TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle has hired a fellow lawmaker to work on her staff as legislative director.

Sen. Garrett Love, a Republican from Montezuma, was hired last month and will earn $40,000 to help with legislative campaigns, focusing on rural races. Love announced near the end of the last legislative session that he would not seek re-election. His term ends in December.

The Wichita Eagle report the state’s ethics law allows personal staff of elected officials to do campaign work on taxpayer time. Wagle’s chief of staff, Harrison Hems, says Love won’t take any reimbursements as a senator for being in Topeka for interim committees while serving in his new job.

Love says he would not continue in the job if Wagle is Senate president again next session.