final passage of every bill and every concurrent resolution for amendment of this constitution or ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be entered in the journal. Any member of either house may make written protest against any act or resolution, and the same shall be entered in the journal without delay or alteration. Bills and concurrent resolutions may originate in either house, but may be amended or rejected by the other. A majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house, voting in the affirmative, shall be necessary to pass any bill. Two-thirds (2/3) of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house, voting in the affirmative, shall be necessary to ratify any amendment to the Constitution of the United States or to make any application for congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Within ten days after passage, every bill shall be signed by the presiding officers and presented to the governor. If the governor approves a bill, he shall sign it. If the governor does not approve a bill, the governor shall veto it by returning the bill, with a veto message of the objections, to the house of origin of the bill. Whenever a veto message is so received, the message shall be entered in the journal and in not more than thirty calendar days (excluding the day received), the house of origin shall reconsider the bill. If two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified shall vote to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the veto message, to the other house, which shall in not more than thirty calendar days (excluding the day received) also reconsider the bill, and if approved by two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified, it shall become a law, notwithstanding the governor's veto. If any bill shall not be returned within ten calendar days (excluding the day presented) after it shall have been presented to the governor, it shall become a law in like manner as if it had been signed by the governor. If any bill presented to the governor contains several items of appropriation of money, one or more of such items may be disapproved by the governor while the other portion of the bill is approved by the governor. In case the governor does so disapprove, a veto message of the governor stating the item or items disapproved, and the reasons therefor, shall be appended to the bill at the time it is signed, and the bill shall be returned with the veto message to the house of origin of the bill. Whenever a veto message is so received, the message shall be entered in the journal and, in not more than thirty calendar days, the house of origin shall reconsider the items of the bill which have been disapproved. If two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified shall vote to approve any item disapproved by the governor, the bill, with the veto message, shall be sent to the other house, which shall in not more than thirty calendar days also reconsider each such item so approved by the house of origin, and if approved by two-thirds of all the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified, any such item shall take effect and become a part of the bill. No bill shall be passed on the day that it is introduced, unless in case of emergency declared by two-thirds of the members present in the house where a bill is pending. No bill shall contain more than one subject, except appropriation bills and bills for revision or codification of statutes. The subject of each bill shall be expressed in its title. No law shall be revived or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived or the section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The provisions of this section shall be liberally construed to effectuate the acts of the legislature. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state: Provided, The legislature may designate areas in counties that have become urban in character as "urban areas" and enact special laws giving to any one or more of such counties or urban areas such powers of local government and consolidation of local government as the legislature may deem proper. The legislature may provide for the election or appointment of all officers and the filling of all vacancies not otherwise provided for in this constitution. No act shall take effect until the enacting bill is published as provided by law. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:". No law shall be enacted except by bill. For any speech, written document or debate in either house, the members shall not be questioned elsewhere. No member of the legislature shall be subject to arrest -- except for treason, felony or breach of the peace -- in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting, or during the continuance of the session; neither shall he be subject to the service of any civil process during the session, nor for fifteen days previous to its commencement. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of a specific appropriation made by law. The house of representatives shall have the sole power to impeach. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate; and when sitting for that purpose, the senators shall take an oath to do justice according to the law and the evidence. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators then elected (or appointed) and qualified. The governor and all other officers under this constitution, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. The legislature may confer legislative powers upon interstate bodies, comprised of officers of this state or its political subdivisions acting in conjunction with officers of other jurisdictions, relating to the functions thereof. Any such delegation, and any agreement made thereunder shall be subject to limitation, change or termination by the legislature, unless contained in a compact approved by the congress.	a	341,392 (68%)	160,420 (32%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Administration of government	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 15, Section 26. The amendment proposed that elected officials, before entering their elected office, swear an oath to affirm their support of the U.S. Constitution and the state constitution.	a	490,029 (86%)	79,697 (14%)

