This is feady to go. JW 8/26/02 *** CSTART KS 10/04/1859 99/99/9999 *** *** MSTART 001 007.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1861 *** Ratified November, 1861 SEC. 7. No banking institution shall issue circulating notes of a less denomination than one dollar. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 002 012.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1864 *** Ratified November 8, 1864 SEC. 12. Bills may originate in either house, but may be amended or rejected by either. *** MEND **** *** MSTART 003 003.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1864 *** Ratified November 8, 1864 SEC. 3. For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any almshouse, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison: and the Legislature may make provision for taking the votes of electors who may be absent from their townships or wards, in the volunteer military service of the United States, or the militia service of this State: but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to allow any soldier, seaman or marine in the regular army or navy of the United States the right to vote. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 004 002.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1867 *** Ratified November 5, 1867 SEC. 2. No person under guardianship, non compos mentis, or insane; no person convicted of felony, unless restored to civil rights; no person who has been dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States, or any of the States thereof; no person guilty of receiving a bribe, or offering to give or receive a bribe; and no person who has ever voluntarily borne arms against the Government of the United States, or in any manner voluntarily aided or abetted in the attempted overthrow of said Government, except all persons who have been honorably discharged from the military service of the United States since the first day of April, A.D., 1861, provided that they have served one year or more therein, shall be qualified to vote or hold office in this State, until such disability shall be removed by a law passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of both branches of the Legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 005 004.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1868 *** Ratified November 3, 1868 SEC. 4. All public printing shall be done by a State Printer, who shall be elected by the Legislature in joint session, and shall hold his office for two years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. The joint session of the Legislature for the election of a State Printer shall be on the third Tuesday of January, A.D., 1869, and every two years thereafter. All public printing shall be done at the capital, and the prices for the same shall be regulated by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 006 002.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1873 *** Ratified November 4, 1873 SEC. 2. The number of Representatives and Senators shall be regulated by law but shall never exceed one hundred and twenty-five Representatives and forty Senators. From and after the adoption of this amendment, the House of Representatives shall admit one member from each county in which at least two hundred and fifty legal votes were cast at the next preceding general election; and each organized county in which less than two hundred legal votes were cast at the next preceding general election shall be attached to, and constitute a part of, the Representative District of the county lying next adjacent to it on the east. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 007 025.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1875 *** Ratified November 2, 1875 SEC. 25. All sessions of the Legislature shall be held at the State capital, and beginning with the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, all regular sessions shall be held once in two years, commencing on the second Tuesday of January of each alternate year thereafter. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 008 029.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1875 *** Ratified November 2, 1875 SEC. 29. At the general election held in eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and thereafter, members of the House of Representatives shall be elected for two years, and members of the Senate shall be elected for four years. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 009 003.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1875 *** Ratified November 2, 1875 SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide, at each regular session, for raising sufficient revenue to defray the current expenses of the State for two years. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 010 003.0 009.0 0 KS 1859 1876 *** Ratified November 7, 1876 SEC. 3. All county officers shall hold their offices for the term of two years, and until their successors shall be qualified, except County Commissioners, who shall hold their offices for term of three years. Provided, That in the general election in year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the Commissioner elected from district number two in each county shall hold his office for the terms of three yeas; but no person shall hold the office of Sheriff or County Treasurer for more than two consecutive terms. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 011 024.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1876 ** Ratified November 7, 1876 SEC. 24. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, except in pursuance of a specific appropriation made by law, and no appropriation shall be for a longer term than two years. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 012 010.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1880 *** Ratified November 2, 1880 SEC. 10. The manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors shall be forever prohibited in this State, except for medical, scientific, and mechanical purposes. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 013 001.0 008.0 0 KS 1859 1888 *** Ratified November 6, 1888 SEC. 1. Composition; exemption. The militia shall be composed of all able-bodied male citizens between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years, except such as are exempted by the laws of the United States or of this state; but all citizens of any religious denomination whatever who from scruples of conscience may be adverse to bearing arms shall be exempted therefrom, upon such conditions as may be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 014 017.0 9002.0 0 KS 1859 1888 *** Ratified November 6, 1888 SEC. 17. Property rights of citizens and aliens. No distinction shall ever be made between citizens of the state of Kansas and the citizens of other states and territories of the United States in reference to the purchase, enjoyment or descent of property. The rights of aliens in reference to the purchase, enjoyment or descent of property may be regulated by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 015 002.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1900 *** Ratified November 6, 1900 SEC. 2. Supreme court. The supreme court shall consist of seven justices, who shall be chosen by the electors of the state. They may sit separately in two divisions, with full power in each division to determine the cases assigned to be heard by such division. Three justices shall constitute a quorum in each division, and the concurrence of three shall be necessary to a decision. Such cases only as may be ordered to be heard by the whole court shall, be considered by all the justices, and the concurrence of four justices shall be necessary to a decision in cases so heard. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in years of these shall be chief justice, and the presiding justice of each division shall be selected from the judges assigned to that division in like manner. The term of office of the justices shall be six years, except as hereinafter provided. The justices in office at the time this amendment takes effect shall hold their offices for the terms for which they were severally elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified. As soon as practicable after the second Monday in January, 1901, the governor shall appoint four justices, to hold their offices until the second Monday in January, 1903. At the general election in 1902 there shall be elected five justices, one of whom shall hold his office for two years, one for four years, and three for six years. At the general election in 1904 and every six years thereafter, two justices shall be elected. At the general election in 1906 and every six years thereafter, two justices shall be elected. At the general election in 1908 and every six years thereafter, three justices shall be elected. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 016 002.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1902 *** Ratified November 4, 1902 SEC. 2. General elections; county and township officers. General elections and township elections shall be held biennially on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in the years bearing even numbers. All county and township officers shall hold their offices for a term of two years and until their successors are qualified: Provided, One county commissioner shall be elected from each of three districts, numbered 1, 2, and 3, by the voters of the district, and the legislature shall fix the time of election and the term of office of such commissioners; such election to be at a general election, and no term of office to exceed six years. All officers whose successors would, under the law as it existed. at the time of their election, be elected in an odd-numbered year shall hold office for an additional year and until their successors are qualified. No person shall hold the office of sheriff or county treasurer for more than two consecutive terms. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 017 003.0 009.0 0 KS 1859 1902 *** Ratified November 4, 1902 SEC. 3. REPEALED [Note: This section related to terms of office of county officers. In 1902, Article 4, Section 2 was amended to include this matter, which eliminated Article 9, Section 3.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 018 004.0 009.0 0 KS 1859 1902 *** Ratified November 4, 1902 SEC. 4. REPEALED [Note: This section related to terms of office of township officers. In 1902, Article 4, Section 2 was amended to include this matter, which eliminated Article 9, Section 4.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 019 004.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1904 *** Ratified November 8, 1904 SEC. 4. State printer; election; term. All public printing shall be done by the state printer, who shall be elected by the people at the election held for state officers in November, 1906, and every two years thereafter, at the elections held for state officers, and shall hold his office for two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 020 014.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1904 *** Ratified November 8, 1904 SEC. 14. Signing of bill; veto. Every bill and joint resolution passed by the house of representatives and senate shall, within two days thereafter, be signed by the presiding officers, and presented to the governor; if he approves, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it to the house of representatives, which shall enter the objections at large upon its journal and proceed to reconsider the same. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members elected shall agree to pass the bill or resolution, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the senate, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of all the members elected, it shall become a law; but in all such cases the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered upon the journals of each house. If any bill shall not be returned within three days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to the governor, it shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the legislature, by its adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not become a law. If any bill presented to the governor contains several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items, while approving the other portion of the bill; in such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the item or items to which he objects, and the reasons therefore, and shall transmit such statement, or a copy thereof, to the house of representatives, and any appropriations so objected to shall not take effect unless reconsidered and approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each house, and, if so reconsidered and approved, shall take effect and become a part of the bill, in which case the presiding officers of each house shall certify on such bill such fact of reconsideration and approval. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 021 017.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1906 *** Ratified November 6, 1906 SEC. 17. Uniform operation; general and special law. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state; and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted; and whether or not a law enacted is repugnant to this provision of the constitution shall be construed and determined by the courts of the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 022 008.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1906 *** Ratified November 6, 1906 SEC. 8. Probate court; fees or salary of judge; judge pro tern. There shall be a probate court in each county, which shall be a court of record, and have such probate jurisdiction and care of estates of deceased persons, minors, and persons of unsound minds, as may be prescribed by law, and shall have jurisdiction in cases of habeas corpus. The court shall consist of one judge, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of the county, and hold his office two years. He shall hold court at such times and receive for compensation such fees or salary as may be prescribed by law. The legislature may provide for the appointment or selection of a probate judge pro tern when the probate judge is unavoidably absent or otherwise unable or disqualified to sit in any case. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 023 002.0 012.0 0 KS 1859 1906 *** Ratified November 6, 1906 SEC. 2. Liability of stockholders. Dues from corporations shall be secured by the individual liability of the stockholders to the amount of stock owned by each stockholder, and such other means as shall be provided by law; but such individual liability shall not apply to railroad corporations nor corporations for religious or charitable purposes. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 024 008.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1912 *** Ratified November 5, 1912 SEC. 8. Woman suffrage. The rights of citizens of the state of KSnsas to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 025 003.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1914 *** Ratified November 3, 1914 SEC. 3. Recall of officers. Every public officer holding either by election or appointment is subject to recall from office by a majority of the electors of the state or lesser electoral division for which elected or appointed, voting on the subject at any general or special election, but the provisions hereof shall not be deemed exclusive of other remedies for removal from office. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 026 004.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1914 *** Ratified November 3, 1914 SEC. 4. Same; petitions; proclamation of election; election; reasons for recall. An election for recall shall be upon petitions signed by at least ten percent (10%) of the electors of the state, qualified to sign, for the recall of any state officer; by fifteen percent (15%) of the electors for the recall of an officer elected 1oy a district less than a state and greater than a county; or, from an officer who was appointed by him; and by twenty-five percent (25%) of the electors qualified to sign; for the recall of an officer elected in a county; district or municipality within the county, or an officer who was appointed by any such officer elected. Any petition for recall shall certify that the signers thereto are citizens of the United States of America and voted for the officer to be recalled, if elected; or, for the officer who appointed him if appointed, at the last preceding election at which such officer was elected. The petition shall be filed with the authority for calling elections in the state or other electoral divisions, at least ninety days before the date of election, and the election held thereon shall be called within thirty days after filing petition, and be proclaimed at least sixty days before the date of holding. The petition and proclamation of election shall state in not more than two hundred words the reasons for the recall. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 027 005.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1914 *** Ratified November 3, 1914 SEC. 5. Same; recall ballot; canvassing returns; filling of vacancy. The recall ballot shall be, Shall the named officer holding the named office be recalled, and the provisions of law for holding, canvassing and certifying returns of general elections shall apply to recall elections, and if the vote be in favor of the recall a vacancy in the office shall exist, to be filled as authorized by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 028 001.