Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas Senate Bill SB140

Introduced
1/31/25  

Caption

Requiring school districts to provide certain information on school district annual budget forms.

Impact

The implications of SB140 are significant as they seek to standardize budgeting practices across school districts in Kansas. By compelling local districts to adhere to uniform reporting standards, the bill aims to enhance fiscal accountability and oversight. This measure is expected to provide clearer financial transparency to stakeholders, including parents, taxpayers, and state educational authorities. The inclusion of variability reports for budget deviations exceeding 10% for major expenditures (over $100,000) introduces a critical layer of scrutiny, thereby promoting fiscal discipline among educational authorities.

Summary

Senate Bill No. 140, referred to as SB140, mandates that school districts in Kansas enhance the transparency and comprehensiveness of their annual budget reports. This legislation requires school districts to provide a detailed account of their budget expenditures, including past and current financial data, specifically at the object and sub-object levels. The introduced measures aim to ensure that deviations from budgeted amounts are adequately reported and explained, thereby fostering accountability in educational financial management. Under the provisions of this bill, school districts will also be compelled to publish such reports on their websites.

Contention

Concerns may arise regarding the potential administrative burden placed on smaller school districts to comply with the stringent reporting requirements mandated by SB140. Critics may argue that the resources required to implement these changes could detract from educational expenditures and negatively impact school operations. Additionally, the enforcement mechanisms for compliance with the reporting requirements could lead to further scrutiny from state education authorities, stirring debate about the balance between ensuring accountability and allowing local control over budgeting processes.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB5

Authorizing counties to impose an earnings tax.

KS HB2004

Authorizing counties to propose an earnings tax for ballot question.

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