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KansasSB 1252025–2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Making and concerning supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2025 and appropriations for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for various state agencies, authorizing certain capital improvement projects and fees, authorizing certain transfers authorizing the payment of certain claims against the state.
Sponsored By: Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State
Signed by Governor
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Children’s health coverage income limit
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides children’s health insurance coverage at gross household income up to 250% of federal poverty guidelines. Children must also meet other program requirements. This income rule applies from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
Older crime victim awards remain payable
The Kansas Attorney General can pay awarded crime victim compensation claims regardless of when they were awarded. The law removes the award-date restriction but does not set an individual payment amount.
Community clinics get sliding-fee care funding
For FY2026, Kansas must distribute at least $18.75 million for community primary care grants and Community Care Network of Kansas services. Qualifying providers must offer comprehensive primary healthcare or dental care. They must provide income-based discounts and serve patients regardless of ability to pay. Patient panels must reflect community income disparities, and income- or insurance-based eligibility policies must be documented and posted.
Eight psychiatric beds for Hays-area children
For FY2026, Kansas must operate or contract for eight acute inpatient psychiatric beds for children. The beds must be in Hays or the surrounding area. Spending cannot exceed $4 million during that year.
Emergency financial help for military families
During fiscal year 2026, the adjutant general can provide emergency grants and interest-free loans to Kansas-resident Guard and reserve families. Help covers financial emergencies before, during, or after mobilization. Covered costs include medical bills, funerals, emergency travel, rent, utilities, child care, food, and other unexpected emergencies. The adjutant general sets eligibility and loan repayment terms; the law sets no individual award amount.
In-home help and care information for seniors
Kansas must spend at least $140,000 in FY2025 and $540,000 in FY2026 on in-home help for low-income older adults. The help serves people who can remain at home with those services. The law also requires at least $190,000 in FY2026 for a statewide directory of long-term care options. The directory must have an updated online version and a printable version.
Medicaid covers memory assessments and care planning
For FY2026, Kansas Medicaid must cover cognitive assessment and care planning under billing code CPT 99483. These services help qualifying patients assess memory and thinking problems and plan care. Kansas must submit any required state plan changes to the federal Medicaid agency.
Medical center students can receive insurance
The University of Kansas Medical Center may use restricted fees to buy health insurance for students in three schools. Eligible schools are Allied Health, Nursing, and Medicine. During fiscal year 2026, available appropriations may also buy extra malpractice insurance for its medical students in clinical training. That training may take place at the Medical Center or another healthcare institution. The law does not set premiums, coverage terms, or students’ shares of costs.
Medical residents may get dependent insurance reimbursement
For FY2026, the University of Kansas Medical Center may reimburse medical residents in its Kansas City residency programs. Reimbursement must cover purchases of health insurance for residents' dependents and come from the operating account. The law sets no payment amount and does not guarantee reimbursement.
Mental health team grants for schools
The law provides about $16.03 million for school mental health teams in FY2026, including $1.5 million for qualified schools. Districts must apply, name a partner provider, and obtain approval for their partnership agreement. District grants cover liaison pay and benefits; liaisons generally need a bachelor's degree, with limited waivers. Partner providers receive a pass-through grant equal to 35% of the district grant, and grants are prorated when funding falls short. Nonpublic schools must submit proposals and be accredited or working toward accreditation; awards follow board recommendations.
More health services for young children
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Kansas must provide newborn screening for Krabbe disease and GAMT condition. The law also requires $8 million from the infant and toddler program account for local aid and other assistance. That $8 million cannot pay agency administrative costs. At least $1.5 million from the account must support early childhood vision services for children served by the Kansas State School for the Blind.
More protected income for Medicaid clients
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Kansas sets protected income levels for calculating qualifying clients’ care payments. For clients receiving specified home- and community-based services or PACE services, the monthly level equals 300% of federal Supplemental Security Income. For Medicaid clients in the medically needy category, it equals 100% of that federal amount. These levels can reduce what clients must pay toward care; they do not increase federal Supplemental Security Income checks.
Pregnancy and parenting support continues
Kansas provides $3 million in FY2026 for pregnancy compassion awareness services and requires public outreach about them. Eligible Kansas residents include pregnant people, biological fathers, parents or guardians of children 24 months or younger, and people who lost a child. Parents or guardians of pregnant participants also qualify; services are available during pregnancy and up to 24 months after birth. The FY2025 nonprofit contractor may receive an extension of up to one year and assesses participants' service needs. Funds cannot cover abortions or additional services outside the program, or support organizations or affiliates that perform, induce, assist in, or refer for abortions.
School telehealth pilot waives student costs
Kansas must spend at least $2 million in FY2026 on a school-based mental health telehealth pilot. One selected provider must waive student out-of-pocket costs and cover costs for uninsured students. The provider must have experience serving at least 50,000 students. It must also have research-based outcomes from a Division I research university.
Shorter waiting lists for disability services
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas must use available funds to reduce two home and community-based disability service waiting lists. The physical disability waiver list must fall to 1,800 people or fewer. The intellectual or developmental disability waiver list must fall to 4,000 people or fewer. By January 12, 2026, the department must estimate funding needed to maintain these levels in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. These provisions do not provide a specific added appropriation or guarantee service to any one applicant.
Treatment funding helps uninsured people
Kansas may use up to $5 million to reimburse organizations treating uninsured people for substance use disorders. The money comes from the problem gambling and addictions grant fund. The cap covers total reimbursements, not each person's care. The law does not set individual payments or treatment length.
Wheelchair repairs and adult seating support
During fiscal year 2026, Medicaid covers wheelchair evaluation, diagnosis, repair-technician time, annual preventive maintenance, and necessary repairs. Technician services use the current labor rate; maintenance and necessary repairs use reimbursement based on current market rates. These services cannot require prior approval when the patient has a prescription for a complex power wheelchair. Separately, the cerebral palsy posture seating account may fund adult seating needs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
Emporia State students pay lower fees
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Emporia State’s student affordability account funds elimination of the memorial union debt fee. Full-time, on-campus students save $125.12 per semester. Part-time students save $14.83 per credit hour. The university and Kansas Board of Regents cannot raise other student fees to replace the lost revenue.
Lansing officers gain conditional extra pay
For FY2026, Kansas makes $4.143829 million available for extra pay for Lansing correctional officers. Corrections must certify that the Leavenworth County private prison operates as an ICE detention center and the funding is necessary. Spending also requires approval by the governor and a majority of legislative members of the State Finance Council. The authority ends June 30, 2026; individual pay amounts are not set.
Pay raises for eligible state workers
The law provides $40 million in general funds, plus $76,693 from three special funds, for raises and related employer contributions. Raises start with the first payroll period charged to fiscal year 2026. Eligible classified executive workers get a one-step raise; specified executive workers get adjustments based on the 2024 market survey. These include at least 2.5% for positions no more than 10% below market, and 1% for positions over 10% above market. Specified unclassified, court, Regents, and university workers receive 2.5% merit pools, not guaranteed individual raises. Exclusions cover legislators, statewide elected officers, specified judges, state deaf or blind school teachers and licensed staff, and workers on formal written career progression plans.
Qualifying union workers get unemployment flexibility
During FY2026, qualifying workers covered by collective bargaining agreements can be treated as temporarily unemployed for up to six months. They must be laid off for lack of work by their most recent full-time employer. They must reasonably expect to return full time to that employer within six months. During temporary unemployment, they need not search for work or join My Reemployment Plan. Temporary unemployment benefits are limited to eight weeks; this provision ends June 30, 2026.
Relocation incentives for households moving to Kansas
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas provides $1.5 million yearly in fiscal years 2026 and 2027 for community recruitment grants. Approved households moving or committing to move to Kansas must earn at least $55,000 annually; individual incentive amounts are not specified. Cities, counties, Native American tribes, and nonprofits focused on economic, workforce, talent, or community development can apply. Applications must include costs, household goals, expected tax revenue, and economic impact; grants cannot exceed $250,000 per approved application. Applicants must supply local investments and in-kind donations worth at least 20% of program costs. Half is paid at approval; half follows after reaching half the household goal, and households may also receive statewide incentives.
Scholarships support specified Black college students
Through June 30, 2026, all spending from the monumental life settlement fund must support scholarships for African-American students. Students must be currently enrolled at and attending an accredited Kansas higher education institution. Their designated major must be mathematics, computer science, or business. The law does not set award amounts or the number of scholarships.
Technical tuition aid includes adult learners
The law provides $47.05 million for technical education tuition in fiscal year 2026. At least $500,000 pays tuition for adults taking technical classes while earning a high school equivalency credential through Accelerating Opportunity. Institutions must give each student a transcript after completing the technical course. Tuition reimbursement must be paid within 60 days after classes start.
Tribal students can receive resident tuition
In fiscal year 2026, Kansas postsecondary schools may charge resident tuition and fees to members of tribes or Indigenous nations named in the law. Students must be enrolled members of one of those groups. Their residence before admission does not prevent this treatment. The authority ends June 30, 2026.
Funding supports school and state pensions
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas funds school employers' payments into the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. Unified school districts receive about $527.62 million, and non-unified districts receive about $33.88 million. Another $41.43 million from expanded lottery revenues must reduce pension debt tied to the state and participating employers. These payments support pension funding; they do not change individual pension benefit formulas.
Kansas State Gets Campus Operating Funds
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas State University receives $117.412263 million for operations, including official hospitality. Its Salina campus receives $9.465238 million, and the College of Aviation jet account receives $1.2 million. Unspent, uncommitted balances above $100 from June 30, 2025, also carry forward. Eligible Polytechnic Campus balances move to the Salina account.
Kansas university housing gains bond financing
For FY2026–FY2027, the University of Kansas can support bonds for student housing on its Lawrence campus. Projects may include new residence halls and purchases of existing leased apartment complexes. Bond proceeds are capped at $100 million, plus specified costs and reserves, with special revenue appropriations financing debt payments. The university must maintain the housing and related equipment and infrastructure. The bonds do not pledge Kansas's full faith and credit or taxing power; no student rent level is set.
Kansas university refinancing must lower payments
In FY2027, the state finance authority may refinance the University of Kansas's 2016 campus development bonds. Refinancing must reduce debt payments, with proceeds capped at $276 million plus specified costs and reserves. Special revenue appropriations finance payments, and the university must maintain the original project and related equipment and infrastructure. The bonds are not state debt and do not pledge Kansas's full faith and credit or taxing power.
Veterinary lab gets conditional bond financing
For FY2026–FY2027, Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Center can support bonds for a Manhattan veterinary diagnostic lab. Before issuance, the center must certify receipt of $2 million in private donations. Bond proceeds are capped at $128 million, plus specified costs and reserves. State general fund and special revenue appropriations finance debt payments, and the center must maintain the lab. The bonds do not pledge Kansas's full faith and credit or taxing power.
Shorter Medicaid protection for some adults
Kansas must seek federal approval to end 12-month continuous Medicaid eligibility for adults in the categories listed in the law. Federal approval is required before coverage rules change. The change starts on the next January 1 or July 1 after approval notice appears in the Kansas Register. After that date, state money cannot support this continuous eligibility period.
Small businesses lose research grant funding
On the act's effective date, Kansas removes $1.935139 million from its fiscal year 2025 small business research and development grant account. This leaves less money available for grants. The law does not say how individual applications or awards change.
State agencies must end diversity programs
State agencies must eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion positions, mandates, policies, programs, preferences, activities, required employee training, grants, and contracts. They must also remove gender-identifying pronouns or gender ideology from employee email signatures and other communications. By August 1, 2025, the administration secretary, consulting the governor’s department, must certify these steps. The secretary must present the certification and additional information at a State Finance Council meeting.
Less state funding for Kansas schools
On the act’s effective date, Kansas cancels about $130.63 million in FY2025 foundation aid and $12.71 million in supplemental aid. It also cancels about $2.08 million for school district juvenile detention facilities and Flint Hills Job Corps Center grants. All available FY2025 spending authority for the SparkWheel program is canceled, with no amount stated. On July 1, 2025, Kansas cancels about $156.09 million in FY2026 foundation aid and $4 million in supplemental aid. The law does not specify district-by-district effects.
State agencies face operating budget cuts
Kansas cuts specified State General Fund operating budgets by 1.5% on July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026. The same cuts apply to specified Transportation Department operations paid from the State Highway Fund. Covered costs include pay, contracts, supplies, and equipment; local aid, capital improvements, debt service, and other assistance are excluded. Listed branches, agencies, institutions, correctional facilities, and universities are also exempt. On June 30, 2026, funding tied to State General Fund positions vacant during part or all of FY2026 expires, except University of Kansas geological survey account positions.
Senior services funded with placement limits
For FY2026, Kansas provides $5.515 million for senior care and $9.045725 million for nutrition services. Applicants and recipients must receive appropriate services that are most economical for the state's general fund. This does not create a new personal payment duty. Area agencies must report services and recipient counts: FY2026 for senior care and federal FY2025 for nutrition.
