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Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 533
By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
3-10
AN ACT concerning counties; relating to eligibility for the office of
county commissioner; limiting the restrictions on who is eligible for
such office to only individuals holding elected office in the same
county; amending K.S.A. 19-205 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 19-205 is hereby amended to read as follows: 19-
205. (a) Except as provided by K.S.A. 12-344 and , 12-345, and
amendments thereto, and K.S.A. 12-363 and 12-365, and amendments
thereto, no person holding any elected state, county, township or city office
shall be eligible to hold the office of county commissioner in any the same
county in this state.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the appointment of any
county commissioner to any state board, committee, council, commission
or similar body which that is established pursuant to statutory authority, so
long as any county commissioner so appointed is not entitled to receive
any pay, compensation, subsistence, mileage or expenses for serving on
such body other than that which is provided by law to be paid in
accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-3223, and amendments
thereto.
(c) Any county commissioner may serve as a volunteer in any
capacity for an emergency medical service or ambulance service or as a
volunteer fire fighter firefighter and may receive the usual compensation
or other remuneration for such volunteer services.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 19-205 is hereby repealed.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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