The Kansas Press Association says some dinners that Gov. Sam Brownback hosted this month with legislative leaders may have violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the KPA says the issue is whether a majority of legislative committee met and whether they were discussing business.

The dinners generally are restricted to Republicans. Two members of the House Appropriations Committee who attended a Cedar Crest dinner Tuesday said a majority of that committee was present, and topics of discussion included taxes and the state budget.

Brownback’s spokeswoman Sherriene Jones-Sontag says dinners are not an open meetings violation. She says the dinners are not an open meetings violation. She says the dinners give lawmakers a chance to get to know one another and that all legislators have been invited for dinner last year and this year.