Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report vote appropriates funding to fully fund public schools, provide pay raises for state employees, repeal DEI initiatives, and pronoun policies in Kansas.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $27.08 billion in state funding for the following, including $10.85 billion from the State General Fund and $10.64 billion for the following year (Sec. 1-28):

• To fully fund public schools;

• provide pay raises for state employees;

• Repeal DEI initiatives, and email pronoun policies in Kansas.

• Repeals funding for training and other items not required under the school finance legal settlement (Sec. 1-28).

• Appropriates $10 million in new funding for special education services (Sec. 1-28).

• Appropriates $106.3 million for state employees for a 2.5% wage increase (Sec. 1-28):

• Appropriates millions in various state funding for the following (Sec. 1-28):

• $5.8 million for a top-secret military weapons project in Wichita, Kansas;

• $24.9 million for a new Kansas Highway Patrol dispatch center in Salina, Kansas;

• $19.3 million to complete renovation of the Docking Building

• $10 million for firearm detection software in public schools;

• $179 million for local bridge construction;

• $71.2 million for a Wichita Biomedical Campus;

• $41.3 million for an Ag Innovation Initiative at Kansas State University, and

• $30 million for a Health Science Education Center at Wichita State University.

• Authorizes the state to take on $128 million in debt for a veterinary diagnostic laboratory in Manhattan and $80 million in debt for a new Kansas Bureau of Investigation headquarters in downtown Topeka, Kansas (Sec. 1-28).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall effect immediately upon its passage and publication in the Kansas register (Sec. 29).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to adopt a conference report vote appropriates funding to fully fund public schools, provide pay raises for state employees, repeal DEI initiatives, and pronoun policies in Kansas.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $27.08 billion in state funding for the following, including $10.85 billion from the State General Fund and $10.64 billion for the following year (Sec. 1-28):

• To fully fund public schools;

• provide pay raises for state employees;

• Repeal DEI initiatives, and email pronoun policies in Kansas.

• Repeals funding for training and other items not required under the school finance legal settlement (Sec. 1-28).

• Appropriates $10 million in new funding for special education services (Sec. 1-28).

• Appropriates $106.3 million for state employees for a 2.5% wage increase (Sec. 1-28):

• Appropriates millions in various state funding for the following (Sec. 1-28):

• $5.8 million for a top-secret military weapons project in Wichita, Kansas;

• $24.9 million for a new Kansas Highway Patrol dispatch center in Salina, Kansas;

• $19.3 million to complete renovation of the Docking Building

• $10 million for firearm detection software in public schools;

• $179 million for local bridge construction;

• $71.2 million for a Wichita Biomedical Campus;

• $41.3 million for an Ag Innovation Initiative at Kansas State University, and

• $30 million for a Health Science Education Center at Wichita State University.

• Authorizes the state to take on $128 million in debt for a veterinary diagnostic laboratory in Manhattan and $80 million in debt for a new Kansas Bureau of Investigation headquarters in downtown Topeka, Kansas (Sec. 1-28).

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill shall effect immediately upon its passage and publication in the Kansas register (Sec. 29).

Full Bill Text