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SB6 • 2026

Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action
2025-03-21
Official status
Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-21 Senate

    Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 21, 2025

  2. 2025-03-17 Senate

    Concurred with amendments; Yea 30, Nay 10

  3. 2025-03-13 House

    Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 86, Nay 37, Absent 2

  4. 2025-03-13 House

    Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted; —

  5. 2025-03-13 House

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

  6. 2025-03-13 House

    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

  7. 2025-03-07 House

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Elections

  8. 2025-02-27 House

    Hearing: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 3:30 PM — Room 218-N event

  9. 2025-02-06 House

    Referred to House Committee on Elections

  10. 2025-02-06 House

    Received and Introduced

Official Summary Text

Prohibiting the use of ranked-choice voting methods for conducting elections.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
SENATE BILL No. 6
AN ACT concerning elections; prohibiting the use of any form of ranked-choice voting
methods in conducting elections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) No form of ranked-choice voting method shall be
used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any
federal, state, county or other municipal elected office.
(b) As used in this section, the term "ranked-choice voting" means
a form of voting that allows voters to rank two or more candidates for
an elected office in order of preference and tabulates the cast ballots in
multiple rounds with the elimination of the lowest vote-receiving
candidate after each round until a candidate receives a majority of the
votes cast.
(c) Any ordinance, resolution or regulation prohibited by
subsection (a) that was adopted prior to July 1, 2025, shall be null and
void.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the Kansas register.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
SENATE, and passed that body
__________________________
SENATE concurred in
HOUSE amendments _______________________
_________________________
President of the Senate.
_________________________
Secretary of the Senate.

Passed the HOUSE
as amended _________________________
_________________________
Speaker of the House.
_________________________
Chief Clerk of the House.
APPROVED _____________________________
_________________________
Governor.