Kansas Reflector series examines exploited process as lawmakers wrap up session
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Who are the hosts and what is the purpose of this Kansas Reflector episode?
Hello everyone, my name's Clay Wirestone. I'm opinion editor for Kansas Reflector. I'm editor-in-chief Sherman Smith. And we are here For so many reasons, Sherman, so many reasons. Uh the Kansas legislature on Thursday and Friday of last week wrapped up the twenty twenty six session. They they said that was that. They're gone. They are not coming back.
We we will have to wait until January and a whole new cast in the house to have this kind of fun again. Uh
Um but that being said, we have a lot of other things going on too. So we're going to uh fill you in on the end of the session. Uh but first we'll also note that today, uh, at the Kansas Reflector, uh, there's gonna be a column and the first installment of a series of stories uh about the legislature. And Sherman, why don't you tell us a little bit about that? Just at the top. That's right. That's
right. I should note too this is a special crossover edition of both the Kansas Reflector podcast uh as well as our video series. Well, it you an easy
way to tell which version you have is that if you see us here, then that's the video version. But if you're just hearing us, uh then it's probably the audio podcast.
That's right. So we have a special series rolling out that uh our staff has been working on um for several months now, actually. We we thought about doing this really early in the legislative session and started tracking kind of the the ways in which the majority party, the supermajority party, the Republicans, uh have exploited process uh to advance their their agenda. Um they've silenced opposition, they've used a number of um rules or uh you know bent the rules sometimes to to do this. Uh it's everything from uh using a rule called calling the question to end debate to complaining that somebody's impugning their motives to make them stop talking, um, you know, just disregarding the work that others in the State House are doing, and we can get into more s of this later in the the episode.
Well, and it's it's just important to understand that, you know, laws do not just, you know, burst into flour one day. Like there actually is a way that the idea goes from something in someone's head to text to to going through committees and the floors the floor and there's an expected way that that happens, and then there's what actually happens. And so that's what this
What is the new Kansas Reflector series about and why was it created?
Series is going to be about. But now, Sherman, talking about the end of the session, that Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th of April, you know, some big things actually did happen. There's some big things happened that there were bills passed that the governor signed that are pretty meaningful. So what are those?
Yeah, you know, we'll we'll get into uh what she vetoed and and how all that uh turned out. But, you know, I think it's worth noting that she did sign a lot of the bills that the legislature had passed prior to coming back. Uh and, you know, some of those were things that had gotten, you know, a little heated at times. She signed regulations for pharmacy benefit managers, kind of the middlemen who uh, you know, critics say are driving up the cost of prescription drugs. This is trying to rein that in a little bit. She signed a bill that basically evicts everybody who's currently on the state nursing board and voids all of the administrative violations that nurses have had for the past 20 plus years.
And of course, very exciting for our Kansas City audience who are Chiefs fans. They passed the Sports Authority, that's one of the linchpins that makes the deal go. Go forward with the Kansas City Chiefs coming across state lines, building a stadium, building a headquarters in another complex. You know, the Sports Authority will basically own the stadium and govern all of this. And there's some, I think, hardburn about who is going to get a voting voice on that. They're now allowing the mayors of these cities that are impacted in the Kansas City Metro. to have a voting voice, but they have to buy into the bond program. Um so all that, you know, she signed that and that's how that played out.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who are the hosts and what is the purpose of this Kansas Reflector episode?
0:00–2:31
2
What is the new Kansas Reflector series about and why was it created?
2:31–11:48
3
How did the legislature’s two‑day veto session wrap up and what were the key outcomes?
11:48–18:55
4
Which major bills did Governor Kelly sign during the wrap‑up session?
18:55–25:25
5
What controversial civics test and school‑walkout restrictions were proposed?
25:25–32:55
6
How did Republicans use “calling the question” and “impugning motives” rules this year?
32:55–35:43
Speakers
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