Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Tuesday a bill passed by the Kansas Legislature to snatch from the Kansas governor direct control of $1.25 billion in federal coronavirus relief aid and alter state law to weaken the executive branch’s emergency power during the pandemic. Kelly, a Democrat working with a Republican-led House and Senate, said she would sign a revised, 15-day state of emergency declaration to provide legal footing for a streamlined set of executive orders issued during a pandemic that has killed at least 188 and infected more than 9,200 in Kansas. Officials in all 105 counties will be granted the right to set health, business and mass gathering limits, she said. Her plan to continue with phasing in reopening of economic activity will become advisory to counties, she said.
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