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Secretary of State and KLRD outline rules modernization, 5‑year rule review; Esper contracted for digital process
Summary
The Secretary of State’s office and KLRD described an effort to modernize Kansas’s regulation workflow (move from paper stamps and manual version control to a digital system) and summarized the first cycle of the legislative five‑year review; the SOS contracted Esper under a three‑year agreement and plans a public go‑live in 2026.
The Kansas Secretary of State’s office and KLRD briefed the Senate Committee on Government Efficiency on two related rulemaking initiatives: a multi‑year project to modernize the workflow for drafting, reviewing and publishing administrative regulations, and the 5‑year review process for existing regulations that was established by the 2022 legislature (House Bill 2087).
Clay Barker, general counsel for the Secretary of State, and Whitney Temple, director of communications and policy, described the modernization effort. The SOS said that three years ago the office moved to make the official, final regulation available only online so the published version updates immediately upon adoption; that change removed the decade‑old print‑volume reliance and made the online Kansas Administrative Regulations the official text. The SOS then launched a…
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