State employee awards and pay progression
In fiscal year 2026, state agencies may use established award programs for hiring, recruitment, and retention payments, including appointed employees. Total gross awards are capped at $10,000 per employee. Awards totaling over $3,500 need governor approval for classified employees and unclassified employees whose salaries fall under the specified state law. Separately, Wildlife and Parks may use eligible special-revenue salary funds for natural resource officers’ progression within the existing pay structure. Officers cannot be required to enter unclassified service to progress.
Crime facilities get publicly funded bonds
The law allows up to 30-year bonds for a downtown Topeka investigation headquarters, capped at $80 million plus specified financing costs. Headquarters bonds need State Finance Council approval, legislative building committee consultation, and certification that property tax credits were pursued. It also allows 20-year bonds for a Pittsburg regional crime center and laboratory, capped at $40 million plus specified financing costs. Public appropriations finance both projects' debt payments, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation must provide maintenance. Pittsburg bonds are obligations only of the finance authority and do not pledge state taxing power.
Local matching grants get funding ceiling
The law directs $5 million to the Build Kansas Matching Grant Fund on July 1, 2025, or when money becomes available. Total general fund transfers for fiscal years 2025 through 2027 cannot exceed $165 million. The $5 million transfer is canceled if earlier State Finance Council transfers have already reached that ceiling. The fund supports matching grants for local governments and other eligible recipients.
College Funding Includes Capital Match Requirements
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $88.361538 million in non-tiered course-credit grants and $66.453525 million in tiered technical education aid. Listed community and technical colleges receive the amounts specified in the law. Technical colleges also share $7 million in operating grants equally. Another $12.419311 million supports capital purchases at listed colleges in specified amounts. Each capital expenditure requires an equal match from nonstate money or donated equipment.
Free outdoor licenses for disabled veterans
Kansas-resident veterans with honorable separation and a certified service-connected disability of at least 30% qualify for free hunting and fishing licenses. The Kansas Office of Veterans Services must certify the disability. Free annual licenses apply to calendar year 2026, depend on available reimbursement money, and exclude other hunting or fishing permits. Eligible veterans age 65 or older can receive free senior lifetime licenses from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The wildlife secretary administers both benefits under state policies.
Free outdoor licenses for Guard families
For calendar year 2026, Kansas Army and Air National Guard members can get free annual hunting and fishing licenses. They can also get one free annual park vehicle permit per family. Benefits follow state wildlife policies and depend on money appropriated and available in the reimbursement account. All 2026 hunting, fishing, and annual park permit applications must offer an optional donation of $2 or more. Donations support free licenses for eligible disabled veterans and Guard members, plus Guard park permits.
Named prisoners receive lost property payments
Corrections pays four named claimants for lost property. Perry L. Isley receives $50 and Kendall Golston receives $30.04 from Hutchinson facility operating funds. Franklyn Harrison receives $50 from Larned funds, and Dexter Robinson receives $100 from Lansing funds. Each must first sign a written release settling related claims against Kansas and its agencies, officers, and employees.
Departing residents can keep personal items
Residents leaving Kansas Neurological Institute or Parsons State Hospital and Training Center for community living can take qualifying personal items. The items must have been made for their use and personally used by them.
Nursing homes pilot added behavioral care
A FY2026 pilot pays participating nursing homes extra to meet Medicaid residents' behavioral health needs. It covers no more than 125 residents, with added payments capped at $175 per resident per Medicaid day. Money is limited to specialized staff training and enhanced care. Facilities must provide individual support plans, monthly psychiatric medication reviews, and outcome tracking with the contracted support provider.
Prescription help at participating health clinics
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas supports prescription help through its primary health projects account. Patients at participating 340B clinics get help with part of prescription costs using a sliding fee scale. Money also supports drug inventory at qualifying community health centers and look-alikes, plus prescription assistance program operations. Funded clinics must be nonprofit or publicly funded primary care or dental clinics. This authority ends June 30, 2026.
Senior companion volunteers can get insurance
In fiscal year 2026, Fort Hays State University can buy insurance for volunteers in its senior companion program. Its university federal fund can pay for accident, personal liability, and excess automobile liability coverage. Coverage must follow federal grant specifications. The authorization runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
University health staff gain insurance option
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Fort Hays State University can buy malpractice insurance using its health fees fund. Coverage can protect employees on the student health center’s medical staff, including pharmacists and physical therapists. The law sets no coverage amount.
Exchange students gain local school access
During FY2026, foreign exchange students living with host families must be allowed to attend the host family's Kansas school district. Districts must treat them as residents for enrollment and attendance. The open-seat lottery cannot exclude them.
Free online math tutoring for students
Kansas provides $2 million for a virtual math program that districts may use. Students pay no fee, and tutoring must be available in multiple languages. The program must meet state standards, use evidence-based teaching, and offer teacher training. It must have operated in another state within the prior eight fiscal years. Districts report twice during school year 2025–2026; the department reports during the 2026 legislative session.
Funding for student scholarships and tuition
The law provides $358,836 for technical education tuition in fiscal year 2025. For fiscal year 2026, it provides $1 million each for nursing student scholarships and osteopathic service scholarships. Kansas education opportunity scholarships receive $1.7 million for fiscal year 2026. These funding provisions do not set individual awards or detailed eligibility rules.
Need-based aid for state university students
For fiscal year 2026, Fort Hays State receives about $3.54 million for need-based student aid. Kansas State receives about $3.95 million, and Wichita State receives about $4.25 million for that purpose. Kansas State's unused balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. Starting July 1, 2025, or when money is available, the state must transfer the Fort Hays president's chosen amount, up to $125,000, from general fees to its Perkins loan fund. These provisions do not set individual aid awards or loan terms.
People facing poverty get financial training
The Department for Aging and Disability Services must spend at least $350,000 on financial training and peer mentoring in fiscal year 2026. The services address poverty and use the department's behavioral health services account. The law does not set a cash payment or per-person benefit.
Workers compensation payments gain timing flexibility
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Kansas can use the Workers Compensation Fund for covered payments regardless of timing. This includes attorney fees, other costs, and benefits, regardless of service dates or the initial benefit award date. The law does not change benefit amounts.
Agriculture fines can fund compliance education
In fiscal year 2026, the agriculture secretary can direct designated civil fines and penalties into the compliance education fee fund. That fund can pay only for compliance education. The authority ends June 30, 2026.
Animal care education gets operating support
The livestock commissioner must use the animal dealers fee fund to operate an authorized animal care and treatment course. The course must be available online or through printed booklets. The law does not state a spending amount or create a new fee for course users.
Correctional industries can pay late claims
During fiscal year 2026, the accounts director must accept authorized Kansas Correctional Industries claims submitted or processed after the service year. Claims must cover operating or manufacturing costs and be payable from the Correctional Industries Fund. The Correctional Industries director must give the budget director a detailed payment accounting by September 15, 2026.
Crime analysis and hazardous cleanup get funding
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation receives $500,000 for forensic genetic genealogy DNA analysis in fiscal year 2026. The analysis must help solve violent crimes or identify human remains. Another $51,447 supports methamphetamine lab cleanup at sites law enforcement determines are hazardous because of drug production. The bureau can contract for cleanup, and both spending authorities run through June 30, 2026.
Dedicated funds support local water projects
Money collected for river water intake gauges goes to the cooperative gauge agreement grants fund. The agriculture secretary can partner with the U.S. Geological Survey to build and operate gauges. Local government contributions for water-project matches go to the local water project match fund. All money there must match state funding, federal funding, or both for water projects. The law sets no total funding amount.
Domestic violence prevention grants receive funding
Kansas provides about $25.11 million from the state general fund for domestic violence prevention grants in FY2026. The appropriation supports grants and services, not a set payment to any household or grant recipient.
Election security and administration get funding
The law provides $200,000 from the State General Fund for an election security grant in fiscal year 2025. Beginning July 1, 2025, the General Fund also transfers interest to the democracy fund during fiscal year 2026. Transfers are due by the 10th of each month. Each amount uses the prior month's average daily fund balance and the pooled investment portfolio's net earnings rate.
Environment funds gain broader operating uses
During fiscal year 2026, KDHE can use environment training fee money for Division of Environment operations. Agency asbestos-remediation receipts must go into the asbestos fund after the Secretary certifies their connection to asbestos work. The Secretary can move State Water Plan appropriations among division items with budget director approval, certifying transfers to the accounts director. Copies must go to legislative research staff and the specified committee chairs. Beginning July 1, 2025, and as needed through June 30, 2026, the accounts director must transfer federal-program receipts from designated funds to environment overhead funding in amounts the Secretary specifies.
Equipment funding supports local public safety
During fiscal year 2026, the State Fire Marshal must award equipment grants to local volunteer fire departments. Total grants from the fire marshal fee fund cannot exceed $500,000. Wichita State University can also spend all available federal bulletproof vest partnership money in fiscal year 2025. The law sets no spending cap or fund balance for that university account.
Forfeiture money can improve Patrol headquarters
The Kansas Highway Patrol can use its federal forfeiture fund for capital improvements at Troop F headquarters. This spending authority ends June 30, 2026. The law sets no project amount.
Funding for environmental operations and records
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides about $2.97 million for environment division operations, including official hospitality. It carries forward the June 30, 2025, uncommitted balance above $100 and allows spending available special-fund money under each fund’s rules. The Secretary sets transfers from available special funds to environmental or public-health overhead funds for administrative costs. Another $425,000 funds a one-time link between the environmental information system and Perceptive Content for electronic filing. Spending requires an approved report on tanks-program usability and approval from the governor and a majority of legislative State Finance Council members.
Funding for highway patrol and motorists
For fiscal year 2026, up to $2 million in motor carrier license fees can support Highway Patrol motor carrier safety. Transfers are capped at $500,000 each on July 1 and October 1, 2025, and January 1 and April 1, 2026. The Corporation Commission's executive director sets amounts with budget director approval; transfers can follow those dates when money becomes available. The law also transfers $295,000 from the highway fund for motorist assistance and $250,000 for patrol operations. Those two transfers occur July 1, 2025, or when money becomes available.
Funding keeps Kansas Highway Patrol operating
The law provides about $78.97 million from the Kansas Highway Patrol operations fund for fiscal year 2026. Official hospitality spending from this fund cannot exceed $3,000.
Funding repairs at state investigation facilities
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation receives $300,000 for facility repairs in fiscal year 2026. Unused repair account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. The money supports agency facilities, not household payments.
Funding rules support abuse victim services
During fiscal year 2026, the attorney general can use child exchange and visitation center account money for matching funds. The attorney general can also contract with agencies or organizations for abuse, neglect, or exploitation investigation and legal services. Those contracts use the abuse, neglect, and exploitation unit account. Fiscal year 2026 protection-from-abuse and crime-victim assistance grant decisions must consider recommendations from the federally designated domestic-violence or sexual-assault coalition. These provisions set no funding amounts.
Funding supports child advocates and centers
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides about $4.59 million for child advocacy centers. Court Appointed Special Advocate programs receive about $1.23 million through a state grant. The law does not set amounts for individual centers, local programs, or households.
Funding supports children's program accountability
For fiscal year 2026, the Department of Education receives $375,000 for the Children's Cabinet accountability fund. The money comes from the Children's Initiatives Fund. Unused account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. This funds the accountability account, not household payments.
Funding supports cleaner Kansas water
Fiscal year 2026 water projects receive about $6.79 million, including about $3.12 million for contamination cleanup. Local environmental protection and drinking water protection each receive $800,000; watershed restoration and protection receives $1 million. Funding also includes $446,213 for runoff pollution and $395,942 for pollution limits and water-use studies. The Milford and Marion reservoir algae pilot receives $155,934, and Equus beds receives $75,000. Eligible unspent balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, carry forward, including small-town infrastructure money moved to its support account; authority ends June 30, 2026.
Funding supports the state guardianship program
The Kansas Guardianship Program receives about $1.44 million in general funds for fiscal year 2026. Unused program account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. The law supports the program but does not set direct household payments.
Funding supports wildfire and forest services
Kansas provides $699,973 for wildfire suppression and the state forest service in fiscal year 2026. Unused balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. The funding supports state operations rather than direct household payments.
Gambling investigators can use enforcement funds
The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission can use its illegal gambling enforcement fund for investigation, seizure, and forfeiture costs. Covered costs include undercover evidence purchases, information, and direct or indirect operating expenses. Recovered investigative money and other enforcement money received or awarded to the commission must return to the fund.
Highway funds support patrol and aircraft
For FY2025, the patrol operations spending ceiling rises from about $77.31 million to $78.93 million. The law transfers about $1.475 million from the state highway fund at enactment or when funds become available. For FY2026, it schedules about $19.742 million each on July 1, October 1, January 1, and April 1, totaling about $78.969 million. Those transfers may occur later when funds become available, and highway funds may support patrol operations that year. Starting July 1, 2025, or when available, highway funds also provide $1.3 million for patrol aircraft and $1.5 million for executive aircraft, with matching maintenance and operations spending caps.
Highway Patrol can use capital balances
During fiscal year 2026, the Kansas Highway Patrol can spend available balances in existing special-revenue capital improvement accounts. This authority is in addition to other spending limits. Spending from each account cannot exceed its uncommitted balance as of June 30, 2026.
