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HOW TO CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR
THESE ARE THE LAWMAKERS WHO WILL REPRESENT WICHITA AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE KANSAS 2006 LEGISLATIVE SESSION HOUSE
Southeast Sedgwick County Geraldine Flaharty, D-Wichita
District 98
Committees: Education; Human and Health Services; Wildlife Parks and Tourism; Environment; Joint Committee on Pensions, Investments and Benefits.
Personal: 69, retired teacher
Contact: (316) 524-8039, home; (785) 296-7673, office; flaharty@house.state.ks.us. Room 521-S Bonnie Huy, R-Wichita
District 87
Committees: Appropriations; Joint Committee on Children's Issues; General Government and Commerce Budget.
Personal: 70, retired
Contact: (316) 685-7958, home; (785) 296-7644, office; huy@house.state.ks.us. Room 110-S Judith Loganbill, D-Wichita
District 86
Committees: Education; Federal and State Affairs; Economic Development; Joint Committee on Kansas Security.
Personal: 52, elementary teacher
Contact: (316) 683-7382, home; (785) 296-7669, office; loganbill@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor Don Myers, R-Derby
District 82
Committees: Wildlife, Parks and Tourism; Utilities; Federal and State Affairs.
Personal: 73, retired engineer
Contact: (316) 788-0014, home; (785) 296-7695, office; myers@house.state.ks.us. Room 448-N Ted Powers, R-Mulvane
District 81
Committees: Agriculture; Education; Environment; Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State.
Personal: 71, retired teacher and farmer
Contact: 777-4310, home; (785) 296-7653, office; powers@house.state.ks.us. Room 136-N Jim Ward, D-Wichita
District 88
Committees: Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight; Judiciary; Legislative Budget; and Interstate Cooperation.
Personal: 48, lawyer
Contact: (316) 683-3609, home; (785) 296-7675, office; ward@house.state.ks.us. Room 327-S Northeast Sedgwick County Steve Brunk, R-Wichita
District 85
Committees: Federal and State Affairs; Financial Institutions; Insurance; Taxation; Joint Committee on State Building Construction.
Personal: 54, real estate agent
Contact: (316) 744-2409, home; (785) 296-7692, office; brunk@house.state.ks.us. Room 525-S
Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita
District 84
Committees: Utilities; Financial Institutions; Governmental Organization and Elections.
Personal: 46, photographer
Contact: (316) 652-9067, home; (785) 296-7668, office; faust-goudeau@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. Melody McCray-Miller, D-Wichita
District 89
Committees: Utilities; Federal and State Affairs; Government Organization and Elections.
Personal: 49, business owner
Contact: (316) 744-7516, home; (785) 296-7665, office; millerm@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. Ty Masterson, R-Andover
District 99
Committees: Commerce and Labor; Judiciary.
Personal: 36, Building Contractor/Real Estate Investor
Contact: (316) 733-7229, home; (785)-296-1769, masterson@house.state.ks .us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. Jo Ann Pottorff, R-Wichita
District 83
Committees: Appropriations; General Government and Commerce Budget; Higher Education; Joint Committee on Arts and Cultural Resources; Joint Committee on Legislative Educational Planning
Personal: 69, real estate agent
Contact: (316) 684-3780, home; (785) 296-7501, office; pottorff@house.state.ks.us. Room 140-N Northwest Sedgwick County
Nile Dillmore, D-Wichita
District 92
Committees: Taxation; Federal and State Affairs; Financial Institutions; Insurance.
Personal: 58, banker
Contact: (316) 264-2988, home; (785) 296-7647, office; dillmore@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor
Delia Garcia, D-Wichita
District 103
Committees: Commerce and Labor; Health and Human Services; Judiciary; Joint Committee on Arts and Cultural Resources.
Personal: 28, restaurant owner
Contact: (316) 371-2242, home; (785) 296-6838, office; garcia@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor.
Mario Goico, R-Wichita
District 100
Committees: Financial Institutions; Governmental Organizations and Election s; Health and Human Services; Taxation; Joint Committee on Kansas Security.
Personal: 60, engineer
Contact: (316) 721-3682, home; (785) 296-7667, office; goico@house.state.ks.us. Room 143-N Steve Huebert, R-Valley Center
District 90
Committees: Education; Education Budget; Governmental Organization and Elections; Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State.
