Session of 1998
                   
HOUSE BILL No. 3018
         
By Committee on Appropriations
         
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            9             AN ACT concerning the judicial branch; establishing the judicial tech-
10             nology and building and grounds fund; prescribing and authorizing
11             certain guidelines and procedures for the provision and expenditure
12             of funds with respect thereto.
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14       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
15           Section 1. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury the
16       judicial technology and building and grounds fund which shall be admin-
17       istered by the supreme court.
18           (b) All expenditures from the judicial technology and building and
19       grounds fund shall be for the purposes of capital equipment and other
20       acquisitions for technology improvements for the judicial branch or cap-
21       ital improvements for the judicial center building and grounds and shall
22       be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the di-
23       rector of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by
24       the chief justice of the supreme court or the chief justice's designee.
25           (c) The chief justice is hereby authorized to request or apply for,
26       receive and accept moneys from any nonstate source for any of the pur-
27       poses for which expenditures may be made from the judicial technology
28       and building and grounds fund. Upon receipt, the chief justice shall remit
29       any such moneys to the state treasurer and the entire amount of each
30       such remittance shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of
31       the judicial technology and building and grounds fund.
32           (d) On or before June 30, 1999, and each June 30 thereafter, the
33       chief justice of the supreme court may certify to the director of accounts
34       and reports the amount of the unencumbered balance of moneys that
35       will be available for transfer pursuant to this subsection in the judiciary
36       operations account of the state general fund which was appropriated for
37       the judicial branch for that fiscal year or in one or more other accounts
38       of the state general fund in which moneys were appropriated for oper-
39       ating expenditures of the judicial branch for that fiscal year. On June 30
40       of each year for which the chief justice certifies an amount or amounts
41       under this subsection, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer
42       the amount or amounts so certified from the account or accounts of the
43       state general fund specified in such certification to the judicial technology

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  1       and building and grounds fund.
  2           Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
  3       publication in the statute book.
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