Highway Patrol dispatch move gets funding
The law requires at least $24 million in fiscal year 2026 spending to move Kansas Highway Patrol central dispatch facilities. Federal pandemic relief money transfers from the Governor's Department fund for this purpose. Any certified shortage is covered by a State General Fund transfer. The superintendent must report the shortage to state accounting, budget, and legislative research officials.
Highway Patrol facilities get repair funding
The law requires at least $500,000 for Salina academy repairs in fiscal year 2025, backed by an equal highway-fund transfer. That transfer occurs when the law takes effect or when funds become available afterward. For fiscal year 2026, training center and vehicle identification number fee funds can pay academy repairs without stated project spending limits. Federal forfeiture funds also support academy repairs, a Troop F storage building, and new construction without stated project limits. About $1.58 million supports fiscal year 2026 scale replacement and building repairs, with an equal highway-fund transfer July 1, 2025, or when available afterward.
Highway Patrol gets Wichita hangar funding
The Kansas Highway Patrol can lease a hangar at Colonel James Jabara Airport in Wichita. The agreement can cover a third party's design, construction, and equipment work. Special revenue funds can pay lease preparation and signing costs. The law transfers $650,000 from the highway fund to the aircraft fund on July 1, 2026, or when available afterward. Aircraft fund spending for the fiscal year 2027 hangar lease has no stated limit.
Historic sites receive designated taxpayer contributions
During fiscal year 2026, Revenue must arrange with the Kansas Historical Society to transfer taxpayer-designated contributions to the historic site fund. The agreement covers contributions designated in fiscal year 2026 and earlier years. The requirement runs through June 30, 2026. The law states no total amount and creates no new household tax benefit.
Human rights mediation gets service funding
The Human Rights Commission can spend up to $174,000 on mediation services during fiscal year 2026. The services must be contracted with Kansas Legal Services. The money comes from the commission's operating account and does not provide household cash payments.
Kansas expands police fund spending options
For fiscal year 2026, the Highway Patrol can use its state forfeiture fund for non-supervisory staff pay and benefits. The criminal justice information system line fund can pay staff, services, supplies, and capital costs to maintain the system. These spending permissions end June 30, 2026; neither provision sets a spending amount.
Kansas funds historic sites and repairs
For fiscal year 2026, the Historical Society receives $375,000 for repairs and can use designated special-revenue money for projects. Specified uncommitted balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. Spending from existing capital accounts cannot exceed each account's uncommitted balance on June 30, 2026. The society must also send historic site fund money to taxpayer-selected state-owned sites for operations, upkeep, and preservation. These authorities run through June 30, 2026.
Kansas funds water planning and research
On July 1, 2025, or when funds become available, Kansas transfers $7 million to the State Water Plan Fund. The money comes from the state general fund account for Milford and Perry reservoir water storage debt payments. The Water Wide Institute also receives $5 million for FY2026, plus qualifying uncommitted balances above $100 on June 30, 2025. By January 12, 2026, Kansas State University must submit a water plan and report to legislative committees and the governor. The report must address water quality and quantity goals, accomplishments, and return on investment.
Kansas geological surveys receive targeted funding
The University of Kansas must spend at least $760,809 on airborne electromagnetic surveys by June 30, 2025. An equal transfer from the Governor's Department federal relief fund supports the work at the Kansas Geological Survey. The university must also spend at least $100,000 on seismic surveys by June 30, 2026. That money comes from its state-funded geological survey account.
Late local jail claims remain payable
During fiscal year 2026, the accounts and reports director must accept authorized claims against the Corrections Department’s local jail payments account. Claims can cover qualifying costs even when submitted or processed after the fiscal year when services were provided. The rule does not expand the types of costs covered and ends June 30, 2026.
Military department gets facility repair funding
The Adjutant General's Department receives $3.5 million from the state general fund for repairs in fiscal year 2026. Uncommitted balances above $100 as of June 30, 2025, remain available in four accounts. These cover rehabilitation and repair, the Hays armory, the SDB remodel, and deferred maintenance.
Motorcycle safety money moves between agencies
On July 1, 2025, motorcycle safety money transfers from the Department of Education to the State Board of Regents. The education commissioner certifies the amount based on payments required by state law. The law states no transfer amount or household payment.
Parks gain road and capital flexibility
Wildlife and Parks can use its access road fund for Transportation Department road improvements in state parks and on public lands. It can also spend uncommitted balances in existing capital accounts across the listed special revenue funds, beyond other spending limits. Spending from each account cannot exceed its uncommitted balance as of June 30, 2026. The law states no total project amount.
Railroad crossing help for local governments
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas transportation officials can establish railroad crossing assistance for cities and counties. Eligible crossings must be on roads outside the state highway system. Funding can come from the other capital improvements account. The law does not set an assistance amount.
Reimbursement helps owners replace underground tanks
During fiscal year 2026, the underground storage tank redevelopment fund can reimburse eligible owners for replacing single-wall tank systems. Owners must replace every component with a secondary-containment system that meets state requirements. Replacement must occur after August 8, 2005, and owners must meet the state program’s other eligibility requirements. The law sets no reimbursement amount, and this spending authority ends June 30, 2026.
Repairs funded at adult and juvenile prisons
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $4.182 million for correctional facility repairs, capital work, and security improvements, including equipment. The corrections secretary can move this money among facilities under the secretary's authority. Juvenile correctional facilities receive a separate $913,619 for repairs and approved capital projects. Juvenile project transfers require certification to accounts officials and copies to budget and legislative research officials.
River conservation and water data advance
In fiscal year 2026, the Kansas Water Office must pay the certified conservation grant amount to Cheyenne County Conservation District. Money is limited to specified projects in the designated South Fork upper Republican River basin area. Both agencies must approve spending, and the district must report spending and newly approved project status by November 1, 2026. The grant's dollar amount is not stated in this provision. During fiscal year 2026, the Water Office must also coordinate water quality and quantity databases across state and cooperating federal agencies.
State parks get roads and repairs
The law transfers $3.4 million for Wildlife and Parks access roads and $200,000 for bridge maintenance. Both highway-fund transfers occur July 1, 2025, or when funds become available afterward. Fiscal year 2026 spending authority includes about $1.29 million from park fees for repairs and $428,712 from cabin revenue for site preparation. Uncommitted June 30, 2025, balances above $100 remain available in fiscal year 2026 for three accounts. Those accounts cover the El Dorado shower house, Flint Hills trail system, and state park operations.
Tribal gaming oversight gets spending authority
During fiscal year 2026, the state gaming agency can use the tribal gaming fund to oversee class III gaming. Covered work includes tribal-state agreement compliance, investigations, law enforcement, and applicant and vendor background checks. The provision does not state a spending amount.
Veterans get benefit assistance and repairs
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $1 million to veterans groups that help veterans obtain federal benefits. That money cannot pay state agency operating costs or grant-administration overhead. Repairs receive $201,980 for veterans cemeteries, $798,670 for the Soldiers’ Home, and about $1.81 million for the Veterans’ Home. Eligible unspent balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, remain available in the cemetery and northeast Kansas veterans’ home accounts. The funding authority runs through June 30, 2026.
Water pollution grants receive bond proceeds
Specified state finance authority bond proceeds must go into the Kansas Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund. These proceeds are designated for federal Clean Water Act matching grant payments. The fund can spend them on those grants. The law states no dollar amount or end date.
Wildlife and boating projects get funding
For fiscal year 2026, wildlife fee funds support $284,250 for shooting ranges, $400,000 for land, and about $3.46 million for repairs. They also support $100,000 for Coast Guard boating projects and $573,000 for federally required boating access. The law allows another $775,000 from the migratory waterfowl fund for wetlands purchases. Coast Guard boating projects can also use the boating safety and financial assistance fund without a stated project spending limit. These spending permissions are in addition to limits otherwise placed on the funds.
Funding supports Kansas water projects
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides about $12.44 million for water planning, conservation, monitoring, research, and reservoir work. Funding includes $2 million for High Plains aquifer partnerships and $1.5 million each for assessment, project development, and the John Redmond reservoir hydrosuction pilot. It also provides about $1.46 million for water quality partnerships, $850,000 for HB 2302 projects, $778,711 for storage upkeep, and $698,708 for stream gaging. Conservation assistance and reservoir research each receive $500,000; program evaluation receives $450,000, outreach $400,000, and the Arbuckle study $300,000. Unused balances above $100 in specified accounts on June 30, 2025, carry forward.
Care home penalties must protect residents
Civil monetary penalties collected from adult care homes go to the medical resources and collection fund. The Department for Aging and Disability Services must use those collections to protect residents’ health or property, as federal law requires. The law states no individual payment amount.
Emporia can insure student health staff
In fiscal year 2026, Emporia State University can use student health fees to buy medical malpractice liability insurance. Coverage can protect student health center medical employees, including pharmacists and physical therapists. The authority ends June 30, 2026.
Funding supports child abuse medical reviews
For FY2026, the child abuse review and evaluation account must fund healthcare provider training to recognize child abuse. It must also reimburse reviews and examinations performed by providers with that training. This provision states no specific funding amount.
Funding supports children’s health programs
For FY2026, the Children’s Initiatives Fund provides Kansas health officials about $1.661 million for Healthy Start. It provides $5.8 million for the infants and toddlers program. Smoking prevention receives about $1.002 million, and the SIDS network grant receives $122,106. Each account also carries forward June 30, 2025, balances above $100 that are not committed to expenses. These appropriations do not set individual family payments or eligibility.
Funding supports substance use treatment providers
For FY2026, Medicaid pays providers $375 per day for covered adolescent substance use disorder treatment. Kansas must also spend at least $1.8 million on workforce development for substance use treatment providers. These payments support treatment providers, not direct checks to families.
Hospitals receive adult behavioral health funding
For July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the law provides $10 million for adult inpatient behavioral health care. Recipients are AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, Ascension Via Christi St. Joseph campus, Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, and Salina Regional Health Center. Stormont Vail Regional Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System also receive funding. Each facility's share depends on its available adult behavioral health beds.
Kansas certifies and funds behavioral health clinics
For FY2026, Kansas must implement a process to certify and fund community behavioral health clinics. Clinics must be licensed by the state aging and disability agency. Required services include crisis care, outpatient mental health and substance use care, medical screening, and medication-assisted treatment. This provision does not state a total funding amount.
Kansas funds child care programs
For FY2026, the Department for Children and Families receives about $5.034 million for child care from the Children’s Initiatives Fund. Child care account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward unless already committed to expenses. The law does not set family eligibility, payments, or savings.
Kansas funds infectious disease screening and treatment
For FY2026, Kansas must spend at least $250,000 from the public health operating account on infectious disease control. This covers tuberculosis and other infectious diseases designated by the health and environment secretary, including screening, diagnosis, and treatment. A separate provision permits up to $96,000 from the health operating account for tuberculosis screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Both provisions end June 30, 2026.
Kansas funds school food assistance
Kansas provides about $2.51 million for school food assistance in FY2026. The appropriation supports schools and students but does not set individual eligibility or a per-student benefit.
Local health funding and stroke prevention
For FY2026, applying local health departments must receive at least $12,000 each when sufficient money is available. Remaining money follows existing distribution rules; those rules also control when funds cannot cover the minimum. Kansas may also use the state trauma fund for its stroke prevention project during FY2026. The stroke provision states no dollar amount.
Maternity centers gain insurance provider status
During fiscal year 2026, qualifying maternity centers count as healthcare providers under the Healthcare Provider Insurance Availability Act. A center qualifies through Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers accreditation or by meeting Kansas’s statutory maternity center definition. This status applies from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It does not itself create patient insurance coverage.
Mental health centers get evaluation rates
During fiscal year 2026, the Department for Aging and Disability Services must make agreements with community mental health centers. Those agreements must set provider rates for mobile competency evaluations. The law does not state the rates or change household payments.
More support for behavioral health services
Kansas raises the FY2025 problem gambling and addictions grant fund’s spending limit by $550,000. The limit rises from about $8.42 million to $8.97 million. For FY2026, Fort Hays State University receives $250,000 for mental health providers’ telehealth certification. Neither provision guarantees payments to patients or households.
Nursing facilities get staffing waiver guidelines
During fiscal year 2026, the state must set guidelines for nursing facilities to request staffing waivers. The guidelines must fit federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rules. The state must also study similar guidelines for other adult care homes. The law does not itself grant waivers or change staffing levels.
Rural family doctor training receives funding
For FY2026, Kansas provides $1 million for rural family medicine graduate training at two organizations. The recipients are the Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and the Salina Health Education Foundation. The money supports medical training, not direct household payments.
State care facilities get repair funding
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides about $3.45 million for repairs at aging and disability services facilities. The money comes from the state institutions building fund. The Secretary can transfer money to institutional accounts for approved projects and support repairs at other department facilities. Another $129,620 pays Larned State Hospital’s share of the City of Larned wastewater treatment system.
Veterans lottery funds split between services
In fiscal year 2026, half of veterans benefit lottery fund spending supports agency operations, capital improvements, and veterans facilities. Those facilities include the Kansas veterans' home, soldiers' home, and state veterans cemetery system. The other half supports the veterans enhanced service delivery program. The split applies through June 30, 2026, and does not set individual payment amounts.
