Reno County Commissioner Dan Deming, and Hutchinson Mayor Ron Sellers will be in Topeka today to testify before the House Committee on Local Government on behalf of House Bill 2190. The bill addresses term limits for county commissions. Commissioner Deming campaigned for the Reno County Commission in 2010 on a platform that favored term limits. Mayor Sellers also believes that term limits would be good for government. A similar bill was introduced last legislative session, but didn’t get far due to scheduling and bad weather. This year, Rep. Joe Seiwert, R-Pretty Prairie, made sure that the bill would get a hearing.
It would give the board of county commissioners of any county the authority to establish, by resolution, term limits for county commissions. Length in office could not exceed two consecutive four-year terms.
To take effect, voters in the county would have to approve the term limit resolution at a general election.
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