Kansas Legislature
The Kansas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a bicameral assembly, composed of the lower Kansas House of Representatives, with 125 state representatives, and the upper Kansas Senate, with 40 state senators. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, senators for four-year terms.
Kansas Legislature | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Senate House of Representatives |
Term limits | None |
| Leadership | |
President of the Senate | |
Vice President of the Senate | |
Speaker of the House | |
Speaker Pro Tem | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 165 voting members
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Senate political groups |
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House political groups |
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Length of term | Senate: 4 years House: 2 years |
| Elections | |
Last Senate election | November 8, 2020 |
Last House election | November 8, 2022 |
Next Senate election | November 5, 2024 |
Next House election | November 5, 2024 |
| Meeting place | |
| Kansas State Capitol Topeka | |
| Website | |
| www.kslegislature.org | |
Prior to statehood, separate pro-slavery and anti-slavery territorial legislatures emerged, drafting four separate constitutions, until one was finally ratified and Kansas became a state in 1861. Republicans hold a long-standing supermajority in both houses of the state legislature, despite a short-lived dominance by the Populist Party. The state legislature approved one of the first child labor laws in the nation.
Composed of 165 state lawmakers, the state legislature meets at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka once a year in regular session. Additional special sessions can be called by the governor.