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GOP dominates Kansas panel on ‘Hard 50’ law rewrite

(AP) — Republicans will dominate the Kansas Legislature’s new joint committee examining the state’s “Hard 50” criminal sentencing law, in Screen Shot 2013-08-06 at 11.13.53 AMkeeping with GOP majorities in both chambers.

The panel’s chairman is House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lance Kinzer.

The members are:

— Senate Republicans (5): Majority Leader Terry Bruce, Hutchinson; Jeff King, Independence, Senate vice president and Judiciary Committee chairman; Forrest Knox, Altoona; Julia Lynn, Olathe, and Greg Smith, Overland Park.

— Senate Democrats (1): David Haley, Kansas City, ranking party member on the Judiciary Committee.

— House Republicans (6): Kinzer, Olathe; John Rubin, Shawnee, Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee chairman; John Barker, Abilene; Ed Bideau, Chanute; Mark Kahrs, Wichita, and Charles Macheers, Shawnee.

— House Democrats (2): Jan Pauls, Hutchinson, ranking party member on the Judiciary Committee, and Emily Perry, Mission.

 

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