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Kansas bill would remove several routine filing requirements with secretary of state
Summary
A bill heard by the Committee on Government Efficiency would repeal multiple statutes that require copies of agency and private filings to be lodged with the Kansas Secretary of State, while an amendment would keep one business-agent certificate requirement for labor organizations.
At a hearing of the Committee on Government Efficiency, proponents described a bill that would repeal several statutory requirements to file documents with the Kansas Secretary of State, saying the filings are rarely used and impose administrative costs.
Proponents told the committee the measure would remove requirements that a range of records — from certain labor-organization materials to university reciprocal agreements, specific tax-abatement records, water-office easements and bonded-warehouse licensing papers — be filed with the Secretary of State’s office. Clay Barker, general counsel for the Office of the Secretary of State, said the filings “are just one less thing for us to do” and that his office rarely receives public requests for the records.
The bill would repeal three categories of labor-organization filing requirements: submission of constitutions and bylaws, an annual…
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