As Amended by House Commettee
         

          Session of 1998
                   
HOUSE BILL No. 2803
         
By Representatives Presta, Aurand, Beggs, Boston, Compton, Cook,
                Dahl, Dreher, Edmonds, Faber, Farmer, Feuerborn, Findley, Flower,
                Freeborn, Gilbert, Gilmore, Grant, Gregory, Haley, Horst, Howell,
                Humerickhouse, Hutchins, Jennison, Johnson, Kejr, Landwehr, P.
                Long, Mayans, Mays, McCreary, McKechnie, McKinney, Minor, Mol-
                lenkamp, Myers, Neufeld, O'Connor, O'Neal, Osborne, Packer, Pal-
                mer, Pauls, E. Peterson, J. Peterson, Powell, Powers, Schwartz, Shal-
                lenburger, Sharp, Shore, Shriver, Shultz, Spangler, Tanner, Toplikar,
                Vickrey, Vining, Wagle, Weber, Wempe and Wilson
               
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          18             AN ACT establishing the Kansas highway transportation trust fund; pro-
19             viding for certain transfers; payment of employee bonuses.
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21       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
22           Section 1. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the
23       Kansas highway transportation trust fund.
24           (b) Moneys in the Kansas highway transportation trust fund shall
25       be used only for the purpose of paying costs associated with the imple-
26       mentation of any highway transportation program authorized by statute
27       and initiated after July 1, 2002.
28           (c) On or before the 10th of each month, the director of accounts
29       and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the Kansas high-
30       way transportation trust fund interest earnings based on:
31           (1) The average daily balance of moneys in the Kansas highway trans-
32       portation trust fund for the preceding month; and
33           (2) the net earnings rate for the pooled money investment portfolio
34       for the preceding month.
35           (d) On July 1, 2002, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer
36       all moneys in the Kansas highway trust fund to the state highway fund
37       and upon such transfer the Kansas highway trust fund is hereby abolished.
38        (d) Upon written request by the secretary of transportation,
39       the director of accounts and reports shall transfer the amount
40       specified in such request from the Kansas transportation trust fund
41       to the state highway fund.
42           Sec. 2. (a) On June 30, 1998, the director of accounts and reports
43       shall transfer $25,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas high-

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  1       way transportation trust fund established by section 1.
  2           (b) On July 15, 1998, and on the 15th day of each calendar quarter
  3       thereafter before July 1, 2002, the director of accounts and reports shall
  4       transfer $6,250,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas highway
  5       transportation trust fund established by section 1.
  6           Sec. 3. (a) In order to help fund any highway program authorized by
  7       statute initiated after July 1, 2002, the agency head of each state agency
  8       having appropriations from the state general fund demonstrating actual
  9       cost reductions in the operations of such state agency for any fiscal year
10       ending prior to July 1, 2002, shall certify such savings to the director of
11       accounts and reports. Upon receipt of such certification, the director of
12       accounts and reports shall transfer 80% of the amount so certified from
13       the accounts of the state agency specified therefor to the Kansas highway
14       trust fund.
15           (b) The remaining 20% of the amount certified under subsection (a)
16       shall be used for the payment of cash bonuses to state officers and em-
17       ployees of the agency demonstrating cost reductions. The agency head
18       shall have discretion as to the payment of such bonuses. Such bonuses
19       shall be paid from money appropriated in any item of appropriation from
20       which expenditures are so certified as reduced.
21           (c) No cash bonus payment to any person pursuant to this section
22       shall be compensation, within the meaning of K.S.A. 74-4901 et seq., and
23       amendments thereto, for any purpose under the Kansas public employees
24       retirement system and shall not be subject to deductions for employee
25       contributions thereunder. Each such cash bonus payment shall be a bo-
26       nus, as defined by 289 C.F.R. 778, and shall be in addition to the regular
27       earnings to which an officer or employee may be entitled or for which
28       such officer or employee may become eligible.
29           (d) As used in this section:
30           (1) ``State agency'' means any state office or officer, department,
31       board, commission, bureau, division, authority, agency or institution of
32       this state, except political subdivisions of the state, requesting or receiving
33       appropriations from the state treasury; and
34           (2) ``agency head'' means an individual or body of individuals in which
35       the ultimate legal authority of the state agency is vested by any provision
36       of law.
37           Sec. 4 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
38       publication in the Kansas register.
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