CHAPTER 79 HOUSE BILL No. 3009* An Act concerning the judicial council; relating to the publications fee fund; authorizing certain fees and donations. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      Section  1. (a) The judicial council may fix, charge and collect fees
for sale and distribution of legal publications in order to recover direct
and indirect costs incurred for preparation, publication and distribution
of legal publications. The judicial council may request and accept gifts,
grants and donations from any person, firm, association or corporation or
from the federal government or any agency thereof for preparation, pub-
lication or distribution of legal publications.

      (b) The publications fee fund of the judicial council which was estab-
lished in the state treasury pursuant to appropriation acts is hereby con-
tinued in existence and shall be administered by the judicial council. Rev-
enue from the following sources shall be deposited in the state treasury
and credited to such fund:

      (1) All moneys received by or for the judicial council from fees col-
lected under this section; and










      (2) all moneys received as gifts, grants or donations for preparation,
publication or distribution of legal publications.

      (c) Moneys deposited in the publications fee fund of the judicial
council shall be expended only for operating expenditures related to prep-
aration, publication and distribution of legal publications of the judicial
council.

      (d) All expenditures from the publications fee fund shall be made in
accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of ac-
counts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chair-
person of the judicial council or the chairperson's designee.

 Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July
1, 2001, and its publication in the statute book.

Approved April 6, 2000.
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