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Kansas COVID-19 emergency declaration could end Friday Titus Wu, Topeka Capital-Journal
Kansas COVID-19 emergency declaration is set to expire on Friday.
It may end on Friday, period, without being renewed, depending on what legislative leaders do Wednesday with it. The feeling is that it s time to be done.
Under new law passed this year, Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has less power over taking executive action regarding disaster emergencies such as COVID-19.
Whereas before such requests for emergency extensions happened under the State Finance Council, in which the governor chaired over GOP legislative leaders, they now will happen solely under the jurisdiction of the Legislative Coordinating Council, comprised of only legislative leaders.
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Kansas governor vetoes most bills in 17 years as Republicans push aggressive agenda Katie Bernard and Jonathan Shorman, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 26 TOPEKA Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly s veto pen moved swiftly last week.
Transgender athlete ban? Civics and financial literacy requirements for high schoolers? Gun safety education for students using NRA materials? All vetoed. Kelly has rejected eight non-budget bills this year, more than any Kansas governor in the past 17 years.
On Monday, she added to her streak, vetoing 18 provisions in the proposed budget. They include items that would give legislative committees more power over allocation of federal relief funds and ban use of state dollars to enforce mask mandates.
Kansas Senate Republicans oust leader from post amid wrong-way drunk driving charges Jonathan Shorman and Katie Bernard, The Kansas City Star
Apr. 10 TOPEKA Kansas Senate Republicans ousted Sen. Gene Suellentrop as majority leader Friday the first major political penalty paid by the Wichita Republican after he was charged with leading police on a drunken wrong-way chase down Interstate 70.
The extraordinary vote by the GOP caucus marked an all-out attempt by senators to separate themselves from Suellentrop, who has become politically toxic amid revelations he allegedly taunted a police officer after his arrest and had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit.