Measure on the ballot in the 2022 Kansas General Election in Kansas.
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Get StartedThe purpose of this amendment is to provide the legislature with oversight of state executive branch agencies and officials by providing the legislature authority to establish procedures to revoke or suspend rules and regulations.
A "yes" vote for this proposition supports allowing the legislature to establish procedures to revoke or suspend rules and regulations that are adopted by state executive branch agencies and officials that have the force and effect of law.
A "no" vote for this proposition opposes allowing the legislature to establish procedures to revoke or suspend rules and regulations that are adopted by state executive branch agencies and officials that have the force and effect of law.
"When it comes to lawmaking, the buck is supposed to stop with the people's elected representatives in the Legislature. But the reality of the modern regulatory state is that the Legislature often passes the buck by granting broad power to regulatory agencies and then has no meaningful recourse. As a result, government regulations with the binding effect of law too often are conceived, written and enforced by regulatory agencies – an unelected bureaucracy acting as the proverbial judge, jury and executioner." - Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, in support of Question 1 (Learn more)
"We need to have balance in our government so that there is a give-and-take, no matter if there's a Republican governor or a Democratic governor. This constitutional amendment turns that balance on its head." - State Rep. John Carmichael, in opposition to Question 1 (Learn more)
§ 17. Legislative oversight of administrative rules and regulations. Whenever the legislature by law has authorized any officer or agency within the executive branch of government to adopt rules and regulations that have the force and effect of law, the legislature may provide by law for the revocation or suspension of any such rule and regulation, or any portion thereof, upon a vote of a majority of the members then elected or appointed and qualified in each house.
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