Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 36
By Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
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AN ACT concerning conservation districts; relating to the financing of
operating conservation districts; increasing the cap on the amount of
moneys disbursed by the division of conservation to conservation
districts; providing an increased matching basis for state moneys
disbursed to conservation districts based on amounts allocated by the
board of county commissioners for such districts; amending K.S.A. 2-
1907c and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2-1907c is hereby amended to read as follows: 2-
1907c. On or before September November 1 of each calendar year, each
conservation district shall submit to the division a certification of the
amount of money to be furnished by the county commissioners for
conservation district activities for the ensuing calendar year. Such amount
shall be the same as authorized for such purposes in each approved county
budget. For the purpose of providing state financial assistance to
conservation districts and subject to the matching requirements as
provided further, the division in the regular budget request, as a line item
for the forthcoming fiscal year, shall submit a special request for an
amount equal to not less than the sum of the allocations of each county to
each conservation district, but in no event to exceed the sum of $25,000
$50,000 per district. This $25,000 Such $50,000 limitation shall be
applicable for fiscal year 2008 2026, and thereafter, subject to
appropriations therefor. The division, as soon as practicable after July 1 of
the following year, shall disburse such moneys as may be appropriated by
the state for this purpose to each conservation district on a $2 division
moneys basis to a $1 county moneys basis to match the funds allocated by
the commissioners of each county, except that the total amount disbursed
shall not exceed $50,000 per district. Distribution shall be prorated in
proportion to county allocations in the event that appropriations are
insufficient for complete matching of funds. Municipal accounting
procedures shall be used in the distribution of and in the expenditure of all
funds.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2-1907c is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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