Bill > SB25

This bill makes appropriations for various state agencies for fiscal years 2023 through 2028, constituting the omnibus reconciliation spending limit bill for the 2023 regular session. * **State Bank Commissioner:** Appropriates $12,809,736 for FY 2024 and $12,720,158 for FY 2025 from the Bank Commissioner Fee Fund. There are also provisions for unlimited expenditures from the Bank Examination and Investigation Fund, Consumer Education Settlement Fund, and Litigation Expense Fund for FY 2024 and FY 2025, with specific conditions for the latter two. * **Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board:** Increases expenditure limitations for the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board Fee Fund for FY 2024 and FY 2025, contingent on the passage of specific legislation. * **Kansas Board of Examiners in Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing Instruments:** Increases expenditure limitations for the Hearing Instrument Board Fee Fund for FY 2023, FY 2024, and FY 2025. * **State Board of Pharmacy:** Prohibits expenditures related to arrangements for shipping pharmaceutical medications directly to a site of care or patient for administration, with an exception if alternative medications do not exceed the cost of the original. This applies to FY 2023, FY 2024, and FY 2025. * **Governmental Ethics Commission:** Appropriates $13,000 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2024 and FY 2025. * **Governor's Department:** Appropriates $4,550,000 from the State General Fund for domestic violence prevention grants and $450,000 for child advocacy centers for FY 2024. It also directs the posting of grant information related to the American Rescue Plan Act and building a stronger economy grants on a searchable website. * **Attorney General:** Appropriates $1,741,564 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2024, with a provision to lapse $252,825 if specific legislation is not enacted. * **Secretary of State:** Appropriates $4,700,000 from the State General Fund for the presidential preference primary for FY 2024. * **State Treasurer:** Authorizes the investment of moneys in the water supply storage debt payment for Milford and Perry reservoirs account. It also appropriates an unlimited amount from the Build Kansas Matching Grant Fund for FY 2024, FY 2025, FY 2026, FY 2027, and FY 2028, with significant conditions and oversight from a Build Kansas Advisory Committee. This includes transfers from the State General Fund totaling up to $215,000,000 for FY 2024 through FY 2027. The Build Kansas Matching Grant Fund will be abolished on September 30, 2027, with remaining funds transferred to the State General Fund. * **Insurance Department:** Appropriates an unlimited amount from the Group-funded Pools Refund Fund for FY 2024. It also prohibits expenditures related to federal market reforms for health insurance, including new mandates or benefits, unless expressly consented to by the legislature. * **Health Care Stabilization Fund Board of Governors:** Allows maternity centers accredited by the commission for accreditation of birth centers and defined as such in statute to be deemed "healthcare providers" for the purposes of the healthcare provider insurance availability act for FY 2024. * **Judicial Council:** Appropriates $696,664 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2024. * **State Board of Indigents' Defense Services:** Appropriates $1,781,626 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2024. * **Kansas Public Employees Retirement System:** Appropriates $166,421 for agency operations for FY 2024 and allows up to $450,000 for proxy voting services from the Investment-Related Expenses account for FY 2024. * **Department of Administration:** Appropriates $84,000 from the State General Fund for a licensing verification portal for FY 2024. It also decreases the expenditure limitation for official hospitality and lapses a portion of funds for the budget analysis account for FY 2024. It prohibits expenditures to require certain boards to comply with a central electronic record system. * **Office of Information Technology Services:** Appropriates $2,500,000 from the State General Fund for vendor contracts for FY 2024. * **Department of Revenue:** Appropriates $2,000,000 from the State General Fund for Gage Park improvement district for FY 2023. It also directs expenditures to modernize driver's licenses for digital use, compatible with TSA checkpoints, for FY 2024. * **Kansas Lottery:** Increases the amount authorized to be transferred from the Lottery Operating Fund to the State Gaming Revenues Fund by $4,250,000 for FY 2023. * **Department of Commerce:** Appropriates $10,000,000 from the State General Fund for World Cup planning and area improvements for FY 2023. It appropriates $2,500,000 from the State General Fund for a statewide marketing campaign for high-demand, high-wage career fields for FY 2024, with a contract specified. It also appropriates unlimited amounts from various funds for apprenticeship and workforce training grants for FY 2024. * **Department of Labor:** Appropriates $23,000 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2023 and $890,000 for FY 2024. It decreases the expenditure limitation for the Workmen's Compensation Fee Fund for FY 2023 and increases it for FY 2024. It includes provisions for recalculating employer rates in successorship situations and determining benefit years for unemployment claims for FY 2024. * **Department of Health and Environment - Division of Public Health:** Appropriates $117,653 from the State General Fund for child abuse review and evaluation and $21,250 for operating expenditures (including official hospitality) for FY 2024. * **Department of Health and Environment - Division of Health Care Finance:** Lapses $28,000,000 from the Other Medical Assistance account for FY 2023 and $18,282,680 for FY 2024. * **Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services:** Appropriates $540,000 from the State General Fund for non-KanCare caseloads and $10,360,000 for Larned State Hospital operating expenditures for FY 2023. It increases the expenditure limitation for the Kansas Neurological Institute Fee Fund for FY 2023 and lapses $32,000,000 from the KanCare caseloads account for FY 2023. It also appropriates $715,000 from the State Institutions Building Fund for rehabilitation and repair projects for FY 2023. For FY 2024, it appropriates $200,000 for community services, $5,500,000 for non-KanCare caseloads, $2,500,000 for the PACE program expansion, $5,000,000 for counties and hospitals reimbursement, and $1,500,000 for nutrition grants. * **Kansas Department for Children and Families:** Appropriates $5,640,000 from the State General Fund for youth services aid and