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1918 *** Ratified November 5, 1918 SEC. 1. Qualifications of elector. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty- one years and upwards who shall have resided in Kansas six months next preceding any election, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, at least thirty days next preceding such election shall be deemed a qualified elector. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 029 010.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1918 *** Ratified November 5, 1918 SEC. 10. Tax levy for state educational institutions. The legislature may levy a permanent tax for the use and benefit of the state educational institutions and apportion among and appropriate the same to the several institutions, which levy, apportionment and appropriation shall continue until changed by statute. Nothing herein contained shall prevent such further appropriation by the legislature as may be deemed necessary from time to time for the needs of said state educational institutions. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 030 008.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1920 *** Ratified November 2, 1920 SEC. 8. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any works of internal improvements except to aid in the construction of roads and highways and the reimbursement for the cost of permanent improvements of roads and highways, constructed after March 1, 1919; but such aid and reimbursement shall not be granted in any county for more than 25 percent of the cost of such road or highway, nor for more than ten thousand dollars per mile, nor for more than one hundred miles in any one county; except, that in counties having an assessed valuation of more than one hundred million dollars such aid and reimbursement may be granted for not more than one hundred fifty miles of road or highway; and the restrictions and limitations of sections 5 and 6 of article XI of the constitution, relating to debts and internal improvements, shall not be construed to limit the authority retained or conferred by this amendment. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 031 011.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1920 *** Ratified November 2, 1920 SEC. 11. State aid in purchase of farm homes. To encourage the purchase, improvements and ownership of agricultural lands and the occupancy and cultivation thereof, provision may be made by law for the creation and maintenance of a fund, in such manner and amount as the legislature may determine, to be used in the purchase; improvement and sale of lands for agricultural purposes. The legislature may provide reasonable preferences for those persons who served in the army and navy of the United States in the World War and holding an honorable discharge therefrom. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 032 001.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1924 *** Ratified November 4, 1924 SEC. 1. System of taxation; classification; exemption. The legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, except that mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt may be classified and taxed uniformly as to class as the legislature shall provide. All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, and personal property to the amount of at least two hundred dollars for each family, shall be exempted from taxation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 033 002.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1924 *** Ratified November 4, 1924 SEC. 2. Repealed [Note: This sections originally provided for raising revenue for expenses. Article 11, Section 1 was amended in 1924 to include this matter, which eliminated Article 11, Section 2.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 034 008.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1928 *** Ratified November 6, 1928 SEC. 8. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that it may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain a state system of highways, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor bonds issued by the state for such highways. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 035 009.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1928 *** Ratified November 6, 1928 SEC. 9. Special taxes for highway purposes. The state shall have power to levy special taxes, for road and highway purposes, on motor vehicles and on motor fuels. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 036 002.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 2. Taxation of incomes. The state shall have power to levy and collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived, which taxes may be graduated and progressive. [Note: The original Article 11, Section 2 was eliminated in 1924. This is a new section that was added in 1932 and numbered as Section 2. The rest of Article 11 was subsequently renumbered to accommodate this addition.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 037 003.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 3. REPEALED [Note: This was originally Article 11, Section 2. It was eliminated in 1924, but renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 038 004.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 4. Revenue for current expenses. The legislature shall provide, at each regular session, for raising sufficient revenue to defray the current expenses of the state for two years. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 3. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 039 005.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 5. Object of tax. No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of a law, which shall distinctly state the object of the same; to which object only such tax shall be applied. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 4. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 040 006.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 6. State debts; annual tax; proceeds. For the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenses and making public improvements, the state may contract public debts; but such debts shall never, in the aggregate, exceed one million dollars, except as hereinafter provided. Every such debt shall be authorized by law for some purpose specified therein, and the vote of a majority of all the members elected to each house, to be taken by the yeas and nays, shall be necessary to the passage of such law; and every such law shall provide for levying an annual tax sufficient to pay the annual interest of such debt, and the principal thereof, when it shall become due; and shall specifically appropriate the proceeds of such taxes to the payment of such principal and interest; and such appropriation shall not be repealed nor the taxes postponed or diminished, until the interest and principal of such debt shall have been wholly paid. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 5. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 041 007.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 7. Election on indebtedness. No debt shall be contracted by the state except as herein provided, unless the proposed law for creating such debt shall first be submitted to a direct vote of the electors of the state at some general election; and if such proposed law shall be ratified by a majority of all the votes cast at such general election, then it shall be the duty of the legislature next after such election to enact such law and create such debt, subject to all the provisions and restrictions provided in the preceding section of this article. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 6. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 042 008.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 8. Borrowing money by state. The state may borrow money to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the state in time of war; but the money thus raised, shall be applied exclusively to the object for which the loan was authorized, or to the repayment of the debt thereby created. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 7. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 043 009.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 9. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that it may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain a state system of highways, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor bonds issued by the state for such highways. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 8, which was amended in 1920 and 1928. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered from the 1928 revision.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 044 010.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1932 *** Ratified November 8, 1932 SEC. 10. Special taxes for highway purposes. The state shall have power to levy special taxes, for road and highway purposes, on motor vehicles and on motor fuels. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 9 in 1928. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2, but the text was not altered.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 045 004.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1936 *** Ratified November 3, 1936 SEC. 4. Aged and infirm persons; state participation. The respective counties of the state shall provide, as may be prescribed by law, for those inhabitants who, by reason of age, infirmity or other misfortune, may have claims upon the sympathy and aid of society: Provided, however, The state may participate financially in such aid and supervise and control the administration thereof. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 046 005.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1936 *** Ratified November 3, 1936 SEC. 5. Unemployment compensation; old-age benefits; taxation. The state may provide by law for unemployment compensation and contributory old-age benefits and may tax employers and employees therefor; and the restrictions and limitations of section 24 of article 2, and section 1 of article 11 of the constitution shall not be construed to limit the authority conferred by this amendment. No direct ad valorem tax shall be laid on real or personal property for such purposes. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 047 002.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1940 *** Ratified November 5, 1940 SEC. 2. Tenure of office; merit system in civil service. The tenure of any office not herein provided for may be declared by law; when not so declared, such office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making appointment, but the legislature shall not create any office the tenure of which shall be longer than four years, except that appointments under a merit system in civil service shall not be subject to such limitation. The legislature may make provisions for a merit system under which appointments and promotions in the civil service of this state and all civil divisions thereof, shall be made according to merit and fitness, to be determined, so far as practicable, by examination, which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 048 009.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1944 *** Ratified November 7, 1944 SEC. 9. Homestead exemption. A homestead to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of farming land, or of one acre within the limits of an incorporated town or city, occupied as a residence by the family of the owner, together with all the improvements on the same, shall be exempted from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes, or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon: Provided, That provisions of this section shall not apply to any process of law obtained by virtue of a lien given by the consent of both husband and wife: And provided further, That the legislature by an appropriate act or acts, clearly framed to avoid abuses, may provide that when it is shown the husband or wife while occupying a homestead is adjudged to be insane, the duly appointed guardian of the insane spouse may be authorized to join with the sane spouse in executing a mortgage upon the homestead, renewing or refinancing an encumbrance thereon which is likely to cause its loss, or in executing a lease thereon authorizing the lessee to explore and produce therefrom oil, gas, coal, lead, zinc, or other minerals. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 049 009.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1946 *** Ratified November 5, 1946 SEC. 9. Vacancies in legislature. All vacancies occurring in either house shall be filled in such manner as the legislature shall provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 050 010.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1948 *** Ratified November 2, 1948 SEC. 10. Intoxicating liquors. The legislature may provide for the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in certain areas. Subject to the foregoing, the legislature may regulate, license and tax the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and may regulate the possession and transportation of intoxicating liquors. The open saloon shall be and is hereby forever prohibited. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 051 013.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1948 *** Ratified November 2, 1948 SEC. 13. Compensation of supreme court justices and district court judges. The justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall receive for their services such compensation as may be provided by law, which law shall become effective on the second Monday in January of the next odd-numbered year after its enactment, and such justices or judges shall receive no fees or perquisites nor hold any other office of profit or trust under the authority of the state, or the United States, nor practice law in any of the courts in the state during their continuance in office. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 052 003.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1948 *** Ratified November 2, 1948 SEC. 3. Compensation of members. The members of the legislature shall receive as compensation for their services and as reimbursement for their expenses as follows: (a) The sum of five dollars for each day's actual service at any regular or special session; not to exceed the total sum of $300 for any regular session, or $150 for any special session; (b) a sum for expenses, to be fixed by law, of not to exceed seven dollars per calendar day; and (c) fifteen cents for each mile traveled by the usual route in going to and returning from the place of meeting. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 053 006.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1952 *** Ratified November 4, 1952 SEC. 6. Tax levy for certain benevolent and charitable institutions. The legislature may levy a permanent tax for the creation of a building fund for institutions caring for the insane, blind, and deaf and dumb, and the legislature shall apportion among and appropriate the same to the several institutions, which levy, apportionment and appropriation shall continue until changed by statute. Nothing herein contained shall prevent such further appropriation by the legislature as may be deemed necessary from time to time for the needs of said charitable and benevolent institutions. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 054 017.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1954 *** Ratified November 2, 1954 SEC. 17. Uniform operation of laws of a general nature; special laws; urban areas. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state; and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted; and whether or not a law enacted is repugnant to this provision of the constitution shall be construed and determined by the courts of the state: Provided, The legislature may designate areas in counties that have become urban in character as "urban areas" and enact special laws giving to such counties or urban areas such powers of local government and consolidation of local government as the legislature may deem proper. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 055 025.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1954 *** Ratified November 2, 1954 SEC. 25. Sessions at capital; convening dates; duration and scope of budget sessions. All sessions of the legislature shall be held at the state capital, and beginning with the session of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, all regular sessions shall be held once in two years, commencing on the second Tuesday of January of each alternate year thereafter. Beginning with the year 1956, budget sessions of not to exceed thirty calendar days in duration shall be held, commencing on the second Tuesday in January, and each even-numbered year thereafter, at which the legislature shall consider only the governor's budget report, appropriation bills for the succeeding fiscal year, revenue bills necessary therefor, and such bills, resolutions or motions as may be necessary to provide for the expenses and conduct of the budget session. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 056 002.