75-3711. Division of powers between governor and state finance council; voting on matters of legislative delegation; absentee voting procedure, when; application of guidelines. (a) The governor shall:

(1) Hear and determine appeals by any state agency from final decisions or final actions of the secretary of administration or the director of computer services.

(2) Approve, modify and approve or reject proposed rules and regulations submitted by the secretary of administration as provided in K.S.A. 75-3706, and amendments thereto.

(3) Make allocations to, and approve expenditures by a state agency, from any appropriations to the governor for that purpose, of funds for unanticipated and unbudgeted needs, under guidelines and limitations prescribed by K.S.A. 75-3711c, and amendments thereto, or other legislative enactment enhancing or altering K.S.A. 75-3711c, and amendments thereto.

(4) Exercise powers and perform functions specified for the state finance council or governor by the Kansas civil service act.

(b) (1) The chairperson and five or more other members of the state finance council shall constitute a quorum. Approval by the governor and approval by a majority vote of the legislative members of the state finance council shall govern, unless a unanimous vote is required by statute in any particular case.

(2) Whenever a matter is to be acted on by the state finance council and a unanimous vote is required to approve the particular matter by K.S.A. 48-924, 75-3713, 75-3713b or 75-3713c, and amendments thereto, or by any other statute, each member who is unable to attend the meeting at which the matter was voted on, may vote on the motion by written absentee vote in the manner prescribed by this subsection. In any such case, an absent member may vote on the motion by (A) writing the member's signature on a copy of the resolution setting forth the matter that is the subject of the motion, writing the date and indicating the member's vote for or against adoption of the resolution, and (B) submitting the copy of the resolution bearing the absentee vote to the secretary of the state finance council either before or not more than 10 days after the date of the meeting at which the motion was voted on. The secretary of the state finance council shall maintain each copy of a resolution bearing an absentee vote as part of the minutes and records of the meeting at which the motion on the resolution was voted on. The secretary shall indicate in the minutes of the meeting the name of each member voting in writing by absentee vote and the date on which the absentee vote was submitted to the secretary. If a particular matter requiring a unanimous vote receives the affirmative vote of each member of the state finance council attending the meeting and the affirmative absentee vote pursuant to this subsection of each member not attending the meeting, then the matter shall be deemed to have received the unanimous vote of all members of the state finance council.

(c) Whenever statutes provide for any matter to receive state finance council action, the same shall be made a matter of business before said council, if and only if the matter is characterized as a legislative delegation, and in other such cases the governor shall exercise the function specified for the state finance council by applying the guidelines and limitations of K.S.A. 75-3711c, and amendments thereto, or other legislative enactment enhancing or altering the same.

History: L. 1953, ch. 375, § 11; L. 1972, ch. 332, §73; L. 1975, ch. 447, § 2; L. 1976, ch. 388, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 63, § 1; Apr. 15.