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 10, 2025
The Honorable Susan Humphries, Chairperson
House Committee on Judiciary
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 582-N
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Humphries:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2348 by House Committee on Judiciary
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2348 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2348 would provide that an award of tenure at a postsecondary educational institution
may confer certain benefits, processes, or preferences, but tenure would be discretionary and
conditional and could not create any entitlement, right, or property interest in a faculty member’s
current, ongoing, or future employment at an institution.
The bill would provide that the Board of Regents and any institution could not define,
award, or otherwise recognize tenure as an entitlement, right, or property interest in a faculty
member’s current, ongoing, or future employment at an institution. No award of tenure by the
Board or any institution in existence on the effective date of the bill would be considered or deemed
an entitlement, right, or property interest in a faculty member’s current, ongoing, or future
employment at an institution.
Any special benefits, processes, or preferences conferred on a faculty member by an
institution’s award of tenure would be at any time revoked, limited, altered, or otherwise modified
by the awarding institution or by the Board of Regents. Nothing in the bill would be interpreted
or used to infringe or abrogate a faculty member’s otherwise constitutionally protected rights or
interests. The bill would take effect upon its publication in the Kansas Register.
The Office of Judicial Administration states enactment of bill would not have a fiscal effect
on the operations of the Judicial Branch. The Office of the Attorney General estimates
expenditures from the State General Fund of approximately $250,000 to defend the bill, if it is The Honorable Susan Humphries, Chairperson
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enacted in both FY 2026 and FY 2027. The Board of Regents states enactment of the bill could
have a fiscal effect on the operations of the Board and Kansas postsecondary educational
institutions; however, the Board does not have enough information to estimate what that fiscal
effect would be. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2348 is not reflected in The FY 2026
Governor’s Budget Report.
Sincerely,
Adam C. Proffitt
Director of the Budget
cc: Trisha Morrow, Judiciary
Becky Pottebaum, Board of Regents
Matt Bingesser, Office of the Attorney General