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Session of 1999
          SENATE BILL No. 310           By Committee on Judiciary           2-12          

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  9             AN  ACT concerning retirement and pensions; relating to the Kansas po-
10             lice and firemen's retirement system; amending K.S.A. 74-4972 and
11             repealing the existing section.
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13       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14             Section  1. K.S.A. 74-4972 is hereby amended to read as follows: 74-
15       4972. "Patrolman" or "patrolmen" means all troopers, examiners and of-
16       ficers of the Kansas highway patrol and on and after July 1, 1999, means
17       members of the capitol area security patrol, but shall not include the
18       superintendent or administrative employees of the Kansas highway patrol,
19       except that such terms shall include the superintendent of the Kansas
20       highway patrol if the superintendent was a member of the Kansas police
21       and firemen's retirement system at the time of appointment to the office
22       of superintendent. Wherever the word "policeman" is used in K.S.A. 74-
23       4951 et seq. and amendments thereto, it shall be construed to include the
24       word patrolman as defined herein in this section. 
25       Sec.  2. K.S.A. 74-4972 is hereby repealed.
26        Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
27       publication in the statute book.