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 2. (a) Supreme court. The supreme court shall consist of seven justices who shall be selected as provided by this section. All cases shall be heard by the whole court with not fewer than four justices sitting, and the concurrence of four justices shall be necessary to a decision. The term of office of the justices shall be six years, except as hereinafter provided. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in age of these shall be chief justice. (b) District courts. The state shall be divided into judicial districts as provided by law. Each judicial district shall have at least one district judge. The term of office of each judge of the district court shall be four years. District court shall be held at such times and places as may be provided by law. The district judges shall be elected by the electors of the respective judicial districts. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of district judge, it shall be filled by appointment by the governor until the next general election that shall occur more than thirty days after such vacancy. (c) Residence requirements. All judicial officers provided for by article 3 of the constitution shall reside in their respective townships, counties or districts at the time of their, nomination, selection or election and during their respective terms of office. (d) Filling of vacancies in, and appointments to, supreme court. (1) Any vacancy occurring in the office of any justice of the supreme court, and any position to be open in the supreme court as the result of retirement, or failure of the incumbent to file his declaration of candidacy to succeed himself as hereinafter required, or failure of a justice to be elected to succeed himself, shall be filled by appointment by the governor of one of three persons possessing the qualifications of office, who shall be nominated and whose names shall be submitted to the governor by the supreme court nominating commission established as hereinafter provided. (2) In the event of the failure of the governor to make the appointment within sixty days from the time the names of the nominees are submitted to him, the chief justice of the supreme court shall make the appointment from such nominees. (e) Tenure of supreme court justices; declaration of candidacy; form of ballot; rejection and retention. Each justice of the supreme court appointed pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d) (1) of this section shall hold office for an initial term ending on the second Monday in January following the next general election after the expiration of twelve months in office. Any justice holding office at the time the provisions of this section become applicable to his office, shall, unless removed for cause, remain in office for the term or unexpired term to which he was elected or appointed. Not less than sixty days prior to the holding of the general election next preceding the expiration of his term of office, any justice of the supreme court may file in the office of the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy for election to succeed himself. If a declaration is not so filed the position held by such justice shall be open from the expiration of his term of office. If such declaration is filed his name shall be submitted at the next election to the electors of the state on a separate judicial ballot, without party designation, reading substantially as follows: Shall (Here insert name of justice.) (Here insert the title of the court.) be retained in office? If a majority of those voting on the question vote against retaining him in office, the position or office which he holds shall be open upon the expiration of his term of office; otherwise he shall, unless removed for cause, remain in office for the regular term of six years, from the second Monday in January following such election. At the expiration of each term, he shall, unless by law he is compelled to retire, be eligible for retention in office by election in the manner prescribed in this section. (f) Supreme court nominating commission. (1) A nonpartisan nominating commission whose duty it shall be to nominate and submit to the governor names of persons for appointment to fill vacancies in the office of any justice of the supreme court is hereby established, and shall be known as the "supreme court nominating commission." Said commission shall be organized as hereinafter provided. (2) The supreme court nominating commission shall be composed as follows: One member, who shall be chairman, chosen from among their number by the members of the bar who are residents of and licensed in Kansas; one member from each congressional district chosen from among their number by the resident members of the bar in the district; and one member, who is not a lawyer, from each congressional district, appointed by the governor from among the residents of the district. (3) The terms of office, the procedure for selection and certification of the members of the commissions and provision for their compensation or expenses shall be as provided by the legislature. (4) No member of the supreme court nominating commission shall, while he is a member, hold any other public office by appointment or any official position in a political party or for six months thereafter be eligible for nomination for the office of justice of the supreme court. The commission may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its members. (g) Implementing legislation. The legislature shall, at the next regular session after the election at which this amendment is adopted by the electors of the state, enact such laws as may be appropriate to make all the provisions of this section effective in operation. (h) Qualifications of justices and judges. Justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall be at least thirty years of age and shall be duly authorized by the supreme court of Kansas to practice law in the courts of this state, and shall possess such other qualifications as may be prescribed by law. (i) Prohibition of political activity by justices of the supreme court. No justice of the supreme court who is appointed or retained under the procedure of paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (d) and subsections (e) and (f) of this section shall directly or indirectly make any contribution to or hold any office in a political party or organization or take part in any political campaign. (1) Effective dates. Except for subsection (g) of this section, this amendment shall become effective July 1, 1959. Subsection (g) of this section shall become effective immediately upon the adoption of this amendment by the electors of the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 057 005.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 5. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 058 011.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 11. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 059 018.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 18. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 060 009.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 9. Internal improvements; state highway system; flood control, conservation and development of water resources. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that: (1) It may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain a state system of highways, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor general obligation bonds issued by the state for such highways; (2) it may be a party to flood control works and works for the conservation or development of water resources. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 061 012.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1958 *** Ratified November 4, 1958 SEC. 12. Membership or nonmembership in labor organizations. No person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization, nor shall the state or any subdivision thereof, or any individual, corporation, or any kind of association enter into any agreement, written or oral, which excludes any person from employment or continuation of employment because of membership or nonmembership in any labor organization. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 062 005.0 012.0 0 KS 1859 1960 *** Ratified November 8, 1960 SEC. 5. Cities' powers of home rule. (a) The legislature shall provide by general law, applicable to all cities, for the incorporation of cities and the methods by which city boundaries may be altered, cities may be merged or consolidated and cities may be dissolved: Provided, That existing laws on such subjects not applicable to all cities on the effective date of this amendment shall remain in effect until superseded by general law and such existing laws shall not be subject to charter ordinance. (b) Cities are hereby empowered to determine their local affairs and government including the levying of taxes, excises, fees, charges and other exactions except when and as the levying of any tax, excise, fee, charge or other exaction is limited or prohibited by enactment of the legislature applicable uniformly to all cities of the same class: Provided, That the legislature may establish not to exceed four classes of cities for the purpose of imposing all such limitations or prohibitions. Cities shall exercise such determination by ordinance passed by the governing body with referendums only in such cases as prescribed by the legislature, subject only to enactments of the legislature of statewide concern applicable uniformly to all cities, to other enactments of the legislature applicable uniformly to all cities, to enactments of the legislature applicable uniformly to all cities of the same class limiting or prohibiting the levying of any tax, excise, fee, charge or other exaction and to enactments of the legislature prescribing limits of indebtedness. All enactments relating to cities now in effect or hereafter enacted and as later amended and until repealed shall govern cities except as cities shall exempt themselves by charter ordinances as herein provided for in subsection (c). (c) (1) Any city may by charter ordinance elect in the manner prescribed in this section that the whole or any part of any enactment of the legislature applying to such city, other than enactments of statewide concern applicable uniformly to all cities, other enactments applicable uniformly to all cities, and enactments prescribing limits of indebtedness, shall not apply to such city. (2) A charter ordinance is an ordinance which exempts a city from the whole or any part of any enactment of the legislature as referred to in this section and which may provide substitute and additional provisions on the same subject. Such charter ordinance shall be so titled, shall designate specifically the enactment of the legislature or part thereof made inapplicable to such city by the adoption of such ordinance and contain the substitute and additional provisions, if any, and shall require a two-thirds vote of the members-elect of the governing body of such city. Every charter ordinance shall be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official city newspaper or, if there is none, in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. (3) No charter ordinance shall take effect until sixty days after its final publication. If within sixty days of its final publication a petition signed by a number of electors of the city equal to not less than ten percent of the number of electors who voted at the last preceding regular city election shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such city demanding that such ordinance be submitted to a vote of the electors, it shall not take effect until submitted to a referendum and approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. An election, if called, shall be called within thirty days and held within ninety days after the filing of the petition. The governing body shall pass an ordinance calling the election and fixing the date, which ordinance shall be published once each week for three consecutive weeks in the official city newspaper or, if there be none, in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, and the election shall be conducted as elections for officers and by the officers handling such elections. The proposition shall be: "Shall charter ordinance No._____ , entitled (title of ordinance) take effect?" The governing body may submit any charter ordinance to a referendum without petition by the same publication of the charter ordinance and the same publication of the ordinance calling the election as for ordinances upon petition and such charter ordinance shall then become effective when approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon. Each charter ordinance becoming effective shall be recorded by the clerk in a book maintained for that purpose with a statement of the manner of adoption and a certified copy shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall keep an index of the same. (4) Each charter ordinance enacted shall control and prevail over any prior or subsequent act of the governing body of the city and may be repealed or amended only by charter ordinance or by enactments of the legislature applicable to all cities. (d) Powers and authority granted cities pursuant to this section shall be liberally construed for the purpose of giving to cities the largest measure of self-government. (e) This amendment shall be effective on and after July 1, 1961. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 063 013.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1960 *** Ratified November 8, 1960 SEC. 13. Continuity of state and local governmental operations. Notwithstanding any general or special provision of this constitution, the legislature, in order to insure continuity of state and local governmental operations in periods of emergency resulting from disasters caused by enemy attack, shall have the power and the immediate duty (1) to provide for prompt and temporary succession to the powers and duties of public offices, of whatever nature and whether filled by election or appointment, the incumbents of which may become unavailable for carrying on the powers and duties of such offices, and (2) to adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for insuring the continuity of governmental operations including, but not limited to, the financing thereof. In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred the legislature shall in all respects conform to the requirements of this constitution except to the extent that in the judgment of the legislature so to do would be impracticable or would admit of undue delay. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 064 003.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1962 *** Ratified November 6, 1962 SEC. 3. Compensation of members. The members of the legislature shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 065 001.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1962 *** Ratified November 6, 1962 SEC. 1. Qualifications of elector. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty- one (21) years and upwards who shall have resided in Kansas six (6) months next preceding any election, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, at least thirty (30) days next preceding such election shall be deemed a qualified elector: Provided, The legislature may provide that a citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one (21) years and upwards, who shall have resided in Kansas in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote, at least forty-five (45) days next preceding any general election, may vote for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of president and vice-president of the United States. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 066 002.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1964 *** Ratified November 3, 1964 SEC. 2. General elections; county and township officers. General elections and township elections shall be held biennially on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in the years bearing even numbers. All county and township officers shall hold their offices for a term of two years and until their successors are qualified: Provided, One county commissioner shall be elected from each of three districts, numbered 1, 2, and 3, by the voters of the district, and the legislature shall fix the time of election and the term of office of such commissioners; such election to be at a general election, and no term of office to exceed six years. All officers whose successors would, under the law as it existed at the time of their election, be elected in an odd-numbered year shall hold office for an additional year and until their successors are qualified. No person shall hold the office of county treasurer for more than two consecutive terms. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 067 001.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1964 *** Ratified November 3, 1964 SEC. 1. System of taxation; classification; exemption. The legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, except that mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt may be classified and taxed uniformly as to class as the legislature shall provide. All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income, be exempted from taxation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 068 025.