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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2139
3	3	By Committee on Education
4	4	Requested by Representative Schreiber
5	5	1-29
6	6	AN ACT concerning school districts; relating to contracts for certain goods
7	7	and services; increasing the minimum expenditure amount for
8	8	contracted goods and services without requiring sealed bids; increasing
9	9	the minimum expenditure amount for contracts for goods or services
10	10	that may be executed by the superintendent on behalf of the school
11	11	district; amending K.S.A. 72-1131 and 72-1151 and repealing the
12	12	existing sections.
13	13	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
14	14	Section 1. K.S.A. 72-1131 is hereby amended to read as follows: 72-
15	15	1131. Each unified school district shall be designated by the name and
16	16	style of "unified school district no. ______ (the number designated by the
17	17	state board of education), ____________ county (naming the home county
18	18	of the unified school district), state of Kansas," and by such name may sue
19	19	and be sued, execute contracts and hold such real and personal property as
20	20	it may acquire. Every unified school district shall possess the usual powers
21	21	of a corporation for public purposes. The board of education of every
22	22	unified school district may delegate to the superintendent of schools the
23	23	power to execute contracts on behalf of the district for the purchase of
24	24	goods and services if the value of such goods or services is $20,000
25	25	$50,000 or less.
26	26	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 72-1151 is hereby amended to read as follows: 72-
27	27	1151. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section and K.S.A. 72-
28	28	6760b, no expenditure involving an amount greater than $20,000 $50,000
29	29	for construction, reconstruction or remodeling or for the purchase of
30	30	materials, goods or wares shall be made by the board of education of any
31	31	school district except upon sealed proposals, and to the lowest responsible
32	32	bidder.
33	33	(b) The provisions of subsection (a) do not apply to expenditures by a
34	34	board of education for the purchase of:
35	35	(1) Services;
36	36	(2) products required to be purchased under the provisions of K.S.A.
37	37	75-3317 through 75-3322, and amendments thereto;
38	38	(3) educational materials directly related to curriculum and secured
39	39	by copyright;
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75	75	(4) motor fuels required to provide or furnish transportation;
76	76	(5) food and foodstuffs necessary for the implementation or operation
77	77	of any child nutrition program;
78	78	(6) articles or products that are produced, manufactured or provided
79	79	by inmates under the prison-made goods act of Kansas;
80	80	(7) natural gas that will be consumed in buildings owned or operated
81	81	by the school district;
82	82	(8) materials, goods or wares required for reconstructing, remodeling,
83	83	repairing or equipping buildings when such purchase has been necessitated
84	84	by the occurrence of a loss against which the board of education has
85	85	purchased property or casualty insurance; and
86	86	(9) materials, goods or wares which that are purchased:
87	87	(A) From vendors who have entered into contracts with the state
88	88	director of purchases pursuant to state purchasing statutes for purchases by
89	89	state agencies;
90	90	(B) under the same pricing provisions established in the state
91	91	contracts, subject to agreement of the vendor to honor the state contract
92	92	prices; and
93	93	(C) under the same pricing provisions established in federal, national
94	94	or other state contracts facilitated by a federal or local governmental entity
95	95	or agency, subject to:
96	96	(i) Agreement of the vendor to honor the contract prices; and
97	97	(ii) approval by the board of education for expenditures in an amount
98	98	greater than $20,000 $50,000.
99	99	(c) Whenever the board of education of any school district lets bids
100	100	for the purchase of materials, goods or wares and bids are submitted by
101	101	bidders domiciled within the school district and by bidders domiciled
102	102	outside the school district and the low bid is submitted by a bidder
103	103	domiciled outside the school district, the school district domiciliary which
104	104	that submitted the lowest bid may be deemed the preferred bidder and
105	105	awarded the bid if:
106	106	(1) The quality, suitability and usability of the materials, goods or
107	107	wares are equal;
108	108	(2) the amount of the bid of the school district domiciliary is not more
109	109	than 1% greater than the amount of the low bid; and
110	110	(3) the school district domiciliary agrees to meet the low bid by filing
111	111	a written agreement to that effect within 72 hours after receiving
112	112	notification of being deemed the preferred bidder.
113	113	(d) The provisions of subsection (c) do not apply to expenditures for
114	114	construction, reconstruction or remodeling.
115	115	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 72-1131 and 72-1151 are hereby repealed.
116	116	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
117	117	publication in the statute book.
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