Kansas Legislature

Kansas Legislature
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Senate House of Representatives
Term limits	None
Leadership
President of the Senate	Ty Masterson (R) since January 14, 2021
Vice President of the Senate	Rick Wilborn (R) since January 14, 2021
Speaker of the House	Daniel Hawkins (R) since January 9, 2023
Speaker Pro Tem	Blake Carpenter (R) since January 9, 2023
Structure
Seats	165 voting members 40 senators 125 representatives
Senate political groups	Republican (29)   Democratic (11)   Independent (1)[1]   Vacant (1)
House political groups	Republican (85)   Democratic (40)
Length of term	Senate: 4 years House: 2 years
Elections
Last Senate election	November 8, 2020
Last House election	November 8, 2022
Next Senate election	November 5, 2024
Next House election	November 5, 2024
Meeting place
Kansas State Capitol Topeka
Website
www.kslegislature.org

The Kansas Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. It is a bicameral assembly, composed of the lower Kansas House of Representatives, with 125 state representatives, and the upper Kansas Senate, with 40 state senators. Representatives are elected for two-year terms, senators for four-year terms.

Prior to statehood, separate pro-slavery and anti-slavery territorial legislatures emerged, drafting four separate constitutions, until one was finally ratified and Kansas became a state in 1861. Republicans hold a long-standing supermajority in both houses of the state legislature, despite a short-lived dominance by the Populist Party. The state legislature approved one of the first child labor laws in the nation.

Composed of 165 state lawmakers, the state legislature meets at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka once a year in regular session. Additional special sessions can be called by the governor.