TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators don’t agree about how much to restrict the bundling of multiple measures into a single bill.

The Senate voted 35-4 on Wednesday to approve proposed rules governing interactions with the House after stripping out a provision against bundling. Critics say bundling leads to sloppy legislation.

House members added the anti-bundling provision last week before approving the joint rules. The two chambers must draft a final, compromise version.

The House wants to prevent negotiators from the two chambers from bundling more than two measures together in the final version of a bill.

Bundling occurs because the same teams of lawmakers negotiate over multiple measures on broad topics such as insurance and agriculture.

Senate leaders said they’re fine with a limit, but think the House’s proposal is too strict.

WICHITA  – A Kearny County man was indicted Tuesday on federal child pornography charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom,

Mark A. Wireman, 44, Lakin, Kan., was charged with five counts of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.

According to court records, the investigation began in October 2014 when Google made a report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline. The report was about a file containing child porn that had been uploaded on a Google email server. Investigators followed an electronic trail to Wireman, who was a previously convicted sex offender.

Wireman allegedly was exchanging emails containing child pornography with a man who he met in prison. The emails included photos of young children including toddlers in sexual situations. In one of Wireman’s emails, he urged the other man to take pornographic photos of a child to whom the man had access.

If convicted, Wireman faces a penalty of not less than 15 years and not more than 40 years on the distribution charge and not less than 10 years and not more than 20 years on the possession charge. Homeland Security investigations, the Wichita Police Department’s Exploited and Missing Child Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart is prosecuting

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has confirmed Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s secretary for aging and disability services and three of his appointees to the state Board of Regents.

The votes Wednesday all were 40-0.

Kari Bruffett has been interim secretary at the Department for Aging and Disability Services since May. She replaced Shawn Sullivan, who became Brownback’s budget director.

The Board of Regents oversees the state’s higher education system. The Senate confirmed appointments made by Brownback in August that included former Democratic state Rep. Bill Feuerborn of Garnett.

The other two new regents are Goodland lawyer Joseph Bain and Sedan city attorney Zoe Forrester Newton.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans in the Kansas House have elected a Bonner Springs lawmaker to serve as majority party whip.

Rep. Willie Dove received 47 votes on the third and final ballot Wednesday, compared with 44 votes for Rep. Brett Hildabrand of Shawnee. The whip counts votes and lines up support for GOP leaders on major legislation.

Dove is an insurance salesman first elected to the House in 2012.

Republican Reps. Bill Sutton of Gardner and Erin Davis of Olathe also sought the whip’s job but were eliminated on the first and second ballots.

The position was open because Rep. Ron Ryckman Jr. of Olathe stepped down.

Ryckman was elected to the post in December, but House Speaker Ray Merrick later named him chairman of the budget-writing Appropriations Committee.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A 33-year-old Kansas man has pleaded guilty in the death of a former Kansas City Chiefs cheerleader in a traffic crash while he was fleeing from police.

The Kansas City Star reports Roy Lee Maney of Shawnee pleaded guilty Wednesday to reckless second-degree murder and leaving the accident scene in the collision that killed 30-year-old dance instructor Tiffany Mogenson in October 2013.

In a plea deal, Johnson County prosecutors dismissed charges of aggravated battery and obstructing the legal process.

Mogenson’s husband called the plea agreement “absolutely sickening” and has hired attorneys to ask the judge to not accept the plea.

Mogenson was stopped at a Prairie Village intersection when Maney’s car hit the back of her vehicle at an estimated 90 mph, killing her instantly.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say a 55-year-old Kansas man accused of killing a member of his commune more than a decade ago was a brutal leader whose 15-year reign was marked by sexual violence and the deaths of six people.

Daniel Perez is charged with first-degree murder in the 2003 drowning death of Patricia Hughes at the group’s compound in Valley Center.

During opening statements in his trial on Wednesday, Perez’s attorney, Alice Osburn, told jurors her client did not kill Hughes and that all of the deaths at the commune were coincidental.

Osburn said the group shared $4 million in insurance payments from the dead members.

Perez also is accused of lying on life insurance applications, rape, sodomy, criminal threat, making false statements on credit applications and sexual exploitation of a child.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House has approved a bill closing most of a projected $344 million shortfall in the state’s current budget.

The House vote Wednesday was 88-34. Republicans relied on their large majority to push it through.

The measure mostly diverts funds from highway projects and other special funds into the state’s main bank account to cover general government expenses.

The measure goes to the GOP-dominated Senate. Top Republicans there hope to vote on the plan Thursday.

Lawmakers believe they must pass a bill by Feb. 13 for the state to pay bills on time.

New figures from legislative researchers Tuesday showed that with tax collections short of expectations through January, the bill still would leave a budget deficit of about $800,000 at the end of June.

SELDEN- A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday in Sheridan County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Ford Fusion driven by Melissa J. Ritter, 22, Dresden, was southbound on U.S. 83 three miles south of Selden.

The vehicle was slowing down to turn at 80W road.

The driver lost control of the vehicle on the ice. It slid off into the ditch and rolled.

Ritter was transported to the Sheridan County Health Complex.