Southwest Kansas homeless shelter gets renovations
Kansas must spend at least $650,000 in fiscal year 2026 to help renovate a homeless shelter in southwest Kansas. The money comes from the aging and disability agency's behavioral health services account. It supports shelter renovations, not direct payments to residents.
Blind and deaf schools receive upgrades
For FY2026, the School for the Blind receives $1.322718 million for repairs, $306,342 for security, and $1.4185 million for boilers and heating and cooling. The School for the Deaf receives $2.005712 million for repairs and $397,356 for campus safety and security. It also receives $1.59275 million for boilers and heating and cooling. These building-fund spending authorizations end June 30, 2026.
Children's grants receive funding and carryover
The Kansas Department of Education receives about $23.72 million for Children's Initiatives Fund grants in FY2026. Uncommitted balances above $100 as of June 30, 2025, also remain available for that year. These are grants to organizations; this provision does not set family payments or individual eligibility rules.
Firearm detection software for public schools
The law provides $10 million for school firearm-detection software in fiscal year 2025, with the same account rules in 2026. Public schools must apply to the attorney general and name participating buildings. The attorney general must hire a private vendor whose software detects visible, unholstered firearms and alerts staff and first responders. The software must meet federal SAFETY Act, camera-integration, continuous vendor-monitoring, and U.S. development requirements. State funding is intended to end after fiscal year 2026; districts continuing the program must use existing resources.
Funding for Children With Disabilities
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $10 million for special education services aid. Programs serving deaf-blind children and children with severe disabilities receive $110,000. The money supports programs and school districts rather than direct family payments. These provisions do not set per-child awards or change individual eligibility.
Funding for Preschool and Early Learning
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $4.2 million for the pre-K pilot and $1.419196 million for early childhood infrastructure. The Imagination Library receives $1.5 million. Each account also carries forward unspent, uncommitted balances above $100 from June 30, 2025. This funds programs, not direct family payments, and does not set individual eligibility rules.
Funding for School Employee Pensions
For fiscal year 2025, Kansas provides $1.379498 million for school employer pension contributions outside unified school districts. Unified school district contributions receive $10.325891 million. The money supports employer payments into the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. This provision does not set a change in individual pension benefits.
Funding for School Internet and Technology
Kansas must spend at least $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 on the state match for the E-rate school connectivity program. The law also transfers $70,000 from the Board of Regents' federal E-rate fund to the Education Department's technology coordinator fund. That transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as money is available.
Funding for Student Tests and Support
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $2.8 million for ACT and WorkKeys assessments. Career and technical education transportation aid receives $1.482338 million. The Education Department must also spend at least $1.258 million on SparkWheel student success services. These funds support student services, not set payments to individual families.
Kansas State receives biosecurity research funding
Kansas State University receives about $2.19 million from the state general fund for biosecurity research in FY2026. The funding supports research through June 30, 2026, rather than direct household payments.
Middle schoolers get career exploration pilot
Kansas must spend at least $320,000 in FY2026 on a virtual-reality career exploration pilot for grades 6–8. The pilot supports career planning, including individual high school study plans. Each $2 in state funds requires $1 in nonstate or private funds. The education department runs it through Kansas Youth Career Discovery Partners.
New commission reviews Kansas higher education
The law creates a 17-member Blue Ribbon Commission to study Kansas higher education and recommend changes. Nine members form a quorum. A preliminary report is due January 1, 2026, and a final report is due January 1, 2027. Members' terms end January 1, 2027, and authorized meetings qualify for expenses, mileage, and subsistence payments. The commission does not itself change tuition or student benefits.
Online history lessons receive state funding
For FY2026, Kansas may spend up to $2 million developing and buying a supplemental online American history curriculum. It must include history lessons, reporting tools, and teacher training. The education department must report on implementation, student engagement, and learning results by January 12, 2026.
Quarterly Funding for School Bus Safety
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $93,750 from the state highway fund to the school bus safety fund. Transfers continue every quarter. The money supports school bus safety programs, not direct payments to families.
Reading resources and teacher training funded
Kansas provides an $80,000 project manager grant to Pittsburg State University's Center for Reading. It supports science-of-reading curricula, dyslexia resource lists, trainer lists, and professional development. During FY2026, the education department may also expand contracted training for elementary and middle school teachers. That training helps teachers serve students below grade-level literacy.
School Funding for Detained Youth
Kansas provides $5.060528 million in fiscal year 2026 grants to school districts serving juvenile detention facilities and Flint Hills Job Corps Center. Grant amounts must follow the formula in K.S.A. 72-1173. The money supports education services rather than direct household payments.
Schools get lifesaving equipment and training
Kansas sets aside $1.5 million from state foundation aid for FY2026 school safety grants. The money comes from the inflation increase in base aid per pupil. At least $250,000 supports district CPR and automated external defibrillator instruction. At least $1 million supports district purchases of defibrillators and maintenance equipment. Accredited nonpublic schools must receive at least $125,000 for each of those two purposes.
Southwestern Kansas childcare operations receive funding
For FY2026, the law includes separate minimum-spending directives of $250,000 and $1 million for southwestern Kansas childcare operations. Both direct money from the childcare accelerator grants account to a public-private partnership facilitated by the Children's Cabinet. The money supports facility operations, not guaranteed family payments, childcare places, or lower fees.
Agency legal charges face hourly ceiling
During fiscal year 2026, the Attorney General cannot set agency legal-representation charges above $100 per hour using appropriated state or special-revenue funds. This limit applies through June 30, 2026. It is an agency charge limit, not a household legal fee.
Agricultural land improvements receive spending authority
For fiscal year 2026, the law authorizes spending from the state agricultural production fund’s agricultural land capital improvement account. This authorization has no stated spending cap and supplements the fund’s other spending limits. The law gives no total amount or direct household payment.
Airport gets funding for aviation upgrades
Commerce must spend at least $4 million in federal pandemic relief money on an airport grant during fiscal year 2026. The grant supports technology, terminal, tower, landing-area, hangar, and office upgrades. The work must aim to attract electric aviation or drone testing or manufacturing to Kansas. Funding is available through June 30, 2026.
Attractions and smaller cities gain financing
Through June 30, 2026, Commerce can approve special tax-revenue bond projects for major amusement parks or historic theaters. Local governments must adopt project plans and districts, and Commerce must review and approve them. Authorized bonds use only permitted project revenues and are not state debt or backed by the state's taxing power. Beginning July 1, 2025, Commerce can also approve building construction in existing approved districts in cities below 60,000 residents. That population uses the 2020 census, and construction approval must come before December 31, 2025.
Bombardier project receives state funding
The law provides $5.75 million from the State General Fund to Commerce for the Bombardier SSA project. The appropriation covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. It does not provide household payments or specify household financial effects.
Cheney Lake marina gets funding support
Kansas wildlife and parks officials must spend at least $200,000 supporting a marina on Cheney Lake during fiscal year 2026. The money comes from the American Rescue Plan state relief fund. This funds the marina, not direct household payments.
Cities can finance major visitor attractions
From July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, cities and counties can establish STAR bond districts for major amusement parks or historic theaters. Plans need Commerce Secretary approval; amusement parks need rides, related attractions, and at least $100 million in Kansas capital improvements. Bonds are paid only from specified STAR bond revenues, not state debt or the state's general credit. After default, public money cannot pay the bonds except as the STAR bonds law allows. Projects using state sales tax financing must also meet that law's state sales tax requirements.
Cities receive highway link maintenance payments
In fiscal year 2026, eligible cities receive $5,000 annually for each qualifying lane-mile of designated highway connecting links. The state pays quarterly from the state highway fund. Cities must maintain those lanes and use the money only for connecting-link maintenance. Lanes maintained by the transportation secretary under city agreements do not qualify. The payment rule runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.
Commerce can use funds for repairs
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas Commerce can use two designated funds for rehabilitation and repairs. These are the reimbursement and recovery fund and the federal Wagner-Peyser employment services fund. The law sets no dollar cap for this authority. This supports agency facilities or operations, not direct household payments.
Commerce receives payroll and relief funding
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $7 million from its general fund to the Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion payroll incentive fund. The law also transfers $5 million in federal relief money from the Governor's Department to Commerce. The relief transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as the money is available. These transfers do not specify payments to individual employers or households.
Commercial airports get air service grants
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas transfers $5 million to commercial airport air service grants, capped at $1 million per airport. Only local entities representing Kansas commercial service airports can apply. Awards consider regional economic opportunities, viable service, routes, and local matching opportunities. Recipients must keep grants in interest-bearing escrow and sign airline minimum-revenue guarantee agreements with drawdown thresholds. The Transportation Department must verify expenses before releasing escrow money.
Dairy-region roads get local upgrade grants
During fiscal year 2026, the Transportation Department must help local governments improve southwest Kansas county roads affected by dairy expansion. It must use its economic development grant program, with spending capped at $6 million. Grants go to local governments, not directly to households.
Funding covers approved state agency moves
For fiscal year 2025, Kansas sets aside $320,997 from the General Fund for state agency moving expenses. An agency must request the money. Spending requires the governor’s approval and approval from a majority of legislative State Finance Council members.
Funding for an agricultural drone range
Kansas provides $3 million in fiscal year 2026 for technology and approvals for an agriculture-focused drone test range. The range must have federal aviation approval for flights beyond an operator’s visual line of sight. The agriculture department must work with Kansas’s congressional delegation to seek federal operating funds.
Funding supports farm research and extension
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides about $21.86 million for the Cooperative Extension Service. Agricultural experiment stations receive about $35.01 million in general funds, plus $336,064 in economic development funds. The general-fund appropriations include official hospitality costs. Unused general-fund account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also carry forward. This funds services and research, not direct household payments.
Funeral licensing board gets operating funds
The Mortuary Arts Board can spend up to $353,511 from its fee fund in fiscal year 2026 and $359,143 in 2027. Official hospitality spending is capped at $500 each year. The law supports board operations without setting new fees or household payments.
Half-empty malls gain redevelopment financing options
Beginning July 1, 2025, approved mall redevelopment projects can use special bonds repaid with authorized revenues, including 100% of tax increment revenue. At least 50% of the mall's leasable business area must be empty, and metropolitan or rural project requirements also apply. Specified construction and renovation costs qualify only for applications received by December 31, 2025, within this fiscal year 2026 authority. Construction or renovation costs for future expansion of a large metropolitan mall district do not qualify. The bonds lack state backing, and public money cannot cover defaults except as allowed by the financing law.
Kansas keeps building repair balances available
Beginning July 1, 2025, uncommitted state-facility repair balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, remain available for fiscal year 2026. The Administration Department can also spend existing capital-account balances in the Building and Ground, Buildings Depreciation, and Buildings Operating funds. This authority is additional to other spending limits. Spending from each capital account cannot exceed its uncommitted balance on June 30, 2026. The authority ends that day.
KC BioHub gets conditional matching funds
Commerce must provide at least $1 million in federal pandemic relief money to match a federal grant for KC BioHub. KC BioHub must first certify that it received the federal grant. The state match must be spent during fiscal year 2026 and is available through June 30, 2026.
Labor Department buildings receive repair authority
The Kansas Department of Labor can spend up to $464,000 on building rehabilitation and repairs in fiscal year 2026. Money comes from the workmen’s compensation fee fund. This authority ends June 30, 2026.
Labor Department gets capital improvement funding
Kansas provides $267,101 in fiscal year 2025 and $696,000 in fiscal year 2026 for Labor Department capital improvements. Both appropriations come from the General Fund. The law also carries forward the June 30, 2025, uncommitted capital improvements account balance above $100. This funds agency improvements, not household payments.
Lawmakers fund state government efficiency study
The Legislature receives $1 million in fiscal year 2025 for consultants to study state financial and agency efficiency. Contracts cannot exceed $1 million. The study uses detailed revenue and spending data, statistical tools, and artificial intelligence. The Legislative Coordinating Council sets the scope, selects agencies, seeks bids, and approves contracts. Reports are due to specified legislative committees by January 1, 2026; the study itself changes no taxes, benefits, or services.
Monthly interest payments support grant funding
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas transfers General Fund interest earnings to the Interest Bearing Grants Fund each month. Transfers are due by the 10th. Amounts use the fund’s prior-month average daily balance and the state investment portfolio’s net earnings rate. The law sets no total transfer amount or direct household payment.
Passenger rail gains project funding options
Kansas transfers $5 million to its passenger rail revolving fund on July 1, 2025, or when money becomes available. During fiscal year 2026, the Transportation Department can provide loans or grants for qualifying projects and operating support. Recipients must be Amtrak or federally approved common rail carriers connecting Kansas service to the specified regional or national networks. Every loan or grant needs State Finance Council approval.
Revenue funds cover broader operating costs
Revenue can use photo fee money to run driver license, instruction permit, and identification card services and related support. It can use vehicle operating funds for department operations, and technology funds for state or county system upgrades and operations. Database fee money can cover operations, equipment, system upkeep and improvements, and public-record access or copies. The reappraisal fund can pay for county appraisals ordered by the State Board of Tax Appeals and receive appraisal cost reimbursements. These fund-use changes do not themselves change household fees, tax rates, eligibility, or property assessments.
