KANSAS STATUTES AND CODES

46-1005. Subject of inquiry or investigation; when authorized.

46-1005

Chapter 46.--LEGISLATURE Article 10.--INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES; COMPULSORY PROCESS

46-1005. Subject of inquiry or investigation; when authorized.A subject of inquiry, study or investigation of an investigatingcommittee is authorized when:

(a) The same concerns any bill or resolution or other matterreferred to and under consideration by an investigating committee duringany legislative session, or during an adjournment of not more thanthirty (30) days, in accordance with either rules of the house ofrepresentatives or the senate or the joint rules of the senate and houseof representatives; or

(b) The subject of inquiry, study or investigation has beenspecifically authorized by a resolution of the house of representativesor the senate, or by a concurrent resolution or enactment; or

(c) The subject of inquiry, study or investigation is within thestatutorily prescribed purview of the investigating committee and bymajority vote of all of the members of such investigating committee itdesignates by its resolution the specific inquiry, study orinvestigation; or

(d) The subject of inquiry, study or investigation has beenspecified by proposal adopted by the legislative coordinating counciland referred to the investigating committee with authorization toexercise compulsory process, except that such authorization shall not benecessary for the committees or council specified in subsection (a) ofK.S.A. 46-1004.

(e) In the case of a subcommittee of an investigating committee, thesubject of inquiry, study or investigation has been delegated to suchsubcommittee by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of all themembers of the investigating committee for which such subject ofinquiry, study or investigation is authorized, except that noinvestigating committee that is a subcommittee shall have authority toexercise compulsory process when its parent committee could not.

History: L. 1970, ch. 201, § 5; L. 1971, ch. 184, § 32; L. 1973,ch. 210, § 2; L. 1978, ch. 204, § 4; April 13.