August 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Taxes	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 11, Section 1. The amendment proposed that legislature provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, except the legislature may provide for the classification and the taxation uniformly as to class of motor vehicles, mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt or may exempt any of such classes of property from property taxation and impose taxes upon another basis in lieu thereof. All public property and all household goods and personal effects not used for income shall be exempt.	a	183,759 (66%)	94,002 (34%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Administration of government; Redistricting policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 10, Section 1. The amendment proposed that, beginning with the 1979 regular session and every 10 years thereafter, the legislature shall reapportion the congressional districts. The attorney general must seek the approval of the state Supreme Court for reapportionment.	a	137,290 (53%)	120,577 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Constitutional rights	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 5, Sections 1, 2, 4 and 7. The amendment proposed that voters must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the voting area, in which they seek to vote. Mental illness, commitment to join or a penal institution, or anyone convicted of a felon is prohibited from voting. The state shall provide for the proof of the right to vote. While attending, going to or returning from a polling place, an elector would be privileged from arrest in all cases except felony or breach of peace violations.	a	183,002 (68%)	85,796 (32%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Public education governance	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 6, Section 2. The amendment proposed to provide for a state board of education to oversee state educational interests.	d	130,265 (48%)	141,492 (52%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Property; Religion-related policy	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 12, Section 3. The amendment proposed that the title to property owned by a religious corporation would be allowed to vest said title with elected trustees by such a corporation.	a	135,550 (53%)	121,209 (47%)

