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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION adopting joint rules for the Senate
  and House of Representatives for the 1997-1998 biennium.
  Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Kansas, the House of Rep-
resentatives concurring therein:  That the following joint rules shall be
the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives for the 1997-
1998 biennium.
                                  JOINT RULES
                                     OF THE
                      SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                   1997-1998
  Joint rule 1.  Joint rules; application and date of expiration;
adoption, amendment, suspension and revocation. (a) Joint rules;
expiration, adoption, amendment, suspension and revocation; vote re-
quired. Joint rules are adopted under the authority of section 8 of article
2 of the Constitution of the State of Kansas and shall govern matters made
subject thereto except when otherwise specifically provided by joint rule.
Joint rules shall expire at the conclusion of the terms of representatives.
Joint rules shall be adopted, amended, suspended and revoked by con-
current resolution of the two houses of the legislature. Concurrent res-
olutions adopting joint rules shall receive the affirmative vote of not less
than a majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified
in each house.
  (b)  Amendment, suspension or revocation of joint rules; previous no-
tice; vote required. After one day's previous notice, joint rules may be
amended, suspended or revoked by the affirmative vote of not less than
a majority of the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in
each house. Upon the filing of such notice in either house, a message
shall be sent to the other house advising of the filing of such notice and
the reading of the message shall constitute notice to the members of such
house. If such previous notice is not given, the affirmative vote of 2/3 of
the members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house
shall be required for the amendment, suspension or revocation of a joint
rule.
  (c)  Amendment, suspension or revocation of joint rules at commence-
ment of legislative session; vote required; conditions. Notwithstanding any
provision of this rule to the contrary, no notice shall be required for the
adoption of a concurrent resolution amending, suspending or revoking
any one or more joint rules at the commencement of a legislative session,
and adoption of any such concurrent resolution shall require only the
affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the members then elected
(or appointed) and qualified in each house, subject to the following con-
ditions: (1) The concurrent resolution is sponsored by the speaker or the
president, and (2) either (a) a copy thereof is mailed to each member of
the legislature by deposit in the United States mails not later than 11:00
p.m. on the Thursday preceding the Monday on which the legislative
session is to commence or (b) in lieu of mailing, copies of the concurrent
resolution are made available to members on the first day of the legislative
session and final action is taken on a subsequent legislative day.
  Joint rule 2.  Joint sessions. (a) Joint session called by concurrent
resolution; vote required; time, place and subject matter. A joint session
of the senate and house of representatives may be called by concurrent
resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of
the members elected (or appointed) and qualified in each house of the
legislature or as may otherwise be prescribed by law. Any such resolution
shall fix the time and place of the joint session, and the subject matter to
be considered at the joint session. Joint sessions shall consider only such
matters as are prescribed by law or by the concurrent resolution calling
such joint session.
  (b)  Presiding officer at joint sessions; record of joint session; rules
applicable. The speaker of the house of representatives shall preside at
all joint sessions of the senate and house of representatives, and the clerk
of the house of representatives shall keep a record of the proceedings
thereof and shall enter the record of each such session in the journal of
the house of representatives. The rules of the house of representatives
and the joint rules of the two houses, insofar as the same may be appli-
cable shall be the rules for joint sessions of the two houses.
  (c)  Votes in joint session; taking; requirements. All votes in a joint
session shall be taken by yeas and nays, and in taking the same it shall be
the duty of the secretary of the senate first to call the names of the
members of the senate, and after which the clerk of the house of repre-
sentatives shall in like manner call the names of the members of the
house. Each member of the senate and the house of representatives pres-
ent shall be required to vote on all matters considered in joint session,
unless excused by a vote of a majority of the members of both houses
present.
  Joint rule 3.  Conference committee procedure. (a) Action by
house of origin of bill or concurrent resolution amended by other house.
When a bill or concurrent resolution is returned to the house of origin
with amendments by the other house, the house of origin may: (1) Concur
in such amendments; (2) refuse to concur in such amendments; or (3)
refuse to concur in such amendments and request a conference on the
bill or concurrent resolution.
  (b)  Concurrence by house of origin; concurrence prior to taking ac-
tion on conference committee report by other house; final action; effect of
failure of motion to concur. The house of origin of any bill or concurrent
resolution may concur in any amendments made by the other house,
except that if the bill or concurrent resolution has been referred to a
conference committee such action may only be taken prior to the taking
of final action upon the conference committee report upon such bill or
concurrent resolution by the other house. A vote in the house of origin
of any bill or concurrent resolution on a motion to concur in amendments
to such bill or concurrent resolution by the other house shall be consid-
ered action on the final passage of the bill or concurrent resolution and
the affirmative and negative votes thereon shall be entered in the journal.
If the motion to concur is upon amendments to a bill or concurrent res-
olution for which a conference committee has been appointed and action
has not been taken upon the report of such committee by the other house
and such motion fails, the bill or concurrent resolution shall not be
deemed to have been killed thereby, but if the motion to concur is upon
amendments to a bill or concurrent resolution for which a conference
committee has not been appointed and such motion fails, the bill or con-
current resolution shall be deemed to be killed.
