TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has confirmed the appointment of a former majority leader to a new term on the state commission that regulates utilities.

The Senate’s vote Thursday was 37-0 on Gov. Sam Brownback’s reappointment of former state Sen. Jay Emler to the Kansas Corporation Commission. Emler’s new term will expire in March 2019.

Emler served 14 years in the Senate as a Lindsborg Republican before Brownback appointed him to fill a vacancy on the KCC last year. He is a former Senate Utilities Committee chairman and served as majority leader in 2011 and 2012.