Session of 2007 SENATE BILL No. 38

By Senators Kelly, Hensley and V. Schmidt

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9 AN ACT concerning state parks; renaming state park no. 24; amending 10 K.S.A. 2006 Supp. 32-837 and repealing the existing section. 11 12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of : 13 Section 1. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 32-837 is hereby amended to read as 14 follows: 32-837. (a) The following parks have been designated as a part 15 of the state park system: (1) Kanopolis- in 16 Ellsworth county; (2) at Toronto Lake in Wood- 17 son county; (3) in Greenwood county; (4) Cedar 18 Bluff state park in Trego county; (5) Tuttle Creek state park in 19 Pottawatomie and Riley counties; (6) in Osage county; 20 (7) in Kingman and Reno counties; (8) Lake Crawford 21 state park in Crawford county; (9) in Jewell county; 22 (10) Lake in Meade county; (11) 23 in Norton county; (12) in Rooks county; (13) Wilson 24 state park in Russell county; (14) Milford state park in Geary county; (15) 25 in Scott county; (16) in Mont- 26 gomery county; (17) in Jefferson county; (18) Glen Elder 27 state park in Mitchell county; (19) in Butler county; 28 (20) Eisenhower state park in Osage county; (21) in 29 Douglas and Shawnee counties; (22) in Reno county; 30 (23) in Miami county; and (24) state park no. 24 in 31 Shawnee county, which shall be given a permanent name to be deter- 32 mined by the legislature at a future date in Shawnee 33 county. 34 (b) No state park named in subsection (a) shall be removed from the 35 state park system without legislative approval. 36 (c) The hours that Kaw River state park no. 24 in Shawnee county is 37 open to the public may be limited to those hours that parks of the city of 38 Topeka are open, except that such state park shall be open at all hours 39 for prescheduled events. 40 (d) The department of wildlife and parks shall report to the house 41 committee on tourism and parks and to the senate committee on natural 42 resources on or before March 1, 2005, regarding the terms and conditions 43 of the contract for the proposed donation of land to be used for state park SB 38 2

1 no. 24. 2 New Sec. 2. The name of state park no. 24 in Shawnee county is 3 hereby changed to Kaw River state park. 4 Sec. 3. K.S.A. 2006 Supp. 32-837 is hereby repealed. 5 Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 6 publication in the statute book.