  (c)  Motion to nonconcur; when considered final action; effect of adop-
tion of motion. A vote in the house of origin of any bill or concurrent
resolution on a motion to nonconcur or to refuse to concur in amend-
ments to such bill or concurrent resolution by the other house which is
not coupled with a request for the appointment of a conference com-
mittee shall be considered action on final passage of the bill or concurrent
resolution and the affirmative and negative votes thereon shall be entered
in the journal, and the bill or concurrent resolution shall be deemed killed
on the adoption thereof.
  (d)  House of origin refusal to concur or nonconcur; request for con-
ference; procedure. When a bill or concurrent resolution is returned by
either house to the house of origin with amendments, and the house of
origin refuses to concur or to nonconcur therein, a conference may be
requested by a majority vote of the members present and voting. Such
request shall be transmitted to the other house by message which shall
include the names of the conferees on the part of the requesting house.
Upon receipt of any such message, the receiving house may, in like man-
ner, approve such conference, and shall thereupon notify the requesting
house by message stating the names of its conferees.
  (e)  Membership; appointment; chairperson; house of origin of substi-
tute or materially changed bill or concurrent resolution; meetings of con-
ference committee. Each conference committee shall consist of three
members of the senate and three members of the house of representa-
tives, unless otherwise fixed by agreement of the president of the senate
and speaker of the house. Senate members shall be appointed by the
president of the senate and house members shall be appointed by the
speaker of the house of representatives. The president or the speaker
may replace any conferee previously appointed by such person. Not less
than one member appointed from each house shall be a member of the
minority political party of such house except when such representation
for such house is waived by the minority leader of such house. In all cases,
the first-named member of the house of origin of the bill or concurrent
resolution assigned to the committee shall be chairperson of the confer-
ence committee. The house of origin of a substitute bill or substitute
concurrent resolution shall be the house in which the bill or concurrent
resolution in its original form was introduced. The house of origin of a
bill or concurrent resolution the subject matter of which has been ruled
to be materially changed under the rules of the Senate or the House of
Representatives shall be the house which amended the bill or concurrent
resolution to materially change the subject matter of the bill or concurrent
resolution. Each conference committee shall meet on the call of its chair-
person. All meetings of conference committees shall be open to the public
and no meeting shall be adjourned to another time or place in order to
subvert such policy.
  (f)  Conference committee reports; subject matters which may be in-
cluded; report not subject to amendment; house which acts first on report;
copies of reports; reports considered under any order of business. Only
subject matters which are or have been included in the bill or concurrent
resolution in conference or in bills or concurrent resolutions which have
been passed or adopted in either one or both houses during the current
biennium of the legislature may be included in the report of the confer-
ence committee on any bill or concurrent resolution except in any appro-
priations bill there may be included a proviso relating to any such item
of appropriation. A conference committee report shall not be subject to
amendment. The original signed conference committee report shall be
submitted to and acted upon first by the house other than the house of
origin of the bill or concurrent resolution. Copies of each report shall be
made available to all members of the house considering the same not
later than the time of consideration of the report, except when such report
is that members of the committee are unable to reach agreement or is a
recommendation to accede to or to recede from all of the amendments
of the second house. The affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members present
in the house at the time of consideration of the report shall be sufficient
to dispense with distribution of copies of the conference committee re-
port to all members of that house. Reports of conference committees may
be received and considered under any order of business.
  (g)  Signatures required on conference committee reports. All initial
conference committee reports other than an agreement to disagree cou-
pled with a request that a new conference committee be appointed shall
be signed by all of the conferees. All initial conference committee reports
which are an agreement to disagree coupled with a request that a new
conference committee be appointed shall be signed by a majority of the
conferees appointed in each house. All other conference committee re-
ports shall be signed by a majority of the conferees appointed in each
house.
  (h)  Vote to adopt conference committee report final action; effect of
failure of motion to adopt conference committee report. The vote to adopt
the report of a conference committee, other than a report of failure to
agree coupled with a recommendation for appointment of a new confer-
ence committee, shall be considered final action on the bill or concurrent
resolution and the affirmative and negative votes thereon shall be entered
in the journal. If the motion fails, the bill or concurrent resolution shall
be deemed to be killed.
  (i)  Report of conference committee unable to agree; effect of failure
to request new conference committee; effect of failure of motion to adopt
report requesting new conference committee. If a conference committee
upon any bill or concurrent resolution is unable to agree, it shall report
that fact to both houses. Such report may request that a new conference
committee be appointed thereon. If the committee so reports but fails to
request the appointment of a new conference committee thereon the bill
or concurrent resolution shall be deemed to have been killed upon the
adoption by either house of such report. If the motion to adopt a report
requesting the appointment of a new conference committee fails, the bill
or concurrent resolution shall be deemed to be killed.
