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 9  AN ACT concerning fiscal notes for legislative bills; amending K.S.A.
10    1996 Supp. 75-3715a and repealing the existing section.
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12  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13    Section 1.  K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 75-3715a is hereby amended to read
14  as follows: 75-3715a. (a) Fiscal notes shall be provided for all bills in-
15  creasing or decreasing state revenues or the revenues of counties, cities
16  and school districts, making state appropriations or increasing or decreas-
17  ing existing appropriations or the fiscal liability of the state, or imposing
18  functions or responsibilities on counties, cities and school districts which
19  will increase their expenditures or fiscal liability. The director of the
20  budget, or the director's designee, shall consult with the League of Kansas
21  municipalities, Kansas association of counties and the Kansas association
22  of school boards, as appropriate, when preparing such fiscal notes. Not
23  more than seven 10 days following the first reading of any such bill, the
24  director of the budget shall furnish to the committee or committees to
25  which such bill was referred a statement explaining the fiscal effect of
26  such bill. Fiscal notes are required for original bills only and not for
27  amendments.
28    (b)  Upon the request by the chairperson, vice-chairperson or ranking
29  minority member of a committee which has acted to report any such bill
30  to the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, with the
31  recommendations that the bill be amended and be passed as amended, the
32  director of the budget shall review the current fiscal note on any such bill
33  with respect to amendments recommended by the committee and shall
34  revise the fiscal note if the amendments would change the fiscal effect of
35  the bill.
36    (c) The Each original or revised fiscal note, if possible, shall include a
37  reliable estimate in dollars of the anticipated change in revenue, expend-
38  itures, or fiscal liability under the provisions of the bill. It also shall include
39  a statement as to the immediate effect and, if determinable or reasonably
40  foreseeable, the long-range effect of the measure. If, after careful inves-
41  tigation, it is determined that no dollar estimate is possible, the note shall
42  contain a statement to that effect, setting forth the reasons why no dollar
43  estimate can be given. Every agency and department of the state is di-
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 1  rected to cooperate with the division of the budget in preparation of any
 2  fiscal note provided for by this act when, and to the extent, requested by
 3  the director of the budget.
 4    (d)  No comment or opinion shall be included in the fiscal note re-
 5  garding the merits of the measure for which the note is prepared.
 6    Sec. 2.  K.S.A. 1996 Supp. 75-3715a is hereby repealed.
 7    Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
 8  publication in the statute book.