Kansas Legislature
Kansas Legislature | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| Houses | Senate House of Representatives |
Term limits | None |
| Leadership | |
President of the Senate | |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 165 voting members
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Length of term | Senate: 4 years House: 2 years |
| Elections | |
Last Senate election | November 5, 2024 |
Last House election | November 5, 2024 |
Next Senate election | November 7, 2028 |
Next House election | November 3, 2026 |
| Meeting place | |
| Kansas State Capitol Topeka | |
| Website | |
| Kansas Legislature | |
| Constitution | |
| Constitution of Kansas | |
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.
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.
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.