assistance for FY 2023. For FY 2024, it appropriates $511,288 for state operations and $867,444 for youth services aid and assistance, while also lapsing $3,550,000 from state operations. * **Department of Education:** Appropriates $13,534,722 from the State General Fund for a mental health intervention team pilot program for FY 2024, with extensive provisions detailing the program's goals, implementation, and reporting requirements. * **State Library:** Appropriates $30,000 from the State General Fund for the blind information access program for FY 2024, with provisions for contracting with an organization for on-demand information access services. Unencumbered balances are reappropriated for FY 2025. * **State Historical Society:** Appropriates $250,000 from the State General Fund for the Quindaro Ruins Archaeological Park Project for FY 2024, for the development of a master plan. * **Fort Hays State University:** Appropriates $6,000,000 from the State General Fund for a student success center for FY 2024. * **Kansas State University:** Appropriates $252,800 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures and $1,250,000 for the Polytechnic Campus for FY 2024, with a provision to support the turbine transition program for pilots. * **Pittsburg State University:** Appropriates $2,000,000 each from the State General Fund for the Global Center for STEM and the Center for Emerging Technologies for FY 2024. * **University of Kansas:** Includes provisions regarding the demolition of Smith Hall, requiring a revised master plan and public hearing before demolition can proceed. It also adjusts the transfer of funds from the Legislature Employment Security Fund to the University of Kansas and Wichita State University Health Collaboration Fund, with a potential transfer from the State General Fund. * **University of Kansas Medical Center:** Appropriates $27,000 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures, $943,000 for OBGYN medical student loans, $30,000 for OBGYN medical residency bridging loans, and $6,500,000 for the Health Science Center KUMed and WSU for FY 2024. It also directs a review of funding for the University of Kansas Cancer Center building. * **Wichita State University:** Appropriates $6,500,000 from the State General Fund for the Health Science Center WSU for FY 2024. It also adjusts the transfer of funds from the Legislature Employment Security Fund to the Wichita State University and University of Kansas Health Collaboration Fund, with a potential transfer from the State General Fund. * **State Board of Regents:** Appropriates $8,500,000 for the NISS Academic Playbook, $600,000 for Washburn student pathways, $10,500,000 for technical colleges operating grants, $700,000 for Hero's Act scholarships, and $5,000,000 for the independent colleges comprehensive grant program for FY 2024. It also appropriates unlimited amounts from the Kansas Adult Learner Grant Program Fund for FY 2024. It lapses an aggregate of $5,000,000 from university student aid for financial need accounts for FY 2024. For FY 2025, it appropriates $1,035,919 from the State General Fund for the state scholarship program. * **Department of Corrections:** Appropriates $227,377 from the State General Fund for Hutchinson Correctional Facility operations and $57,895 for Winfield Correctional Facility operations for FY 2023. For FY 2024, it appropriates $1,124,113 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures. * **Adjutant General:** Appropriates $410,913 from the State General Fund for rehabilitation and repair projects for FY 2023 and $1,208,100 for FY 2024. * **State Fire Marshal:** Prohibits the regulation or imposition of restrictions on agribusiness farm wineries for FY 2023 and FY 2024. * **Kansas Highway Patrol:** Authorizes the issuance of a Kansas Highway Patrol card to retired part-time state law enforcement officers with 10 or more years of service, for FY 2024. * **Attorney General - Kansas Bureau of Investigation:** Appropriates an unlimited amount from the Substance Use Disorder Federal Fund for FY 2023. For FY 2024, it appropriates $592,515 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures, with a provision to lapse $182,180 if specific legislation is not enacted. It also appropriates an unlimited amount from the Substance Use Disorder Federal Fund for FY 2024. * **Kansas Sentencing Commission:** Appropriates $1,800,000 from the State General Fund for substance abuse treatment programs for FY 2024, with a provision to lapse the entire amount if specific legislation is not enacted. * **Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training:** Increases expenditure limitations for the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training Fund for FY 2023 and FY 2024. * **Kansas Department of Agriculture:** Appropriates $1,955,405 from the State General Fund for operating expenditures for FY 2024. It also directs a study on the regulation of agribusiness farm wineries for FY 2023 and FY 2024. * **Kansas Water Office:** Appropriates $18,000,000 from the State Water Plan Fund for HB 2302 projects for FY 2024. It also appropriates unlimited amounts from the Water Projects Grant Fund and Water Technical Assistance Fund for FY 2024. It allows for transfers between State Water Plan Fund accounts with State Finance Council approval, not to exceed $18,000,000 in total for FY 2024. * **Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks:** Increases expenditure limitations for the Boating Fee Fund, Wildlife Fee Fund, State Parks Operating Expenditures account, Parks Fee Fund, and Department Access Roads Fund for FY 2024. * **Department of Transportation:** Increases the expenditure limitation for the Agency Operations account of the State Highway Fund for FY 2024. * **State Finance Council:** Appropriates $46,000,000 from the State General Fund for state employee pay increases for FY 2024, along with smaller amounts from other funds. It also authorizes the State Finance Council to approve increases in expenditure limitations and transfers between special revenue funds to cover salary increases. It details specific salary increase percentages and methods for classified, unclassified, legislative, and judicial branch employees, as well as specific employee groups. * **Department of Administration:** Directs the department to review and analyze the job market at different state agency and institution locations for FY 2024. * **Amendments and Repeals:** Amends K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-2263 regarding the investment of unclaimed property funds and K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 75-6707 regarding transfers to the budget stabilization fund, increasing the threshold for transfers to 20%. It also repeals these amended sections.