History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 1; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 70; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 2; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 71; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 3; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 72; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 4; L. 2000, ch. 177, § 3; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 73; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 5; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 6; July 1.
History: L. 1973, ch. 129, § 7; July 1.
(b) All money credited to the fund shall be used for the purpose of educating and training judicial branch officers and employees; for administering the training, testing and education of municipal judges as provided in K.S.A. 12-4114, and amendments thereto; for educating and training municipal judges and municipal court support staff; and for the planning and implementation of a family court system as provided by law. Expenditures from the judicial branch education fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chief justice of the supreme court or by a person or persons designated by the chief justice.
(c) The chief justice may apply for, receive and accept money from any source for the purposes for which money in the judicial branch education fund may be expended. Upon receiving any such money, the chief justice shall remit the entire amount to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the judicial branch education fund.
(d) Upon the effective date of this act, the director of accounts and reports is directed to transfer all moneys in the municipal judge training fund to the judicial branch education fund. Upon the effective date of this act, all liabilities of the municipal judge training fund existing prior to such date are hereby imposed on the judicial branch education fund. Whenever the municipal judge training fund, or words of like effect, is referred to or designated by any statute, contract, or other document, such reference or designation shall be deemed to apply to the judicial branch education fund. The municipal judge training fund is hereby abolished.
History: L. 1992, ch. 315, § 1; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 35; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 74; July 1.
(b) Moneys in the judiciary technology fund shall be used to:
(1) Establish, operate and maintain a state-wide system of electronic remote access, at no cost to users, to court records that are otherwise publicly available;
(2) implement technological improvements in the Kansas court system; and
(3) fund meetings of the judicial council technology advisory committee at the judicial council reimbursement rate pursuant to K.S.A. 20-2206, and amendments thereto. Expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court or a person designated by the chief justice.
History: L. 1992, ch. 128, § 4; L. 1992, ch. 315, § 12; L. 2006, ch. 148, § 2; July 1.
History: L. 1992, ch. 128, § 3; July 1.
(b) All moneys credited to the judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund shall be used for compensation of nonjudicial officers and employees of the district courts, court of appeals and the supreme court and shall not be expended for compensation of judges or justices of the judicial branch. Moneys in the fund shall be used only to pay for that portion of the cost of salaries and wages of nonjudicial personnel of the judicial branch, including associated employer contributions, which shall not exceed the difference between the amount of expenditures that would be required under the judicial branch pay plan for nonjudicial personnel in effect prior to the effective date of this act and the amount of expenditures required under the judicial branch pay plan for nonjudicial personnel after the cost-of-living adjustments and the adjustments for upgrades in pay rates for nonjudicial personnel approved by the chief justice of the Kansas supreme court for fiscal year 2001. For fiscal years commencing on and after June 30, 2001, moneys in such fund shall be used only for the amount attributable to maintenance of the judicial branch pay plan for nonjudicial personnel for such adjustments and upgrades approved by the chief justice of the supreme court for fiscal year 2001.
(c) All expenditures from the judicial branch nonjudicial salary initiative fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts and upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to payrolls approved by the chief justice of the Kansas supreme court or by a person or persons designated by the chief justice.
(d) The enactment of this legislation shall not be considered a statement of legislative intent to endorse future state general fund financing for ensuing fiscal years for the proposed nonjudicial pay plan contained in the report to the Kansas supreme court by the nonjudicial salary initiative entitled nonjudicial employee compensation submitted to the 2000 legislature.
History: L. 2000, ch. 177, § 1; July 1.