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 25. Sessions at capital; convening dates. All sessions of the legislature shall be held at the state capital, and beginning with the year 1967, regular sessions shall be held annually, commencing on the second Tuesday of January of each year. The duration of regular sessions held in even-numbered years shall not exceed sixty calendar days. Such sessions may be extended beyond sixty calendar days by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house. Bills, joint and concurrent resolutions under consideration by the legislature upon adjournment of a regular session held in an odd-numbered year may be considered at the next succeeding regular session held in an even-numbered year, as if there had been no such adjournment. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 069 001.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 1. Schools and related institutions and activities. The legislature shall provide for intellectual, educational, vocational and scientific improvement by establishing and maintaining public schools, educational institutions and related activities which may be organized and changed in such manner as may be provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 070 002.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 2. State board of education and state board of regents. (a) The legislature shall provide for a state board of education which shall have general supervision of public schools, educational institutions and all the educational interests of the state, except educational functions delegated by law to the state board of regents. The state board of education shall perform such other duties as may be provided by law. (b) The legislature shall provide for a state board of regents and for its control and supervision of public institutions of higher education. Public institutions of higher education shall include universities and colleges granting baccalaureate or postbaccalaureate degrees and such other institutions and educational interests as may be provided by law. The state board of regents shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law. (c) Any municipal university shall be operated, supervised and controlled as provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 071 003.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 3. Members of state board of education and state board of regents. (a) There shall be ten members of the state board of education with overlapping terms as the legislature may prescribe. The legislature shall make provision for ten member districts, each comprised of four contiguous senatorial districts. The electors of each member district shall elect one person residing in the district as a member of the board. The legislature shall prescribe the manner in which vacancies occurring on the board shall be filled. (b) The state board of regents shall have nine members with overlapping terms as the legislature may prescribe. Members shall be appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate. One member shall be appointed from each congressional district with the remaining members appointed at large, however, no two members shall reside in the same county at the time of their appointment. Vacancies occurring on the board shall be filled by appointment by the governor as provided by law. (c) Subsequent redistricting shall not disqualify any member of either board from service for the remainder of his term. Any member of either board may be removed from office for cause as may be provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 072 004.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 4. Commissioner of education. The state board of education shall appoint a commissioner of education who shall serve at the pleasure of the board as its executive officer. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 073 005.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 5. Local public schools. Local public schools under the general supervision of the state board of education shall be maintained, developed and operated by locally elected boards. When authorized by law, such boards may make and carry out agreements for cooperative operation and administration of educational programs under the general supervision of the state board of education, but such agreements shall be subject to limitation, change or termination by the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 074 006.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 6. Finance. (a) The legislature may levy a permanent tax for the use and benefit of state institutions of higher education and apportion among and appropriate the same to the several institutions, which levy, apportionment and appropriation shall continue until changed by statute. Further appropriation and other provision for finance of institutions of higher education may be made by the legislature. (b) The legislature shall make suitable provision for finance of the educational interests of the state. No tuition shall be charged for attendance at any public school to pupils required by law to attend such school, except such fees or supplemental charges as may be authorized by law. The legislature may authorize the state board of regents to establish tuition, fees and charges at institutions under its supervision. (c) No religious sect or sects shall control any part of the public educational funds. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 075 007.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 7. Savings clause. (a) All laws in force at the time of the adoption of this amendment and consistent therewith shall remain in full force and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature. All laws inconsistent with this amendment, unless sooner repealed or amended to conform with this amendment, shall remain in full force and effect until July 1, 1969. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the constitution to the contrary, no state superintendent of public instruction or county superintendent of public instruction shall be elected after January 1, 1967. (c) The state perpetual school fund or any part thereof may be managed and invested as provided by law or all or any part thereof may be appropriated, both as to principal and income, to the support of the public schools supervised by the state board of education. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 076 008.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 8. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 077 009.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 9. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 078 010.0 006.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 10. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 079 011.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1966 *** Ratified November 8, 1966 SEC. 11. Taxation of incomes; adoption of federal laws by reference. In enacting any law under section 2 of this article 11, the legislature may at any regular, budget or special session define income by reference to or otherwise adopt by reference all or any part of the laws of the United States as they then exist, and, prospectively, as they may thereafter be amended or enacted, with such exceptions, additions or modifications as the legislature may determine then or thereafter at any such legislative sessions. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 080 002.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1968 *** Ratified November 5, 1968 SEC. 2. General elections; county and township officers. General elections and township elections shall be held biennially on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in the years bearing even numbers. All county and township officers shall hold their offices for a term of two years and until their successors are qualified: Provided, One county commissioner shall be elected from each of three districts, numbered 1, 2, and 3, by the voters of the district, and the legislature shall fix the time of election and the term of office of such commissioners; such election to be at a general election, and no term of office to exceed six years. All officers whose successors would, under the law as it existed at the time of their election, be elected in an odd-numbered year shall hold office for an additional year and until their successors are qualified. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 081 002.0 014.0 0 KS 1859 1970 *** Ratified November 3, 1970 SEC. 2. Constitutional conventions; approval by electors. The legislature, by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, may submit the question "Shall there be a convention to amend or revise the constitution of the state of Kansas?" or the question "Shall there be a convention limited to revision of article(s) ________ of the constitution of the state of Kansas?", to the electors at the next election for representatives, and the concurrent resolution providing for such question shall specify in such blank appropriate words and figures to identify the article or articles to be considered by the convention. If a majority of all electors voting on the question shall vote in the affirmative, delegates to such convention shall be elected at the next election for representatives thereafter, unless the legislature shall have provided by law for the election of such delegates at a special election. The electors of each representative district as organized at the time of such election of delegates shall elect as many delegates to the convention as there are representatives from such district. Such delegates shall have the same qualifications as provided by the constitution for members of the legislature and members of the legislature and candidates for membership in the legislature shall be eligible for election as delegates to the convention. The delegates so elected shall convene at the state capital on the first Tuesday in May next following such election or at an earlier date if provided by law. The convention shall have power to choose its own officers, appoint and remove its employees and fix their compensation, determine its rules, judge the qualifications of its members, and carry on the business of the convention in an orderly manner. Each delegate shall receive such compensation as provided by law. A vacancy in the office of any delegate shall be filled as provided by law. The convention shall have power to amend or revise all or that part of the constitution indicated by the question voted upon to call the convention, subject to ratification by the electors. No proposed constitution, or amendment or revision of an existing constitution, shall be submitted by the convention to the electors unless it has been available to the delegates in final form at least three days on which the convention is in session, prior to final passage, and receives the assent of a majority of all the delegates. The yeas and nays upon final passage of any proposal, and upon any question upon request of one-tenth of the delegates present, shall be entered in the journal of the convention. Proposals of the convention shall be submitted to the electors at the first general or special statewide election occurring not less than two months after final action thereon by the convention, and shall take effect in accordance with the provisions thereof in such form and with such notice as is directed by the convention' upon receiving the approval of a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 082 001.0 014.0 0 KS 1859 1970 *** Ratified November 3, 1970 SEC. 1. Proposals by legislature; approval by electors. Propositions for the amendment of this constitution may be made by concurrent resolution originating in either house of the legislature, and if two-thirds of all the members elected to each house shall approve such resolution, the same, with the yeas and nays thereon, shall be entered on the journal of each house. The secretary of state shall cause such resolution to be published in one newspaper in each county of the state where a newspaper is published, once each week for five (5) consecutive weeks immediately preceding the next election for representatives, or preceding a special election called by concurrent resolution of the legislature for the purpose of submitting constitutional propositions. At such election, such proposition to amend the constitution shall be submitted either by title generally descriptive of the contents thereof, or by the amendment as a whole, to the electors for their approval or rejection. If such proposition is submitted by title, such title shall be specified in the concurrent resolution making the proposition. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall vote for the amendment, the same shall become a part of the constitution. When more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same election, such amendments shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. One amendment of the constitution may revise any entire article, except the article on general provisions, and in revising any article, the article may be renumbered and all or parts of other articles may be amended, or amended and transferred to the article being revised. Not more than five amendments shall be submitted at the same election. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 083 001.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1971 *** Ratified April 6, 1971 SEC. 1. Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and who shall have resided in Kansas six months next preceding any election and in the precinct in which he or she seeks to vote at least thirty days next preceding such election shall be deemed a qualified elector. A citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and who shall have resided in Kansas in the precinct in which he or she seeks to vote at least thirty days next preceding any general election, may vote for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of p resident and vice-president of the United States. A citizen of the United States, who is otherwise qualified to vote in Kansas for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of president and vice- president of the United States may vote for such officers either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident this state if his or her removal from this stale occurs during the thirty days next preceding such election. A person who is otherwise a qualified elector may vote in the precinct of his former residence either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of such precinct during the thirty days next preceding such election if his new residence is in another precinct in the state of Kansas. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 084 012.0 9002.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 12. No forfeiture of estate for crimes. No conviction within the state shall work a forfeiture of estate. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 085 001.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 1. Executive officers; selection; terms. The constitutional officers of the executive department shall be the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, who shall have such qualifications as are provided by law. Such officers shall be chosen by the electors of this state at the time of voting for members of the legislature in the year 1974 and every four years thereafter, and such officers elected in 1974 and thereafter shall have terms of four years which shall begin on the second Monday of January next after their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. In the year 1974 and thereafter, at all elections of governor and lieutenant governor the candidates for such offices shall be nominated and elected jointly in such manner as is prescribed by law so that a single vote shall be cast for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together, and if such candidates are nominated by petition or convention each petition signature and each convention vote shall be made for a candidate for governor and a candidate for lieutenant governor running together. No person may be elected to more than two successive terms as governor nor to more than two successive terms as lieutenant governor. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 086 002.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 2. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 087 003.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 3. Executive power of governor. The supreme executive power of this state shall be vested in a governor, who shall be responsible for the enforcement of the laws of this state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 088 004.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 4. Reports to governor. The governor may require information in writing from the officers, of the executive department, upon any subject relating to their respective duties. The officers of the executive department, and of all public state institutions, shall, at least ten days preceding each regular session of the legislature, severally report to the governor, who shall transmit such reports to the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 089 005.