Personal: 46, ergonomic analyst
Contact: (316) 755-1943, home; (785) 296-1754, office; huebert@house.state.ks.us. Room 503-N Brenda Landwehr, R-Wichita
District 91
Committees: Appropriations; Health and Human Services; Social Services Budget; Select Committee on Health Care; Joint Committee on Legislative Budget, Joint Committee on Health Policy Oversight.
Personal: 50, insurance agency owner
Contact: (316)821-9800, home; (785) 296-7683, office; landwehr@house.state.ks.us. Room 115-S Jason Watkins, R-Wichita
District 105
Committees: Utilities; Health and Human Services; Judiciary.
Personal: 33, president and part-owner of a security company
Contact: (316) 260-6809 home; (785) 296-1769, office; watkins@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. Southwest Sedgwick County Willa DeCastro, R-Wichita
District 96
Committees: Education; Health and Human Services; Social Services Budget; Select Committee on School Finance; Joint Committee on Children's Issues.
Personal: 60, registered nurse
Contact: (316) 522-1272, home; (785) 296-7501, office; decastro@house.state.ks.us. Room 138-N Richard Kelsey, R-Goddard
District 93
Committees: Education; Higher Education; Insurance; Federal and State Affairs
Personal: 59, president of King's Camp, a facility near Goddard for juvenile offenders. Contact: (316) 794-8537 home; (785) 296-7663, office; kelsey@house.state.ks.us. Room 531-N Joe McLeland, R-Wichita
District 94
Committees: Appropriations; Insurance; Education Budget; Interstate Cooperation; Calendar and Printing; Legislative Budget; Joint Committee on Information Technology.
Personal: 59, computer network analyst
Contact: (316) 722-8804, home; (785) 296-7694, office; mcleland@house.state.ks.us. Room 514-S Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita
District 95
Committees: Appropriations; Education Budget; Governmental Organization and Elections; Rules and Journal; Joint Committee on Legislative Post Audit; Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations.
Personal: 47, accountant
Contact: (316) 265-7096, home; (785) 296-7648, office; sawyer@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. Dale Swenson, R-Wichita
District 97
Committees: Education; Wildlife, Parks and Tourism; Governmental Organization and Elections; and Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight.
Personal: 48, painter
Contact: (316) 304-7257, home; (785) 296-7682, office; swenson@house.state.ks.us. Room 118-S Butler and Cowley counties John Grange, R-El Dorado
District 75
Committees: Commerce and Labor; Revenue, Judicial, Transportation and Retirement Budget; Wildlife, Parks and Tourism; Economic Development.
Personal: 56, owner of Carlisle Heating and Air Conditioning
Contact: (316) 321-2087, home; (785) 296-7663, office; grange@house.state.ks.us. Room 531-N Everett Johnson, R-Augusta
District 77
Committees: Education; Federal and State Affairs; Higher Education.
Personal: 69, retired professor
Contact: (316) 775-7186, home; (785) 296-7699, office; johnson@house.state.ks.us. Room 110-S Ed Trimmer, D-Winfield
District 78
Committees: Health and Human Services; Agriculture, Insurance.
Personal: 55, teacher.
Contact: 620-221-7146, home; 785-296-7642, office; trimmer@house.state.ks.us. Docking State Office Building, 7th floor. SENATE West Sedgwick County Les Donovan Sr., R-Wichita
District 27
Committees: Assessment and Taxation, Confirmation Oversight, Elections and Local Government, Judiciary, Transportation
Personal: 69, automobile dealer
Contact: (316) 722-2923, home; (785) 296-7385, office; donovan@senate.state.ks.us. Room 261-E Phil Journey, R-Haysville
District 26
Committees: Transportation; Assessment and Taxation; Confirmation Oversight; Elections and Local Government; Judiciary; Organization, Calendar and Rules; Joint Committee on State Tribal Relations; Joint Legislative Post Audit.
Personal: 49, lawyer
Contact: (316) 522-7566, home; (785) 296-7367, office; journey@senate.state.ks.us. Room 221-E Jean Schodorf, R-Wichita
District 25
Committees: Education, Commerce, Confirmation Oversight, Interstate Cooperation, Ways and Means, Joint Committee on Legislative Educational Planning, Joint Committee on Arts and Cultural Resources
Personal: 55, speech and language pathologist
Contact: (316) 831-0229, home; (785) 296-7391, office; schodorf@senate.state.ks.us. Room 241-E
East Sedgwick County Donald Betts Jr., D-Wichita
District 29
Committees: Elections and Local Government, Judiciary, Ways and Means, Administrative Rules and Regulations
Personal: 27, youth director
Contact: (316) 393-9203, home; (785) 296-7387, office; betts@senate.state.ks.us. Room 404-N Greta Goodwin, D-Winfield
District 32
Committees: Assessment and Taxation, Confirmation Oversight, Judiciary
Personal: 69, certified legal assistant
Contact: (620) 221-9058, home; (785) 296-7381 office; goodwin@senate.state.ks.us. Room 162-E Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick
District 31
Committees: Education, Natural Resources, Ways and Means
Personal: 46, former Sedgwick County commissioner
Contact: (316) 772-0147, home; (785) 296-7377, office; mcginn@senate.state.ks.us. Room 222-E Mike Petersen, R-Wichita
District 28
Committees: Joint Committee on Information and Technology, Elections and Local Government, Transportation, Utilities
Personal: 45, electrician
Contact: (316) 264-1817, home; (785) 296-7355, office; petersen@senate.state.ks.us. Room 242-E Susan Wagle, R-Wichita
District 30
Committees: Commerce; Organization, Calendar and Rules; Public Health and Welfare, Health Care Strategies; Joint Committee on Children's Issues; Joint Committee on Health Policy Oversight
Personal: 52, business owner
Contact: (316) 733-5698, home; (785) 296-7386, office; wagle@senate.state.ks.us. Room 120-S Butler County Peggy Palmer, R-Augusta
District 16
Committees: Public Health and Welfare, Health Care, Transportation, Joint Committee on Arts and Cultural Resources
Personal: 60, real estate agent
Contact: (316) 775-1228, home; (785) 296-7388, office; palmer@senate.state.ks.us. Room 401-S How to make your voice heard
Track legislation
You can find out about pending legislation and upcoming hearings, and even listen in on House and Senate proceedings. Here's how:
By computer: Go to www.kslegislature.org.
There, you will find House and Senate calendars, listings of lawmakers and an explanation of how a bill becomes law.
You can search for bills by keywords or phrases and track a bill through the legislative process. Also online, you can listen to House and Senate sessions live. Audio of committee meetings, however, is not available.
By phone: Call the legislative hotline at (800) 432-3924. Call the same number for TTY calls for the hearing impaired.
The hotline can provide information about legislative activity and documents, including bill introductions, sponsorships, amendments, status, history and other related legislative action. By subscription: For an initial $75 fee and a $60 annual renewal fee, you can access the following online bill tracking programs:
-- Multi-Bill Tracking - Lets you track the history of multiple bills at once. Cost: Additional $1 per search.
-- Full-text bill packet - Contains the full text of all bills introduced the previous day in the Legislature. Cost: Additional $2 per packet.
-- Lobbyist-In-A-Box - Allows you to track specific bills and alerts you to any changes to those bills. Cost: Additional $1 per bill profile or $50 a month for unlimited access.
For questions about subscription services, call (785) 296-5059. Testify about a bill
If you feel strongly about a bill, you can speak before a committee assigned to study it and make recommendations on it.
To testify, contact the secretary of the committee assigned to study the bill. You'll find the information at www.kslegislature.org.
You'll need written copies of your testimony. Ask how many copies to bring and how long you will be allowed to speak.
Committee members may ask questions and committee decisions often may not be made the same day as the hearing on the bill.
Tips to be effective: Research the bill number and the bill's status. Let the committee know if you have any expertise on the issue. Be brief. How to lobby a legislator:
-- Write a letter. Be formal and brief. Legislators are in session and committee meetings throughout much of the day, so a letter may be more effective than a phone call or e-mail. If the lawmaker represents the district where you live, be sure to point that out. -- Send an e-mail. Legislators get bombarded with e-mails so they may have to sort through a lot before getting to yours. Your own words are more effective than copy-and-paste material from lobbying groups.
-- Make a phone call. A telephone call may be the most direct way to speak with a legislator, but it may be the most difficult because there are no guarantees that legislators are in their offices.
-- Watch for notices of public forums. The Wichita-area delegation and individual legislators conduct several forums each session, usually on the weekend. Notices will be published in the Wichita Eagle.
-- Register to vote. Some lawmakers send newsletters to the registered voters who live in their district, explaining issues and seeking suggestions from constituents.
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