HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION N o. 5002
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adopting joint rules for the Senate and the House of
Representatives for the 2023-2024 biennium.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
Kansas, the Senate concurring therein: That the following joint rules
shall be the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives for
the 2023-2024 biennium.
JOINT RULES OF THE
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2023-2024
Joint Rule 1. Joint rules; application and date of expiration;
adoption, amendment, suspension and revocation. (a) Joint rules;
expiration, adoption, amendment, suspension and revocation; vote
required. Joint rules are adopted under the authority of section 8 of
article 2 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas and shall govern
matters made subject thereto except when otherwise specifically
provided by joint rule. Joint rules shall expire at the conclusion of the
terms of representatives. Joint rules shall be adopted, amended,
suspended and revoked by concurrent resolution of the two houses of
the legislature. Concurrent resolutions adopting joint rules shall receive
the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members then
elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house.
(b) Amendment, suspension or revocation of joint rules; previous
notice; vote required. After one day's previous notice, joint rules may
be amended, suspended or revoked by the affirmative vote of not less
than a majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and
qualified in each house. Upon the filing of such notice in either house,
a message shall be sent to the other house advising of the filing of such
notice and the reading of the message shall constitute notice to the
members of such house. If such previous notice is not given, the
affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members then elected (or appointed) and
qualified in each house shall be required for the amendment,
suspension or revocation of a joint rule.
(c) Amendment, suspension or revocation of joint rules at
commencement of legislative session; vote required; conditions.
Notwithstanding any provision of this rule to the contrary, no notice
shall be required for the adoption of a concurrent resolution amending,
suspending or revoking any one or more joint rules at the
commencement of a legislative session, and adoption of any such
concurrent resolution shall require only the affirmative vote of not less
than a majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and
qualified in each house, subject to the following conditions: (1) The
concurrent resolution is sponsored by the speaker or the president; and
(2) either: (a) A copy thereof is mailed to each member of the
legislature by deposit in the United States mails not later than 11:00
p.m. on the Thursday preceding the Monday on which the legislative
session is to commence; or (b) in lieu of mailing, copies of the
concurrent resolution are made available to members on the first day of
the legislative session and final action is taken on a subsequent
legislative day.
Joint Rule 2. Joint sessions. (a) Joint session called by concurrent
resolution; vote required; time, place and subject matter. A joint session
of the senate and house of representatives may be called by concurrent
resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of
the members elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house of the
legislature or as may otherwise be prescribed by law. Any such
resolution shall fix the time and place of the joint session, and the subject matter to be considered at the joint session. Joint sessions shall consider
only such matters as are prescribed by law or by the concurrent resolution
calling such joint session.
(b) Presiding officer at joint sessions; record of joint session; rules
applicable. The speaker of the house of representatives shall preside at all joint
sessions of the senate and house of representatives, and the clerk of the house of
representatives shall keep a record of the proceedings thereof and shall enter the
record of each such session in the journal of the house of representatives. The
rules of the house of representatives and the joint rules of the two houses,
insofar as the same may be applicable shall be the rules for joint sessions of the
two houses.
(c) Votes in joint session; taking; requirements. All votes in a joint session
shall be taken by yeas and nays, and in taking the same it shall be the duty of the
secretary of the senate first to call the names of the members of the senate, and
after which the clerk of the house of representatives shall in like manner call the
names of the members of the house. Each member of the senate and the house of
representatives present shall be required to vote on all matters considered in
joint session, unless excused by a vote of a majority of the members of both
houses present.
Joint Rule 3. Conference committee procedure. (a) Action by house of
origin of bill or concurrent resolution amended by other house. When a bill or
concurrent resolution is returned to the house of origin with amendments by the
other house, the house of origin may: (1) Concur in such amendments; (2) refuse
to concur in such amendments; or (3) refuse to concur in such amendments and
request a conference on the bill or concurrent resolution.
(b) Concurrence by house of origin; concurrence prior to taking action on
conference committee report by other house; final action; effect of failure of
motion to concur. The house of origin of any bill or concurrent resolution may
concur in any amendments made by the other house, except that if the bill or
concurrent resolution has been referred to a conference committee such action
may only be taken prior to the taking of final action upon the conference
committee report upon such bill or concurrent resolution by the other house. A
vote in the house of origin of any bill or concurrent resolution on a motion to
concur in amendments to such bill or concurrent resolution by the other house
shall be considered action on the final passage of the bill or concurrent
resolution and the affirmative and negative votes thereon shall be entered in the
journal. If the motion to concur is upon amendments to a bill or concurrent
resolution for which a conference committee has been appointed and action has
not been taken upon the report of such committee by the other house and such
motion fails, the bill or concurrent resolution shall not be deemed to have been
killed thereby and the motion to concur may be renewed but not on the same
legislative day. If the motion to concur is upon amendments to a bill or
concurrent resolution for which a conference committee has not been appointed
and such motion fails, the bill or concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be
killed.
(c) Motion to nonconcur; when considered final action; effect of adoption
of motion. A vote in the house of origin of any bill or concurrent resolution on a
motion to nonconcur or to refuse to concur in amendments to such bill or
concurrent resolution by the other house which is not coupled with a request for
the appointment of a conference committee shall be considered action on final
passage of the bill or concurrent resolution and the affirmative and negative
votes thereon shall be entered in the journal, and the bill or concurrent resolution
shall be deemed killed on the adoption thereof.
(d) House of origin refusal to concur or nonconcur; request for conference;
procedure. When a bill or concurrent resolution is returned by either house to the
house of origin with amendments, and the house of origin refuses to concur or to
nonconcur therein, a conference may be requested by a majority vote of the
members present and voting. Such request shall be transmitted to the other
house by message which shall include the names of the conferees on the part of
the requesting house. Upon receipt of any such message, the receiving house
may, in like manner, approve such conference, and shall thereupon notify the requesting house by message stating the names of its conferees.
(e) Membership; appointment; chairperson; house of origin of substitute or
materially changed bill or concurrent resolution; meetings of conference
committee. Each conference committee shall consist of three members of the
senate and three members of the house of representatives, unless otherwise fixed
by agreement of the president of the senate and speaker of the house. Senate
members shall be appointed by the president of the senate and house members
shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. The president
or the speaker may replace any conferee previously appointed by such person.
Not fewer than one member appointed from each house shall be a member of the
minority political party of such house except when such representation for such
house is waived by the minority leader of such house. In all cases, the first-
named member of the house of origin of the bill or concurrent resolution
assigned to the committee shall be chairperson of the conference committee. The
house of origin of a substitute bill or substitute concurrent resolution shall be the
house in which the bill or concurrent resolution in its original form was
introduced. The chairperson of a conference committee on a bill or concurrent
resolution the subject matter of which has been ruled to be materially changed
shall be a member of the house which amended the bill or concurrent resolution
to materially change the subject matter. Each conference committee shall meet
on the call of its chairperson. All meetings of conference committees shall be
open to the public and no meeting shall be adjourned to another time or place in
order to subvert such policy.
(f) Conference committee reports; matters which may be included; report
not subject to amendment; house which acts first on report; copies of reports;
reports considered under any order of business. Only subject matters which are
or have been included in the bill or concurrent resolution in conference or in
bills or concurrent resolutions which have been passed or adopted in either one
or both houses during the current biennium of the legislature may be included in
the report of the conference committee on any bill or concurrent resolution
except in any appropriations bill there may be included a proviso relating to any
such item of appropriation. Subject to any limitations imposed under the
constitution of the state of Kansas, no more than a total of four additional bills or
concurrent resolutions or parts of bills or concurrent resolutions in conference or
bills or concurrent resolutions or parts of bills or concurrent resolutions which
have passed in either one or both houses during the current biennium of the
legislature may be included in the report of the conference committee on any bill
or concurrent resolution, except that reports of conference committees on any
taxation bill are not subject to the limitation contained in this provision. A
conference committee report shall not be subject to amendment. The original
signed conference committee report shall be submitted to and acted upon first by
the house other than the house of origin of the bill or concurrent resolution.
Except when a conference committee report is an agree to disagree coupled with
a request that a new conference committee be appointed or is a recommendation
to accede to or recede from all amendments of the second house, electronic and
paper copies of the report shall be made available to all members of the house
considering the report not later than 30 minutes before the time of its
consideration, except that if the report is more than six pages in length no paper
copies will be required to be distributed to individual members provided that at
least 10 paper copies of the report are made available to members at the clerk's
or secretary's desk at the front of the respective house. By written notice, the
majority leader may direct the clerk or secretary to increase from six pages to
some greater number of pages the size of conference committee reports that
need not be distributed by paper copies to individual members pursuant to this
rule. The affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members present in the house at the time
of consideration of the report shall be sufficient to dispense with distribution of
copies of the conference committee report to all members of that house. Reports
of conference committees may be received and considered under any order of
business.
(g) Signatures required on conference committee reports. All initial
conference committee reports other than an agreement to disagree coupled with a request that a new conference committee be appointed shall be signed by all of
the conferees. All initial conference committee reports which are an agreement
to disagree coupled with a request that a new conference committee be
appointed shall be signed by a majority of the conferees appointed in each
house. If a conference committee report which is an agreement to disagree
coupled with a request that a new conference committee be appointed is not
adopted, a subsequent conference committee report shall be signed by all
conferees unless a subsequent conference committee report which is an
agreement to disagree coupled with a request that a new conference committee
be appointed is adopted, in which case a conference committee report
subsequent to the adoption of such report shall be signed by a majority of the
conferees appointed in each house. All other conference committee reports shall
be signed by a majority of the conferees appointed in each house.
(h) Vote to adopt conference committee report final action; effect of failure
of motion to adopt conference committee report. The vote to adopt the report of
a conference committee, other than a report of failure to agree coupled with a
recommendation for appointment of a new conference committee, shall be
considered final action on the bill or concurrent resolution and the affirmative
and negative votes thereon shall be entered in the journal. If the motion fails, the
bill or concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be killed. If the motion on a
conference committee report which is an agreement to disagree coupled with a
request that a new conference committee be appointed fails, the bill or
concurrent resolution shall not be deemed to have been killed thereby and
remains in conference.
(i) Report of conference committee unable to agree; effect of failure to
request new conference committee; effect of failure of motion to adopt report
requesting new conference committee. If a conference committee upon any bill
or concurrent resolution is unable to agree, it shall report that fact to both
houses. Such report may request that a new conference committee be appointed
thereon. If the committee so reports but fails to request the appointment of a new
conference committee thereon, the bill or concurrent resolution shall be deemed
to have been killed upon the adoption by either house of such report. If the
motion to adopt a report requesting the appointment of a new conference
committee fails, the bill or concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be killed.
(j) Bills or concurrent resolutions under consideration by conference
committees and reports thereof; carryover from odd-numbered to even-
numbered year. Bills or concurrent resolutions under consideration by a
conference committee, or a report of which has been filed but no action taken
thereon in either house, at the time of adjournment of a regular session of the
legislature held in an odd-numbered year shall remain alive during the interim
and may be considered by the committee and legislature as the case may be at
the regular session held in the following even-numbered year.
Joint Rule 4. Deadlines for introduction and consideration of bills. The
senate and house of representatives shall observe the following schedule of
deadlines in making requests for drafting and in the introduction and
consideration of bills.
(a) Bill request deadline for individual members. Except for bills
introduced pursuant to (i) of this rule, no request to draft bills, except those
made by committees, through their respective chairpersons, shall be made to, or
accepted by, the office of the revisor of statutes after the hour of 5:00 p.m. on
January 30, 2023, during the 2023 regular session and on January 29, 2024,
during the 2024 regular session.
(b) Bill introduction deadline for individual members. Except as provided
in (i) of this rule, no bill sponsored by a member or members shall be introduced
in either house of the legislature after the hour of adjournment on February 8,
2023, during the 2023 regular session and on February 7, 2024, during the 2024
regular session. Such deadline for the introduction of bills by individual
members may be changed to an earlier date in either house at any time by
resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the
members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in such house.
