Brief(1)
H.B. 2065, as amended, would expand the membership of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction and the Joint Committee on Information Technology from six members to ten members.
Membership of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction would include five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives. Two members each would be appointed by the Senate President, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the House Minority Leader. The Chairperson of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the Chairperson of the House Appropriations Committee, or a member of such committee appointed by the Chairperson, would also serve as members.
Membership of the Joint Committee on Information Technology would include five members of the Senate and five members of the House of Representatives. The members would be appointed by the Senate President, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the House, and the House Minority Leader (two appointments each) and the Chairperson of the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the House Appropriations Committee (one appointment each).
The bill also would reconstitute the Joint Committee on Gaming Compacts as the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations. The Committee would be composed of 12 members, five from each house of the Legislature and the Governor and Attorney General, or their designees, who would serve as nonvoting members. The legislative members would be selected from the standing committees on Federal and State Affairs, Judiciary, Taxation, and Assessment and Taxation. Legislative members would serve terms ending on the first day of the regular session in odd-numbered years.
Annually, the Committee would elect its chair and vice-chair. The chair would alternate between the House and Senate.
Six members would constitute a quorum of the Committee, however, actions of the Committee regarding approval of state-tribal gaming compacts would require the affirmative vote of at least eight members, at least four senators and four representatives. The Committee could report a compact without recommendation on the affirmative vote of any five legislative members.
The Committee would be authorized to appoint subcommittees and members could be paid and reimbursed for travel and subsistence for attendance subcommittee or full committee meetings.
In addition to the responsibilities of the Joint Committee on Gaming Compacts, the new Committee would be authorized to meet, discuss, and hold hearings on issues concerning state-tribal relations.
The bill would be effective upon publication in the Kansas Register.
Background
As introduced, the bill would have expanded the membership of the two joint committees from six to 12 members. The House Committee amendments reduced the number of members to ten.
The other amendments adopted by the House Committee are technical in nature.
The Senate amended the bill to add the provision creating the Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations.
Based on legislators' salary, subsistence, and travel costs, the Division of the Budget estimates that the increase in the size of the joint committees will result in an increase in FY 2000 expenditures of $63,405. As amended, the smaller size of the joint committees would result in a $21,135 reduction in the fiscal note to an increase of $42,270. The fiscal note prepared by the Division of the Budget was based on the introduced version of the bill, so did not address any potential fiscal impact of the State-Tribal Relations Committee.
1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html.