1972

See also: Kansas 1972 ballot measures

November 7

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	State judiciary	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 3, Sections 1-8, 12, 13, 15 and 16. The amendment proposed that: § 1: Judicial power; seals; rules. The judicial power of this state shall be vested exclusively in one court of justice, which shall be divided into one supreme court, district courts, and such other courts as are provided by law; and all courts of record shall have a seal. The supreme court shall have general administrative authority over all courts in this state. § 2: Supreme court. The supreme court shall consist of not less than seven justices who shall be selected as provided by this article. All cases shall be heard with not fewer than four justices sitting and the concurrence of a majority of the justices sitting and of not fewer than four justices shall be necessary for a decision. The term of office of the justices shall be six years except as hereinafter provided. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in age of these shall be chief justice. A justice may decline or resign from the office of chief justice without resigning from the court. Upon such declination or resignation, the justice who is next senior in continuous term of service shall become chief justice. During incapacity of a chief justice, the duties, powers and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon the justice who is next senior in continuous service. § 3: Jurisdiction and terms. The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, and habeas corpus; and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided by law. It shall hold one term each year at the seat of government and such other terms at such places as may be provided by law, and its jurisdiction shall be co-extensive with the state. § 4: Reporter; clerk. There shall be appointed, by the justices of the supreme court, a reporter and clerk of said court, who shall hold their offices two years, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law. § 5: Selection of justices of the supreme court. (a) Any vacancy occurring in the office of any justice of the supreme court and any position to be open thereon as a result of enlargement of the court, or the retirement or failure of an incumbent to file his declaration of candidacy to succeed himself as hereinafter required, or failure of a justice to be elected to succeed himself, shall be filled by appointment by the governor of one of three persons possessing the qualifications of office who shall be nominated and whose names shall be submitted to the governor by the supreme court nominating commission established as hereinafter provided. (b) In event of the failure of the governor to make the appointment within sixty days from the time the names of the nominees are submitted to him, the chief justice of the supreme court shall make the appointment from such nominees. (c) Each justice of the supreme court appointed pursuant to provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall hold office for an initial term ending on the second Monday in January following the first general election that occurs after the expiration of twelve months in office. Not less than sixty days prior to the holding of the general election next preceding the expiration of his term of office, any justice of the supreme court may file in the office of the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy for election to succeed himself. If a declaration is not so filed, the position held by such justice shall be open from the expiration of his term of office. If such declaration is filed, his name shall be submitted at the next general election to the electors of the state on a separate judicial ballot, without party designation, reading substantially as follows: "Shall ________________________________________________ (Here insert name of justice.) _________________________________________________ (Here insert the title of the court.) be retained in office?" If a majority of those voting on the question vote against retaining him in office, the position or office which he holds shall be open upon the expiration of his term of office; otherwise he shall, unless removed for cause, remain in office for the regular term of six years from the second Monday in January following such election. At the expiration of each term he shall, unless by law he is compelled to retire, be eligible for retention in office by election in the manner prescribed in this section. (d) A nonpartisan nominating commission whose duty it shall be to nominate and submit to the governor the names of persons for appointment to fill vacancies in the office of any justice of the supreme court is hereby established, and shall be known as the "supreme court nominating commission." Said commission shall be organized as hereinafter provided. (e) The supreme court nominating commission shall be composed as follows: One member, who shall be chairman, chosen from among their number by the members of the bar who are residents of and licensed in Kansas; one member from each congressional district chosen from among their number by the resident members of the bar in each such district; and one member, who is not a lawyer, from each congressional district, appointed by the governor from among the residents of each such district. (f) The terms of office, the procedure for selection and certification of the members of the commission and provision for their compensation or expenses shall be as provided by the legislature. (g) No member of the supreme court nominating commission shall, while he is a member, hold any other public office by appointment or any official position in a political party or for six months thereafter be eligible for nomination for the office of justice of the supreme court. The commission may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its members. § 6: District courts. (a) The state shall be divided into judicial districts as provided by law. Each judicial district shall have at least one district judge. The term of office of each judge of the district court shall be four years. District court shall be held at such times and places as may be provided by law. The district judges shall be elected by the electors of the respective judicial districts unless the electors of a judicial district have adopted and not subsequently rejected a method of nonpartisan selection. The legislature shall provide a method of nonpartisan selection of district judges and for the manner of submission and resubmission thereof to the electors of a judicial district. A nonpartisan method of selection of district judges may be adopted, and once adopted may be rejected, only by a majority of electors of a judicial district voting on the question at an election in which the proposition is submitted. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge, it shall be filled by appointment by the governor until the next general election that occurs more than thirty days after such vacancy, or as may be provided by such nonpartisan method of selection. (b) The district courts shall have such jurisdiction in their respective districts as may be provided by law. (c) The legislature shall provide for clerks of the district courts. (d) Provision may be made by law for judges pro tem of the district court. (e) The supreme court or any justice thereof shall have the power to assign judges of district courts temporarily to other districts. (f) The supreme court may assign a district judge to serve temporarily on the supreme court. § 7: Qualifications of justices and judges. Justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall be at least thirty years of age and shall be duly authorized by the supreme court of Kansas to practice law in the courts of this state and shall possess such other qualifications as may be prescribed by law. § 8: Prohibition of political activity by justices and certain judges. No justice of the supreme court who is appointed or retained under the procedure of section 5 of this article, nor any judge of the district court holding office under a nonpartisan method authorized in subsection (a) of section 6 of this article, shall directly or indirectly make any contribution to or hold any office in a political party or organization or take part in any political campaign. § 12: Extension of terms until successor qualified. All judicial officers shall hold their offices until their successors shall have qualified. § 13: Compensation of justices and judges; certain limitation. The justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall receive for their services such compensation as may be provided by law, which shall not be diminished during their terms of office, unless by general law applicable to all salaried officers of the state. Such justices or judges shall receive no fees or perquisites nor hold any other office of profit or trust under the authority of the state, or the United States except as may be provided by law, or practice law during their continuance in office. § 15: Removal of justices and judges. Justices of the supreme court may be removed from office by impeachment and conviction as prescribed in