The legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas has convened many times since statehood became effective on January 29, 1861. It continues to operate under the amended 1859 Constitution of Kansas. , the Kansas Legislature has been called to special session 26 times by the state's governors.
List of legislatures and sessions OrdinalLegislatureSessiontypeConvenedAdjournedHousejournalSenatejournalTerritorial legislatures1855 Kansas Territorial Legislatureregular1857 Kansas Territorial Legislatureregularspecial1858 Kansas Territorial Legislatureregular1859 Kansas Territorial Legislatureregular1860 Kansas Territorial Legislatureregularspecial1861 Kansas Territorial LegislatureregularState legislatures1861 Kansas Legislatureregular1862 Kansas Legislatureregular1863 Kansas Legislatureregular1864 Kansas Legislatureregular1865 Kansas Legislatureregular1866 Kansas Legislatureregular1867 Kansas Legislatureregular1868 Kansas Legislatureregular1869 Kansas Legislatureregular1870 Kansas Legislatureregular1871 Kansas Legislatureregular1872 Kansas Legislatureregular1873 Kansas Legislatureregular1874 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1875 Kansas Legislatureregular1876 Kansas Legislatureregular1877 Kansas Legislatureregular1879 Kansas Legislatureregular1881 Kansas Legislatureregular1883–1884 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1885–1886 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1887 Kansas Legislatureregular1889 Kansas Legislatureregular1891 Kansas Legislatureregular1893 Kansas Legislatureregular1895 Kansas Legislatureregular1897–1899 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1899 Kansas Legislatureregular1901 Kansas Legislatureregular1903 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1905 Kansas Legislatureregular1907–1908 Kansas Legislatureregularspecial1909 Kansas Legislatureregular1911 Kansas Legislatureregular1913 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21915 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 21917 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 21919–1920 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialspecial1921 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21923 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 2special1925 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21927–1928 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 2special1929–1930 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 2special1931 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21933–1934 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2specialspecial1935–1936 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 2special1937–1938 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 2special1939 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21941 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2pt. 1, pt. 21943 Kansas Legislatureregular1945 Kansas Legislatureregular1947 Kansas Legislatureregular1949 Kansas Legislatureregular1951 Kansas Legislatureregular1953 Kansas Legislatureregular1955–1956 Kansas Legislatureregularbudget1957–1958 Kansas Legislatureregularbudgetspecial1959–1960 Kansas Legislatureregularbudget1961–1962 Kansas Legislatureregularbudget1963–1964 Kansas Legislatureregularpt. 1, pt. 2budgetspecial1965–1966 Kansas Legislatureregularbudgetspecial1967–1968 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1969–1970 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1971–1972 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1973–1974 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1975–1976 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1977–1978 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1979–1980 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1981–1982 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1983–1984 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1985–1986 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1987–1988 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialregular1989–1990 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialregular1991–1992 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1993–1994 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1995–1996 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1997–1998 Kansas Legislatureregularregular1999–2000 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2001–2002 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2003–2004 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2005–2006 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialregular2007–2008 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2009–2010 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2011–2012 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2013–2014 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialregular2015–2016 Kansas Legislatureregularregularspecial2017–2018 Kansas Legislatureregularregular2019–2020 Kansas Legislatureregularregularspecial2021–2022 Kansas Legislatureregularspecialregular2023–2024 Kansas Legislatureregularregularspecial2025–2026 Kansas Legislatureregularpresent
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See also
List of speakers of the Kansas House of Representatives List of governors of Kansas Politics of Kansas Elections in Kansas Kansas State Capitol Timeline of Kansas history Lists of United States state legislative sessions
References
External links
Kansas State Library: Government Information: Legislature Journals of the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives, 1861–1862, 1913-1976 Digital Public Library of America. Assorted materials related to Kansas Legislature Internet Archive. Assorted items related to the Kansas Legislature