CHAPTER 3 House Substitute for SENATE BILL No. 244 An Act relating to elections; concerning the presidential preference primary election;
amending K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 25-4501 and repealing the existing section; also repealing
sections 2 and 3 of chapter 3 of the 1996 Session Laws of Kansas.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 25-4501 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 25-4501. On the first Tuesday in April of the year 2000 (a) Subject
to the provisions of this section, there shall be held a presidential pref-
erence primary election in the year 2004, and every fourth year thereafter,
there shall be held a presidential preference primary election.

      (b) On or before November 3, 2003, and on or before November 1
every fourth year thereafter, the secretary of state shall certify to the
governor, to the chief clerk of the house of representatives and to the
secretary of the senate a common date in the next succeeding year on
which at least five other states will hold a presidential preference primary
election, a delegate or mass convention or a caucus of qualified voters at
which delegates to a national convention are selected. On or before each
such date, if the secretary of state determines that there is no common
date on which at least five states are conducting such a selection process
in the next succeeding year, the secretary of state shall certify to the gov-
ernor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of
the senate on a date, which shall be on or before the first Tuesday in April
of the next following year, on which the presidential preference primary
election shall be held.

      (c) The date certified by the secretary of state pursuant to subsection
(b) shall be the date on which the presidential preference primary election
authorized by subsection (a) shall be held in the state of Kansas.

 Sec.  2. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 25-4501 and sections 2 and 3 of chapter 3
of the 1996 Session Laws of Kansas are hereby repealed.
 Sec.  3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.

Approved February 17, 2000.
 Published in the Kansas Register February 24, 2000.
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