Rural opportunity funds target smaller counties
During fiscal year 2026, Commerce must direct Rural Opportunity Zones account money to applicants or uses in smaller counties. Eligible counties must have 15,000 or fewer residents in the 2020 census. The account is available through June 30, 2026, but this provision sets no individual benefit amount.
Rural projects gain more financing options
During fiscal year 2026, Commerce can approve up to $25 million per qualifying rural redevelopment project without special obligation bonds. Principal and interest must come from sources allowed by the financing law. Beginning July 1, 2025, another approval path covers counties below 100,000 residents in the Kansas City or Wichita metropolitan areas. Using 2020 census counts, these projects must improve regional quality of life, have regional importance, and invest at least $3 million. They must expect 20% of visitors from at least 100 miles away; visitor-tracking methods and data are due to lawmakers by June 30, 2026.
Rural racing facility gets remodeling grant
All spending from the horse racing facility remodel fund must support a grant to remodel an existing racing facility. The facility must be in a Kansas county with 6,000 to 6,100 residents under the 2020 census. The fund is available through June 30, 2026. The law does not state the grant amount.
Sorghum program gets matched research funding
The Agriculture Department must spend at least $1 million on the collaborative sorghum investment program in fiscal year 2026. Each $1 of state spending requires $3 in nonstate matching money. The money comes from the crop and livestock research account, not a direct household payment.
State buildings get repair and debt funding
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $5 million for state-facility repairs and about $28.56 million for specified debt payments. Administration officials can also spend available designated-fund balances on authorized purposes, including leases, improvements, planning, memorials, and debt. The Building and Ground Fund can pay for parking improvements and repairs without a stated dollar cap. Additional State Buildings Depreciation Fund spending can pay facility-project debt beyond the fund’s other spending limits. The State Buildings Operating Fund can pay debt for the Eisenhower Building purchase and renovation without a stated dollar cap.
State Fair repairs keep funding available
For fiscal year 2026, eligible unspent balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, remain available for Bison arena and fair facility upgrades. All available State Fair capital improvement money can be spent; legally authorized refunds are outside the spending limit. By each month’s 10th day, general-fund interest must be transferred using the prior month’s average daily balance and pooled investment earnings rate. The law also sets aside $365,152 for Expo center Series 2021J bond debt service. That money is available only if the Fair Board, consulting the Kansas Development Finance Authority, finds the bonds eligible for prepayment that year.
State safety money moves sooner
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas must distribute state safety fund money as soon as it becomes available. This replaces the usual payment schedule for that year. The provision does not identify recipients or set payment amounts.
Topeka aircraft projects get matched funding
The Department of Commerce must spend at least $10 million on Topeka airport aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul in fiscal year 2026. Each project needs a dollar-for-dollar nonstate or private match. The Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority must provide local or private funding for the first 50% of total project costs. Before spending, Commerce must check financial feasibility and review pending or signed contracts or leases. Neither state nor matching money can pay for site preparation, and the appropriation is available through June 30, 2026.
Universities get drone safety grants
In fiscal year 2026, Commerce must spend at least $500,000 each on grants to Wichita State and Kansas State University Salina. Wichita State develops a drone compliance checklist covering Defense Department supply-chain security and recommends a credentialing process. Kansas State Salina develops credentials for commercial and public-safety drones. If required spending is not made by January 1, 2026, remaining account money lapses that day. The appropriation is otherwise available through June 30, 2026.
Credit union regulator gets operating funds
The credit union department can spend up to about $1.42 million in fiscal year 2026 and $1.37 million in 2027. The money comes from the Credit Union Fee Fund. Official hospitality spending is capped at $300 each year. These operating authorizations do not set new fees or household payments.
Kansas authorizes energy-saving revolving loans
The Kansas State Corporation Commission can establish revolving loans for energy conservation and related activities. The commission sets interest rates, and borrowers must agree to written reports accounting for program spending and receipts. Repayments return to the program fund. The provision sets no loan amounts, household eligibility rules, or specific appropriation.
Campus health fees can support coverage
Kansas State may use student health fees to buy malpractice coverage for student health center medical staff. Coverage may include pharmacists and physical therapists. In fiscal year 2026, Pittsburg State may use hospital and student health fees for the same staff coverage. Pittsburg State may also use that fund for hospital and student health center improvements. These provisions authorize spending but do not set new student fee amounts.
Care provider receives delayed reimbursement payments
The Aging and Disability Services Department and Health and Environment Department each pay Hillside Village, LLC $3,100. These payments cover lost reimbursement caused by late processing of a resident's home and community-based services eligibility request. The provider, not the resident, receives the money. Before payment, the provider must sign a written release settling related claims against Kansas and its agencies, officers, and employees.
Health licensing boards get operating funds
Dental Board fee-fund spending is capped at $544,000 in fiscal year 2026 and $510,000 in 2027. Hearing instrument board caps are $38,255 and $38,973; optometry board caps are $273,704 and $254,869, respectively. Dental and optometry official hospitality spending is capped at $1,000 per board each year. All three litigation funds have no set spending cap, but require budget director approval. Approval requires unforeseen needs or effects, consistency with legislative policy and prior-session decisions, and a connection to board duties.
Kansas allows nursing facility rate increases
For FY2026, Kansas authorizes the aging and disability services secretary to raise nursing facility payment rates, subject to appropriations. The law does not require an increase or set its size. It does not establish a payment to residents.
Local health departments follow aid formula
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas must divide state financial aid among local health departments using the existing statutory formula. The law preserves the exception identified in subsection (k). This allocation rule ends June 30, 2026, and does not specify a funding total.
Nursing board gets operating spending authority
Nursing board fee-fund spending is capped at about $3.85 million in fiscal year 2026 and $3.95 million in 2027. Official hospitality spending is capped at $500 each year. The Gifts and Grants, Education Conference, and Criminal Background and Fingerprinting funds have no set spending limits in either year. These provisions fund board activities without setting new fees or household benefits.
Pharmacy board gets operating litigation funds
The Pharmacy Board receives about $2.95 million from its fee fund in fiscal year 2026 and $3.61 million in 2027. Official hospitality spending is capped at $2,500 each year. Litigation fund spending has no set cap, but needs budget director approval based on need, legislative policy, and board duties. With that approval, the executive secretary can transfer up to $50,000 yearly from the fee fund to the litigation fund. Each transfer must be certified to accounts and reports, with copies sent to the budget and legislative research directors.
University cancer center gains financing authority
For FY2026, qualifying University of Kansas Medical Center account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, remain available. Cancer research facility spending requires a dollar-for-dollar nonstate or private match; federal grants cannot count. The Kansas Development Finance Authority may also issue cancer center bonds providing up to $100 million plus specified costs. Allowed additions include issuance costs, construction and renovation interest, and credit-enhancement costs and reserves limited to one year after completion. Debt service comes through special revenue fund appropriations; the bonds are authority obligations, not state debt, and the medical center must maintain the center.
Housing development loans prioritize rural communities
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, specified housing trust revolving-loan money can finance moderate- and low-income housing and needed infrastructure. Eligible borrowers include local governments, political subdivisions, housing-focused nonprofits, and for-profit or nonprofit builders and developers. At least 50% of spending must go to rural communities. Housing-focused nonprofits pay the average June 2025 Kansas certificate-of-deposit rate, as determined by the state treasurer.
Kansas works to add property appraisers
The state appraisal board must use fiscal year 2025 and 2026 funds to review and join an appraisal training program. The effort aims to increase the number of appraisers available in Kansas. The board must report its participation to designated legislative committees by January 31, 2026.
Adult Learner Grants Get More Funding
Kansas must transfer $1 million from its general fund to the Adult Learner Grant Program Fund. The transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as funds are available. This adds program money but does not set individual awards or guarantee an applicant a grant.
Adults gain job training and outreach
For FY2026, Kansas provides $1 million for healthcare workforce training from its economic development initiatives fund. The law does not set participant eligibility or individual support amounts. Commerce must also hire Level Up Kansas to promote college training in high-demand, high-wage fields to underskilled adults. That marketing account is available through June 30, 2026, with no amount specified.
Campus parking fees can fund improvements
Emporia State and Pittsburg State may use parking-fee funds for parking lot improvements during fiscal year 2026. This authority runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The law does not set parking fees or state project costs.
Driver Education Scholarships Get More Funding
Kansas transfers $300,000 from the state highway fund to the driver's education scholarship grant fund. The transfer occurs on the law's effective date or as soon afterward as funds are available. This provision adds scholarship funding but does not set individual eligibility rules or award amounts.
Emporia State Gets Operations and Aid
For fiscal year 2026, Emporia State receives $39.121546 million for operations, $3 million for regional stabilization, and $1.22791 million for need-based student aid. It receives $327,844 for national board certification and the future teacher academy, plus $513,051 for SMaRT Kansas 21. The cybersecurity academic programming center receives $1.107612 million. Another $2.2 million covers only program-reduction legal fees and related costs, including pay and benefits. Specified unspent, uncommitted balances above $100 from June 30, 2025, and the model investment account balance carry forward.
Fort Hays Gets Targeted Program Funding
For fiscal year 2026, Fort Hays State University receives $3 million for regional stabilization. It also receives $785,253 for the Kansas Academy of Math and Science. The Kansas Wetlands Education Center at Cheyenne Bottoms receives $275,928 through the university. These appropriations support university programs, not direct household payments.
Funding supports veterinary care and training
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas State's Veterinary Medical Center receives about $14.11 million for fiscal year 2026 operations. Rural veterinary training receives $650,000, and operating enhancements receive about $5.54 million. Enhancement spending must follow the Regents' ranking-improvement plan and receive the university president's approval. Unused balances above $100 in specified accounts on June 30, 2025, also carry forward.
Kansas State facilities gain bond financing
Kansas authorizes bonds for Kansas State University's Pure Imagination Facility at Salina, with project spending capped at $45 million plus financing costs. State general fund appropriations through the Department of Administration pay that debt. For FY2026, another bond authorization allows $23.5 million plus specified costs for five facilities: the animal science arena, agronomy research and innovation center, global center for grain and food innovation, Call Hall, and Weber Hall. Special revenue appropriations pay that debt, and the university must maintain all these facilities. Both bond authorizations exclude a pledge of Kansas's full faith and credit or taxing power.
Kansas University can move student fees
The University of Kansas can move student-fee receipts between accounts within its restricted-fees fund. This gives the university more control over where those receipts are held. It does not change student fees or guarantee a service or refund.
Kansas university keeps campus project funds
Through June 30, 2026, the University of Kansas may use available designated funds for listed projects and related debt payments. These include repairs, energy conservation, law enforcement training, facilities, housing, recreation, health, and parking. For FY2026, capital renewal and building demolition accounts also retain June 30, 2025, balances above $100 not already committed. Spending is limited to available funds; total balances are not stated.
Labor department capital spending ceiling rises
For FY2025, the Kansas Department of Labor's workers' compensation fee fund capital spending limit rises from $464,000 to $664,000. The department gains $200,000 in spending room but cannot exceed the new $664,000 ceiling. This does not raise workers' compensation benefits or create a new household payment.
Pittsburg State Gets Operations and Aid
For fiscal year 2026, Pittsburg State receives $42.134641 million for operations, $3 million for regional stabilization, and $1.81897 million for need-based student aid. The School of Construction receives $802,086, and the Global Center for STEM receives $2.001084 million. The Center for Emerging Technologies receives $2.00251 million, and the Polymer Science Program receives $1.064189 million. Specified unspent, uncommitted balances above $100 from June 30, 2025, carry forward. Balances also carry forward for the NIMA manufacturing prove-out facility and the emerging technologies institute's graphene center.
Pittsburg State keeps campus project funds
Through June 30, 2026, Pittsburg State may use available designated funds for debt payments, maintenance, renovations, housing, energy, and parking projects. Spending cannot exceed available money. For FY2026, it also keeps June 30, 2025, balances above $100 that were not already committed in three accounts. These cover capital renewal, building demolition, and the American Center for Reading Facility; total balances are not stated.
Public colleges gain building funding options
The Regents can transfer Educational Building Fund money for approved planning, construction, and demolition, with committee review before spending. They can also transfer Campus Restoration Fund money for approved deferred maintenance; both transfer types require certification and fiscal-office notices. Through June 30, 2026, state colleges can use state funds or bonds for energy and other conservation projects. Bonds require Regents consultation with the state building committee and State Finance Council approval of the proceeds used. Bond-funded energy projects must save at least their debt payments, which remain subject to annual appropriations.
Regional Universities Receive Growth Funding
Kansas provides $12 million for regional university growth and development in fiscal year 2026. Fort Hays State receives $4.4 million. Emporia State and Pittsburg State each receive $3.8 million. This funds universities rather than direct payments to students.
School districts receive targeted funding payments
Kansas must pay Central Plains Unified School District No. 112 $354,500 for 500 compliant adult virtual school credits. Those credits were submitted for funding in school year 2021–2022. During FY2026, the education department may also distribute school checkoff donations when taxpayers did not name a district. These payments go to districts, not households, and the checkoff rule does not change taxpayers' tax bills.
Universities can fund campus parking upgrades
Fort Hays State University can use its parking fees fund for parking lot improvements in fiscal year 2026. Kansas State University can also use its Parking Fees Fund for parking improvement projects. These provisions authorize spending from existing fee funds; they do not set new parking fees or project amounts.
