Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 adam.c.proffitt@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612 http://budget.kansas.gov
Adam C. Proffitt, Director Laura Kelly, Governor
Division of the Budget
February 21, 2024
The Honorable Kristey Williams, Chairperson
House Committee on K-12 Education Budget
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 546-S
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Williams:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2727 by House Committee on K-12 Education Budget
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2727 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2727 would require public schools, charter schools, and postsecondary educational
institutions to make menstrual products available at no cost to students. The bill specifies locations
where public schools and postsecondary educational institutions would be required to make
menstrual products available to students. Each postsecondary educational institution would post
a notice regarding the requirements of the bill’s provisions in a prominent and conspicuous
location in all women’s restrooms, stand-alone handicapped restrooms, gender-neutral restrooms,
and in at least one men’s restroom.
Sufficient funding would be appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of
Education and to the Board of Regents for providing menstrual products at no cost to students in
each school of a school district, charter school, and postsecondary educational institution. Subject
to appropriations, the State Department of Education and the Board of Regents would reimburse
each school district and postsecondary educational institution for actual costs incurred in
implementing the bill’s provisions. Actual costs incurred may include the following: menstrual
products, menstrual product dispensers, and menstrual product dispenser installation costs.
The bill would require both the State Board of Education and the Board of Regents to adopt
any rules and regulations necessary for the administration of the bill’s provisions. Such rules and
regulations would provide for an application process for school districts and postsecondary
educational institutions to be reimbursed for costs incurred. On or before June 1 of each year, each
school district and postsecondary educational institution would produce a report containing the
number of menstrual products purchased that year, the number of menstrual products actually
distributed to students that year, and any grievances or other complaints about lack of access to or
quality of menstrual products. Reports would be made available for public inspection.
The Honorable Kristey Williams, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2727
The Board of Regents states enactment of the bill would require an appropriation of
funding to cover the costs of the menstrual products. The Board is unable to estimate the amount
of funding that would be needed because the Board does not have a way to determine the number
of students who would use the products or the number of products that would be needed. The
Board indicates the additional staff time that would be needed to create the rules and regulations
specified in the bill could be absorbed within existing resources.
The Department of Education states it is unable to estimate the number of products or
product dispensers a given school district would need. The required additional administrative
requirements for this bill by itself would be performed by existing staff of the Department.
However, if the combined effect of implementing this bill and other enacted legislation exceeds
the Department’s administrative resources, additional expenditures for administrative costs
beyond the Department’s current budget may be required. Any fiscal effect associated with HB
2727 is not reflected in The FY 2025 Governor’s Budget Report.
Sincerely,
Adam C. Proffitt
Director of the Budget
cc: Gabrielle Hull, Department of Education
Becky Pottebaum, Board of Regents