TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House members are restricting meetings of their chamber after midnight and advancing a proposed rule to make it harder to bundle multiple measures into a single bill.
House members on Wednesday voted 113-6 to approve rules for their chamber saying it can’t meet from midnight to 8 a.m. unless two-thirds of its members allow it.
The House also voted 116-3 to approve rules governing interactions between their chamber and the Senate.
The joint rules would prohibit House and Senate negotiators from bundling more than two measures on a broad topic such as insurance or agriculture into a single bill for a final, up-or-down vote in each chamber.
Senators still must approve the joint rules.
Backers of both restrictions argued that those longstanding legislative practices lead to sloppy lawmaking.