Universities Can Fund Student Loan Programs
Kansas State's president sets a transfer of up to $15,000 from Veterinary Medical Center general fees to its health professions student loan fund. The transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as money is available. During fiscal year 2026, Pittsburg State must transfer president-specified amounts from general fees, totaling no more than $145,000. Those transfers support its Perkins, nursing student, and nurse faculty loan funds. These provisions fund loan programs; they do not forgive debt or change individual loan terms.
Universities gain more fee spending options
Kansas State University can use its General Fees Fund to match federal grants and pay official hospitality costs. Its Veterinary Medical Center and Emporia State University receive the same permission for fiscal year 2026. The law changes how these funds can be spent, not the fees students owe.
Wichita State keeps facility project balances
Wichita State University keeps qualifying uncommitted balances available for FY2026 facility renewal and building demolition. This applies to the named capital renewal and demolition accounts with balances above $100 on June 30, 2025. The law states no total carryover amount.
Worker Training Fund Gets State Money
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $3 million from its general fund to an employee training and education fund. The fund serves the Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion program. This provision does not set individual training awards or eligibility rules.
Commerce can make program loans
Through June 30, 2026, the Commerce Secretary can make program loans using the department's general fees fund. Loans require agreements, and the secretary sets repayment rules and other terms. The law does not specify eligible borrowers, loan amounts, or repayment terms.
Loan authority supports agricultural business projects
The agriculture secretary can make loans through loan agreements using the market development fund. The law also authorizes agricultural value-added center program loans from the fiscal year 2026 agriculture marketing account. The secretary sets repayment terms and other conditions for those marketing-account loans. Repayments of value-added program loans made from the market development fund return to that fund. These provisions do not set loan amounts or interest rates.
New loans support Kansas aviation jobs
For July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026, Kansas provides $10 million for aviation jobs loans and authorizes up to $30 million in state deposits. Eligible airport authorities and aircraft maintenance, repair, or overhaul businesses must show new jobs and use loans only for those Kansas expenses. State deposits earn the market rate minus two percentage points, with a 0.25% floor. Lenders must lend matching amounts at no more than three percentage points above the deposit rate. Lenders use their usual lending standards and decide whether to approve applications.
Water-saving grants for livestock facilities
Kansas must spend at least $500,000 in fiscal year 2026 on cost-share grants for livestock production facilities. The money comes from the water resources cost-share account. Grants support water-saving technology or system upgrades; the law does not set each facility's award.
Small cities get bond revenue replacement
Kansas replaces food sales and use tax revenue for qualifying city STAR bond districts. Cities must have 30,000 or fewer people and have established their district before December 31, 2022. Payments equal the additional revenue a 6.5% state food tax rate would have produced from January 2024 through June 2025. The state must transfer the total into the replacement fund by September 1, 2025. Each city's certified payment goes to its bond finance, debt service, or reserve fund by October 15, 2025—not to households.
Assigned defense lawyers face hourly cap
For fiscal year 2026, the State Board of Indigents’ Defense Services must set assigned counsel’s maximum pay at $125 per hour. The law does not state the prior maximum or the number of hours lawyers can bill.
Fees allowed for extra legislative services
During fiscal year 2026, the Legislative Coordinating Council can charge for services, facilities, or supplies beyond its approved budget. This includes related services for non-legislators. Fees must cover some or all expenses and follow applicable council policies and fee practices. Receipts go to the legislative special revenue fund; the law sets no fee amounts.
Higher charges for covered court fees
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027, listed court, case, reinstatement, lien, bond, and marriage-license fees carry extra charges. Caps include $22 for specified docket or reinstatement fees, $19 for specified cases, and $26.50 for marriage licenses. Other listed fees have caps of $10, $12.50, or $26.50, depending on the fee. You owe an extra charge only when you incur a covered fee. The extra money goes to the state general fund.
Justice training attendees can face fees
The attorney general can charge fees for Committee on Crime Prevention training seminars. The State Board of Indigents' Defense Services can charge for inservice workshops and conferences. Both can recover some or all operating costs, including official hospitality. Crime-prevention seminar receipts go to the committee's fee fund. The law sets no fee amounts and does not require anyone to attend.
Less recreation reimbursement funding for veterans
Kansas cancels FY2025 reimbursement funding for Kansas Army and Air National Guard members: $67,649 for annual hunting and fishing licenses. It also cancels $35,802 for their annual park permits. Another $94,497 is canceled from annual hunting and fishing license reimbursements for Kansas disabled veterans. The law does not cancel individual licenses or permits or specify any person’s added cost.
Summer outings cover fewer accompanying adults
During fiscal year 2026, Sunflower Summer can reimburse only one adult aged 18 or older accompanying one or more children under 18. Venues that charge no admission generally cannot receive program reimbursements or grants. An exception allows payments to free venues in counties with 15,000 or fewer residents, using the 2020 census. These limits apply through June 30, 2026.
Visitors and researchers face history fees
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Constitution Hall admission costs $3 per adult or $1 per student. Guided tours cost $3 per adult or $2 per student. Fees can rise only if all admission revenue goes into Constitution Hall and exceeds the Lecompton Historical Society’s three-year average promotional expenses. During that same period, the Kansas State Historical Society can charge for imaging and contracted archeological services to cover some or all operating costs. Those fees have no stated amounts and go to the microfilm and archeology fee funds, respectively.
Water Office users can face fees
The Kansas Water Office director can charge for training and information programs to cover some or all operating expenses. Covered expenses include official hospitality. Program fees and public-record access or copying fees go to the general fees fund. The law sets no fee amounts.
Fees cover aging agency services
Osawatomie State Hospital can charge training fees to cover some or all training expenses. Receipts go to its training fee revolving fund. The Department for Aging and Disability Services can collect fees for surplus property, public-record searches and copies, and employees’ personal use of state property services. It can also collect other fees, credited to its general fees fund for department obligations or mission-related purposes. The law sets no fee amounts.
Social services must use economical placements
People receiving or applying for social service block grant-funded services must enter the most economical appropriate services available. The rule applies when the grant pays all or part of the service cost. It does not set a different individual benefit amount.
Agencies can charge training program fees
Judicial, human rights, revenue, and racing and gaming officials can charge fees for their covered education, training, or events. The Corporation Commission can charge for staff and member workshops; Revenue's authority also covers examinations. Fees can recover some or all operating costs, including official hospitality where authorized, and receipts support designated agency funds. From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, health officials can also charge for public health literature, films, and seminars. The law sets no fee amounts.
Barber applicants face capped exam fees
During FY2026 and FY2027, the Kansas Board of Barbering may charge applicants an examination fee of up to $150. The law sets a maximum, not the actual fee. This authority ends June 30, 2027.
Educator workshops may charge attendance fees
The State Board of Education may charge fees for in-service workshops and conferences. Fees may recover some or all operating costs. Receipts go to the in-service education workshop fee fund. The law sets no amount and does not require a charge.
Insurance training may carry program fees
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, the Insurance Commissioner may charge fees for insurance training programs. Fees may cover some or all operating costs, including official hospitality. Receipts go to the insurance education and training fund. The law sets no fee amount and does not require a charge.
Less funding for state employee raises
Kansas cancels $6.8513 million of the $61 million set aside for state employee pay increases in FY2025. The law does not specify which employees are affected or how any individual raise changes.
Student aid applicants may face fees
The Board of Regents chief executive may charge fees for student financial aid applications and related services. Fees must cover some or all direct and indirect program operating costs. Receipts go to the financial aid services fee fund. The law does not set a fee amount.
Air quality fund loses interest transfers
During fiscal year 2026, the accounts director cannot make the otherwise-required monthly general fund interest transfers to the Air Quality Fee Fund. The restriction lasts through June 30, 2026. The law does not state the amount of interest withheld.
Crime lab debt funding is canceled
On the act’s effective date, Kansas cancels $3.05 million in FY2025 funding for regional crime center laboratory debt payments. The money was appropriated to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The law does not state how this affects lab operations or households.
Election fund spending limited to matching
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, all Kansas democracy fund spending must provide matching funds. The money must support Title II of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Fees allowed for criminal investigation services
Through June 30, 2026, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation can charge noncriminal justice entities for criminal history checks. Check fees can cover some or all direct and indirect operating costs. Fees are also allowed for local law-enforcement training, DNA testing and related work, crime-prevention materials, and specified gambling-agency investigations. Investigations for the Kansas Lottery or Racing and Gaming Commission must recover all direct and indirect expenses. The law sets no fee amounts or direct household charges.
Fees allowed for emergency agency services
During fiscal year 2026, the adjutant general can charge government agencies, businesses, and nonprofits for specified services and facilities. Charges cover agency agreements, communications equipment, and use of the Great Plains Joint Regional Training Center. Fees can recover some or all costs; agreement fees must be agreed upon in writing. Receipts go to the general fees, emergency communications, or training-center fee fund, depending on the service. The law sets no fee amounts.
Fees allowed for Highway Patrol services
Through June 30, 2026, the Kansas Highway Patrol can charge fees covering some or all specified service costs. State agencies, local governments, and nonprofits can be charged for training-center use. Other state agencies can be charged for aircraft services. State agencies and local governments can also be charged for goods and services supplied by the Patrol. The law sets no fee amounts.
Less funding for Kansas corrections programs
Kansas cancels $10 million in FY2025 funding for corrections evidence-based programs. It also cancels $792,000 for corrections facility operations and $15,626 for equipment replacement. Another $363,688 is canceled from carried-forward priority capital project funding. Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex operating funds fall by $2,023. The law does not identify specific program, equipment, project, or service reductions.
Behavioral health clinics lose planning grants
On July 1, 2025, the law cancels $4 million in fiscal year 2026 planning grants for certified community behavioral health clinics. This removes state support for clinic planning. It does not itself end clinic services.
Disability support funds face dues limits
During fiscal year 2026, recipients of general-fund payments from the community developmental disability organization support account face dues limits. They cannot use that money for an organization’s dues or fees if it refuses requested financial-record access. Requests can come from the Department for Aging and Disability Services, legislative post auditors, or another state agency.
Kansas reduces public health funding
On the act’s effective date, Kansas cancels about $1.386 million from the Division of Public Health’s FY2025 operating appropriation. It also cancels $10,419 from FY2025 state aid to local health units. The law does not name specific services or household programs affected.
Larned hospital cannot use agency nurses
During fiscal year 2027, the Department for Aging and Disability Services cannot spend money on contract agency nurses at Larned State Hospital. This limits the hospital’s staffing options. The law does not specify how the hospital must replace those nurses.
Less funding for public health projects
The law removes $583,120 from fiscal year 2025 aid for local primary health projects. It also removes $429,385 from funding to replace public health lab equipment. These cuts reduce available funding, but the law does not specify which services change.
Newborn screening transfers have yearly ceiling
For fiscal years 2025 through 2027, transfers to the Kansas Newborn Screening Fund cannot exceed $5 million per year. The money comes from the Medical Assistance Fee Fund. Transfers follow the certified funding need for the next fiscal year, subject to the cap. The law does not change a family’s screening charge or set an individual benefit.
School labor groups repay dispute costs
Kansas may pay covered school labor mediation and fact-finding costs only subject to full repayment. The school board and professional employees' organization involved must reimburse the dispute resolution fund. This assigns costs to those organizations, not directly to households.
Agencies lose coronavirus interest spending flexibility
During fiscal years 2025 and 2026, agencies cannot spend or transfer identified coronavirus aid interest without specific appropriations approval. Beginning May 1, 2025, those earnings go to the State General Fund for use as appropriation acts allow. The treasurer identifies and certifies the amount in consultation with the legislative research director.
Bioscience fund loses specified state transfers
For fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, Kansas bars General Fund transfers under the specified bioscience funding provision. The restriction applies to transfers under K.S.A. 74-99b34(d)(1). It pauses that funding source for the Bioscience Development and Investment Fund, not every possible source of support.
Cities lose specified tax replacement transfers
For fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, Kansas bars specified General Fund transfers to the city tax-increment financing replacement fund. This pauses that source of state replacement funding for qualifying cities and redevelopment districts. The provision does not state the lost funding amount or change household tax rates.
Commerce can charge for more services
Through June 30, 2026, Commerce can set fees for specified conferences, publications, items, advertising, and economic development activities or services. This authority applies only when state law does not already set a fee. Fees must cover some or all of the service's operating costs and go into department special revenue funds for authorized operating expenses. The law does not state fee amounts.
Docking building spending needs council approval
During fiscal year 2026, Administration needs State Finance Council approval before spending or transferring specified federal recovery money for the Docking building. The rule covers construction, fixtures, furniture, and equipment. It applies to the department's ARPA agency state fiscal recovery fund through June 30, 2026.
Fees allowed for environmental training materials
Kansas health and environment officials can charge for environment division literature, films, and training seminars. Fees can cover some or all costs. Seminars can serve division employees, state-aid recipients, and representatives of industries affected by division rules. Receipts go to the environmental training fee fund; the law sets no fee amount.