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 5. Governor's duties for legislature; messages; special sessions; adjournment. The governor may, on extraordinary occasions, call the legislature into special session by proclamation; and shall call the legislature into special session, upon petition signed by at least two-thirds of the members elected to each house. At every session of the legislature the governor shall communicate in writing information in reference to the condition of the state, and recommend such measures as he deems expedient. In case of disagreement between the two houses in respect of the time of adjournment, the governor may adjourn the legislature to such time as he deems proper, not beyond its next regular session. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 090 006.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 6. Reorganization of state agencies of executive branch. (a) For the purpose of transferring, abolishing, consolidating or coordinating the whole or any part of any state agency, or the functions thereof, within the executive branch of state government, when the governor considers the same necessary for efficient administration, he may issue one or more executive reorganization orders, each bearing an identifying number, and transmit the same to the legislature within the first thirty calendar days of any regular session. Agencies and functions of the legislative and judicial branches, and constitutionally delegated functions of state officers and state boards shall be exempt from executive reorganization orders. (b) The governor shall transmit each executive reorganization order to both houses of the legislature on the same day, and each such order shall be accompanied by a governor's message which shall specify with respect to each abolition of a function included in the order the statutory authority for the exercise of the function. Every executive reorganization order shall provide for the transfer or other disposition of the records, property and personnel affected by the order. Every executive reorganization order shall provide for all necessary transfers of unexpended balances of appropriations of agencies affected by such order, and such changes in responsibility for and handling of special funds as may be necessary to accomplish the purpose of such order. Transferred balances of appropriations may be used only for the purposes for which the appropriation was originally made. (c) Each executive reorganization order transmitted to the legislature as provided in this section shall take effect and have the force of general law on the July 1 following its transmittal to the legislature, unless within sixty calendar days and before the adjournment of the legislative session either the senate or the house of representatives adopts by a majority vote of the members elected thereto a resolution disapproving such executive reorganization order. Under the provisions of an executive reorganization order a portion of the order may be effective at a time later than the date on which the order is otherwise effective. (d) An executive reorganization order which is effective shall be published as and with the acts of the legislature and the statutes of the state. Any executive reorganization order which is or is to become effective may be amended or repealed as statutes of the state are amended or repealed. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 091 007.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 7. Pardons. The pardoning power shall be vested in the governor, under regulations and restrictions prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 092 008.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 8. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 093 009.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 9. State seal and commissions. There shall be a seal of the state, which shall be kept by the governor, and used by him officially, and which shall be the great seal of Kansas. All commissions shall be issued in the name of the state of Kansas; and shall be signed by the governor, countersigned by the secretary of state, and sealed with the great seal. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 094 010.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 10. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 095 011.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 11. Vacancies in executive offices. When the office of governor is vacant, the lieutenant governor shall become governor. In the event of the disability of the governor, the lieutenant governor shall assume the powers and duties of governor until the disability is removed. The legislature shall provide by law for the succession to the office of governor should the offices of governor and lieutenant governor be vacant, and for the assumption of the powers and duties of governor during the disability of the governor, should the office of lieutenant governor be vacant or the lieutenant governor be disabled. When the office of secretary of state or attorney general is vacant, the governor shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the remainder of the term. If the secretary of state or attorney general is disabled, the governor shall name a person to assume the powers and duties of the office until the disability is removed. The procedure for determining disability and the removal thereof shall be provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 096 012.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 12. Lieutenant governor. The lieutenant governor shall assist the governor and have such other powers and duties as are prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 097 013.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 13. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 098 014.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 14. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 099 015.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 15. Compensation of officers. The officers mentioned in this article shall at stated times receive for their services a such compensation as is established by law, which shall not be diminished during their terms of office, unless by general law applicable to all salaried officers of the state. Any person exercising the powers and duties of an office mentioned in this article shall receive the compensation established by law for that office. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 100 016.0 001.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 16. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 101 026.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 26. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 102 001.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 1. Judicial power; seals; rules. The judicial power of this state shall be vested exclusively in one court of justice, which shall be divided into one supreme court, district courts, and such other courts as are provided by law; and all courts of record shall have a seal. The supreme court shall have general administrative authority over all courts in this state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 103 002.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 2. Supreme court. The supreme court shall consist of not less than seven justices who shall be selected as provided by this article. All cases shall be heard with not fewer than four justices sitting and the concurrence of a majority of the justices sitting and of not fewer than four justices shall be necessary for a decision. The term of office of the justices shall be six years except as hereinafter provided. The justice who is senior in continuous term of service shall be chief justice, and in case two or more have continuously served during the same period the senior in age of these shall be chief justice. A justice may decline or resign from the office of chief .justice without resigning from the court. Upon such declination or resignation, the justice who is next senior in continuous term of service shall become chief justice. During incapacity of a chief justice, the duties, powers and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon the justice who is next senior in continuous service. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 104 003.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 3. Jurisdiction and terms. The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in proceedings in quo warranto, mandamus, and habeas corpus; and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided by law. It shall hold one term each year at the seat of government and such other terms at such places as may be provided by law, and its jurisdiction shall be co-extensive with the state. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 105 004.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 4. Reporter; clerk. There shall be appointed, by the justices of the supreme court, a reporter and clerk of said court, who shall hold their offices two years, and whose duties shall be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 106 005.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 5. Selection of justices of the supreme court. (a) Any vacancy occurring in the office of any justice of the supreme court and any position to be open thereon as a result of enlargement of the court, or the retirement or failure of an incumbent to file his declaration of candidacy to succeed himself as hereinafter required, or failure of a justice to be elected to succeed himself, shall be filled by appointment by the governor of one of three persons possessing the qualifications of office who shall be nominated and whose names shall be submitted to the governor by the supreme court nominating commission established as hereinafter provided. (b) In event of the failure of the governor to make the appointment within sixty days from the time the names of the nominees are submitted to him, the chief justice of the supreme court shall make the appointment from such nominees. (c) Each justice of the supreme court appointed pursuant to provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall hold office for an initial term ending on the second Monday in January following the first general election that occurs after the expiration of twelve months in office. Not less than sixty days prior to the holding of the general election next preceding the expiration of his term of office, any justice of the supreme court may file in the office of the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy for election to succeed himself. If a declaration is not so filed, the position held by such justice shall be open from the expiration of his term of office. If such declaration is filed, his name shall be submitted at the next general election to the electors of the state on a separate judicial ballot, without party designation, reading substantially as follows: "Shall (Here insert name of justice.) (Here insert the title of the court.) be retained in office?" If a majority of those voting on the question vote against retaining him in office, the position or office which he holds shall be open upon the expiration of his term of office; otherwise he shall, unless removed for cause, remain in office for the regular term of six years from the second Monday in January following such election. At the expiration of each term he shall, unless by law he is compelled to retire, be eligible for retention in office by election in the manner prescribed in this section. (d) A nonpartisan nominating commission whose duty it shall be to nominate and submit to the governor the names of persons for appointment to fill vacancies in the office of any justice of the supreme court is hereby established, and shall be known as the "supreme court nominating commission." Said commission shall be organized as hereinafter provided. (e) The supreme court nominating commission shall be composed as follows: One member, who shall be chairman, chosen from among their number by the members of the bar who are residents of and licensed in Kansas; one member from each congressional district chosen from among their number by the resident members of the bar in each such district; and one member, who is not a lawyer, from each congressional district, appointed by the governor from among the residents of each such district. (f) The terms of office, the procedure for selection and certification of the members of the commission and provision for their compensation or expenses shall be as provided by the legislature. (g) No member of the supreme court nominating commission shall, while he is a member, hold any other public office by appointment or any official position in a political party or for six months thereafter be eligible for nomination for the office of justice of the supreme court. The commission may act only by the concurrence of a majority of its members. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 107 006.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 6. District courts. (a) The state shall be divided into judicial districts as provided by law. Each judicial district shall have at least one district judge. The term of office of each judge of the district court shall be four years. District court shall be held at such times and places as may be provided by law. The district judges shall be elected by the electors of the respective judicial districts unless the electors of a judicial district have adopted and not subsequently rejected a method of nonpartisan selection. The legislature shall provide a method of nonpartisan selection of district judges and for the manner of submission and resubmission thereof to the electors of a judicial district. A nonpartisan method of selection of district judges may be adopted, and once adopted may be rejected, only by a majority of electors of a judicial district voting on the question at an election in which the proposition is submitted. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of district judge, it shall be filled by appointment by the governor until the next general election that occurs more than thirty days after such vacancy, or as may be provided by such non-partisan method of. selection. (b) The district courts shall have such jurisdiction in their respective districts as may be provided by law. (c) The legislature shall provide for clerks of the district courts. (d) Provision may be made by law for judges pro tern of the district court. (e) The supreme court or any, justice thereof shall have the power to assign judges of district courts temporarily to other districts. (f) The supreme court may assign a district judge to serve temporarily on the supreme court. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 108 007.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 7. Qualifications of justices and judges. Justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall be at least thirty years of age and shall be duly authorized by the supreme court of Kansas to practice law in the courts of this state and shall possess such other qualifications as may be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 109 008.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 8. Prohibition of political activity by justices and certain judges. No justice of the supreme court who is appointed or retained under the procedure of section 5 of this article, nor any judge of the district court holding office under a nonpartisan method authorized in subsection (a) of section 6 of this article, shall directly or indirectly make any contribution to or hold any office in a political party or organization or take part in any political campaign. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 110 009.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 9. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 111 010.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 10. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 112 012.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 12. Extension of terms until successor qualified. All judicial officers shall hold their offices until their successors shall have qualified. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 113 013.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 13. Compensation of justices and judges; certain limitation. The justices of the supreme court and judges of the district courts shall receive for their services such compensation as may be provided by law, which shall not be diminished during their terms of office, unless by general law applicable to all salaried officers of. the state. Such justices or judges shall receive no fees or perquisites nor hold any other office of profit or trust under the authority of the state, or the United States except as may be provided by law, or practice law during their continuance in office. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 114 014.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 14. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 115 015.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 15. Removal of justices and judges. Justices of the supreme court may be removed from office by impeachment and conviction as prescribed in article 2 of this constitution. In addition to removal by impeachment and conviction, justices may be retired after appropriate hearing, upon certification to the governor, by the supreme court nominating commission that such justice is so incapacitated as to be unable to perform adequately his duties. Other judges shall be subject to retirement for incapacity, and to discipline, suspension and removal for cause by the supreme court after appropriate hearing. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 116 016.