TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A legislative committee is looking into changing the way municipal elections are conducted in Kansas to boost turnout.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that in Kansas, city and school board races are held on a completely different cycle from federal and state races.

Over the last five years, no fewer than 10 municipal election bills have been offered in the Legislature. Some have proposed merging the municipal races with state and federal races in even-numbered years, while others have proposed holding them in November of odd-numbered years.

So far, none of those proposals has passed, but lawmakers did agree at the end of the 2014 session to have an interim committee study the issue and make a report to be considered in 2015.

The committee got to work Friday.