Transparency in the Kansas government

Kansas.gov
URL: http://www.kansas.gov/index.php

Description:
 * Official state website. Provides information about the Kansas government and its services.

Kansas Legislature
URL: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/index.do

Description:
 * Web portal for state legislative information.
 * Charges fees for subscriber services such as Multi-Bill Tracking, Daily Bill Packets, Statutes Annotated, Session Laws, and Kansas Registers.

KanView
URL: http://www.kansas.gov/kanview/

Description:
 * Allows users to search state's revenues and expenditures.

Lobbying disclosure information
URL: http://www.kssos.org/elections/elections_lobbyists.html

Description:
 * Kansas Secretary of State website has lobbyist/client searches dating from 2003.

State campaign disclosure information
URL: http://www.kansas.gov/ethics/Campaign_Finance/index.html

Description:
 * Governmental Ethics Commission has campaign finance reports and searchable contributor data.

Proposed legislation
To track bills, start here

SB 34

(Bill text)


 * Extends 14 statutory exemptions to the state's open records act until July 1, 2012 and 16 statutory exemptions until July 1, 2013 (see supplemental note for full list).

More legislative information
For more on transparency legislation, see the Kansas transparency legislation webpage at Sunshine Review.