Session of 2025 HOUSE BILL No. 2382 By Committee on Appropriations Requested by Representative Goetz 2-13 AN ACT concerning the state board of education; increasing compensation of members of the board; establishing a daily rate of compensation that corresponds to the daily rate of compensation for services rendered by members of the legislature while in session; amending K.S.A. 72-253 and repealing the existing section. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. K.S.A. 72-253 is hereby amended to read as follows: 72- 253. (a) The state board of education may authorize members thereof to attend in-state meetings for participation in matters of educational interest to the state of Kansas, and when attending a meeting so authorized, members shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses or allowances as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212 for members of the legislature. Whenever under any provision of law, a member of the state board of education is authorized to attend an out-of-state meeting, or whenever the state board of education authorizes one of its members to attend an out-of-state meeting for participation in matters of educational interest to the state of Kansas such members, when attending a meeting so authorized, shall receive compensation and travel expenses and subsistence expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212 for members of the legislature. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of K.S.A. 46-137a and 75-3212, and amendments thereto, when attending any such in-state or out-of-state meeting authorized in accordance with subsection (a), members of the state board of education shall receive compensation in an amount that corresponds to the daily rate of compensation for services rendered by members of the legislature while in session. For purposes of this section, such daily rate of compensation for members of the state board shall be determined as follows: (1) Determine the base annual salary of members of the legislature established by the legislative compensation commission pursuant to K.S.A. 46-3102, and amendments thereto, including any salary indexing adjustments made to such base annual salary, and multiply such amount by 0.6003; and (2) divide the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1) by 90. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 HB 2382 2 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 72-253 is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book. 1 2 3