Prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for or against proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to qualified electors.

Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 314
By Senators Shane and Thompson
1-12
AN ACT concerning elections; relating to the use of public assets for
campaign finance; prohibiting the use of such assets to advocate for or
against state constitutional amendments and any other ballot question
submitted to qualified electors; amending K.S.A. 25-4169a and
repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 25-4169a is hereby amended to read as follows: 25-
4169a. (a) (1) No officer or employee of the state of Kansas, or any
municipality, shall use or authorize the use of public funds or public
vehicles, machinery, equipment or supplies of any such governmental
agency or the time of any officer or employee of any such governmental
agency, for which the officer or employee is compensated by such
governmental agency, to expressly advocate the nomination, election or
defeat of a clearly identified candidate to state office or local office , to
promote or oppose the adoption or repeal of any provisions of the
constitution of the state of Kansas or to promote or oppose any ballot
question submitted to the qualified electors of this state or any political
subdivision thereof.
(b) The provisions of this section prohibiting the use of time of any
officer or employee for such purposes shall not apply to an incumbent
officer campaigning for nomination or reelection to a succeeding term to
such office or to members of the personal staff of any elected officer.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the statutory
duties of the commission on judicial performance pursuant to article 32 of
chapter 20 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto.
(2)(d) The provisions of this subsection section shall not apply to the
use of internet connectivity provided by the state of Kansas or any
municipality to any candidate or elected official.
(3)(e) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no municipality
shall permit or allow any person to distribute, or cause to be distributed,
within any building or other structure owned, leased or rented by such
municipality any brochure, flier, political fact sheet or other document
which that expressly advocates the nomination, election or defeat of a
clearly identified candidate for state or local office unless each candidate
for such state or local office is permitted or allowed to do so in the same
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manner.
(4)(f) For the purposes of this subsection section , the term
municipality shall have the meaning ascribed to it means the same as
defined in K.S.A. 12-105a, and amendments thereto.
(b)(g) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 25-4169a is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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