article 2 of this constitution. In addition to removal by impeachment and conviction, justices may be retired after appropriate hearing, upon certification to the governor, by the supreme court nominating commission that such justice is so incapacitated as to be unable to perform adequately his duties. Other judges shall be subject to retirement for incapacity, and to discipline, suspension and removal for cause by the supreme court after appropriate hearing. § 16: Savings clause. Nothing contained in this amendment to the constitution shall: (a) Shorten the term of office or abolish the office of any justice of the supreme court, any judge of the district court, or any other judge of any other court who is holding office at the time this amendment becomes effective, or who is holding office at the time of adoption, rejection, or resubmission of a nonpartisan method of selection of district judges as provided in subsection (a) of section 6 hereof, and all such justices and judges shall hold their respective offices for the terms for which elected or appointed unless sooner removed in the manner provided by law; (b) repeal any statute of this state relating to the supreme court, the supreme court nominating commission, district courts, or any other court, or relating to the justices or judges of such courts, and such statutes shall remain in force and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature.	a	349,264 (62%)	211,026 (38%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	State executive official measures	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 1, Sections 1, 3-7, 9, 11, 12 and 15. The amendment proposed that: § 1: Executive officers; selection; terms. The constitutional officers of the executive department shall be the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, who shall have such qualifications as are provided by law. Such officers shall be chosen by the electors of this state at the time of voting for members of the legislature in the year 1974 and every four years thereafter, and such officers elected in 1974 and thereafter shall have terms of four years which shall begin on the second Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In the year 1974 and thereafter, at all elections of governor and lieutenant governor the candidates for such offices shall be nominated and elected jointly in such manner as is prescribed by law so that a single vote shall be cast for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together, and if such candidates are nominated by petition or convention each petition signature and each convention vote shall be made for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together. No person may be elected to more than two successive terms as governor nor to more than two successive terms as lieutenant governor. § 3: Executive power of governor. The supreme executive power of this state shall be vested in a governor, who shall be responsible for the enforcement of the laws of this state. § 4: Reports to governor. The governor may require information in writing from the officers of the executive department, upon any subject relating to their respective duties. The officers of the executive department, and of all public state institutions, shall, at least ten days preceding each regular session of the legislature, severally report to the governor, who shall transmit such reports to the legislature. § 5: Governor's duties for legislature; messages; special sessions; adjournment. The governor may, on extraordinary occasions, call the legislature into special session by proclamation; and shall call the legislature into special session, upon petition signed by at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house. At every session of the legislature the governor shall communicate in writing information in reference to the condition of the state, and recommend such measures as he deems expedient. In case of disagreement between the two houses in respect of the time of adjournment, the governor may adjourn the legislature to such time as he deems proper, not beyond its next regular session. § 6: Reorganization of state agencies of executive branch. (a) For the purpose of transferring, abolishing, consolidating or coordinating the whole or any part of any state agency, or the functions thereof, within the executive branch of state government, when the governor considers the same necessary for efficient administration, he may issue one or more executive reorganization orders, each bearing an identifying number, and transmit the same to the legislature within the first thirty calendar days of any regular session. Agencies and functions of the legislative and judicial branches, and constitutionally delegated functions of state officers and state boards shall be exempt from executive reorganization orders. (b) The governor shall transmit each executive reorganization order to both houses of the legislature on the same day, and each such order shall be accompanied by a governor's message which shall specify with respect to each abolition of a function included in the order the statutory authority for the exercise of the function. Every executive reorganization order shall provide for the transfer or other disposition of the records, property and personnel affected by the order. Every executive reorganization order shall provide for all necessary transfers of unexpended balances of appropriations of agencies affected by such order, and such changes in responsibility for and handling of special funds as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of such order. Transferred balances of appropriations may be used only for the purposes for which the appropriation was originally made. (c) Each executive reorganization order transmitted to the legislature as provided in this section shall take effect and have the force of general law on the July 1 following its transmittal to the legislature, unless within sixty calendar days and before the adjournment of the legislative session either the senate or the house of representatives adopts by a majority vote of the members elected thereto a resolution disapproving such executive reorganization order. Under the provisions of an executive reorganization order a portion of the order may be effective at a time later than the date on which the order is otherwise effective. (d) An executive reorganization order which is effective shall be published as and with the acts of the legislature and the statutes of the state. Any executive reorganization order which is or is to become effective may be amended or repealed as statutes of the state are amended or repealed. § 7: Pardons. The pardoning power shall be vested in the governor, under regulations and restrictions prescribed by law. § 9: State seal and commissions. There shall be a seal of the state, which shall be kept by the governor, and used by him officially, and which shall be the great seal of Kansas. All commissions shall be issued in the name of the state of Kansas; and shall be signed by the governor, countersigned by the secretary of state, and sealed with the great seal. § 11: Vacancies in executive offices. When the office of governor is vacant, the lieutenant governor shall become governor. In the event of the disability of the governor, the lieutenant governor shall assume the powers and duties of governor until the disability is removed. The legislature shall provide by law for the succession to the office of governor should the offices of governor and lieutenant governor be vacant, and for the assumption of the powers and duties of governor during the disability of the governor, should the office of lieutenant governor be vacant or the lieutenant governor be disabled. When the office of secretary of state or attorney general is vacant, the governor shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the remainder of the term. If the secretary of state or attorney general is disabled, the governor shall name a person to assume the powers and duties of the office until the disability is removed. The procedure for determining disability and the removal thereof shall be provided by law. § 12: Lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor shall assist the governor and have such other powers and duties as are prescribed by law. § 15: Compensation of officers. The officers mentioned in this article shall at stated times receive for their services a such compensation as is established by law, which shall not be diminished during their terms of office, unless by general law applicable to all salaried officers of the state. Any person exercising the powers and duties of an office mentioned in this article shall receive the compensation established by law for that office.	a	362,163 (61%)	235,850 (39%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Constitutional rights	The amendment proposed to remove from the state bill of rights: Section 12, which relates to the prohibition against transportation from this state of persons convicted of any offense and the “prohibition against a conviction working a corruption of blood,” that is the prohibition on the disabling the right to inherit for having committed certain crimes.	a	366,207 (61%)	231,221 (39%)