(c) Bill request deadline for certain committees. Except for bills to be introduced pursuant to (i) of this rule, no committee except the committee on
ways and means of the senate, the committee on assessment and taxation of the
senate, select committees of either house when so authorized, the committee on
federal and state affairs of either house or the house committees on calendar and
printing, appropriations and taxation shall make a request to the office of the
revisor of statutes for any bill to be drafted for sponsorship by such committee
after the hour of 5:00 p.m. on February 6, 2023, during the 2023 regular session
and on February 5, 2024, during the 2024 regular session.
(d) Bill introduction deadline for certain committees. Except as provided in
(i) of this rule, no bill sponsored by any committee of either house of the
legislature, except the committee on ways and means of the senate, the
committee on assessment and taxation of the senate, select committees of either
house when so authorized, the committee on federal and state affairs of either
house or the house committees on calendar and printing, appropriations and
taxation shall be introduced in either house after the hour of adjournment on
February 10, 2023, during the 2023 regular session and on February 9, 2024,
during the 2024 regular session.
(e) House of origin bill consideration deadline. No bill, except bills
sponsored by, referred to or acted upon by the committee on ways and means of
the senate, the committee on assessment and taxation of the senate, select
committees of either house when so authorized, the committee on federal and
state affairs of either house or the house committees on calendar and printing,
appropriations and taxation shall be considered in the house in which such bill
originated after the hour of adjournment on February 24, 2023, during the 2023
regular session and on February 23, 2024, during the 2024 regular session.
(f) Second house bill consideration deadline. No bill, except bills
sponsored by, referred to or acted upon by the committee on ways and means of
the senate, the committee on assessment and taxation of the senate, select
committees of either house when so authorized, the committee on federal and
state affairs of either house or the house committees on calendar and printing,
appropriations and taxation shall be considered by either house, not the house of
origin of such bill, after the hour of adjournment on March 29, 2023, during the
2023 regular session and on March 28, 2024, during the 2024 regular session.
(g) Exceptions to limitation of (d), (e) and (f); procedure. Specific
exceptions to the limitations prescribed in subsections (d), (e) and (f) may be
made in either house by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of not less
than a majority of the members of such house then elected (or appointed) and
qualified.
(h) Deadline which falls on day neither house in session; effect. In the
event that any deadline prescribed in this rule falls on a day that neither house of
the legislature is in session, such deadline shall be observed on the next
following day that either house is in session.
(i) Bills introduced in odd-numbered years after deadlines; effect. Bills
may be introduced by members and committees in regular sessions occurring in
an odd-numbered year after the times prescribed in (b) and (d) of this rule, but
there shall be no final action thereon by either house during the session when
introduced. Such bills shall be held over for consideration at the next succeeding
regular session held in an even-numbered year.
(j) Modification of schedule of deadlines for introduction and
consideration of bills; procedure. In any regular session a concurrent resolution
may be adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the
members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house setting forth a
different schedule of deadlines for introduction and consideration of bills for that
session and the provisions of such concurrent resolution shall apply to such
session notwithstanding provisions of this rule to the contrary.
(k) Bill consideration deadline; exceptions. No bills shall be considered by
the Legislature after April 6, 2023, during the 2023 regular session and after
April 5, 2024, during the 2024 regular session except bills vetoed by the
governor, the omnibus appropriation act and the omnibus reconciliation
spending limit bill provided for under K.S.A. 75-6702, and amendments thereto.
This subsection (k) may be suspended for the consideration of a specific bill or bills not otherwise exempt under this subsection by the affirmative vote of a
majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in the house
in which the bill is to be considered.
Joint Rule 5. Closure of meetings to consider matters relating to security.
Any standing committee of the house of representatives, any standing committee
of the senate, the legislative coordinating council, any joint committee of both
houses of the legislature, any special or select committee of the house of
representatives or the senate, the house of representatives in session, the senate
in session or a joint session of the house of representatives and the senate may
meet in closed, executive session for the purpose of receiving information and
considering matters relating to the security of state officers or employees, or
both, or the security of buildings and property under the ownership or control of
the state of Kansas.
I hereby certify that the above CONCURRENT RESOLUTION originated in the HOUSE,
and was adopted by that body
Speaker of the House.
Chief Clerk of the House.
Adopted by the SENATE
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate.