[As Further Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole]
As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 1999
SENATE BILL No. 288
By Senators Kerr, Becker, Bleeker, Bond, Brownlee, Clark, Corbin, Don-
ovan, Hardenburger, Harrington, Huelskamp, Jordan, Langworthy,
Lawrence, Morris, Praeger, Pugh, Ranson, Salisbury, Salmans, Steffes,
Tyson, Umbarger, Vidricksen and Vratil
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15 AN ACT enacting the voluntary political contributions act of 1999.
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17 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
18 Section 1. (a) This act shall be known and may be cited as the vol-
19 untary political contributions act of 1999.
20 (b) No officer or employee of the state of Kansas, any county, any
21 unified school district having 35,000 or more pupils regularly enrolled in
22 the preceding school year, any city of the first class or the board of public
23 utilities of the unified government of Wyandotte county/Kansas City,
24 Kansas, responsible for the disbursement of funds in payment of wages
25 or salaries shall withhold or divert a portion of an employee's wages or
26 salaries for contributions to political committees for use as political con-
27 tributions except upon the written request of the employee. The request
28 shall be made only on a form prescribed by the Kansas [governmental]
29 ethics commission on governmental standards and conduct which form
30 shall contain a clear and unambiguous statement that the employee may
31 choose not to make such request for deduction and may opt to not return
32 the form to the employer. The form may only be filled out as to the
33 amount of deduction by the employee and must be signed by the em-
34 ployee in order to be valid. The request shall be valid for no more than
35 12 months from the date it is signed.
36 (c) [Sec. 2.] No officer or employee of any municipality or political
37 subdivision of the state described in K.S.A. 25-901, and amendments
38 thereto, responsible for the disbursement of funds in payment of wages
39 or salaries shall withhold or divert a portion of an employee's wages or
40 salaries for contributions to political committees or for use as political
41 contributions except upon the written request of the employee. The re-
42 quest shall be made only on a form prescribed by the Kansas [govern-
43 mental] ethics commission on governmental standards and conduct
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2 employee may choose not to make such request for deduction and may
3 opt to not return the form to the employer. The form may only be filled
4 out as to the amount of deduction by the employee and must be signed
5 by the employee in order to be valid. The request shall be valid for no
6 more than 12 months from the date it is signed.
7 Sec. 2. [3.] This act shall take effect and be in force from and after
8 its publication in the statute book.