August 1

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 2	Public assistance programs	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 7, Sections 1 and 4-6. The amendment proposed that the 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. 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. The state may provide by law for unemployment compensation and contributory old-age benefits and may tax employers and employees therefor; 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. 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.	a	216,507 (69%)	95,884 (31%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	Property	The amendment proposed to repeal Article 15, Section 11 of the constitution. The amendment proposed would repeal the section which relates to state aid in the purchase of farm homes.	a	177,892 (57%)	132,125 (43%)
LRCA	Amendment 4	Census policy	The amendment proposed to repeal Article 2, Section 26 of the constitution. The amendment proposed would repeal the section which relates to taking an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state.	a	178,071 (59%)	123,115 (41%)
LRCA	Amendment 5	Administration of government; Redistricting policy	The amendment proposed to repeal Article 10, Section 3 of the constitution. The amendment proposed would repeal the section which provided for the original apportionment of the legislature.	a	187,140 (62%)	113,321 (38%)
LRCA	Question 1	Dueling bans	Repeal the constitutional ban on dueling and holding public office	a	208,473 (66%)	108,090 (34%)

1971

See also: Kansas 1971 ballot measures

April 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Constitutional rights	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended via Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 11: Article 5, Section 1. The amendment proposed that the Section read as follows, should both legislatures approve the amendment with a two-thirds vote: Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and who resides in the voting area in which he or she seeks to vote shall be deemed a qualified elector. Laws of this state relating to voting for presidential electors and candidates for the office of president and vice-president of the United States shall comply with the laws of the United States relating thereto. A citizen of the United States, who is otherwise qualified to vote in Kansas for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of president and vice-president of the United States may vote for such officers either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of this state if his or her removal from this state occurs during a period in accordance with federal law next preceding such election. A person who is otherwise a qualified elector may vote in the voting area of his or her former residence either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of such voting area during a period prescribed by law next preceding the election at which he or she seeks to vote, if his new residence is in another voting area in the state of Kansas.	a	261,557 (62%)	158,769 (38%)