  (j)  Bills or concurrent resolutions under consideration by conference
committees and reports thereof; carryover from odd-numbered to even-
numbered year. Bills or concurrent resolutions under consideration by a
conference committee, or a report of which has been filed but no action
taken thereon in either house, at the time of adjournment of a regular
session of the legislature held in an odd-numbered year shall remain alive
during the interim and may be considered by the committee and legis-
lature as the case may be at the regular session held in the following even-
numbered year.
  Joint rule 4.  Deadlines for introduction and consideration of
bills. The senate and house of representatives shall observe the following
schedule of deadlines in making requests for drafting and in the intro-
duction and consideration of bills.
  (a)  Bill request deadline for individual members. Except for bills in-
troduced pursuant to (i) of this rule, no request to draft bills, except those
made by committees, through their respective chairpersons, shall be
made to, or accepted by, the office of the revisor of statutes after the
hour of 5:00 p.m. on January 27, 1997, during the 1997 regular session
and on January 26, 1998, during the 1998 regular session.
  (b)  Bill introduction deadline for individual members. Except as pro-
vided in (i) of this rule, no bill sponsored by a member or members shall
be introduced in either house of the legislature after the hour of adjourn-
ment on February 14, 1997, during the 1997 regular session and on Feb-
ruary 13, 1998, during the 1998 regular session. Such deadline for the
introduction of bills by individual members may be changed to an earlier
date in either house at any time by resolution duly adopted by the affir-
mative vote of not less than a majority of the members then elected (or
appointed) and qualified in such house.
  (c)  Bill request deadline for certain committees. Except for bills to be
introduced pursuant to (i) of this rule, no committee except the commit-
tee on ways and means of the senate, select committees of either house
when so authorized, the committee on federal and state affairs of either
house or the house committees on calendar and printing, appropriations
and taxation shall make a request to the office of the revisor of statutes
for any bill to be drafted for sponsorship by such committee after the
hour of 5:00 p.m. on February 3, 1997, during the 1997 regular session
and on February 2, 1998, during the 1998 regular session.
  (d)  Bill introduction deadline for certain committees. Except as pro-
vided in (i) of this rule, no bill sponsored by any committee of either
house of the legislature, except the committee on ways and means of the
senate, select committees of either house when so authorized, the com-
mittee on federal and state affairs of either house or the house committees
on calendar and printing, appropriations and taxation shall be introduced
in either house after the hour of adjournment on February 14, 1997,
during the 1997 regular session and on February 13, 1998, during the
1998 regular session.
  (e)  House of origin bill consideration deadline. No bill, except bills
sponsored by, referred to or acted upon by the committee on ways and
means of the senate, select committees of either house when so author-
ized, the committee on federal and state affairs of either house or the
house committees on calendar and printing, appropriations and taxation
shall be considered in the house in which such bill originated after the
hour of adjournment on March 1, 1997, during the 1997 regular session
and on February 28, 1998, during the 1998 regular session.
  (f)  Second house bill consideration deadline. No bill, except bills
sponsored by, referred to or acted upon by the committee on ways and
means of the senate, select committees of either house when so author-
ized, the committee on federal and state affairs of either house or the
house committees on calendar and printing, appropriations and taxation
shall be considered by the house, not the house of origin of such bill,
after the hour of adjournment on March 29, 1997, during the 1997 regular
session and March 28, 1998, during the 1998 regular session.
  (g)  Exceptions to limitation of (d), (e) and (f); procedure. Specific
exceptions to the limitations prescribed in subsections (d), (e) and (f) may
be made in either house by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of
not less than a majority of the members of such house then elected (or
appointed) and qualified.
  (h)  Deadline which falls on day neither house in session; effect. In the
event that any deadline prescribed in this rule falls on a day that neither
house of the legislature is in session, such deadline shall be observed on
the next following day that either house is in session.
  (i)  Bills introduced in odd-numbered years after deadlines; effect.
Bills may be introduced by members and committees in regular sessions
occurring in an odd-numbered year after the times prescribed in (b) and
  (d) of this rule, but there shall be no final action thereon by either house
during the session when introduced. Such bills shall be held over for
consideration at the next succeeding regular session held in an even-
numbered year.
  (j)  Modification of schedule of deadlines for introduction and consid-
eration of bills; procedure. In any regular session a concurrent resolution
may be adopted by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the
members then elected (or appointed) and qualified of each house setting
forth a different schedule of deadlines for introduction and consideration
of bills for that session and the provisions of such concurrent resolution
shall apply to such session notwithstanding provisions of this rule to the
contrary.
  (k)  Bill consideration deadline; exceptions. No bills shall be consid-
ered by the Legislature after April 12, 1997, during the 1997 regular
session and after April 11, 1998, during the 1998 regular session except
bills vetoed by the Governor, the omnibus appropriation act and the om-
nibus reconciliation spending limit bill provided for under K.S.A. 1996
Supp. 75-6702 and amendments thereto. This subsection (k) may be sus-
pended for the consideration of a specific bill or bills not otherwise ex-
empt under this subsection by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
members then elected (or appointed) and qualified in the house in which
the bill is to be considered.