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The judicial system of Kansas is the branch of the Kansas state government that interprets the state's laws and constitution. Headed by the Kansas Supreme Court, the judiciary consists of two courts of last resort, courts of general jurisdiction, and courts of limited jurisdiction. Also, the Kansas judiciary contains two independent courts.
The Kansas Territory was created out of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854. [1] In several of the provisions of the act, the law allowed the settlers of the newly created territory to determine, by vote, whether Kansas, once statehood was achieved, would be entered as either a free or a slave state. [2]
From the Kansas City Chiefs to taxes to beer to license plates, Kansas lawmakers enacted 113 new laws this year, 101 of which go into effect July 1.
The Kansas House and Senate during the 2023 legislative session introduced a combined 800 bills, of which just 92 became laws. As the 2024 session approaches, we looked back at the year’s ...
Kansas State Library: . Government Information: Legislature Journals of the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives, 1861–1862, 1913-1976; Digital Public Library of America.
Kansas lawmakers passed several new laws in 2024 designed to benefit veterans, ... Local and state government agencies can't ask for or demand a document not listed in the law. The intent was to ...
The Kansas State Cabinet is part of the executive branch of the Government of the U.S. state of Kansas, ... – responsible for enforcing the state's labor laws, ...
Allowing such so-called “anonymous” bills was among the practices that led The Kansas City Star to declare in a 2017 series on Kansas state government that the process of passing laws in its ...