Nonstate groups pay Capitol office rent
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, nonstate entities must pay for office space in the State Capitol. Rent is $1 per square foot each month for space leased or assigned to them. Collections support the state buildings operating fund or another Administration fund selected by the secretary.
Racing oversight can bring extra fees
During fiscal year 2026, the Racing and Gaming Commission can charge extra fees for uncovered racing regulation costs. These cover costs not otherwise recovered from a parimutuel facility licensee. Examples include audits, drug testing, security, licensing, technology, and reopening facilities. The charges are added to other authorized taxes and fees, with receipts going to the state racing fund. The law sets no fee amount.
Disability waiver administration costs face cap
For fiscal year 2026, community developmental disability organizations face a 2.4% limit on administrative costs for new waiver slots. The limit equals 2.4% of total spending on those new intellectual or developmental disability waiver slots. The law does not set a per-person service amount.
Health licensing boards face spending cuts
For FY2025, Kansas lowers the hearing instrument board’s fee-fund spending limit from $49,369 to $37,986. The pharmacy board’s fee-fund limit falls from about $3.769 million to $2.727 million. These limits apply to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. The law does not specify changes to licensing fees or household services.
Hospital assessments face new financing rules
Kansas must seek federal approval for a hospital assessment rate between 5% and 6%. It must include inpatient and outpatient net operating revenue, based on each hospital’s fiscal year 2022. Approved changes start on the next January 1 or July 1 after notice appears in the Kansas Register. State general funds then cannot support related rate enhancements. Separately, during fiscal year 2026, critical access and licensed rural emergency hospitals owe assessments when annual revenue exceeds the state panel’s threshold.
Lower nursing payments under senior care
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas resets nursing payments under the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly. Rates equal 90% of the amount otherwise payable using fiscal year 2026 KanCare long-term care rates. The provision does not set a change to participants' own payments.
Colleges face capital project service fees
During fiscal year 2026, Administration can charge for design, engineering, and management services on qualifying Regents and state college projects. A project must receive at least some funding from private gifts, bequests, or donations. Receipts go to the architectural services recovery fund. The law sets no fee amounts and does not impose a stated student charge.
Kansas reduces workforce marketing funding
On the act’s effective date, Kansas cancels $950,037 of the $2 million FY2025 workforce marketing appropriation. This leaves less money for marketing activities. The provision does not directly change wages, taxes, or household benefits.
Kansas State research funding is reduced
Kansas cancels the $3.1 million FY2025 appropriation for Kansas State University’s Pure Imagination Facility. That facility is also called the Kansas Advanced Immersive Research for Emerging Systems Center. The law also removes $3,900 from the university’s $2.2 million biosecurity research appropriation. These changes do not directly set household payments or eligibility.
Kansas State units face budget limits
In fiscal year 2026, Kansas State's extension, agriculture research, and Veterinary Medical Center programs face a spending restriction. They cannot spend or transfer State General Fund money for the main campus's responsibility-centered budget model. The restriction applies through June 30, 2026.
Less funding for education workforce grants
On July 1, 2025, Kansas cancels $114,075 from the FY2026 career technical workforce grant appropriation. It also cancels $1 million from the FY2026 computer science preservice grant appropriation. The law does not identify affected recipients or changes to individual awards.
Job creation fund transfers start later
Annual tax-savings estimates and related Job Creation Program Fund deposits begin July 1, 2027, instead of July 1, 2026. The estimates compare savings from specified credit, deduction, or program changes with the expense deduction under K.S.A. 79-32,143a. Savings go to the fund as directed by appropriations acts. This timing change does not itself change an individual's tax calculation.
Departing officers can buy their sidearms
During fiscal year 2026, the Highway Patrol can sell a resigning part-time state law enforcement officer their sidearm and a trigger lock. The officer needs at least 10 years of service and a record and evaluations the superintendent finds satisfactory. The officer must pay the sidearm’s fair market value, set by the superintendent, plus the trigger-lock cost.
Large lottery winners face confidential reporting
During fiscal year 2026, the Kansas Lottery must report claimants of prizes worth $10,000 or more. It must send each claimant's name and address to the Office of Inspector General. The office can use the information only for its legal duties and cannot publicly identify the winner.
State workers gain optional insurance deductions
For FY2026, Kansas may establish payroll deductions for state employees to buy optional supplemental insurance. Products can cover accidents, disability, specified diseases, or hospital stays. The state employee healthcare commission must approve the product and insurer, which must be authorized in Kansas. Employees must give written permission and pay premiums through deductions; enrollment is optional and premiums are not set by this law.
Summer grocery funding requires state approvals
Kansas sets aside $1.825 million for FY2025 Summer EBT food benefits for eligible households with children. Before spending, the children and families secretary must certify that Kansas requested a federal waiver excluding candy and soft drinks. The governor and a majority of legislative State Finance Council members must also approve spending. This provision requires a waiver request, not federal approval, and does not set a household benefit amount.
Teacher grants require matching and repayment
Grants from the Governor’s Teaching Excellence Scholarships repayment fund require a $1-for-$1 match from nonstate sources. Recipients must agree to repay the grant if they do not complete National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification training. The law does not state a grant amount.
Arts grants face county spending limits
Through June 30, 2026, Commerce must award matching grants from its Creative Arts Industries Commission account. No more than 60% can go to applicants in counties with 85,000 or fewer residents. No more than 40% can go to applicants in larger counties, using 2020 census counts. The account cannot pay for workers employed on a contractual basis.
Funding supports corrections treatment programs
For the year ending June 30, 2025, Kansas provides about $5.43 million for corrections treatment and programs. This includes medical and mental health programs. During fiscal year 2026, the state must move certified actual or projected agency general-fund savings into corrections evidence-based programs. The corrections secretary certifies the savings; no fixed transfer amount is set. This adds corrections funding while moving money out of the source agency accounts.
Prison health building gets bond authority
The law allows bonds for a central medical and behavioral health support building at Topeka Correctional Facility. Project spending is capped at $40.235 million, plus specified financing costs. State General Fund appropriations pay the bond debt, and the Department of Corrections must provide maintenance. The bonds belong only to the Kansas Development Finance Authority and do not pledge state taxing power.
Water agencies get targeted spending rules
In fiscal year 2026, approved water-plan transfers can go to the Water Office, Agriculture Department, University of Kansas, or Wildlife and Parks Department. Transfers need budget director approval, certification, and notice to designated legislative officials. Initial conservation-district cost-share grants must follow agriculture secretary priorities and the state water plan. Water quality buffer money can fund only grants or incentives to install water-quality practices, using the approved 2026 budget. The Water Office's water resources operating account has a $1,500 hospitality cap; that cap and transfer authority end June 30, 2026.
Reservoir work gains flexibility with limits
The Kansas Water Office can use available conservation storage fund money to acquire reservoir storage, conduct studies, and support storage sustainability. During fiscal year 2026, it cannot buy added storage in Milford, Perry, Big Hill, or Hillsdale reservoirs without a qualifying contract. That contract must supply users whose water is not already held under contract in that reservoir. The office also cannot spend the $1.5 million John Redmond sediment-removal pilot appropriation without seeking a federal partner. That federal agency must commit to help pay the pilot's costs.
Care facilities must report forced discharges
During fiscal year 2026, assisted living, residential healthcare, home plus, and boarding care homes must report covered involuntary transfers and discharges. Reports go to the state aging and disability services secretary without personal identifying details. Reports generally are due within 60 days after the move is completed or a formal complaint is resolved. Facilities that miss the deadline face a civil penalty.
Community mental health services receive funding
In fiscal year 2026, lottery funds provide $625,000 monthly for community crisis stabilization centers and $208,333 monthly for clubhouse programs. Starting in fiscal year 2027, combined transfers from lottery vending-machine profits are capped at $8 million each year. Kansas must also spend at least $250,000 in fiscal year 2026 on aftercare following psychiatric residential treatment. These provisions fund services rather than direct household payments.
Health platform funding requires parental-access report
The University of Kansas Medical Center cannot use fiscal year 2026 operating funds for a secure health-information platform without a report. The report must state that parents and guardians can access minors’ health information without the child’s prior consent, consistent with state law. It goes to the Board of Regents, with copies to the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means chairs. Without the report, platform money lapses on June 30, 2026. This spending condition supports parental access but does not create a general new access right.
Medicaid can expand prior approval projects
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas may use medical assistance funds to start or expand prior approval projects. The law does not identify specific services or coverage decisions affected. Before the 2026 legislative session, the agency must report on automation, savings, and other results.
Parent education grants require district matching
Kansas provides about $9.44 million for parent education in fiscal year 2026. School districts must add at least 50 cents for every grant dollar received. The match comes from districts, not families. Uncommitted program balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, also remain available for that fiscal year. This funding authority ends June 30, 2026.
Agriculture materials can be commercially sold
The agriculture secretary can hire a commercial publisher to print, distribute, and sell department educational or informational materials. This supports distribution, but purchasers can face charges; the law sets no prices. Materials must relate to department programs or functions. The secretary can collect contract fees and accept nonfederal grants, gifts, donations, or other money for this work. Receipts go to the publications fee fund.
Broadband money shifts to development office
Kansas transfers about $1.09 million from Transportation's broadband infrastructure construction grant fund to Commerce's broadband development office fund. The transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or when money becomes available. The development office gains funding while the construction grant fund loses the transferred amount. The law does not identify project awards or direct household grants.
Funding supports vehicle services and modernization
Kansas moves about $57.45 million from the highway fund to Division of Vehicles operations in fiscal year 2026. Four equal transfers of about $14.36 million occur July 1 and October 1, 2025, and January 1 and April 1, 2026. Another $1 million moves from general funds to vehicle modernization on July 1, 2025, or when money is available. Vehicle services gain funding while highway and general funds supply the money; these provisions do not change household fees.
Greyhound funds face earmarks and redirection
Specified transfers into the greyhound breeding fund must stay in a separate account under Racing and Gaming Commission rules. They can only supplement special stake races or raise per-point payments to owners of winning Kansas-whelped greyhounds at Kansas tracks. For fiscal year 2026, 15% of all breeding-fund receipts must go to the commission's promotion and development fund. This replaces the specified tourism-fund transfer, and payment is due by June 30, 2026.
Health agency gains budget transfer flexibility
In fiscal year 2026, Kansas can move General Fund money between public health and environment budget items. The budget director must approve transfers, and the health secretary must certify them and notify legislative research staff. Environment special-fund transfers for overhead cannot exceed 25% of each fund's spending, excluding contractual services. Both rules end June 30, 2026.
Labor Department can sell state property
In fiscal year 2026, the Labor Department can use special-revenue funds to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of real estate. The state building committee must review the deal and make recommendations before State Finance Council authorization. Net proceeds go to the employment security administration property sale fund. Spending above that fund's 2026 limit also requires council approval. The authority ends June 30, 2026.
Lottery gains flexibility but contract limits
During fiscal year 2026, Lottery operating funds can cover all costs of running and administering the state's specified lottery programs. During fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the Lottery cannot use appropriated state or special-revenue funds for specified sports wagering management contracts. The ban covers negotiations, new contracts, extensions, and renewals with lottery gaming facility managers. It does not directly change individual wagering rules.
More lottery money funds gaming revenues
For fiscal year 2025, the authorized lottery transfer to gaming revenues rises from $71.49 million to $72.99 million. For fiscal year 2026, transfers must total at least $79.49 million. The first certification is at least $2.3 million by July 15, 2025; monthly certifications then reach at least $4.7 million. Those monthly minimums apply from August 15 until transfers reach $54 million; certifications then continue without minimums through June 15, 2026. Gaming revenues gain money from lottery operations, including special veterans game profits, but enough cash must remain for prizes and operating costs.
Revenue can sell agency microfilming services
The Revenue Department can operate a microfilming service for other state agencies. Agencies can buy those services, and receipts go to the microfilming fund. The law states no prices or expected revenue and provides no direct household benefit.
State debt collection receives operating money
On August 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $77,250 from accounting services recovery money to the setoff services revenue fund. The transfer reimburses costs of collecting amounts owed to state agencies. Collection operations gain funding while the accounting recovery fund supplies the money. This transfer does not change household debts or create a new payment duty.
State Fair funds repairs, limits hospitality
For fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the State Fair must transfer fee-fund money to its capital improvements fund. Each transfer equals the greater of $300,000 or 5% of fair and non-fair gross receipts through March 1. Transfers occur March 1 or when funds become available; budget director approval allows a split for April 1 debt service. In fiscal year 2026, fee-fund hospitality spending cannot exceed $10,000.
Tribal gaming oversight gets fund transfers
On July 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $450,000 from the general fund to the tribal gaming fund. During fiscal year 2026, the tribal gaming fund reimburses the general fund for specified oversight and compact-enforcement expenses. Repayment equals qualifying expense transfers minus the gaming agency's arbitration or litigation costs. The agency's executive director certifies the repayments; no total repayment amount is stated.
Unused pandemic aid returns to grants
For fiscal years 2025 through 2027, identified unused or returned coronavirus relief aid moves to the State Finance Council ARPA grant fund. This redirects money from its earlier accounts for grant spending, subject to approval. In fiscal years 2025 and 2026, the budget director identifies and certifies amounts with legislative research officials. Monthly interest transfers also support the fund; calculations use its prior-month average daily balance and the state investment portfolio’s net earnings rate. Spending requires the governor’s approval and approval from a majority of legislative State Finance Council members; no household payment is specified.