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 16. Savings clause. Nothing contained in this amendment to the constitution shall: (a) Shorten the term of office or abolish the office of any justice of the supreme court, any judge of the district court, or any other judge of any other court who is holding office at the time this amendment becomes effective, or who is holding office at the time of adoption, rejection, or resubmission of a nonpartisan method of selection of district judges as provided in subsection (a) of section 6 hereof, and all such justices and judges shall hold their respective offices for the terms for which elected or appointed unless sooner removed in the manner provided by law; (b) repeal any statute of this state relating to the supreme court, the supreme court nominating commission, district courts, or any other court, or relating to the justices or judges of such courts, and such statutes shall remain in force and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 117 017.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 17. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 118 019.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 19. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 119 020.0 003.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified November 7, 1972 SEC. 20. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 120 005.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 5. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 121 001.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 1. Benevolent institutions. Institutions for the benefit of mentally or physically incapacitated or handicapped persons, and such other benevolent institutions as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the state, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 122 002.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 2. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 123 003.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 124 004.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 4. Aged and infirm persons; financial aid; state participation. The respective counties of the state shall provide; as may be prescribed by law, for those inhabitants who, by reason of age, infirmity or other misfortune, may have claims upon the aid of society. The state may participate financially in such aid and supervise and control the administration thereof. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 125 005.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 5. Unemployment compensation; old-age benefits; taxation. The state may provide by law for unemployment compensation and contributory old-age benefits and may tax employers and employees therefor; and the restrictions and limitations of section 24 of article 2, and section 1 of article 11 of the constitution shall not be construed to limit the authority conferred by this amendment. No direct ad valorem tax shall be laid on real or personal property for such purposes. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 126 006.0 007.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 6. Tax levy for certain institutions. The legislature may levy a permanent tax for the creation of a building fund for institutions caring for those who are mentally ill, retarded, visually handicapped, with a handicapping hearing loss, tubercular or for children who are dependent, neglected or delinquent and in need of residential institutional care or treatment and for institutions primarily designed to provide vocational rehabilitation for handicapped persons, and the legislature shall apportion among and appropriate the same to the several institutions, which levy, apportionment and appropriation shall continue until changed by statute. Nothing herein contained shall prevent such further appropriation by the legislature as may be deemed necessary from time to time for the needs of said charitable and benevolent institutions. Nothing in this amendment shall repeal any statute of this state enacted prior to this amendment, and any levy, apportionment or appropriation made under authority of this section before its amendment, and any statute making the same, shall remain in full force and effect until amended or repealed by the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 127 003.0 010.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 128 011.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1972 *** Ratified August 1, 1972 SEC. 11. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 129 001.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 1. Legislative power. The legislative power of this state shall be vested in a house of representatives and senate. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 130 002.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 2. Senators and representatives. The number of representatives and senators shall be regulated by law, but shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five representatives and forty senators. Representatives and senators shall be elected from single-member districts prescribed by law. Representatives shall be elected for two year terms. Senators shall be elected for four year terms. The terms of representatives and senators shall commence on the second Monday of January of the year following election. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 131 003.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 3. Compensation of members of legislature. The members of the legislature shall receive such compensation as may be provided by law or such compensation as is determined according to law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 132 004.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 4. Qualifications of members. During the time that any person is a candidate for nomination or election to the legislature and during the term of each legislator, such candidate or legislator shall be and remain a qualified elector who resides in his or her district. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 133 005.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 5. Eligibility and disqualification of members. No member of congress and no civil officer or employee of the United States or of any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof shall be eligible to be a member of the legislature. Any member of the legislature who accepts any appointment or election contrary to the foregoing shall be disqualified as a member of the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 134 006.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 6. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 135 007.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 7. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 136 008.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 8. Organization and sessions. The legislature shall meet in regular session annually commencing on the second Monday in January, and all sessions shall be held at the state capital. The duration of regular sessions held in even-numbered years shall not exceed ninety calendar days. Such sessions may be extended beyond ninety calendar days by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house. Bills and concurrent resolutions under consideration by the legislature upon adjournment of a regular session held in an odd-numbered year may be considered at the next succeeding regular session held in an even-numbered year, as if there had been no such adjournment. The legislature shall be organized concurrently with the terms of representatives except that the senate shall remain organized during the terms of senators. The president of the senate shall preside over the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives shall preside over the house of representatives. A majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified of the house of representatives or the senate shall constitute a quorum of that house. Neither house, without the consent of the other, shall adjourn for more than two days, Sundays excepted. Each house shall elect its presiding officer and determine the rules of its proceedings, except that the two houses may adopt joint rules on certain matters and provide for the manner of change thereof. Each house shall provide for the expulsion or censure of members in appropriate cases. Each house shall be the judge of elections, returns and qualifications of its own members. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 137 009.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 9. Vacancies in legislature. All vacancies occurring in either house shall be filled as provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 138 010.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 10. Journals. Each house shall publish a journal of its proceedings. The affirmative and negative votes upon the final passage of every bill and every concurrent resolution for amendment of this constitution or ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States shall be entered in the journal. Any member of either house may make written protest against any act or resolution, and the same shall be entered in the journal without delay or alteration. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 139 011.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 11. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 140 012.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 12. Origination by either house. Bills and concurrent resolutions may originate in either house, but may be amended or rejected by the other. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 141 013.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 13. Majority for passage of bills. A majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house, voting in the affirmative, shall be necessary to pass any bill. Two-thirds (2/3) of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house, voting in the affirmative, shall be necessary to ratify any amendment to the Constitution of the United States or to make any application for congress to call a convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 142 014.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 14. Approval of bills; vetoes. (a) Within ten days after passage, every bill shall be signed by the presiding officers and presented to the governor. If the governor approves a bill, he shall sign it. If the governor does not approve a bill, the governor shall veto it by returning the bill, with a veto message of the objections, to the house of origin of the bill. Whenever a veto message is so received, the message shall be entered in the journal and in not more than thirty calendar days (excluding the day received), the house of origin shall reconsider the bill. If two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified shall vote to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the veto message, to the other house, which shall in not more than thirty calendar days (excluding the day received) also reconsider the bill, and if approved by two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified, it shall become a law, notwithstanding the governor's veto. If any bill shall not be returned within ten calendar days (excluding the day presented) after it shall have been presented to the governor, it shall become a law in like manner as if it had been signed by the governor. (b) If any bill presented to the governor contains several items of appropriation of money, one or more of such items may be disapproved by the governor while the other portion of the bill is approved by the governor. In case the governor does so disapprove, a veto message of the governor stating the item or items disapproved, and the reasons therefor, shall be appended to the bill at the time it is signed, and the bill shall be returned with the veto message to the house of origin of the bill. Whenever a veto message is so received, the message shall be entered in the journal and, in not more than thirty calendar days, the house of origin shall reconsider the items of the bill which have been disapproved. If two-thirds of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified shall vote to approve any item disapproved by the governor, the bill, with the veto message, shall be sent to the other house, which shall in not more than thirty calendar days also reconsider each such item so approved by the house of origin, and if approved by two-thirds of all the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified, any such item shall take effect and become a part of the bill. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 143 015.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 15. Requirements before bill passed. No bill shall be passed on the day that it is introduced, unless in case of emergency declared by two-thirds of the members present in the house where a bill is pending. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 144 016.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 16. Subject and title of bills; amendment or revival of statutes. No bill shall contain more than one subject, except appropriation bills and bills for revision or codification of statutes. The subject of each bill shall be expressed in its title. No law shall be revived or amended, unless the new act contain the entire act revived or the section or sections amended, and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The provisions of this section shall be liberally construed to effectuate the acts of the legislature. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 145 017.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 17. Uniform operation of laws of a general nature. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state: Provided, The legislature may designate areas in counties that have become urban in character as "urban areas" and enact special laws giving to any one or more of such counties or urban areas such powers of local government and consolidation of local government as the legislature may deem proper. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 146 018.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 18. Election or appointment of officers; filling vacancies. The legislature may provide for the election or appointment of all officers and the filling of all vacancies not otherwise provided for in this constitution. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 147 019.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 19. Publication of acts. No act shall take effect until the enacting bill is published as provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 148 020.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 20. Enacting clause of bills; laws enacted only by bill. The enacting clause of all bills shall be "Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:". No law shall be enacted except by bill. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 149 021.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 21. Delegation of powers of local legislation and administration. The legislature may confer powers of local legislation and administration upon political subdivisions. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 150 022.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 22. Legislative immunity. For any speech, written document or debate in either house, the members shall not be questioned elsewhere. No member of the legislature shall be subject to arrest except for treason, felony or breach of the peace in going to, or returning from, the place of meeting, or during the continuance of the session; neither shall he be subject to the service of any civil process during the session, nor for fifteen days previous to its commencement. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 151 023.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 23. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 152 024.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 24. Appropriations. No money shall be drawn from the treasury except in pursuance of a specific appropriation made by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 153 025.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 25. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 154 027.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 27. Impeachment. The house of representatives shall have the sole power to impeach. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate; and when sitting for that purpose, the senators shall take an oath to do justice according to the law and the evidence. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators then elected (or appointed) and qualified. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 155 028.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 28. Officers impeachable; grounds; punishment. The governor and all other officers under this constitution, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 156 029.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 29. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 157 030.0 002.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 30. Delegation of powers to interstate bodies. The legislature may confer legislative powers upon interstate bodies, comprised of officers of this state or its political subdivisions acting in conjunction with officers of other jurisdictions, relating to the functions thereof. Any such delegation, and any agreement made thereunder shah be subject to limitation, change or termination by the legislature, unless contained in a compact approved by the congress. