Select Investigative Committee deadlocks on complaint against Rep. Holheisel

The Select Investigative Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives met March 10, 2025, to consider a complaint from Representative Carr alleging that Representative Holheisel violated Mason’s Manual by “participat[ing] in conduct that disrupts or disturbs the orderly proceeding of the body.” After hearing testimony and deliberating, the committee was evenly split on a motion to dismiss the complaint and impose no sanction; the chair said the motion did not prevail, and the committee adjourned with the complaint unresolved.

The debate centered on whether the facts established in the evidentiary hearing met the rule cited in the complaint, and if so what disciplinary recommendation—reprimand, censure or other—should be made to the full House. The chair read the portion of Mason’s Manual quoted in the complaint: “no person shall indulge in personalities, impugn motives of members, use indecent or profane…