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State-Tribal Relations Committee, Kansas State Legislature

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The State-Tribal Relations Joint Committee is a standing committee of the Kansas State Legislature.

Joint committees of the Kansas State Legislature are made up of members from the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas State Senate. According to the Kansas Legislative Research Department, joint conference committees usually include three members each from the House and Senate. Regarding joint statutory committees, the membership, appointment process, and duties are defined by the statute establishing the committee.[1]

DocumentIcon.jpg See rules: Joint House and Senate Rules

Function

“ The joint committee:
  • May establish and transmit to the governor proposed guidelines reflecting the public policies and state interests, as embodied in the constitution, statutes and case law of the state of Kansas, consistent with the Indian gaming regulatory act (25 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq.), that the joint committee will consider in reviewing proposed compacts;
  • may recommend to the governor that any gaming compact provide for the imposition and collection of state sales and excise taxes on sales of nongaming goods and services to persons other than tribal members and imposition and collection of state income tax on revenues derived from sales of nongaming goods and services;
  • may hold public hearings on proposed gaming compacts submitted to the joint committee by the governor;
  • shall recommend modification of proposed gaming compacts submitted by the governor and introduce resolutions approving proposed gaming compacts submitted by the governor and recommend that such resolutions be adopted or be not adopted, or report such resolutions without recommendation, and notify the governor, in writing, of the joint committee's action;
  • shall meet, discuss and hold hearings on issues concerning state and tribal relations;
  • may make recommendations on issues concerning state and tribal relations; and
  • may introduce such legislation as deemed necessary in performing its functions.[2][3]
 ”

Membership

2025-2026 legislative session

State-Tribal Relations Committee, 2025-2026
Democratic members (4) Republican members (6) Third-party members(0)

2023-2024 legislative session

State-Tribal Relations Committee, 2023-2024
Democratic members (4) Republican members (6) Third-party members(0)

2021-2022 legislative session

State-Tribal Relations Committee, 2021-2022
Democratic members (4) Republican members (6) Third-party members(0)

“ The joint committee shall consist of 12 members as follows: (1) Five members of the senate and five members of the house of representatives; and (2) the governor or the governor's designee and the attorney general or the attorney general's designee. Of the members appointed from the senate, three shall be appointed by the president of the senate and two shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate. Of the members appointed from the house of representatives, three shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and two by the minority leader of the house of representatives. Such members shall be selected only from the membership of the standing committees on federal and state affairs, judiciary, taxation and assessment and taxation.[4][3] ”

2019-2020 legislative session

State-Tribal Relations Committee, 2019-2020
Democratic members (4) Republican members (6) Third-party members(0)


2017 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.

State-Tribal Relations Members, 2017
Democratic members (4)Republican members (6)
• David Haley• Bud Estes, Chair
• Pat Pettey• Leslie Osterman, Vice chair
• Nancy Lusk• Bruce Givens
• Ponka-We Victors• Jacob LaTurner
• Francis Awerkamp
• Randy Garber

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership for the 2015 legislative session.

2011-2012

The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.

2009-2010

The following table describes committee membership for the 2009 legislative session.

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Kansas Legislative Research Department, "Role of Committees in the Kansas Legislature," accessed February 26, 2021
  2. ↑ Kansas State Legislature, "Kansas Statutes," accessed February 26, 2021(Article 46-2303(g))
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ Kansas State Legislature, "Kansas Statutes," accessed February 26, 2021(Article 46-2303(a))


Current members of the Kansas State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:Ty Masterson
Majority Leader:Chase Blasi
Minority Leader:Dinah Sykes
Senators
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
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District 13
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District 23
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District 25
Mary Ware (D)
District 26
District 27
District 28
District 29
District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
Tory Blew (R)
District 34
District 35
TJ Rose (R)
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
Republican Party (31)
Democratic Party (9)



Current members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Daniel Hawkins
Majority Leader:Chris Croft
Minority Leader:Brandon Woodard
Representatives
District 1
District 2
District 3
District 4
District 5
District 6
District 7
District 8
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District 10
District 11
Ron Bryce (R)
District 12
Doug Blex (R)
District 13
District 14
District 15
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District 20
District 21
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District 23
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District 25
Rui Xu (D)
District 26
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District 28
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District 30
District 31
District 32
District 33
District 34
District 35
District 36
District 37
District 38
District 39
District 40
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Mike Amyx (D)
District 46
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Dan Osman (D)
District 49
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District 74
Mike King (R)
District 75
District 76
District 77
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District 79
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District 81
District 82
District 83
District 84
Ford Carr (D)
District 85
District 86
District 87
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District 91
District 92
District 93
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District 97
District 98
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District 105
Jill Ward (R)
District 106
District 107
Dawn Wolf (R)
District 108
District 109
District 110
District 111
District 112
District 113
District 114
District 115
District 116
District 117
Adam Turk (R)
District 118
District 119
District 120
District 121
District 122
District 123
Bob Lewis (R)
District 124
District 125
Republican Party (88)
Democratic Party (37)

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