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 158 001.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 1. Mode of voting. All elections by the people shall be by ballot or voting device, or both, as the legislature shall by law provide. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 159 002.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 2. General elections. General elections shall be held biennially on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in even-numbered years. Not less than three county commissioners shall be elected in each organized county in the state, as provided by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 160 003.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 3. Recall of elected officials. All elected public officials in the state, except judicial officers, shall be subject to recall by voters of the state or political subdivision from which elected. Procedures and grounds for recall shall be prescribed by law. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 161 004.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 4. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 162 005.0 004.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 5. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 163 001.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 1. Qualifications of electors. Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and who resides in the voting area in which he or she seeks to vote shall be deemed a qualified elector. Laws of this state relating, to voting for presidential electors and candidates for the office of president and vice-president of the United States shall comply with the laws of the United States relating thereto. A citizen of the United States, who is otherwise qualified to vote in Kansas for presidential electors and candidates for the offices of president and vice-president of the United States may vote for such officers either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of this state if his or her removal from this state occurs during a period in accordance with federal law next preceding such election. A person who is otherwise a qualified elector may vote in the voting area of his or her former residence either in person or by absentee ballot notwithstanding the fact that such person may have become a nonresident of such voting area during a period prescribed by law next preceding the election at which he or she seeks to vote, if his new residence is in another voting area in the state of Kansas. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 164 002.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 2. Disqualification to vote. The legislature may, by law, exclude persons from voting because of mental illness or commitment to a jail or penal institution. No person convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or of the United States, unless pardoned or restored to his civil rights, shall be qualified to vote. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 165 003.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 166 004.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 4. Proof of right to vote. The legislature shall provide by law for proper proofs of the right of suffrage. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 167 006.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 6. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 168 007.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 7. Privileges of electors. Electors, during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning therefrom, shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except felony or breach of the peace. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 169 008.0 005.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 8. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 170 001.0 010.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 1. (a) At its regular session in 1979, and at its regular session every tenth year thereafter, the legislature shall enact a statute reapportioning the state senatorial districts and representative districts. Bills reapportioning legislative districts shall be published in the official state paper immediately upon final passage and shall be effective for the next following election of legislators and thereafter until again reapportioned. (b) Within fifteen days after the publication of an act reapportioning the legislative districts within the time specified in (a), the attorney general shall petition the supreme court of the state to determine the validity thereof. The supreme court, within thirty days from the filing of the petition, shall enter its judgment. Should the supreme court determine that the reapportionment statute is invalid, the legislature shall enact a statute of reapportionment conforming to the judgment of the supreme court within fifteen days. (c) Upon enactment of a reapportionment to conform with a judgment under (b), the attorney general shall a p ply to the supreme court of the state to determine the validity thereof. The supreme court, within ten (10) days from the filing of such application, shall enter its judgment. Should the supreme court determine that the reapportionment statute is invalid, the legislature shall again enact a statute reapportioning the legislative districts in compliance with the direction of and conforming to the mandate of the supreme court within fifteen (15) days after entry thereof. (d) Whenever a petition or application is filed under this section, the supreme court, in accordance with its rules, shall permit interested persons to present their views. (e) A judgment of the supreme court of the state determining a reapportionment to be valid shall be final until the legislative districts are again reapportioned in accordance herewith. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 171 002.0 010.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 2. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 172 003.0 010.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 173 001.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 1. System of taxation; classification; exemption. The legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, except that the legislature may provide for the classification and the taxation uniformly as to class of motor vehicles, mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt or may exempt any of such classes of property from property taxation and impose taxes upon another basis in lieu thereof. All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income, shall be exempted from property taxation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 174 003.0 012.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified August 6, 1974 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 175 003.A 015.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 3A. Regulation, licensing and taxation of "bingo" games authorized. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas the legislature may regulate, license and tax the operation or conduct of games of "bingo, as defined by law, by bona fide nonprofit religious, charitable, fraternal, educational and veterans organizations. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 176 004.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC. 4. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 177 014.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1974 *** Ratified November 5, 1974 SEC 14. Oaths of state officers. All state officers before entering upon their respective duties shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of this state, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 178 012.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1976 *** Ratified November 2, 1976 SEC. 12. Assessment and taxation of land devoted to agricultural use. Land devoted to agricultural use may be defined by law and valued for ad valorem tax purposes upon the basis of its agricultural income or agricultural productivity, actual or potential, and when so valued such land shall be assessed at the same percent of value and taxed at the same rate as real property subject to the provisions of section 1 of this article. The legislature may, if land devoted to agricultural use changes from such use, provide for the recoupment of a part or all of the difference between the amount of the ad valorem taxes levied upon such land during a part or all of the period in which it was valued in accordance with the provisions of this section and the amount of ad valorem taxes which would have been levied upon such land during such period had it not been in agricultural use and had it been valued, assessed and taxed in accordance with section 1 of this article. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 179 009.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 9. Internal improvements; state highway system; flood control; conservation or development of water resources. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that: (1) It may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain a state system of highways, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor general obligation bonds issued by the state for such highways; (2) It may be a party to flood control works and works for the conservation or development of water resources; (3) it may, whenever any work of internal improvement not authorized by (1) or (2) is once authorized by a separate bill passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of all members then elected (or appointed) and qualified to each house, expend or distribute funds received from the federal government therefor and may participate with the federal government therein by contributing any state funds appropriated in accordance with law for such purpose in any amount not exceeding the amount received from the federal government for such improvement, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor general obligation bonds be issued by the state therefor; and (4) it may expend funds received from die federal government for any public purpose in accordance with the federal law authorizing the same. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 180 001.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 1. Banking laws. No bank shall be established otherwise than under a general banking law, nor be operated otherwise than by a duly organized corporation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 181 002.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 2. State not to be stockholder. The state shall not be a stockholder in any banking institution. [Note: Originally adopted at Article 13, Section 5. Revision in 1980 renumbered it as Section 2.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 182 003.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 3. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 183 004.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 4. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 184 005.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 5. REPEALED [Note: Section prohibited state from become a stockholder in a bank. It was transferred and renumbered as Article 13, Section 2 in 1980.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 185 006.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 6. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 186 007.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 7. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 187 008.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 8. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 188 009.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 9. REPEALED *** MEND *** *** MSTART 189 001.0 014.0 0 KS 1859 1980 *** Ratified November 4, 1980 SEC. 1. Proposals by legislature; approval by electors. Propositions for the amendment of this constitution may be made by concurrent resolution originating in either house of the legislature, and if two-thirds of all the members elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house shall approve such resolution, the secretary of state shall cause such resolution to be published in the manner provided by law. At the next election for representatives or special election called by concurrent resolution of the legislature for the purpose of submitting constitutional propositions, such proposition to amend the constitution shall be submitted, both by title and by the amendment as a whole, to the electors for their approval or rejection. The title by which a proposition is submitted shall be specified in the concurrent resolution making the proposition and shall be a brief nontechnical statement expressing the intent or purpose of the proposition and the effect of a vote for and a vote against the proposition. If a majority of the electors voting on any such amendment shall vote for the amendment, the same shall become a part of the constitution. When more than one amendment shall be submitted at the same election, such amendments shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each amendment separately. One amendment of the constitution may revise any entire article, except the article on general provisions, and in revising any article, the article may be. renumbered and all or parts of other articles may be amended, or amended and transferred to the article being revised. Not more than five amendments shall be submitted at the same election. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 190 001.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified November 4, 1986 SEC. 1. (a) System of taxation; classification; exemption. The provisions of this subsection (a) shall govern the assessment and taxation of property until the provisions of subsection (b)of this section are implemented and become effective, whereupon subsection (a) shall expire. The legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, except that the legislature may provide for the classification and the taxation uniformly as to class of motor vehicles, mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt or may exempt any of such classes of property from property taxation and impose taxes upon another basis in lieu thereof. All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income, shall be exempted from property taxation. (b) System of taxation; classification; exemption. (1) The provisions of this subsection (b) shall govern the assessment and taxation of property on and after January 1, 1989, and each year thereafter. Except as otherwise hereinafter specifically provided, the legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal basis of valuation and rate of taxation of all property subject to taxation. The provisions of this subsection (b) shall not be applicable to the taxation of motor vehicles, except as otherwise hereinafter specifically provided, mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt and grain. Property shall be classified into the following classes for the purpose of assessment and assessed at the percentage of value prescribed therefor: Class 1 shall consist of real property. Real property shall be further classified into four subclasses. Such property shall be defined by law for the purpose of subclassification and assessed uniformly as to subclass at the following percentages of value: (A) Real property used for residential purposes including multi-family residential real property .. 12% (B) Land devoted to agricultural use which shall be valued upon the basis of its agricultural income or agricultural productivity pursuant to section 12 of article 11 of the constitution . . .. 30% (C) Vacant lots . . ..12% (D) All other urban and rural real property not otherwise specifically subclassified .. . 30% Class 2 shall consist of tangible personal property. Such tangible personal property shall be further classified into six subclasses, shall be defined by law for the purpose of subclassification and assessed uniformly as to subclass at the following percentages of value: (A) Mobile homes used for residential purposes ...12% (B) Mineral leasehold interests . .30% (C) Public utility tangible personal property . .30% (D) All categories of motor vehicles not defined and specifically valued and taxed pursuant to law enacted prior to January 1, 1985 . .30% (E) Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment which, if its economic life is seven years or more, shall be valued at its retail cost when new less seven-year straight- line depreciation, or which, if its economic life is less than seven years, shall be valued at its retail cost when new less straight-line depreciation over its economic life, except that, the value so obtained for such property, notwithstanding its economic life and as long as such property is being used, shall not be less than 20% of the retail cost when new of such property .. 20% (F)All other tangible personal property not otherwise specifically classified.. .30% (2)All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, farm machinery and equipment, merchant's and manufacturer's inventories and livestock and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income, shall, be exempted from property taxation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 191 009.