CHAPTER 114 Substitute for HOUSE BILL No. 2323* An Act prescribing procedures for the payment of certain fees, tuition and other charges. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. (a) Any state agency which imposes or collects fees, tuition
or other charges shall accept payment thereof in the form of a personal,
certified or cashier's check or money order. A state agency may accept
payment by credit card or other method designated by the agency. A state
agency may impose an additional fee to recover the actual amount of any
cost incurred by reason of the method of payment used by the payee.

      (b) In addition to the methods specified in subsection (a), after June
30, 2001, a state agency shall accept payment of fees, tuition or other
charges in the form of a credit card.

      (c) Any transactions involving payment by credit card pursuant to this
section shall not be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 16a-2-403, and
amendments thereto.

      (d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any fees, fines or
charges imposed by the secretary of corrections or the commissioner of
juvenile justice on offenders under the jurisdiction of the secretary of
corrections or juvenile offenders placed in juvenile correctional facilities
under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of juvenile justice.

      (e) Any municipal university, community college, technical college,
or vocational educational school, having the meanings respectively as-
cribed thereto by K.S.A. 74-3201b, and amendments thereto, accepting
payment of fees, tuition or other charges in the form of a credit card shall
not be subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 16a-2-403, and amendments
thereto.

 Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.

Approved April 19, 2000.
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