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Committee favors bill making county creation of citizens commission optional
Summary
Senate Bill 104 would change a longstanding statute requiring certain counties to establish a Citizens Commission on Local Government to allow counties to choose whether to form such a commission; the Committee on Local Government advanced the bill.
Senate Bill 104, which would change statutory language requiring certain counties to create a Citizens Commission on Local Government into permissive language, was advanced out of the Committee on Local Government Tuesday.
"The statute requires the county to create a citizen's commission on local government," Jason Long, the committee reviser, told the committee, adding that the statute was enacted in 1968, initially applied to Wyandotte County and now applies to Shawnee County because of population shifts. "Senate Bill 104 makes a fairly simple change ... that changed the 'shall create' to a 'may create,' and so it gives the county some discretion as to…
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