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified August 5, 1986 SEC. 9. Internal improvements; state highway system; flood control; conservation or development of water resources. The state shall never be a party in carrying on any work of internal improvement except that: (1) It may adopt, construct, reconstruct and maintain a state system of highways, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor general obligation bonds issued by the state for such highways; (2) it may be a party to flood control works and works for the conservation or development of water resources; (3) it may, for the purpose of stimulating economic development and private sector job creation in all areas of the state, participate in the development of a capital formation system and have a limited role in such system through investment of state funds authorized in accordance with law; (4) it may be a party to any work of internal improvement, whenever any work of internal improvement not authorized by (1), (2) or (3) is once authorized by a separate bill passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of all members then elected (or appointed) and qualified to each house, but no general property tax shall ever be laid nor general obligation bonds be issued by the state therefor; and (5) it may expend funds received from the federal government for any public purpose in accordance with the federal law authorizing the same. [Note: Originally adopted as Article 11, Section 8. It was renumbered in 1932 due to the insertion of a new Section 2.] *** MEND *** *** MSTART 192 013.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified August 5, 1986 SEC. 13. Exemption of property for economic development purposes; procedure; limitations. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county or the governing body of any city may, by resolution or ordinance, as the case requires, exempt from all ad valorem taxation all or any portion of the appraised valuation of: (1) All buildings, together with the land upon which such buildings are located, and all tangible personal property associated therewith used exclusively by a business for the purpose of: (A) Manufacturing articles of commerce; (B) conducting research and development; or (C) storing goods or commodities which are sold or traded in interstate commerce, which commences operations after the date on which this amendment is approved by the electors of this state; or (2) all buildings, or added improvements to buildings constructed after the date on which this amendment is approved by the electors of this state, together with the land upon which such buildings or added improvements are located, and all tangible personal property purchased after such date and associated therewith, used exclusively for the purpose of: (A) Manufacturing articles of commerce; (B) conducting research and development; or (C) storing goods or commodities which are sold or traded in interstate commerce, which is necessary to facilitate the expansion of any such existing business if, as a result of such expansion, new employment is created. (b) Any ad valorem tax exemption granted pursuant to subsection (a) shall be in effect for not more than 10 calendar years after the calendar year in which the business commences its operations or the calendar year in which expansion of an existing business is completed, as the case requires. (c) The legislature may limit or prohibit the application of this section by enactment uniformly applicable to all cities or counties. (d) The provisions of this section shall not be construed to affect exemptions of property from ad valorem taxation granted by this constitution or by enactment of the legislature, or to affect the authority of the legislature to enact additional exemptions of property from ad valorem taxation found to have a public purpose and promote the general welfare. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 193 003.B 015.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified November 4, 1986 SEC. 3B. Regulation, licensing and taxation of horse and dog racing and parimutuel wagering thereon. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas, the legislature may permit, regulate, license and tax, at a rate not less than 3% nor more than 6% of all money wagered, the operation or conduct, by bona fide non-profit organizations, of horse and dog racing and parimutuel wagering thereon in any county in which: (a) A majority of the qualified electors of the county voting thereon approve this proposed amendment; or (b) the qualified electors of the county approve a proposition, by a majority vote of those voting thereon at an election held within the county, to permit such racing and wagering within the boundaries of the county. No off- track betting shall be permitted in connection with horse and dog racing permitted pursuant to this section. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 194 003.C 015.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified November 4, 1986 SEC. 3C. State-owned and operated lottery. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas, the legislature may provide for a state-owned and operated lottery, except that such state-owned lottery shall not be operated after June 30, 1990, unless authorized to be operated after such date by a concurrent resolution approved by a majority of all of the members elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house and adopted in the 1990 regular session of the legislature. The state shall whenever possible provide the public information on the odds of winning a prize or prizes in a lottery game. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 195 010.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1986 *** Ratified November 4, 1986 SEC. 10. Intoxicating liquors. (a) The legislature may provide for the prohibition of intoxicating liquors in certain areas. (b) The legislature may regulate, license and tax the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and may regulate the possession and transportation of intoxicating liquors. (c) The sale of intoxicating liquor by the individual drink in public places is prohibited, except that the legislature may permit, regulate, license and tax the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink in public places in a county where the qualified electors of the county approve, by a majority vote of those voting on this proposition, to adopt this proposition, but such sales shall be limited to: (1) Public places where gross receipts from sales of food for consumption on the premises constitute not less than 30% of the gross receipts from all sales of food and beverages on such premises; or (2) public places for which a temporary permit has been issued as authorized by law. At any subsequent general election, the legislature may provide by law for the submission of propositions to qualified electors of counties for: (1) The prohibition of sales of intoxicating liquor by the individual drink in public places within the county; (2) the regulation, licensing, taxing and sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink in public places within the county without a requirement that any portion of their gross receipts be derived from the sale of food; or (3) the regulation, licensing, taxing and sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink in public places within the county which derive not less than 30% of their gross receipts from the sale of food for consumption on the premises. Temporary permits for the sale of intoxicating liquor may be issued in any county in which the regulation, licensing, taxation and sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink in public places is approved pursuant to this section, but no temporary permit shall be issued for the sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink within any county in which the regulation, licensing, taxation and sale of intoxicating liquor by the drink in public places is prohibited. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 196 001.0 010.0 0 KS 1859 1988 *** Ratified November 8, 1988 SEC. 1. Reapportionment of senatorial and representative districts. (a) At its regular session in 1989, the legislature shall by law reapportion the state representative districts, the state senatorial districts or both the state representative and senatorial districts upon the basis of the latest census of the inhabitants of the state taken by authority of chapter 61 of the 1987 Session Laws of KSnsas. At its regular session in 1992, and at its regular session every tenth year thereafter, the legislature shall by law reapportion the state senatorial districts and representative districts on the basis of the population of the state as established by the most recent census of population taken and published by the United States bureau of the census. Senatorial and representative districts shall be reapportioned upon the basis of the population of the state adjusted: (1) To exclude nonresident military personnel stationed within the state and nonresident students attending colleges and universities within the state; and (2) to include military personnel stationed within the state who are residents of the state and students attending colleges and universities within the state who are residents of the state in the district of their permanent residence. Bills reapportioning legislative districts shall be published in the Kansas register immediately upon final passage and shall be effective for the next following election of legislators and thereafter until again reapportioned. (b) Within 15 days after the publication of an act reapportioning the legislative districts within the time specified in (a), the attorney general shall petition the supreme court of the state to determine the validity thereof. The supreme court, within 30 days from the filing of the petition, shall enter its judgment. Should the supreme court determine that the reapportionment statute is invalid, the legislature shall enact a statute of reapportionment conforming to the judgment of the supreme court within 15 days. (c) Upon enactment of a reapportionment to conform with a judgment under (b), the attorney general shall apply to the supreme court of the state to determine the validity thereof. The supreme court, within 10 days from the filing of such application, shall enter its judgment. Should the supreme court determine that the reapportionment statute is invalid, the legislature shall again enact a statute reapportioning the legislative districts in compliance with the direction of and conforming to the mandate of the supreme court within 15 days after entry thereof. (d) Whenever a petition or application is filed under this section, the supreme court, in accordance with its rules, shall permit interested persons to present their views. (e) A judgment of the supreme court of the state determining a reapportionment to be valid shall be final until the legislative districts are again reapportioned in accordance herewith. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 197 001.0 011.0 0 KS 1859 1992 *** Ratified November 3, 1992 SEC. 1. System of taxation; classification; exemption. (a) The provisions of this subsection shall govern the assessment and taxation of property on and after January 1, 1993, and each year thereafter. Except as otherwise hereinafter specifically provided, the legislature shall provide for a uniform and equal basis of valuation and rate of taxation of all property subject to taxation. The legislature may provide for the classification and the taxation uniformly as to class of recreational vehicles, as defined by the legislature, or may exempt such class from property taxation and impose taxes upon another basis in lieu thereof. The provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable to the taxation of motor vehicles, except as otherwise hereinafter specifically provided, mineral products, money, mortgages, notes and other evidence of debt and grain. Property shall be classified into the following classes for the purpose of assessment and assessed at the percentage of value prescribed therefor: Class 1 shall consist of real property. Real property shall be further classified into seven subclasses. Such property shall be defined by law for the purpose of subclassification and assessed uniformly as to subclass at the following percentages of value: (1) Real property used for residential purposes including multi-family residential real property and real property necessary to accommodate a residential community of mobile or manufactured homes including the real property upon which such homes are located ..11«% (2) Land devoted to agricultural use which shall be valued upon the basis of its agricultural income or agricultural productivity pursuant to section 12 of article 11 of the constitution 30% (3) Vacant lots ..12% (4) Real property which is owned and operated by a not-for-profit organization not subject to federal income taxation pursuant to section 501 of the federal internal revenue code, and which is included in this subclass by law .. 12% (5) Public utility real property, except railroad real property which shall be assessed at the average rate that all other commercial and industrial property is assessed 33% (6) Real property used for commercial and industrial purposes and buildings and other improvements located upon land devoted to agricultural use 25% (7) All other urban and rural real property not otherwise specifically subclassified .30% Class 2 shall consist of tangible personal property. Such tangible personal property shall be further classified into six subclasses, shall be defined by law for the purpose of subclassification and assessed uniformly as to subclass at the following percentages of value: (1) Mobile homes used for residential purposes ..11«% (2) Mineral leasehold interests except oil leasehold interests the average daily production from which is five barrels or less, and natural gas leasehold interests the average daily production from which is 100 mcf or less, which shall be assessed at 25% .30% (3) Public utility tangible personal property including inventories thereof, except railroad personal property including inventories thereof, which shall be assessed at the average rate all other commercial and industrial property is assessed 33% (4) All categories of motor vehicles not defined and specifically valued and taxed pursuant to law enacted prior to January 1, 1985 30% (5) Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment which, if its economic life is seven years or more, shall be valued at its retail cost when new less seven-year straight-line depreciation, or which, if its economic life is less than seven years, shall be valued at its retail cost when new less straight-line depreciation over its economic life, except that, the value so obtained for such property, notwithstanding its economic life and as long as such property is being used, shall not be less than 20% of the retail cost when new of such property .25% (6) All other tangible personal property not otherwise specifically classified 30% (b) All property used exclusively for state, county, municipal, literary, educational, scientific, religious, benevolent and charitable purposes, farm machinery and equipment, merchants' and manufacturers' inventories, other than public utility inventories included in subclass (3) of class 2 livestock, and all household goods and personal effects not used for the production of income shall be exempted from property taxation. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 198 015.0 015.0 0 KS 1859 1992 *** Ratified November 3, 1992 SEC. 15. Victims' rights (a) Victims of crime, as defined by law, shall be entitled to certain basic rights, including the right to be informed of and to be present at public hearings, as defined by law, of the criminal justice process, and to be heard at sentencing or at any other time deemed appropriate by the court, to the extent that these rights do not interfere with the constitutional or statutory rights of the accused. (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as creating a cause of action for money damages against the state, a county, a municipality, or any of the agencies, instrumentalities, or employees thereof. The legislature may provide for other remedies to ensure adequate enforcement of this section. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a court to set aside or to void a finding of guilty or not guilty or an acceptance of a plea of guilty or to set aside any sentence imposed or any other final disposition in any criminal case. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 199 003.A 015.0 0 KS 1859 1995 *** Ratified April 4, 1995 SEC. 3A. Regulation, licensing and taxation of "bingo" games authorized. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of article 15 of the constitution of the state of Kansas the legislature may regulate, license and tax the operation or conduct of games of bingo and instant bingo, as defined by law, by bona fide nonprofit religious, charitable, fraternal, educational and veterans organizations. *** MEND *** *** MSTART 200 002.0 013.0 0 KS 1859 2000 *** Ratified November 7, 2000 SEC. 2. State not to be stockholder. The state shall not be a stockholder in any banking institution, except that any retirement or pension plan authorized pursuant to the laws of this state may be a stockholder in any banking institution. *** MEND *** *** CEND ***