25-4501. Presidential preference primary election, when. (a) Subject to the provisions of this section, there shall be held a presidential preference primary election in the year 2016, and every fourth year thereafter.

(b) On or before November 1, 2015, and on or before November 1 every fourth year thereafter, the secretary of state shall certify to the governor, to the chief clerk of the house of representatives and to the secretary of the senate a common date in the next succeeding year on which at least five other states will hold a presidential preference primary election, a delegate or mass convention or a caucus of qualified voters at which delegates to a national convention are selected. On or before each such date, if the secretary of state determines that there is no common date on which at least five states are conducting such a selection process in the next succeeding year, the secretary of state shall certify to the governor, the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate on a date, which shall be on or before the first Tuesday in April of the next following year, on which the presidential preference primary election shall be held.

(c) The date certified by the secretary of state pursuant to subsection (b) shall be the date on which the presidential preference primary election authorized by subsection (a) shall be held in the state of Kansas.

History: L. 1978, ch. 141, § 1; L. 1979, ch. 113, § 8; L. 1990, ch. 129, § 3; L. 1996, ch. 3, § 1; L. 2000, ch. 3, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 112, § 6; L. 2007, ch. 167, § 204; L. 2011, ch. 112, § 1; July 1.