Veterans lottery profits move between funds
For fiscal year 2026, all profits attributed to the veterans benefit lottery game move to the state gaming revenues fund. That fund gains the money while the Lottery operating fund transfers it out. The Lottery director must report the total profit by August 1, 2026. The law states no total and creates no direct payment to individual veterans.
Water loans ease shortfalls but require repayment
During fiscal year 2026, the state investment board must lend enough to cover water marketing fund cash-flow shortfalls. These interest-free loans need State Finance Council approval, budget-director approval of terms, and repayment within one year. Separate Council-approved loans can spread federal water-charge increases over time when those increases leave the fund unable to meet obligations. Those loans carry interest at the state investment portfolio’s net earnings rate when made. Principal and interest require payments at least annually, with full repayment within five years; the underlying charges remain.
Youth fund money supports settlement compliance
Kansas transfers $1.2 million from the Kansas Endowment for Youth fund to the Revenue Department's MSA compliance fund. The transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or when money becomes available. Compliance activities gain funding, while the youth endowment fund loses the transferred money. The provision does not create household payments.
Small towns get gas-line grant process
Kansas must create a gas-line grant process for eligible small towns currently served by a natural gas gathering field. Grants support designing, building, and installing distribution lines connecting to a gas provider. Initial money pays for an outside cost-of-service and revenue-rate study covering gas, transport, distribution, labor, maintenance, administration, and needed upgrades. Remaining money requires the completed study, a rate covering actual maintenance and necessary upgrades, and a gas-provider contract.
Agencies share SNAP and Medicaid records
During fiscal year 2026, Kansas aging and disability officials must share participant eligibility information with health and family-services agencies. This includes changes to SNAP or Medicaid eligibility requirements, subject to federal limits on sharing. Agencies must act immediately on fraudulent payments identified by the inspector general. This provision does not itself change who qualifies for benefits.
Dialysis surveys expand with possible charges
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Health and Environment must contract for dialysis facility surveys and certification. A newly built facility can be charged for a survey the agency performs after a one-year delay. That year starts when the operator reports the facility is operational. Surveys and related spending must follow federal law; the law states no survey fee amount.
Disability savings program gets expense transfer
Kansas moves $50,000 from the postsecondary education savings expense fund to the KS ABLE savings expense fund. The transfer occurs July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as money is available. It adds expense funding for ABLE while reducing the source fund by the same amount. Individual eligibility, account limits, and benefits do not change.
Human services funding requires spending approval
Kansas sets aside $10 million for FY2025 human services adjustments based on spring 2025 caseload estimates. The budget director must certify the remaining year’s total need after consulting the legislative research director. Spending requires approval from the governor and a majority of legislative State Finance Council members. The law does not identify a specific household benefit or payment.
More addiction providers can seek funding
For-profit private providers can apply for Kansas Fights Addiction funding for qualifying substance abuse or addiction services. Services must prevent, reduce, treat, abate, or remedy substance abuse or addiction. Applicants must release covered legal claims against each defendant required by opioid litigation to pay into the fund. Eligibility to apply does not guarantee an award.
Housing trust funding grows, uses narrow
The law directs $2 million transfers from the State Economic Development Initiatives Fund to the State Housing Trust Fund. The transfer dates are July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2026. During fiscal years 2025–2027, trust fund money is restricted to loans or grants to cities or counties for rural housing or infrastructure. These transfers do not create direct household payments.
Campus restoration gains redirected state money
Starting July 1, 2025, or when money is available, Kansas transfers $23.2 million to its Campus Restoration Fund. This includes $13.2 million from three Commerce economic expansion funds and $5 million from federal state fiscal relief money. Another $5 million comes from the account for Milford and Perry reservoir water-storage debt payments. Campus restoration gains money while those source accounts lose the transferred funds.
College Grants Tie Reserves to Taxes
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas provides $14.3 million for college apprenticeships, business outreach, and training for emerging business needs. Another $10.5 million funds student success initiatives at listed community and technical colleges. Community colleges generally qualify for their allocations only with fiscal year 2025 cash on hand of six months or less. Colleges above that level can qualify by adopting a resolution within 30 days to lower the current-year district tax levy or provide an equivalent property-tax rebate. The Board of Regents' chief executive officer must certify eligibility.
Health Education Funding Requires Some Matches
For fiscal year 2026, Fort Hays State receives $147,668 for master's-level nursing capacity and $400,000 for Western Kansas nursing instruction. Kansas also provides $3.787193 million for nursing faculty, lab supplies, and tools at Kansas colleges with accredited nursing programs. These grants must be need-based or competitive, and recipient colleges must match every dollar. Wichita State receives $750,000 to study whether a dentistry program is feasible. That study funding does not establish a dentistry program.
Job creation funding receives yearly cap
For fiscal years 2025 through 2027, Kansas allocates 2% of specified wage-withholding and estimated-tax collections to economic development funds. Money first pays IMPACT program debt service, then needed program administration. Remaining money goes to the Job Creation Program Fund, capped at $20 million each fiscal year. This rule allocates tax receipts; it does not establish a new household tax rate.
Kansas State spending includes matching requirement
For FY2026, Kansas State may use available designated funds for listed campus projects, housing, parking, repairs, and debt payments. Extension programs gain similar authority for repairs and capital leases; the Veterinary Medical Center also covers air-handling replacement and Mosier lab renovation. Four accounts retain June 30, 2025, balances above $100 that were not already committed. Agricultural innovation spending requires a dollar-for-dollar nonstate or private match, excluding federal grants; these FY2026 authorities end June 30, 2026. Separately, the law authorized FY2025 Strong Complex debt payments without a stated spending limit; that authority ended June 30, 2025.
Matched funding supports university aviation research
Wichita State receives $15 million for aviation research in fiscal year 2026. The university must match research spending dollar-for-dollar using other university money. It must also send lawmakers and the governor a plan describing job creation and other economic value. The appropriation supports research but does not guarantee individual jobs.
Pittsburg State tuition and scholarship funding
In fiscal year 2026, Pittsburg State must deposit Gorilla Advantage and Midwestern Student Exchange tuition into its general fees fund. That fund may also pay federal grant matches and official hospitality; the law does not change tuition rates. Restricted fees must enter the state treasury and serve their assigned purposes, including authorized hospitality; purpose changes need Regents action and Finance Council approval. Grant money may buy equipment insurance only when the grant funds and authorizes it. Surplus music department fees may go to the university foundation only for music scholarships.
Research Funding Includes Dollar Matching Rules
For fiscal year 2026, Kansas State receives $5.144062 million for global food systems and must match spending with its other funds. It must submit a jobs and economic-value plan to the governor and the House Appropriations and Senate Ways and Means committees. The Biomanufacturing Institute receives $5.011678 million; all spending requires an equal match from local nonstate or private money. The Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology receives $127,178. Each account carries forward unspent, uncommitted balances above $100 from June 30, 2025.
State funds support residency incentives
Beginning July 1, 2025, Kansas transfers $800,000 in general funds to its Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion residency incentive fund. The incentive fund gains money while the general fund supplies it. This provision does not set participant eligibility or individual payment amounts.
Unemployment program gains property sale funding
During fiscal year 2026, the Kansas Department of Labor may use its employment security administration property sale fund for unemployment insurance. Before buying more program real estate with this fund, proposed purchases and related plans need legislative building committee review. This authority ends June 30, 2026. The law does not change individual unemployment benefit amounts.
Universities face restricted fee spending rules
Kansas State's extension, agriculture research, and veterinary programs, plus Emporia State, must deposit restricted fees in designated state treasury accounts. Fees must fund their collection purposes, though official hospitality is also allowed; account-list changes need State Finance Council approval. The veterinary and Emporia rules apply in fiscal year 2026, when Kansas State's agricultural mediation account can also pay service costs. Emporia can insure grant-funded equipment only when the grant funds and authorizes coverage. Emporia must credit Midwestern Student Exchange tuition to that program's restricted-fee account.
Universities gain building funds with limits
Through June 30, 2026, Emporia State, Fort Hays State, Kansas State, Pittsburg State, and Kansas may spend specified Regents-transferred capital funds. Funds cover designated building work, including repairs, accessibility, fire-code compliance, and classroom improvements at Pittsburg State and Kansas. Transfers must come under a 2025 regular-session appropriation; building-fund authority excludes eligible uncommitted balances first appropriated for fiscal years starting before July 1, 2024. Emporia State and Fort Hays State also receive unlimited spending authority from designated special-revenue accounts for listed capital projects. Their specified uncommitted account balances above $100 on June 30, 2025, carry forward into fiscal year 2026.
University training funds have targeted uses
For fiscal year 2026, eligible uncommitted balances above $100 carry forward for Kansas State Salina’s Central Immersive Training Hub. Balances must remain uncommitted as of June 30, 2025, and may pay only for that hub. Wichita State’s $5.2 million aviation infrastructure appropriation may pay only for training and equipment at the National Center for Aviation Training. The hub’s total available funding is not stated.
Wichita State gets stadium borrowing authority
For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the Kansas Development Finance Authority can issue bonds to renovate and equip Wichita State's stadium. Project spending is capped at $60 million, plus issuance costs, renovation-period interest, and limited credit-enhancement costs and reserves. Credit-enhancement costs and reserves can cover no more than one year after completion. The bonds are the authority's obligation, not state debt, but special revenue fund appropriations pay debt service. Wichita State must maintain the stadium, equipment, and related infrastructure.
Development company grants face recipient cap
During fiscal year 2026, Commerce can award operating grants to certified development companies that the Secretary finds qualified. No more than 10 companies can receive these grants. The authority lasts through June 30, 2026, and the law does not specify grant amounts.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Joint Committee on Special Claims Against the State
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 88 Nay: 34
Yes: 88 • No: 34
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 82 Nay: 42
Yes: 82 • No: 42
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 30 Nay: 10
Yes: 30 • No: 10
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 24 Nay: 16
Yes: 24 • No: 16
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 89 Nay: 36
Yes: 89 • No: 36
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 120 Nay: 3
Yes: 120 • No: 3
Senate vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 39 Nay: 0
Yes: 39 • No: 0
House vote • 4/11/2025
Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 overridden
Yes: 88 • No: 34
House vote • 4/10/2025
Motion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto Secs. a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 sustained
Yes: 82 • No: 42
Senate vote • 4/10/2025
Motion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto all line items overridden
Yes: 30 • No: 10
Senate vote • 3/27/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 24 • No: 16
House vote • 3/27/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 89 • No: 36
House vote • 3/19/2025
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 120 • No: 3
Actions Timeline
Motion to Reconsider Adopted
4/11/2025HouseMotion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 overridden; Yea 88, Nay 34, Absent 3
4/11/2025HouseEngrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025
4/10/2025SenateEnrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 31, 2025
4/10/2025SenateMotion to override line item veto prevailed; Line item veto all line items overridden; Yea 30, Nay 10
4/10/2025SenateMotion to override line item veto failed; Line item veto Secs. a portion of 46(a), 46(c), 47, 63(x), 72(b), 73(f), a portion of 76(a), a portion of 76(b),a portion of 83(a), a portion of 89(a), 89(aa), a portion of 92(a), 118(h), 118(i), a portion of 121(a), 135(a), 177(b), 187(h), 188 sustained; Yea 82, Nay 42, Absent 1
4/10/2025HouseApproved by Governor except line item veto of 35a, 40d, 41g, 46a(part), 46c, 47, 62d, 63w, 63x, 72b, 73f, 76a (part), 76b (part), 83a (part), 84e, 85o, 88a (part), 89a (part), 89aa, 90, 92a (part), 96n, 96p, 96s, 108c, 116a (part), 118h, 118i, 121a (part), 129a (part), 135a, 153, 156, 158, 159a (part), 159b, 177b, 187h, 188 on Wednesday, April 9, 2025
4/9/2025SenateConference committee report now available
3/27/2025HouseConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 89, Nay 36
3/27/2025HouseConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 24, Nay 16
3/27/2025SenateSen. J.R. Claeys is appointed to replace Sen. Ty Masterson on the Conference Committee
3/25/2025SenateMotion to accede adopted; Rep. Troy Waymaster, Rep. Kristey Williams and Rep. Barbara Ballard appointed as conferees
3/24/2025HouseSen. Ty Masterson is appointed to replace Sen. J.R. Claeys on the Conference Committee
3/24/2025SenateMotion to suspend House Rule 2708(b) adopted.
3/24/2025HouseNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Rick Billinger, Sen. J.R. Claeys and Sen. Pat Pettey
3/20/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
3/19/2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
3/19/2025HouseMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
3/19/2025HouseEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 120, Nay 3, Absent 2
3/19/2025HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Appropriations
3/14/2025HouseHearing: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 9:00 AM — Room 112-N
2/27/2025HouseReceived and Introduced
2/13/2025HouseReferred to House Committee on Appropriations
2/13/2025HouseConsent Calendar Passed
2/11/2025SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Ways and Means
2/6/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Appropriations
As Introduced
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