SR 1704 Kansas Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Adopting the permanent rules of the Senate for the 2025-2028 term.

This Senate resolution establishes the permanent rules of procedure for the Kansas Senate for the 2025-2028 legislative term. It outlines specific operational details, including meeting times, quorum requirements, and a detailed order of business for daily sessions. The bill also creates and defines the composition of various standing committees, such as Agriculture, Judiciary, and Education, while setting guidelines for how bills are introduced and processed. Additionally, it introduces a streamlined "Session Proforma" for handling routine administrative tasks without requiring a full quorum.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Jan 2025
Senate Passage
Jan 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Jan 28, 2025
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{As amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} Enrolled · 1 edit
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The bill text was reformatted to remove bracketed amendment markers and restore the original structure of the Senate rules. No substantive policy changes, new definitions, funding amounts, or eligibility criteria were altered; the content remains identical to the previous version.
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Removed formatting artifacts such as 'As amended by Senate Committee of the Whole' headers, page numbers, and line markers that indicated where text was previously inserted or deleted.

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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
9
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Emergency Final Action - Adopted as amended; Yea 39, Nay 0, Absent 1
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Be adopted as amended
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Stephen Owens was adopted
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Stephen Owens
upper
Jan 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Tory Marie Blew
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee of the Whole
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
upper
3 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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