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Republican Lawmakers in Kansas Revoke Mask Mandate
Kansas lawmakers voted along party lines last week to rescind the state’s coronavirus mask mandate despite a bid by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s attempts to extend it, becoming the latest Republican-led state to refuse to extend or reimpose requirements to wear facial coverings.
After the Kansas state legislature recently approved a law permitting the Legislative Coordinating Council a legislative standing committee to revoke executive orders, the panel decided in a 5–2 party-line vote to overturn the mask mandate immediately after Kelly took executive action (pdf) to prolong the protocols.
“There is no worrying spike today, and no circumstances which justify the continued impositions … of the governor’s overreaching statewide mask mandate,” said state House Speaker Pro Tem Blaine Finch, a Republican, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.
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Kansas joins 17 other states without a mask mandate: ‘The numbers don’t support’ one, a legislator says
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TOPEKA, Kan. Kansas’s statewide mask mandate, already an exemption-filled patchwork, came to an end Thursday, canceled by top Republican lawmakers under a new law that makes it more difficult for health officials to keep COVID-19 precautions in place.
A group of leading legislators, known as the Legislative Coordinating Council, voted 5-2 along party lines to overturn Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s mask mandate hours after she reissued it to fulfill the requirements of the new law. One member of the eight person panel, embattled Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop, was absent for the vote conducted over video conference.
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