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• Introduced by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) on March 9, 2009, in his role as committee chair, to propose the Governor's recommended state budget modifications for fiscal year 2010 (FY10). Taking into account money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- the federal "stimulus" bill -- this revised budget by the Governor now proposes state general fund (SGF) spending of $5.8 billion. In early January the Governor originally proposed FY10 spending of $6.2 billion from SGF and $12.9 billion in her All Funds budget. Her modified FY10 budget now proposes spending $472 million in federal stimulus funds and the impact this would have on the new overall All Funds budget for FY10 has not yet been published. NOTE: In April 2009 a Senate committee deleted the provisions of this bill and replaced them with the Omnibus budget proposal for making final changes to FY10 state spending.
  • Referred to the House Appropriations Committee on March 11, 2009.
    • Reported in the House on March 19, 2009, recommending the bill be passed as amended. House committee's proposal follows most of the Governor's recommendations, using the same amount she proposes from the federal "stimulus" aid, increasing her net overall spending by $3.1 million, but using $201.8 million less in revenue enhancements through tax policy changes, general fund transfers, and sweeps of money from various special state funds -- most notably relying on $50 million less from gaming revenue. Particular committee changes to the governor's proposal include: deleting all the proposed tax policy changes that would have increased revenue by $60.6 million; increasing transfers to the Bioscience Authority and to the State Water Plan, totaling $23 million; sweeping $50 million less from special funds into the state general fund; reducing K-12 base state budget $33 per pupil ($21 million) and special education by $4.5 million; increasing Regents' higher education by $2.9 million; cutting $1.2 million for the State Childens' Health Insurance expansion; adding $400,000 for the Pregnancy Maintenance Initiative; and, reducing by about $56 million the amount of savings originally proposed from restructuring state debt and from delaying state contributions for employee health and disability insurance.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jill Quigley (R) on March 23, 2009, to increase funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $1.2 million. The amendment passed in the House (75 to 48) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Virgil Peck, Jr. (R) on March 23, 2009, transfer $2,129,390 from the public broadcasting council grants account of the Kansas Department of Administration to the community based services account of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The amendment failed in the House (42 to 74) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Otto (R) on March 23, 2009, to reduce by 10 percent -- that is, about $9 per day -- the daily pay of state legislators during the regular session through fiscal year 2010. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Otto (R) on March 23, 2009, to reduce the annual salary of executive branch state employees for fiscal year 2010 by as much as 10 percent, beginning with those who earn at least $50,000 to be cut by two percent and with the cuts rising gradually so that those earning over $100,000 would be cut by 10 percent. The amendment failed in the House (8 to 105) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Feuerborn (D) on March 23, 2009, to add $4,464,507 to state funding for K-12 special education and $20,880,532 to general state aid for K-12 education. The amendment failed in the House (58 to 62) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Tom Hawk (D) on March 23, 2009, to delete the bill's requirements that certain federal funds for state universities be spent entirely on deferred maintenance of their facilities and, instead, that those funds may be used to protect university jobs and maintain university salary levels. The amendment failed in the House (56 to 64) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Peggy Mast (R) on March 23, 2009, to transfer $1.2 million earmarked for the State Children's Health Insurance program to, instead, fund other mental health and community social welfare programs of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. The amendment failed in the House (48 to 70) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Marvin Kleeb (R) on March 23, 2009, to require that in the awarding of any state contracts next year that when a state agency grants a contract to a vendor who was not the lowest bidder, that the agency provide to the Legislature a detailed justification for not picking the lowest bidder. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Marvin Kleeb (R) on March 23, 2009, to require that in the awarding of any state contracts next year that when a state agency awards a contract to a vendor who is not a Kansas employer, that the agency provide to the Legislature a detailed justification for not picking a Kansas employer. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Joe Seiwert (R) on March 23, 2009, to transfer $50,000 from the state agricultural production fund to the feed the hungry fund. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bill Feuerborn (D) on March 23, 2009, to require that a daily attendance role be taken of the Legislature on every day of the session and that attendance be published in the journal. