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
March 19, 2024
The Honorable Rick Billinger, Chairperson
Senate Committee on Ways and Means
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 548-S
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Senator Billinger:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for SB 552 by Senate Committee on Ways and Means
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning SB 552 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
SB 552 would enact the Kansas Campus Restoration Act. The Act’s purpose would be to
reduce deferred maintenance of educational mission-critical facilities at postsecondary educational
institutions, to bring 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. The bill would
establish the Kansas Campus Restoration Fund, which would be administered by the Kansas Board
of Regents. The bill would establish a deferred maintenance account of the fund for each
postsecondary educational institution to make capital improvement expenditures. All expenditures
would require a match of nonstate funding on a $1-for-$1 basis from either the postsecondary
educational institution or private funding. Expenditures from the fund for a community college,
technical college, or municipal university would not require a match. Expenditures from the fund
from a state educational institution’s deferred maintenance account for demolition or razing of
buildings would not require a match.
Beginning on July 1, 2025, and continuing through July 1, 2035, $32.7 million would be
transferred from the State General Fund to the Kansas Campus Restoration Fund each fiscal year.
The bill specifies that each postsecondary educational institution would be required to develop and
submit a plan to the Kansas Board of Regents for the purpose of rehabilitation, remodeling, or
renovating existing facilities or building new facilities that are mission-critical and to bring
facilities to a state of good repair. The plan would also include a list of facilities for demolition
and razing. Each postsecondary educational institution’s plan would be subject to approval of the
Board. The Board would be required to develop a comprehensive Kansas Campus Restoration The Honorable Rick Billinger, Chairperson
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Plan that includes facilities from each postsecondary educational institution’s plan as approved by
the Board.
The Board would be required to ensure that facilities located on the Kansas State University
polytechnic campus in Salina and the University of Kansas Edwards campus in Overland Park are
not excluded from direct participation in the Kansas Campus Restoration Plan. The plan would
encourage, and the Board may require, a reduction of total campus square footage in a project
associated with the plan.
Beginning in FY 2026 through FY 2036, the Board would distribute an aggregate amount
of $30,000,000 from the Kansas Campus Restoration Fund to each state educational institution’s
deferred maintenance account in accordance with the Kansas Campus Restoration Plan. Also,
beginning in FY 2026 through FY 2036, the Board would credit $100,000 in each fiscal year from
the Kansas Campus Restoration Fund to each community college, technical college, and municipal
university. The bill would authorize the Board to adopt rules and regulations necessary to
implement and administer the Act’s provisions. The Board would be required to submit a report
to the Legislature each year on the progress of the Kansas Campus Restoration Plan. The bill’s
provisions would expire on July 1, 2036.
Estimated State Fiscal Effect
FY 2024 FY 2025 FY 2026
Expenditures
State General Fund -- $127,000 $32,827,000
Fee Fund(s) -- -- --
Federal Fund -- -- --
Total Expenditures -- $127,000 $32,827,000
Revenues
State General Fund -- -- --
Fee Fund(s) -- -- --
Federal Fund -- -- --
Total Revenues -- -- --
FTE Positions -- 1.00 1.00
The Kansas Board of Regents indicates enactment of the bill would provide $32.7 million
from the State General Fund for deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at all public
institutions of higher education in Kansas. In addition to the $32.7 million outlined in the bill, the
Board estimates expenditures of $127,000 from the State General Fund in both FY 2025 and FY
2026 for a new FTE position that would be responsible for reviewing each institution’s plan. Of
the $127,000 for the additional position, $119,000 would be for salaries and wages and $8,000
would be for other operating expenditures.
The Honorable Rick Billinger, Chairperson
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The Division of the Budget notes the bill provides for a total of $30.0 million to be
distributed by the Board to the state universities each fiscal year, while each community college,
technical college, and municipal university would each receive $100,000 each fiscal year for
deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities beginning in FY 2026 through FY 2036. Any
fiscal effect associated with SB 552 is not reflected in The FY 2025 Governor’s Budget Report.
Sincerely,
Adam C. Proffitt
Director of the Budget
cc: Becky Pottebaum, Board of Regents
Jeff Dewitt, University of Kansas
Stephanie McDowell, Kansas State University
Douglas Ball, Pittsburg State University
Angela Wolgram, Emporia State University
Werner Golling, Wichita State University
Wesley Wintch, Fort Hays State University