2006 Kansas Code - 46-3201

      46-3201.   Task force on consolidation of public safety agencies; membership; appointment; powers and duties; meetings; compensation. (a) There is hereby established a task force on consolidation of public safety agencies. The task force shall be composed of the following members:

      (1)   One member of the house of representatives committee on appropriations appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

      (2)   one member of the house of representatives committee on judiciary appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;

      (3)   one member of the house of representatives appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives;

      (4)   one member of the senate committee on ways and means appointed by the president of the senate;

      (5)   one member of the senate committee on judiciary appointed by the president of the senate;

      (6)   one member of the senate appointed by the minority leader of the senate;

      (7)   two representatives of local law enforcement, appointed by the governor; and

      (8)   three persons appointed by the governor, except that no current member of the legislature of the state of Kansas shall be eligible for appointment pursuant to this subparagraph (a)(8).

      (b)   The member of the task force appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives from the house committee on appropriations shall call and preside at the first meeting of the task force. At such meeting the members of the task force shall elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson. The task force shall meet on the call of the chairperson. The task force shall meet at least quarterly and at other times necessary to perform its functions. If a vacancy occurs on the task force, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

      (c)   Members of the task force on consolidation of public safety agencies shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in subsection (e) of K.S.A. 75-3223 and amendments thereto, when attending meetings of such task force.

      (d)   The task force on consolidation of public safety agencies may meet at any time and at any place within the state on the call of the chairperson.

      (e)   It shall be the duty of the task force to review the feasibility and efficiencies that would be achieved by consolidating all public safety functions of agencies including, but not limited to, the highway patrol, the office of state fire marshall, the ombudsman of corrections, the juvenile justice authority, the parole board, the Kansas bureau of investigation, the board of emergency medical services, the division of emergency management of the office of adjutant general, the department of corrections, the Kansas sentencing commission, and the alcohol beverage control program of the department of revenue into a cabinet level department.

      (f)   If the task force recommends consolidation of some or all of the state agencies, or functions of state agencies specified in subsection (e), is feasible and would create efficiencies, the task force shall present recommendations on the proposed organization and budgetary ramifications of consolidating such agencies or functions of agencies into a cabinet level department.

      (g)   The staff of the office of revisor of statutes, the legislative research department and the division of legislative administrative services shall provide such assistance as may be requested by the task force.

      (h)   The task force shall submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to the legislative budget committee, the joint committee on corrections and juvenile justice and to the governor on or before January 1, 2001.

      History:   L. 2000, ch. 134, § 1; May 18.