COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH
OVERSIGHT DIVISION
FISCAL NOTE
L.R. No.:4412H.01I Bill No.:HB 1986 Subject:Law Enforcement Officers and Agencies; Kansas City Type:Original Date:January 18, 2022Bill Summary:This proposal modifies provisions relating to funding for the Kansas City
Police Department.
FISCAL SUMMARY
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON GENERAL REVENUE FUNDFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on General
Revenue $0$0$0
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON OTHER STATE FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on Other State
Funds $0$0$0
Numbers within parentheses: () indicate costs or losses. L.R. No. 4412H.01I
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ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FEDERAL FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on All Federal
Funds $0$0$0
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FULL TIME EQUIVALENT (FTE)FUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Total Estimated Net
Effect on FTE 000
☐ Estimated Net Effect (expenditures or reduced revenues) expected to exceed $250,000 in any
of the three fiscal years after implementation of the act or at full implementation of the act.
☐ Estimated Net Effect (savings or increased revenues) expected to exceed $250,000 in any of
the three fiscal years after implementation of the act or at full implementation of the act.
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON LOCAL FUNDSFUND AFFECTEDFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025Local Government*$0$0$0
*Revenue and Cost allocations of appropriations net to zero. L.R. No. 4412H.01I
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FISCAL ANALYSIS
ASSUMPTION
Officials from the City of Kansas City did not respond to Oversight’s request for fiscal impact.
Officials from the Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) state in §84.730 it shall be the duty
of the board, on the fifteenth day of January of each year, to prepare, in writing, a budget
estimating the sum of money which will be necessary for the next fiscal year, to enable the board
to discharge the duties hereby imposed upon it, and to meet the expenses of the police
department, which it shall forthwith certify to the governing body of such city, and the budget
shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization units, activities, functions, and character
classes in not less detail than "personal services", "contractual services", "commodities", and
"capital outlays", and shall in any event be prepared in form and detail similar to the form and
detail in which budgets for the various departments of such city government are prepared. The
governing body of the city is hereby required to appropriate the total amount so certified, payable
out of the revenue of the city after first having deducted the amount necessary to pay the interest
on the indebtedness of the city, the amount necessary for lighting the city, and any sum required
by law to be placed to the credit of the sinking fund of the city, and if the board shall be required
to call out extra police force and the expense thereof shall not have been contemplated in their
estimate for the fiscal year during which the extra police force is called out, it shall immediately
certify the expense of such additional force, and the additional amount so required shall be
appropriated for that purpose, except that in no event shall the governing body of the city be
required to appropriate for the use of the police board in any fiscal year an amount in excess of
one-fifth of the general revenue fund of such year.
Based on information provided to Kansas City, Missouri Police Department by the Kansas City,
Missouri Finance Department, FY 2021-22 revenues, all sources, are $1,763,471,697. The City
excludes over $1 Billion of total revenues when applying the current one-fifth statutory
limitation in 84.730, making it appear that the City is funding the KCPD at a higher percentage.
The change proposed in this legislation would require the percentage limitation to be applied to
all City revenue sources, not just the revenue sources the City identifies as GR. This statutory
change is consistent with Spink V Kemp, 365 Mo. 368, 283 S.W. 2d 502 which determined that
all City revenue sources had to be used in applying the percentage limitation.
According to KCPD’s Appropriated Budget for 2021-22, $256,773,275 is appropriated for FY
2022. Oversight assumes this appropriated budget reflects the current 20% statutory limitation
for the KCPD. This proposal also includes funding that is devoted to special purposes or
allocated into special funds which shall also be a part of the one-fifth unless enacted by a charter
provision or ordinance. Oversight assumes there could be an increase in funds to the KCPD but
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into special funds. Therefore Oversight will reflect a $0 to unknown cost to the City of Kansas
City to allocate additional appropriations to the KCPD and a $0 to unknown revenue to the
KCPD for the potential increase in appropriation funding which will net to $0 for this proposal.
Oversight assumes this proposal will not fiscally impact the state government.
Officials from the Department of Revenue assume the proposal will have no fiscal impact on
their organization. Oversight does not have any information to the contrary. Therefore,
Oversight will reflect a zero impact in the fiscal note for that agency.
FISCAL IMPACT – State GovernmentFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025$0$0$0FISCAL IMPACT – Local GovernmentFY 2023FY 2024FY 2025LOCAL POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS
Cost - City of Kansas City – potential
increase in appropriation funding to the
police department
$0 to
(Unknown)
$0 to
(Unknown)
$0 to
(Unknown)
Revenue – Kansas City Police
Department - potential increase in
appropriation funding from the City$0 to Unknown$0 to Unknown$0 to Unknown
ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON
LOCAL POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS
$0$0 $0
FISCAL IMPACT – Small Business
No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.
FISCAL DESCRIPTION
This bill clarifies that, for the purpose of cities calculating one-fifth of general revenue that must
be allocated to funding a police department, general revenue of the cities that is devoted to
special purposes or allocated to special funds by the cities' charter and ordinances must be
included in the calculation, subject to exceptions in the bill. L.R. No. 4412H.01I
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This bill contains an emergency clause.
This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not
require additional capital improvements or rental space.
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Kansas City Police Department
Department of Revenue
Julie MorffRoss StropeDirectorAssistant DirectorJanuary 18, 2022January 18, 2022