WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - Governor Laura Kelly’s veto Tuesday of the Covid Bill means a lot of uncertainty for Kansans, threats of lawsuits, and a possible constitutional crisis, all of which could end up costing Kansans more money.

When lawmakers called it quits for the year on Friday morning, some eight hours after the last day of the session was supposed to end, veterans like Representative Jim Ward, D Wichita, were already predicting they would be back soon.

“The argument is (that) at midnight the light switch went off. So, if you kept working in the dark it doesn't matter because there's no power,” Ward said.

He believes any bill passed after midnight won’t pass a legal challenge anyway. Just one of many legal battles he and others expect to come.

“We will clearly be in a constitutional crisis,” Sen. Susan Wagle, R Wichita, said about the veto just a couple hours before the governor’s announcement.

She believes the governor has overstepped her powers with her handling of the pandemic.

“She can't create new crimes. She can't rewrite our statutes when she issues an emergency order. So, certainly, we'll be in a constitutional crisis if she vetoes this bill,” Wagle said.

Wagle orchestrated the push to limit Kelly’s emergency powers.  She says to expect a lot of lawsuits in the coming days and weeks over both the governor’s emergency declarations and her executive orders.

“There's a lot of financial loss in businesses. There's going to be a lot of lawsuits from the healthcare crisis we've experienced,” Wagle explained.  “That we shut down our hospitals, no longer did voluntary procedures, and people now have outcomes that are unpleasant.”

The possibility of lawsuits is something Ward agrees with her on, though not the reasons.

“If she issues another declaration of emergency, and issues executive orders that don't meet the satisfaction of some of our Republican colleagues, they would sue her saying, ’You can't do that,’” Ward said.

But he expects the facts of the pandemic will fall in the governor’s favor.

“We get all caught up in the Topeka, under the dome,” Ward said.  “But for the people of Kansas, the emergency still exists, and the governor is taking steps to protect them.”

Once the governor has called a special session what happens is up to lawmakers.  They could decide to take up anything from abortion to Medicaid expansion and sports gambling, but they have to start from scratch.  Traditionally, lawmakers agree to stick to the issue they’ve been called back to tackle.

From a special session to lawsuit, that's more money Kansas has to spend when we're already facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall through 2021.  It could be months before we find out who's going to pay for all this but some of the most common methods are increased fees for government services and cuts to those services.