SENATE BILL No. 18
AN ACT concerning the state board of regents; enacting the Kansas campus restoration act;
relating to deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary
educational institutions; authorizing the board to adopt rules and regulations;
establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury; authorizing
certain transfers from the state general fund to the Kansas campus restoration fund;
requiring annual reports be submitted to certain committees of the legislature;
amending K.S.A. 74-3201b and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
New Section 1. (a) The provisions of sections 1 through 8, and
amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas
campus restoration act.
(b) The purpose of the Kansas campus restoration act is to reduce
deferred maintenance of educational mission-critical facilities at
postsecondary educational institutions, to bring such facilities to a state
of good repair and to provide for the demolition or razing of facilities at
state educational institutions that are no longer mission-critical.
(c) As used in the Kansas campus restoration act:
(1) "Board of regents" means the same as defined in K.S.A. 76-
711, and amendments thereto.
(2) "Fund" means the Kansas campus restoration fund established
in section 2, and amendments thereto.
(3) "Postsecondary educational institution" means the same as
defined in K.S.A. 74-3201b, and amendments thereto.
(4) "State educational institution" means the same as defined in
K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto.
New Sec. 2. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury
the Kansas campus restoration fund. The Kansas campus restoration
fund shall be administered by the board of regents. All expenditures
from the fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon
warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to
vouchers approved by the board of regents or by a person or persons
designated by the board of regents.
(b) A deferred maintenance account of the fund shall be
established for each postsecondary educational institution for the
purpose of making capital improvement expenditures from the fund.
(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), all
expenditures from the fund shall require a match of nonstate moneys on
a $1-for-$1 basis from either the postsecondary educational institution
or private moneys.
(2) Expenditures from the fund for a community college, technical
college, institute of technology or municipal university shall not require
a match.
(3) Expenditures from the fund from a state educational
institution's deferred maintenance account for demolition or razing of
buildings or facilities on the campus of such state educational
institution shall not require a match.
(d) On or before the 10
th
day of each month, the director of
accounts and reports shall transfer from the state general fund to the
Kansas campus restoration fund interest earnings based on:
(1) The average daily balance of moneys in the Kansas campus
restoration fund for the preceding month; and
(2) the net earnings rate for the pooled money investment portfolio
for the preceding month.
New Sec. 3. On July 1, 2025, July 1, 2026, July 1, 2027, July 1,
2028, July 1, 2029, and July 1, 2030, or as soon thereafter each such
date as moneys are available, the director of accounts and reports shall
transfer $32,700,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas campus
restoration fund.
New Sec. 4. (a) Each state educational institution shall develop SENATE BILL No. 18—page 2
and submit to the board of regents a plan for the purpose of
rehabilitating, remodeling or renovating existing facilities or building
new facilities that are mission-critical of such state educational
institution and to bring such facilities to a state of good repair. Such
plan shall also include a list of facilities for demolition or razing. Each
state educational institution's plan shall be subject to approval by the
board of regents.
(b) The board of regents shall develop a comprehensive Kansas
campus restoration plan that includes facilities from each state
educational institution's plan as approved by the board of regents.
(c) The board of regents shall ensure that facilities located on the
Kansas state university Salina campus and the university of Kansas
Edwards campus in Overland Park, Kansas, are not excluded from
direct participation in the Kansas campus restoration plan.
(d) The Kansas campus restoration plan shall encourage, and the
board of regents may require, a reduction of total campus square
footage in a project associated with such plan.
New Sec. 5. (a) Commencing in fiscal year 2026 through fiscal
year 2031, the board of regents shall distribute in each fiscal year an
aggregate amount of $30,000,000 from the Kansas campus restoration
fund to each state educational institution's deferred maintenance
account established pursuant to section 2, and amendments thereto, in
accordance with the Kansas campus restoration plan developed and
approved pursuant to section 4, and amendments thereto.
(b) Commencing in fiscal year 2026 through fiscal year 2031, the
board of regents shall credit $100,000 in each fiscal year from the
Kansas campus restoration fund to each community college, technical
college, institute of technology and municipal university account
established pursuant to section 2, and amendments thereto.
New Sec. 6. The board of regents is hereby authorized to adopt
rules and regulations necessary to implement and administer the
provisions of the Kansas campus restoration act and shall adopt rules
and regulations to define:
(a) "Educational mission-critical facilities." Such definition may
include, but not be limited to, any facility of a research or economic
generation capacity that the board of regents deems essential. Such
definition shall not include auxiliary or athletic-funded facilities; and
(b) "state of good repair." Such definition shall be of an industry
standard and shall be presented to the joint committee on state building
construction for review and comment.
New Sec. 7. Annually on or before the first day of the regular
session of the legislature:
(a) The board of regents shall submit a report on the progress of
the Kansas campus restoration plan to the senate committee on ways
and means, the house of representatives committee on appropriations,
the house of representatives higher education budget committee and the
joint committee on state building construction; and
(b) each community college, technical college, institute of
technology and municipal university shall submit a report on each
institution's expenditures of moneys received pursuant to section 5(b),
and amendments thereto, to the board of regents, the senate committee
on ways and means, the house of representatives committee on
appropriations and the house of representatives higher education budget
committee.
New Sec. 8. The provisions of sections 1 through 8, and
amendments thereto, shall expire on July 1, 2031.
Sec. 9. K.S.A. 74-3201b is hereby amended to read as follows: 74-
3201b. As used in the Kansas higher education coordination act:
(a) "Adult basic education program" and "adult supplementary SENATE BILL No. 18—page 3
education program" have the meanings respectively ascribed thereto
mean the same as defined in K.S.A. 74-32,253, and amendments
thereto.
(b) "Community college" means any community college
established under the laws of this state.
(c) "Institute of technology" or "Washburn institute of technology"
means the institute of technology at Washburn university.
(d) "Municipal university" means Washburn university of Topeka
or any other municipal university established under the laws of this
state.
(e) "Postsecondary educational institution" means any public
university, municipal university, community college and, technical
college, and institute of technology. "Postsecondary educational
institution" includes any entity resulting from the consolidation or
affiliation of any two or more of such postsecondary educational
institutions.
(f) "Private postsecondary educational institution" and "out-of-
state postsecondary educational institution" have the meanings ascribed
thereto mean the same as defined in K.S.A. 74-32,163, and
amendments thereto.
(g) "Public university" means any state educational institution.
(h) "Representative of a postsecondary educational institution"
means any person who is the holder of an associate degree, a bachelor's
degree, or a certificate of completion awarded by a postsecondary
educational institution.
(i) "State board of regents" or "state board" means the state board
of regents provided for in the constitution of this state and established
by K.S.A. 74-3202a, and amendments thereto, except as otherwise
specifically provided in this act.
(j) "State educational institution" means any state educational
institution, as defined in K.S.A. 76-711, and amendments thereto.
(k) "Technical college" means any technical college established
under the laws of this state.
Sec. 10. K.S.A. 74-3201b is hereby repealed. SENATE BILL No. 18—page 4
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the
SENATE, and passed that body
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SENATE adopted
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President of the Senate.
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Secretary of the Senate.
Passed the HOUSE
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HOUSE adopted
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Speaker of the House.
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Chief Clerk of the House.
APPROVED _____________________________
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Governor.