As Amended by Senate Committee
Session of 2024
SENATE BILL No. 552
By Committee on Ways and Means
3-14
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
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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, July 1, 2030, July 1, 2031, July 1, 2032, July 1, 2033, July 1,
2034, and July 1, 2035, 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 postsecondary state educational institution shall
develop 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 postsecondary 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
postsecondary 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 postsecondary
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 polytechnic campus in Salina, Kansas, 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
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2036, 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 2036, 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. The board of regents shall submit a report 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, 2036.
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
education program" have the meanings respectively ascribed thereto
mean the same as defined in K.S.A. 74-32,253, and amendments thereto.
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(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.
Sec. 9. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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