Session of 2023
HOUSE BILL No. 2270
By Committee on Elections
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AN ACT concerning elections; relating to precinct committeemen and
committeewomen; requiring such elected officials to report certain
contact information to the county election officer; requiring the county
election officer to report such contact information to the secretary of
state; amending K.S.A. 25-3801 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 25-3801 is hereby amended to read as follows: 25-
3801. (a) At each primary election, the members of the party residing in
each precinct in each county of the state shall elect a man of their number
as precinct committeeman and a woman of their number as precinct
committeewoman. No person shall be eligible to be a candidate for or hold
the office of precinct committeeman or precinct committeewoman of a
party in any precinct unless such the person actually lives, resides and
occupies a place of abode in such the precinct, and is in all other respects a
qualified elector and is shown as a member of such the party on the party
affiliation list, in the office of the county election officer.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (b) (c), any vacancy occurring in
the office of precinct committeeman or committeewoman shall be
promptly filled by appointment by the county chairperson, except that.
Any vacancy which that occurs because the party had no candidate at such
the primary election shall not be filled until the county central committee
has elected or reelected its chairperson. Not later than three days after
appointment of precinct committeemen and committeewomen, the county
chairperson making the appointments shall notify the county election
officer of such the appointments and include the name, address, email
address, if available, and a phone number or phone numbers, including a
mobile phone number, if available, of each appointee in such notification.
The county election officer shall make such the appointments public
immediately upon receipt thereof. As used in this act, "primary election"
means the statewide election held in August of even-numbered years.
(b)(c) (1) When a convention is to be held under article 39 of chapter
25 of Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, to fill a
vacancy, no appointments shall be made under subsection (a):
(1)(A) After the county chairperson has received notice from the
county election officer of a vacancy or a pending vacancy in a county
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elected office; or
(2)(B) after the county chairperson in each county, all or a part of
which, is located within a legislative district, has received notice from the
secretary of state of a vacancy or a pending vacancy in a legislative office.
(2) After the vacancy has been filled by a person elected at a
convention held under article 39 of chapter 25 of the Kansas Statutes
Annotated, and amendments thereto, any vacancy in the office of precinct
committeeman or committeewoman shall be filled as provided by
subsection (a).
(d) If a precinct committeeman or committeewoman is elected as a
write-in candidate, the county clerk shall request from the appropriate
county chairperson the name, address, email address, if available, and a
phone number or phone numbers, including a mobile phone number, if
available, of such elected precinct committeeman or committeewoman.
(e) Each precinct committeeman and committeewoman shall report
any changes in such person's name, address, email address and phone
numbers to the county election officer not later than 10 days after such
change.
(f) The county election officer shall send to the secretary of state
within seven days of each primary election in even-numbered years a list
of each person that holds the office of precinct committeeman or
committeewoman along with the name, address, phone number and email
address, if available, of each such person. The county officer shall report
all updates of such information at the time such updates are received to
the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall keep an updated list of
all precinct committeepersons, including their names, addresses, phone
numbers and their email addresses, if available.
(g) As used in this section, "primary election" means the election held
on the first Tuesday in August of even-numbered years.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 25-3801 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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