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Geraldine Flaharty (D) on March 23, 2009, to add $29,000 to proposed funding for the State Library. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Ann Mah (D) on March 23, 2009, to authorize the National Guard to spend whatever funds it may receive for the 35th Infantry Division museum and education center facility. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Jerry Henry (D) on March 23, 2009, to add $8 million funding to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services' community-based services program. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Pat Colloton (R) on March 23, 2009, to increase by $465,000 funding for community corrections through the Kansas Department of Corrections. The amendment passed in the House (86 to 35) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Barbara Ballard (D) on March 23, 2009, to increase by $2.5 million funding for mental health and retardation services aid. The amendment passed in the House (66 to 54) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Larry Powell (R) on March 23, 2009, to cap the amount transferred from the expanded lottery fund at $45.3 million, to reduce general state aid to K-12 education by $45.3 million, and to direct that as much as $45.3 million (to be determined by a specified formula) be used to fund the business machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during state fiscal year 2010. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Mike Burgess (R) on March 23, 2009, to require expenditures by the Department of Administration for fiscal year 2009 or fiscal year 2010 to provide for issuance of a request for proposals for a new vehicle rental service agreement and that no expenditures shall be made to exercise the option to renew the existing vehicle rental service agreement. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Anthony Brown (R) on March 23, 2009, to reduce funding for the Kansas Department of Revenue by $114,535. The amendment failed in the House (55 to 65) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Tom Burroughs (D) on March 23, 2009, to require that all labor involved in state university deferred maintenance projects be paid prevailing wages determined in accordance with wage areas, job classifications and wage rates determined under the federal Davis-Bacon act. The amendment failed in the House (50 to 71) on March 23, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Motion by Rep. Larry Powell (R) on March 23, 2009, to retract Rep. Powell's earlier amendment regarding K-12 education funding and state aid for business machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance. The motion passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Larry Powell (R) on March 23, 2009, to cap the amount transferred from the expanded lottery fund at $45.3 million, to direct that as much as $45.3 million (to be determined by a specified formula) be used to fund the business machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund during state fiscal year 2010, and to provide state funding of as much as $45.3 million for the telecommunications and railroad machinery and equipment tax reduction assistance fund (to be determined by a specified formula). The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R) on March 23, 2009, to add up to $4 million funding for the Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education using federal funds, once they are received, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) on March 23, 2009, to add $2.5 million state funding for the Wichita Center for Graduate Medical Education; delete $10 million funding for KAN-ED; add $108,150 funding for the Kansas Real Estate Commission in fiscal year (FY) 2010, but decrease that agency's funding by $91,850 in FY2011; decrease the Kansas Attorney General's operating budget by $2,727 and increase by that same amount funding for the Attorney General's abuse, neglect and exploitation unit; increase funding for the Kansas State Treasurer by $25,567; delete funds transfers from the Kansas Insurance Department's examinations fund to other assorted funds of that agency; transfer $298,099 from some funds of the Kansas Department of Commerce to other funds of the same agency; increase funding for the Kansas Department of Education's operating expenses and decrease funding by the same amount from the agency's KPERS contributions for its employees; and, increase funding by $1 million for the Kansas University Medical Center. The amendment passed in the House by voice vote on March 23, 2009.
• Passed in the House (70 to 54) on March 24, 2009, to approve a state budget for fiscal year 2010 that amounts to $5.764 billion from the state general fund (SGF), about $6.4 million more than the Governor's modified proposal, but relying on approximately $196.8 million less than the Governor recommended in revenue enhancements through tax policy changes, general fund transfers, and sweeps of money from various special state funds. No published total of the FY2010 All Funds state budget (which includes the SGF) is yet available, but it will be roughly the same as the current year - about $13.4 billion - even though the SGF share of that total drops significantly. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the Senate on March 25, 2009.