1970

See also: Kansas 1970 ballot measures

November 3

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Amendment 1	Alcohol laws	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 15, Section 10. The amendment proposed that the legislature may provide for the prohibition of liquors in certain areas, with the exception that the legislature may regulate, license and tax the manufacture and sale of liquor, and may regulate the possession and transportation of liquors.	d	335,094 (49%)	346,423 (51%)
LRCA	Amendment 2	Constitutional wording changes	The amendment proposed that Article 14, Sections 1 and 2 of the constitution be amended. The amendment proposed that the constitution read as follows: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ “~~~~~~ § 1: Proposals by legislature; approval by electors. Propositions for the amendment of this constitution may be made by concurrent resolution originating in either house of the legislature, and if two-thirds of all the members elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house shall approve such resolution, the secretary of state shall cause such resolution to be published in the manner provided by law. At the next election for representatives or a special election called by concurrent resolution of the legislature for the purpose of submitting constitutional propositions, such proposition to amend the constitution shall be submitted, both by title and by the amendment as a whole, to the electors for their approval or rejection. The title by which a proposition is submitted shall be specified in the concurrent resolution making the proposition and shall be a brief nontechnical statement expressing the intent or purpose of the proposition and the effect of a vote for and a vote against the proposition. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall vote for the amendment, the same shall become a part of the constitution. When more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same election, such amendments shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. One amendment of the constitution may revise any entire article, except the article on general provisions, and in revising any article, the article may be renumbered and all or parts of other articles may be amended, or amended and transferred to the article being revised. Not more than five amendments shall be submitted at the same election. § 2: Constitutional conventions; approval by electors. The legislature, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, may submit the question "Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution of the state of Kansas?" or the question "Shall there be a convention limited to revision of article(s) ________ of the constitution of the state of Kansas?", to the electors at the next election for representatives, and the concurrent resolution providing for such question shall specify in such blank appropriate words and figures to identify the article or articles to be considered by the convention. If a majority of all electors voting on the question shall vote in the affirmative, delegates to such convention shall be elected at the next election for representatives thereafter, unless the legislature shall have provided by law for the election of such delegates at a special election. The electors of each representative district as organized at the time of such election of delegates shall elect as many delegates to the convention as there are representatives from such district. Such delegates shall have the same qualifications as provided by the constitution for members of the legislature and members of the legislature and candidates for membership in the legislature shall be eligible for election as delegates to the convention. The delegates so elected shall convene at the state capital on the first Tuesday in May next following such election or at an earlier date if provided by law. The convention shall have power to choose its own officers, appoint and remove its employees and fix their compensation, determine its rules, judge the qualifications of its members, and carry on the business of the convention in an orderly manner. Each delegate shall receive such compensation as provided by law. A vacancy in the office of any delegate shall be filled as provided by law. The convention shall have power to amend or revise all or that part of the constitution indicated by the question voted upon to call the convention, subject to ratification by the electors. No proposed constitution, or amendment or revision of an existing constitution, shall be submitted by the convention to the electors unless it has been available to the delegates in final form at least three days on which the convention is in session, prior to final passage, and receives the assent of a majority of all the delegates. The yeas and nays upon final passage of any proposal, and upon any question upon request of one-tenth of the delegates present, shall be entered in the journal of the convention. Proposals of the convention shall be submitted to the electors at the first general or special statewide election occurring not less than two months after final action thereon by the convention, and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions thereof in such form and with such notice as is directed by the convention upon receiving the approval of a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon.[1]~~~~~~ ”~~~~~~~~~~~~? Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.	a	297,221 (53%)	262,779 (47%)
LRCA	Amendment 3	State executive official measures	The amendment proposed that the constitution be amended: Article 1, Sections 1 and 8. The amendment proposed that Section 8 be removed and that Section 1 read as follows: The constitutional officers of the executive department shall be the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, who shall have such qualifications as are provided by law. Such officers shall be chosen by the electors of this state at the time of voting for members of the legislature in the year 1974 and every four years thereafter, and such officers elected in 1974 and thereafter shall have terms of four years which shall begin on the second Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In the year 1974 and thereafter, at all elections of governor and lieutenant governor the candidates for such offices shall be nominated and elected jointly in such manner as is prescribed by law so that a single vote shall be cast for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together, and if such candidates are nominated by petition or convention each petition signature and each convention vote shall be made for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together. No person may be elected to more than two successive terms as governor nor to more than two successive terms as lieutenant governor.	a	310,340 (55%)	253,408 (45%)

1968

See also: Kansas 1968 ballot measures

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Judicial Ballot 1	State judiciary	The ballot measure asks whether Alfred G. Schroeder, Newton, Position No.6, of the Kansas Supreme Court, be retained in office.	a	430,226 (79%)	113,750 (21%)
LRCA	Judicial Ballot 2	State judiciary	The ballot measure asks whether Robert T. Price, Topeka, Position No.7, of the Kansas Supreme Court, be retained in office.	a	428,324 (79%)	112,047 (21%)

1958

See also: Kansas 1958 ballot measures

November 4

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Question 1	State judiciary	Provides for the appointment of state Supreme Court justices through a nominating commission	a	280,159 (60%)	186,884 (40%)

1912

See also: Kansas 1912 ballot measures

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Women's Suffrage Amendment	Women's suffrage; Sex and gender issues	Provides for women's suffrage in state constitution	a	175,246 (52%)	159,197 (48%)

1894

See also: Kansas 1894 ballot measures

November 6

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Women's Suffrage Amendment	Women's suffrage; Sex and gender issues	Provides for women's suffrage in state constitution	d	95,302 (42%)	130,139 (58%)

1867

See also: Kansas 1867 ballot measures

November 5

Type	Title	Subject	Description	Result	Yes Votes	No Votes
LRCA	Women's Suffrage Amendment	Women's suffrage; Sex and gender issues	Provides for women's suffrage in state constitution	d	9,070 (31%)	19,857 (69%)

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