Session of 1998
                   
HOUSE BILL No. 2882
         
By Representative Haley
         
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            9             AN ACT relating to the Kansas Statutes Annotated; concerning distri-
10             bution thereof; amending K.S.A. 77-138, 77-151 and 77-165 and re-
11             pealing the existing sections.
12            
13       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14           Section 1. K.S.A. 77-138 is hereby amended to read as follows: 77-
15       138. (a) Volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be printed and
16       bound by the director of printing and delivered to the secretary of state
17       who shall dispose of them as follows:
18           First, the secretary of state shall deposit in the supreme court law
19       library and in the state library such number of copies as the state law
20       librarian and the state librarian, respectively, shall request for use in the
21       law library and the state library, for the purposes of the publication col-
22       lection and depository system established under K.S.A. 75-2566 and
23       amendments thereto, and for the purpose of making exchanges with the
24       various states and territories, and the secretary of state shall retain one
25       set for the secretary's use in the secretary's office.
26           Second, (1)(A) the secretary of state shall distribute two (i) one com-
27       plete sets set of the Kansas Statutes Annotated to each member of the
28       legislature for the 1999 regular session of the legislature, and (ii) there-
29       after, one complete set of the Kansas Statutes Annotated to each member
30       of the legislature following such member's election or appointment to such
31       member's first term of office in the legislature;
32           (B) at each regular session, one thereafter during such member's con-
33       tinuous period of service as a member of the legislature, such member
34       may purchase one additional complete set at the serving-legislator price
35       of $100; and
36           (C) upon the written request of a member of the legislature receiving
37       a complete set of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, or purchasing a complete
38       set at the serving-legislator price, each such set of which shall have the
39       respective member's a name printed thereon as specified by the member.
40           (2) The secretary of state shall distribute to each former member of
41       the legislature so requesting one copy of each replacement volume of the
42       Kansas Statutes Annotated distributed in the first year following the end
43       of such former member's term of office.

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  1           (3) The secretary of state shall distribute such number of complete
  2       sets and individual volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated (A) to the
  3       office of revisor of statutes as the revisor of statutes shall request, (B) to
  4       the legislative research department as the director of legislative research
  5       shall request, (C) to the division of post audit as the post auditor shall
  6       request, (D) to the division of legislative administrative services as the
  7       director of legislative administrative services shall request, and (E) to the
  8       judicial branch of state government as the chief justice of the supreme
  9       court shall request.
10           (3) (4) The secretary of state shall distribute: (A) Two sets to each
11       representative in congress and United States senator from the state of
12       Kansas, upon request by such representative or senator; (B) one set each
13       to the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general; (C) to Wash-
14       burn university school of law, the number of sets, not to exceed 60 sets,
15       that the librarian of the school of law certifies to the secretary of state as
16       necessary for the purpose of exchanging with other states and territories
17       and to be kept in the library for the use of faculty and students of the
18       university; (D) to the school of law of the university of Kansas, the number
19       of sets, not to exceed 60 sets, that the librarian of the school of law certifies
20       to the secretary of state as necessary for the purpose of exchanging with
21       other states and territories and to be kept in the library for the use of
22       faculty and students of the university; (E) to the clerk of the district court
23       of the United States for the state of Kansas, the number of sets, not to
24       exceed five sets, as are requested by such clerk; (F) one set to each county
25       law library in the state, upon request by the librarian thereof; (G) to each
26       county clerk, the number of sets requested by the county clerk, not to
27       exceed seven sets, to be distributed not more than one set each to the
28       county or district attorney, the county clerk, the county counselor, if any,
29       the register of deeds, the sheriff, the county treasurer, and the board of
30       county commissioners, which set shall be retained by the county clerk for
31       use by such board; (H) not more than one set to each city of the third
32       class, one set to each city of the second class and two sets to each city of
33       the first class, upon request by the city clerk; and (I) one set to the state
34       historical society library.
35           Third, the balance of statute books, after the above distribution shall
36       be kept by the secretary of state for distribution under subsection (d) or
37       for sale.
38           (b) The secretary of state shall sell each volume of the Kansas Statutes
39       Annotated, including replacement volumes, at the per volume price fixed
40       therefor by the legislative coordinating council under this section. Gen-
41       eral index volumes, when sold separately and not as a part of a set of
42       cumulative supplements, shall be sold at the per volume price fixed there-
43       for by the legislative coordinating council. The secretary of state shall

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  1       remit all moneys received from such sales under this section to the state
  2       treasurer at least monthly and the state treasurer shall deposit the entire
  3       amount of each such remittance in the state treasury to the credit of the
  4       state general fund.
  5           (c) Except as otherwise provided in this section for the serving-leg-
  6       islator price for a complete set, the legislative coordinating council shall
  7       fix the per volume price of each volume of the Kansas Statutes Annotated,
  8       including replacement volumes, sold under this section to recover the
  9       costs of printing and binding such volumes. The legislative coordinating
10       council shall revise such prices from time to time for the purposes of
11       covering and recovering such costs.
12           (d) The secretary of state shall provide, on written request by a mem-
13       ber of the legislature, any volume or cumulative supplement to a volume
14       of the Kansas Statutes Annotated which such member requires to replace
15       a volume or supplement which was distributed to such member or pur-
16       chased by such member as part of a complete set for the serving-legislator
17       price pursuant to this section, or which was distributed to such member
18       pursuant to K.S.A. 77-151 or 77-165 and amendments thereto, and which
19       has been damaged, destroyed or lost.
20           (e) As used in this section, ``first term of office in the legislature''
21       means the first term of office of a person elected or appointed as a member
22       of the legislature who was not serving as a member of the legislature on
23       the date preceding the date on which commences the term of office for
24       which such election or appointment is effective, including any such person
25       who had previously served as a member of the legislature.
26           Sec. 2. K.S.A. 77-151 is hereby amended to read as follows: 77-151.
27       (a) Each year the revisor of statutes shall edit and prepare for printing
28       and publication such volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated as have
29       been included in the detailed budget of the legislative coordinating coun-
30       cil for the revisor of statutes. Except as otherwise provided by law for
31       volumes containing constitutions and the general index, the volume or
32       volumes published each year shall contain all of the statutes in force and
33       effect then contained in the volume or volumes of the Kansas Statutes
34       Annotated being replaced and the then current supplements thereto, to-
35       gether with all acts passed by the current session of the legislature and
36       assigned by the revisor of statutes to chapters in the volume or volumes
37       being newly published.
38           (b) When more than one volume is being newly published in any year,
39       the material in the replacement volumes shall be divided between or
40       among the replacement volumes as nearly equally as practicable by the
41       revisor of statutes. Each volume shall be printed and bound by the divi-
42       sion of printing in the format prescribed by K.S.A. 77-152 and amend-
43       ments thereto. Replacement volumes shall not contain volume indexes.

