(b) If prior to final adjournment of any regular session of the legislature any law is enacted providing for additional or less revenues to be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the state general fund, the director of the budget and the director of the legislative research department shall prepare a joint estimate of such revenues.
(c) In the event of a disagreement or failure to agree upon a joint estimate of revenue pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the legislature shall utilize the estimates of the director of the legislative research department and the governor shall utilize the estimates of the director of the budget.
History: L. 1990, ch. 350, § 1; L. 2003, ch. 19, § 1; L. 2004, ch. 5, § 1; Mar. 25.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the maximum amount of expenditures and demand transfers from the state general fund that may be authorized by act of the legislature during the 2004 regular session of the legislature and each regular session of the legislature thereafter, is hereby fixed so that there will be an ending balance in the state general fund for the ensuing fiscal year that is equal to 7.5% or more of the total amount authorized to be expended or transferred by demand transfer from the state general fund in such fiscal year.
(c) The provisions of subsection (b) are hereby suspended for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, and shall not prescribe a maximum amount of expenditures and demand transfers from the state general fund that may be authorized by act of the legislature during the 2007 regular session of the legislature.
History: L. 1990, ch. 350, § 2; L. 1994, ch. 13, § 3; L. 2003, ch. 160, § 88; L. 2004, ch. 123, § 178; L. 2005, ch. 174, § 180; L. 2006, ch. 216, § 75; L. 2007, ch. 201, § 67; July 1.
History: L. 1990, ch. 350, § 3; Repealed, L. 1994, ch. 13, § 5; March 17.
(b) Upon receipt of any such certification and subject to approval of the state finance council acting on this matter which is hereby declared to be a matter of legislative delegation and subject to the guidelines prescribed by subsection (c) of K.S.A. 75-3711c and amendments thereto, the governor may issue an executive order reducing, by applying a percentage reduction determined by the governor in accordance with this section, (1) the amount authorized to be expended from each appropriation from the state general fund for the current fiscal year, other than any item of appropriation for debt service for payments pursuant to contractual bond obligations or any item of appropriation for employer contributions for the employers who are eligible employers as specified in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of K.S.A. 74-4931 and amendments thereto under the Kansas public employees retirement system pursuant to K.S.A. 74-4939 and amendments thereto, and (2) the amount of each demand transfer from the state general fund for the current fiscal year, other than any demand transfer to the school district capital improvements fund for distribution to school districts pursuant to K.S.A. 75-2319 and amendments thereto.
(c) The reduction imposed by an executive order issued under this section shall be determined by the governor and may be equal to or less than the amount certified under subsection (a). Except as otherwise specifically provided by this section, the percentage reduction applied under subsection (b) shall be the same for each item of appropriation and each demand transfer and shall be imposed equally on all such items of appropriation and demand transfers without exception. No such percentage reduction and no provisions of any such executive order under this section shall apply or be construed to reduce any item of appropriation for debt service for payments pursuant to contractual bond obligations or any item of appropriation for employer contributions for the employers who are eligible employers as specified in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of K.S.A. 74-4931 and amendments thereto under the Kansas public employees retirement system pursuant to K.S.A. 74-4939 and amendments thereto or any demand transfer to the school district capital improvements fund for distribution to school districts pursuant to K.S.A. 75-2319 and amendments thereto. The provisions of such executive order shall be effective for all state agencies of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of state government.
(d) If the governor issues an executive order under this section, the director of accounts and reports shall not issue any warrant for the payment of moneys in the state general fund or make any demand transfer of moneys in the state general fund for any state agency unless such warrant or demand transfer is in accordance with such executive order and such warrant or demand transfer does not exceed the amount of money permitted to be expended or transferred from the state general fund.
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to (1) require the governor to issue an executive order under this section upon receipt of any such certification by the director of the budget; or (2) restrict the number of times that the director of the budget may make a certification under this section or that the governor may issue an executive order under this section.
History: L. 1990, ch. 350, § 5; L. 1992, ch. 284, § 2; L. 1994, ch. 13, § 4; March 17.