House speaker reassigns committee leadership after special session drive falls short
(UPDATED to include a late addition of committee assignments Friday)
House Speaker Dan Hawkins dealt out new committee assignments Friday in the aftermath of a...
Speaker addresses special session effort: Disappointment an ‘understatement’
For the first time, House Speaker Dan Hawkins is more fully discussing his thoughts about the unsuccessful effort to drum up enough signatures in...
Lawmakers lending hand to Kobach in legal battle with governor
Leading lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to hire a lawyer to file a friend-of-the-court brief on the side of the attorney general, who is in...
UPDATED: No special session on redistricting
(Updated to include comments from other lawmakers)
It's over.
House Speaker Dan Hawkins announced late Tuesday that the battle to collect enough signatures to call a...
UPDATED Senate president says he has enough signatures to call special...
(Updated to include comments from U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes and House Speaker Dan Hawkins)
Senate President Ty Masterson said Monday...
Special session: Senate ‘basically already there’ on signatures; unclear in House
Senate President Ty Masterson said Monday that he's "basically already there" collecting the signatures needed to call a special session to principally draw new...
Republicans pick Barth replacement
Republican Party precinct leaders on Wednesday night picked a Douglas County woman with a career in logistics to replace state Rep. Carrie Barth in...
Senate president says any special session should be limited to two...
Senate President Ty Masterson says he wants to limit any special legislative session to redrawing election boundaries for members of Congress and responding to...
UPDATED: Legislative leadership says A.G. wants special session on ‘Women’s...
(UPDATED to include comments from House speaker, Senate president and top House and Senate Democrats and ACLU executive director and the president of Kansas...
Congressional delegation weighs in on redistricting
The Kansas congressional delegation is now weighing in on plans to call a special legislative session to redraw their election boundaries before the 2026...
