Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 45-311

  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

The secretary of state shall prefix to each printed volume of the laws his certificate that the acts and resolutions therein contained are truly copied from the original enrolled acts and other official documents of the legislature, and specifying the date of the publication of such volume. The date of publication so specified shall not be sooner than the date that at least a limited number of the volume are in the office of the secretary of state and shall be July 1 if a limited number of the volume are in the office of the secretary of state on or before July 1, unless an earlier date for any volume is directed by concurrent resolution of the legislature. The date so specified need not be the same as the date when such volume is first actually distributed. The certificates mentioned in this act shall be evidence of the facts contained therein.