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Bill would move interim committee minutes to Legislative Administrative Services
Summary
House Bill 2,238 would transfer responsibility for preparing interim committee minutes from Legislative Research to Legislative Administrative Services; proponents said the change will standardize and streamline minutes year-round.
House Bill 2,238 would move responsibility for preparing interim committee minutes from the Legislative Research department to Legislative Administrative Services and make Legislative Administrative Services responsible for both interim and session minutes, a committee hearing was told.
Proponents told the Committee on Government Efficiency that the change, accomplished by amending provisions of the Kansas Statutes Annotated cited in testimony as “KSA 40 six-twelve-ten” and “KSA 40 six-twelve-12A,” will align staffing and training for minute-taking and create consistency across interim and session work. The bill’s sponsor told the committee it is effective upon publication in the statute book and referenced an effective date of 07/01/2025.
Shirley Morrow, Director of Legislative Research, said the amendment moves the processing of interim committee minutes “from legislative research to legislative administrative services,” and that administrative services “hires committee assistants [and] trains the committee assistants to do the minutes” so consolidating responsibility should make minutes “more streamlined, more consistent, efficient.” Tom Day, Director of Legislative Administrative Services, testified he supports the statutory change so “it’ll make everything more consistent through the entire year not just through the legislative session or the interim sessions.”
A technical amendment was reported during the bill’s prior consideration in the House Committee on Legislative Modernization; committee testimony noted the placement of an “a” on page 2, line 17 was corrected. The presenter said the House passed the bill by a recorded vote, and the House vote count was given in testimony as 123 to 0.
Committee members had no substantive questions during the hearing on this bill, and the committee closed the hearing on House Bill 2,238.
Details recorded in committee testimony are limited to the statutory sections and process changes described above; the committee record supplied to the hearing does not show further deliberations or a committee vote on this measure during the hearing.