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  1       In editing and preparing the material to be contained in replacement
  2       volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated for publication, the provisions
  3       of K.S.A. 77-133, 77-136, 77-136a and 77-152, and amendments to these
  4       statutes, shall govern the revisor and the division of printing, insofar as
  5       the same can be made applicable, and the statutes to be contained in
  6       replacement volumes shall be authenticated in the same manner as re-
  7       quired under K.S.A. 77-137 and amendments thereto. After publication
  8       of replacement volumes, each shall thereafter be kept up to date by cu-
  9       mulative supplements in the same manner as provided for supplemen-
10       tation of Kansas Statutes Annotated by K.S.A. 77-163 et seq. and amend-
11       ments thereto.
12           (c) Replacement volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated shall be
13       printed in the number of copies specified by the revisor of statutes, sub-
14       ject to available appropriations, and shall be distributed and sold in the
15       same manner as provided in K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto as
16       for the distribution of volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, except
17       that each member of the legislature (1) shall receive one copy of each
18       replacing volume for the purpose of updating the complete set of the Kan-
19       sas Statutes Annotated received at the time of the commencement of their
20       first term of office in the legislature pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and amend-
21       ments thereto, or the complete set received for the 1999 regular session
22       pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto, and (2) shall receive
23       one copy of each replacing volume for the purpose of updating each com-
24       plete set of the Kansas Statutes Annotated purchased by such member at
25       the serving-legislator price pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments
26       thereto.
27           (d) As used in this section, ``first term of office in the legislature'' has
28       the meaning ascribed thereto by K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto.
29           Sec. 3. K.S.A. 77-165 is hereby amended to read as follows: 77-165.
30       (a) Such number of copies of the cumulative supplements for each volume
31       of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, corresponding as nearly as possible in
32       size and page with the current bound volumes, as is specified by the
33       revisor of statutes, subject to available appropriations, shall be printed by
34       the director of printing and delivered to the secretary of state. Each year
35       such number of sets of the general index paperbound volume or volumes
36       as is specified by the revisor of statutes, subject to available appropria-
37       tions, shall be printed by the director of printing and delivered to the
38       secretary of state. For purposes of this section the general index paper-
39       bound volume or volumes shall be considered supplements. The revisor
40       of statutes, with the approval of the legislative coordinating council, may
41       provide for printing and delivery of additional copies of supplements to
42       volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated.
43           (b) The secretary of state shall dispose of full sets of supplements,

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  1       including the general index paperbound volume or volumes, as follows:
  2           First, by delivering to all state officers, county officers and other de-
  3       partments and officers the same number of sets and in the same manner
  4       as provided by K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto for the distribu-
  5       tion of volumes of the Kansas Statutes Annotated and (1) by delivering
  6       to each member of the legislature three sets of such supplements (A) one
  7       set of the cumulative supplements for the purpose of updating the com-
  8       plete set of Kansas Statutes Annotated received at the commencement of
  9       their first term of office in the legislature pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and
10       amendments thereto, or the complete set received for the 1999 regular
11       session pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto, and (B) one
12       set of the cumulative supplements for the purpose of updating each com-
13       plete set of the Kansas Statutes Annotated purchased by such member at
14       the serving-legislator price pursuant to K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments
15       thereto, and (2) by delivering to each former member of the legislature so
16       requesting one set of cumulative supplements distributed in the first year
17       following the end of such former member's term of office.
18           Second, the balance of such supplements including as a part thereof
19       the general index paperbound volume or volumes, after such distribution,
20       shall be kept by the secretary of state for sale. Supplements for individual
21       volumes except index volumes shall be sold at the per volume price fixed
22       therefor by the legislative coordinating council under this section. Com-
23       plete sets of cumulative supplements including the general index volume
24       shall be sold at the complete set price fixed therefor by the legislative
25       coordinating council under this section.
26           (c) The secretary of state shall remit all moneys received from the
27       sale of supplements under this section to the state treasurer at least
28       monthly and the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount of each
29       such remittance in the state treasury to the credit of the state general
30       fund.
31           (d) The legislative coordinating council shall fix the per volume and
32       complete set prices of the cumulative supplements for the Kansas Statutes
33       Annotated sold under this section to recover the costs of printing and
34       binding such supplements. The legislative coordinating council shall re-
35       vise such prices from time to time for the purposes of covering and re-
36       covering such costs.
37           (e) As used in this section, ``first term of office in the legislature'' has
38       the meaning ascribed thereto by K.S.A. 77-138 and amendments thereto.
39           Sec. 4. K.S.A. 77-138, 77-151 and 77-165 are hereby repealed.
40           Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
41       publication in the statute book.
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