20-170. Clerk; duty to maintain roster of attorneys; eligibility to nominate or cast ballots for supreme court nominating commission; transmission of roster to secretary of state; open record. (a) The clerk of the supreme court shall maintain in the clerk's office a roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas. Such roster shall include the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, the congressional district of residence and the judicial district of residence for each person licensed to practice law in Kansas. Whenever any person licensed to practice law in Kansas moves from the residential address listed for such person on such roster, or when the name of any such person is changed by marriage or otherwise, such person, within 10 days thereafter, shall notify the clerk of the supreme court in writing of such person's old and new residential addresses or of such person's former and new names.
(b) Each person on the roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas on the effective date of this act, and for whom the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, is not correct on such roster on the effective date of this act, shall provide the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, in writing to the clerk of the supreme court within 60 days after the effective date of this act. The clerk of the supreme court, within 30 days after the effective date of this act, shall send notice to all persons listed on the roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas on the effective date of this act, that such persons are required by law to provide the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, in writing to the clerk of the supreme court within 60 days of the effective date of this act.
(c) Only attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas and residing in Kansas on or before the 15th day of February preceding the selection of the chairperson of the supreme court nominating commission as provided in K.S.A. 20-119, and amendments thereto, and only attorneys so licensed and residing in the congressional district on or before the 15th day of February preceding the selection of the members of the supreme court nominating commission to be chosen from among the members of the bar of such congressional district as provided in K.S.A. 20-120, and amendments thereto, and, in either event, only attorneys for whom the roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas contains the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, shall be entitled to make nominations or receive and cast ballots in such selections.
(d) (1) On or before the 20th day of February preceding the selection of a chairperson of the supreme court nominating commission, the clerk of the supreme court shall transmit a certified copy of the roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas to the secretary of state. Such certified copy shall include the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, for each person listed on the roster and having a residential address within Kansas as of the preceding 15th day of February.
(2) On or before the 20th day of February preceding the selection of a member of the supreme court nominating commission to be chosen from among the members of the bar of a congressional district, the clerk of the supreme court shall transmit a certified copy of the roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas to the secretary of state. Such certified copy shall include the information enumerated in K.S.A. 25-2309(b)(1) through (5), and amendments thereto, for each person listed on the roster and having a residential address within the congressional district as of the preceding 15th day of February.
(3) The certified copy of the roster shall be transmitted in a format prescribed by the secretary of state. Upon receipt of such certified roster, the secretary of state shall append thereto the unique voter identification number for each person listed on the roster having such a number, as contained in the centralized voter registration database described in K.S.A. 25-2304, and amendments thereto.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the names, residential addresses, dates of birth, unique voter identification numbers and dates of licensure to practice law in Kansas of all persons listed on the certified roster of attorneys licensed to practice law in Kansas created pursuant to subsection (d), including the information as appended to the roster pursuant to subsection (d), shall be disclosed upon proper request submitted to the clerk of the supreme court or to the secretary of state pursuant to the open records act, K.S.A. 45-215 et seq., and amendments thereto.
History: L. 2016, ch. 93, ยง 2; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
20-101 Court of record; jurisdiction; administrative authority; duties of chief justice.
20-101a Original jurisdiction in legislative apportionment cases.
20-105 Qualifications of justices.
20-108 Carrying out appellate court judgments and decrees by district courts.
20-115 Fees to state general fund.
20-116 Supplies; requisitions.
20-119 Supreme court nominating commission; selection of chairperson.
20-120 Same; selection of member from each congressional district.
20-121 Same; tie votes resolved by lot.
20-124 Same; appointment of nonlawyer members; vacancies.
20-126 Same; uncontested elections.
20-127 Same; change in status affecting membership; vacancies.
20-128 Same; appointment by chief justice to fill vacancy of lawyer member, when; certification.
20-129 Same; congressional redistricting; effect; staggered terms.
20-130 Same; canvassers of elections; duties.
20-131 Same; additional term for members.
20-132 Same; vacancies in supreme court; notification of chairman; nominations by commission.
20-133 Same; intent of act; powers and duties of commission.
20-134 Same; withdrawal of nominations and substitution of names, when.
20-135 Same; appointments by chief justice, when.
20-136 Same; acquisition of supplies and equipment.
20-137 Same; compensation of members; expenses.
20-139 Conferences of supreme court justices and certain judges; expenses.
20-152 Judicial study advisory committee; appointment; expenses.
20-155 Supreme court law library; law librarian and other personnel.
20-157 Same; transfer of certain publications, books, records and accounts from state library.
20-158 Budget for judicial branch of state government; preparation; submission.
20-159 Reproduction and preservation of court records; minimum standards.
20-160 Court may adopt rules relating to court records.
20-162 Supreme court to establish judicial personnel classification system; exceptions; contents.
20-163 Official station, justices and court of appeals judges.
20-164 Rules establishing expedited process for support, parenting time and child visitation orders.
20-165 Rules establishing child support guidelines.
20-166 Access to justice fund; expenditures; grant guidelines established by the supreme court.
20-167 Supervision fee for juvenile offender; fees paid to county general fund; waiver.
20-171 Severability of chapter 93 of the 2016 Session Laws of Kansas.