Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 adam.c.proffitt@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612 Division of the Budget http://budget.kansas.gov
Adam Proffitt, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


February 10, 2023


The Honorable Stephen Owens, Chairperson
House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 546-S
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Owens:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2180 by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile
Justice
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2180 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2180 would authorize the Department of Corrections to adopt rules and regulations
providing for a system of good time calculations. For a crime committed on or after July 1, 2023, the
bill would allow the amount of good time that can be earned by an inmate and subtracted from any
sentence to be limited to an amount equal to 20.0 percent of the prison part of the sentence. For a
nondrug severity level 7 through 10 crime or a drug severity level 3 through 5 crime, the amount of
good time credit that could be earned would be limited to an amount equal to 25.0 percent of the prison
part of the sentence. Under current law, the amount of program credit that can be earned and retained
by an inmate for the successful completion of programs and subtracted from any sentence is limited to
120 days. The bill would increase the amount of program credit that can be earned to 150 days.
The Kansas Sentencing Commission estimates that enactment of HB 2180 would result in
a decrease of 31 adult prison beds needed by the end of FY 2024. By the end of FY 2033, 456
fewer beds would be needed. The current estimated available bed capacity is 9,428 for males and
936 for females. Based upon the Commission’s most recent ten-year projection contained in its
FY 2023 Adult Inmate Prison Population Projections report, it is estimated that the year-end
population will total 7,933 male and 764 female inmates in FY 2023 and 8,043 male and 740
female inmates in FY 2024.
The Department of Corrections indicates that the reduction in prison beds is beneficial to
its ability to safely and effectively house, manage, and provide programs and services to
correctional facility residents and could generate cost avoidances in the long term. However, any
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reduction in the current cost to operate correctional facilities or in contracted services such as food
service or health care would be negligible. The required software coding to incorporate the new
rates into its offender management information system and process updates to apply the new rates
to each resident could be completed within existing staff.
The Office of Judicial Administration indicates enactment of the bill would not have a
fiscal effect on the operations of the Judicial Branch. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2180
is not reflected in The FY 2024 Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Adam Proffitt
Director of the Budget

cc: Randy Bowman, Department of Corrections
Scott Schultz, Sentencing Commission
Vicki Jacobsen, Judiciary


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 21-6821