Brief ⁽¹⁾

HB 2660, as amended, authorizes expenditures from the State General Fund and various special revenue funds for the payment of specific claims against the State of Kansas. Agencies affected by the bill include: the Department of Revenue; the Department of Administration; the University of Kansas; the Department of Credit Unions; the Department of Corrections; Winfield Correctional Facility; Lansing Correctional Facility; Hutchinson Correctional Facility; the Department of Human Resources; the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services; the State Conservation Commission; the University of Kansas Medical Center; the Attorney General; and the Board of Healing Arts.

Background

The Senate Committee amended the bill to partially restore a claim [section 6(a)] deleted by the House. As introduced, the bill included a claim of $200,000 to the family of Stephanie Schmidt, who was murdered by an individual on parole. The House Committee deleted the claim. The Senate Committee amendment restored $50,000 of the claim.

The Senate Committee also amended the bill to increase the claim contained in section 6(d) of the bill, which reimbursed a claimant for crop loss and damage to real property sustained during an escape attempt by inmates from Hutchinson Correctional Facility. As introduced and passed by the House, the claim was for $5,681. Based on a more recent estimate of damage sustained, the Senate Committee increased the claim to $7,944.

The third Senate Committee amendment reduced the claim contained in section 12(a) to Dr. L. Stan Naramore from $250,000 to $200,000, and shifted the funding sources to provide one-third of the funding from the Court Cost Fund in the budget of the Attorney General, one-third from the Board of Healing Arts Fee Fund, and one-third from a new State General appropriation. As introduced, the bill contained a new State General Fund appropriation for the full $250,000. The House Committee amended the bill to apportion the $250,000 claim as follows: $83,333.34 from the Board of Healing Arts Fee Fund; $83,333.33 from the operating expenditures account of the State General Fund in the budget of the Attorney General; and $83,333.33 from the Health Care Stabilization Fund.

The bill, as amended, authorizes total expenditures of $422,187, which includes $82,505 from operating accounts of the State General Fund, a new State General Fund appropriation of $66,667, and $273,015 from other sources.

1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html