  • Referred to the Senate Ways and Means Committee on March 30, 2009.
    • Reported in the Senate on April 29, 2009, recommending the bill be replaced by a substitute bill and the substitute bill be passed. The new bill is the Senate version of the "Omnibus" appropriations bill that makes final budget adjustments for balancing the state's fiscal year 2010 spending. It would authorize spending a total of $5.63 billion from the State General Fund (SGF) in FY10 plus $396 million in federal Stimulus funds that would cover expenses otherwise paid through the SGF. The bill would delete $125 million from the previously enacted FY10 budget, take into account recently revised state revenue projections, and assume that $122 million in revenue enhancements will be enacted by: suspending the current phase-out of the corporate franchise tax; suspending the current phase-out of the Kansas estate tax; and, decouple (that is, exempt) Kansas from the accelerated depreciation rules enacted by the federal Stimulus legislation. The bill with these measures, and others, is projected to leave the SGF with a $300,000 positive ending balance for FY10.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Jay Emler (R) on May 5, 2009, to cut $487,500 from the Kansas Health Policy Authority's budget for "other medical assistance", to add that same amount to the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services' budget for "state operations", and to authorize spending for legal aid and case management for SRS's adult cash assistance recipients. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Jay Emler (R) on May 5, 2009, to increase the budget cut for indigents' defense services by $469,766; to cut spending for K-12 special education by $2,248,000; to transfer $2.78 million from deposits in state agency fee-funds into the State General Fund; and, to decrease the proposed cut for the Kansas Board of Regents' Southwest Kansas project by $336,590. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Jay Emler (R) on May 5, 2009, to increase the proposed budget cuts to state universities so that higher education spending is reduced in proportion to any reductions in K-12 education -- a "proportionality" requirement imposed as a condition for receiving federal funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (that is, the Stimulus bill). The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. John Vratil (R) on May 5, 2009, to increase the bill's across-the-board budget cut from 2.5 percent up to 2.75 percent. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Ruth Teichman (R) on May 5, 2009, to delete the proposed transfer of $1,311,572 from two special funds of the Department of Education into the State General Fund. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Vicki Schmidt (R) on May 5, 2009, to preclude any state spending for implementing or maintaining a preferred drug formulary for medications of those receiving state aid under the MediKan program. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Mark Taddiken (R) on May 5, 2009, to transfer $25.3 million from the State Highway Fund to the State General Fund. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Derek Schmidt (R) on May 5, 2009, to decrease the bill's overall proposed transfers from state agency fee-fund accounts into the State General Fund from $27 million down to $17 million. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Karin Brownlee (R) on May 5, 2009, to earmark $50,000 from funds in the Children's Initiative Fund for use in training for the diagnosis of autism. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Tim Huelskamp (R) on May 5, 2009, to give first priority for federal "Title X" funds for Kansas to public entities that deliver health care, then to allow any remaining Title X funds to be distributed to non-public entities. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Anthony Hensley (D) on May 5, 2009, to allow the bill's transfers of money from state agency fee-fund accounts into the State General Fund only as needed when a low SGF cash flow situation requires it. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Ruth Teichman (R) on May 5, 2009, to allow $1.5 million of the amount budgeted for state disaster relief in fiscal year 2010 to be spent, instead, in fiscal year 2009. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Vicki Schmidt (R) on May 5, 2009, to delete the proposed budget cut of $384,623 from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's operating account and to insert a new KBI operating account budget appropropriation in the amount of $255,327. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Vicki Schmidt (R) on May 5, 2009, to transfer all money above a $100 balance from the State General Fund's land acquisition account into the Kansas Bureau of Investigation's operating expenditures account. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Dwayne Umbarger (R) on May 5, 2009, to delete proposed revenue transfers to the State General from fee-funded accounts of the following state agencies: Board of Accountancy; Real Estate Commission; Board of Veterinary Examiners; Dental Board; Board of Optometry Examiners; Board of Pharmacy; Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund; Subsurface Hydrocarbon Storage Fund; State Banking Commission; and, Department of Credit Unions. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Derek Schmidt (R) on May 5, 2009, to correct a clerical error in an earlier amendment. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Jay Emler (R) on May 5, 2009, to increase the state universities' budget cuts approved in an earlier amendment in order to meet the federal Stimulus act's requirement for proportional K-12 versus higher education budget treatment. The amendment passed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Mary Pilcher Cook (R) on May 5, 2009, to require each local school district to publish on the Internet a secure report of the district's check register recording of its receipts and expenditures. The amendment failed in the Senate (16 to 22) on May 5, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Chris Steineger (D) on May 5, 2009, to delete all proposed funding for the State Affordable Airfare program that subsidizes passenger rates at the Wichita airport. The amendment failed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Steve Abrams (R) on May 5, 2009, to authorize spending $6.83 million for the state's community correctional conservation camps and for correctional facilities in El Dorado, Lansing and Norton; also, to require a special commission to study the issue of closure and realignment of correctional institutions. The amendment failed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Tim Huelskamp (R) on May 5, 2009, to require all state agencies to publish details about money they will receive from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the federal Stimulus bill), including the agencies' projected deficits when ARRA funding ends. The amendment failed in the Senate by voice vote on May 5, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Ty Masterson (R) on May 5, 2009, to delete the bill's remaining proposed revenue transfers from state agency fee-funded accounts, including those added by an earlier amendment of Sen. Emler, into the State General Fund. The amendment failed in the Senate (17 to 20) on May 5, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Sen. Ty Masterson (R) on May 5, 2009, to increase the bill's 2.75 percent across-the-board budget cut to 3.5 percent; to reduce the proposed budget cut to the Department of Wildlife and Parks by $81,940; and, to grant authority to the Department of Revenue to equitably resolve certain audit-related assessments that are pending in the administrative appeals or judicial process, including authority for the Department to settle any amounts of tax, penalty, and interest in question. The amendment failed in the Senate (17 to 22) on May 5, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Passed in the Senate (21 to 17) on May 5, 2009, approving the Senate's version of the Omnibus budget bill for making final budget adjustments for state fiscal year 2010 spending; authorizing appropriations of $5.616 billion from the State General Fund (SGF), which results from a 2.75 percent across-the-board spending cut, but additionally would spend $396 million in federal Stimulus funds; resulting in a $70 million SGF deficit unless additional tax revenue is enacted through other legislation. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Received in the House on May 7, 2009.
  • Motion by Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) on May 7, 2009, to not concur in Senate amendments to the bill and to appoint a special House-Senate conference committee to negotiate a compromise proposal.
    • Motion by Rep. Clay Aurand (R) on May 7, 2009, to substitute the previous motion with a new motion to concur in the Senate amendments to the bill.
    • The motion passed in the House (64 to 60) on May 7, 2009, approving the Senate-passed version of the Omnibus budget bill for making final budget adjustments for state fiscal year 2010 spending; authorizing appropriations of $5.616 billion from the State General Fund (SGF), which results from a 2.75 percent across-the-board spending cut, but additionally would spend $396 million in federal Stimulus funds; resulting in a $70 million SGF deficit unless additional tax revenue is enacted through other legislation. House approval thereby forwards the bill to the governor for his consideration. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Signed with line-item veto by Gov. Mark Parkinson on May 22, 2009, approving all provisions in the "omnibus" spending bill except for the following specific line-item measures vetoed: proposed spending of $1.85 million for K-12 education pension expenses that were already budgeted in another part of the bill; a proposed budget cut for Kansas State University's Salina Aeronautical Center; and, a proposed priority for spending federal "Title X" family planning funds on government operated clinics in Kansas before any may be diverted to private family planning clinics.