Session of 2025 SENATE BILL No. 99 By Committee on Government Efficiency 1-29 AN ACT concerning the state budget; relating to full-time positions; requiring the head of each state agency to certify the number of full- time positions paid from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days and abolishing such positions; lapsing each account of the state general fund that is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, by the amount of the salaries and wages for such abolished positions. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. (a) On or before June 30, 2025, the head of each state agency and the director of the budget shall consult and jointly certify to the secretary of administration the number of vacant positions in each such state agency paid from appropriations from the state general fund that have been vacant for more than 180 calendar days as of June 30, 2025. Upon receipt of each such certification, the secretary of administration shall abolish the certified vacant positions on July 1, 2025. Such abolished positions shall be deleted from the budget documents and reports prepared by the director of the budget, the governor or the legislative research department, including all related legislative reports and measures submitted to the legislature. (b) On July 1, 2025, the amount in each account of the state general fund of each state agency that is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, by any appropriation act of the 2025 regular session of the legislature, and that is budgeted for payment of salaries and wages, including associated fringe benefits, of such abolished vacant positions, as certified by the director of the budget to the director of accounts and reports for fiscal year 2026, is hereby lapsed from each such account. When the director of the budget transmits each such certification to the director of accounts and reports pursuant to this section, the director of the budget shall transmit a copy of such certification to the director of legislative research. (c) As used in this section, "state agency" means any state agency named in an appropriation act of the 2025 regular session of the legislature. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Kansas register. 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 36