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Kansas interim committee reviews campaign finance changes, donor disclosure and voter-roll integrity
Summary
An interim legislative committee heard testimony on recently passed campaign finance laws, court challenges, proposals to raise disclosure thresholds and concerns about large numbers of inactive voter registrations. The panel adopted recommendations to study ad accuracy, clarify express-advocacy rules, improve DMV data sharing and review small-don
The Kansas interim committee on campaign contributions and transparency met to review recent law changes, ongoing litigation and policy options for the 2026 session.
Chair Senator Mike Thompson opened the meeting noting the committee's charge to consider tweaks to last session's campaign finance package and to identify technical and policy issues for lawmakers to consider. Presenters from the Reviser's Office, the Secretary of State's Office, election administrators, the Institute for Free Speech and outside data analysts briefed members across two days of testimony.
Reviser Mike Heim reviewed three bills passed in the previous session (noted in testimony as House Bill 2054, 2106 and 2206), summarizing changes to contribution limits and reporting thresholds. Heim told the committee the bills raised many statutory limits (for example, many limits were effectively doubled and the cash-contribution reporting threshold was raised to $200) and added certification and enforcement provisions for contributions tied to…
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