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 C. Proffitt, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


February 1, 2024


The Honorable Susan Concannon, Chairperson
House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 152-S
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Concannon:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2553 by House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster
Care
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2553 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2553 would require law enforcement agencies to report information related to missing
children under the custody of the Department for Children and Families (DCF) to the missing
persons file of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the missing and unidentified person system (“clearinghouse”) of the Kansas
Bureau of Investigation. In addition, information would be required to be provided to public media
outlets and posted to “social media platforms” by law enforcement agencies, in a manner similar
to an Amber Alert.
The bill would require DCF to obtain non-driver identification cards for any child in need
of care and provides for certain restrictions on the handling of such identification, to include
specific restrictions on the handling of fingerprints and photographs. The bill would require DCF
to report information related to the human trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation of any
child to law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children within 24
hours. Additional notifications would be required by DCF for individuals or related organizations
as specified in the bill, with an exception in case of a determination by law enforcement that such
a notification would negatively impact a criminal investigation. The bill would also provide for
oversight over both law enforcement and DCF for compliance of its provisions by the Joint
Committee on Child Welfare System Oversight.
DCF indicates HB 2553 would require DCF to obtain an identification card for every child
in foster care. The current cost of a Kansas identification card is $22.00 each and a renewal is
needed every six years. Based on that information along with the number of children currently in
The Honorable Susan Concannon, Chairperson
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foster care, the number of children entering care annually, and that 7.0 percent of children in out
of home care would need a renewal after six years the table below reflects assumed costs to DCF.
FY 2026 FY 2031
through and Beyond
Item Number FY 2025 FY 2031 Ongoing Costs
Children in foster care as of 12/31/2023 5,922 $130,284 $ -- $ --
Children entering care annually (FY 23) 2,960 65,120 65,120 65,120
Children in foster care needing renewals 409 -- -- 8,998
Total $195,404 $65,120 $74,118
Financing
State General Fund $172,835 $57,599 $65,557
Federal Funds 22,569 7,521 8,561
Total $195,404 $65,120 $74,118
The number of children in care and being removed into care fluctuates annually, these
estimates are using most recent data. There are various training components required by the bill,
some of this is currently being provided, but what is not currently provided can be incorporated
into the current training for DCF staff and provider staff without any development expense or
additional resources.
Law enforcement would be primarily responsible for obtaining specific identifying
information of the child; however, there are some requirements which would impact DCF and the
Child Welfare Case Management Providers (CMP), particularly the inclusion of obtaining and
forwarding medical and dental records to law enforcement and the need for additional training for
staff. An additional 4.00 FTE Specialist positions would be required to the do the work adequately
and timely across the state. See the table below for position costs combined with the Kansas ID
costs for the overall fiscal impact.
Item FY 2025 FY 2026 FY 2027 FY 2028
Expenditures
Funding for CMP Positions $259,975 $255,998 $258,056 $260,124
Kansas ID Costs 195,404 65,120 65,120 65,120
Total $455,379 $321,198 $323,176 $325,244
Financing
State General Fund $302,823 $185,638 $186,627 $187,661
Federal Funds 152,556 135,560 136,549 137,583
Total $455,379 $321,198 $323,176 $325,244
DCF provided additional information in comparison to 2021 HB 1019 from Arizona.
Arizona provides for a photo for those youth who do not qualify for a non-operating ID. HB 2553
does not have that provision.
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation indicates that HB 2553 would directly relate to the
Kansas Missing Persons Clearinghouse (MPC), the bill provisions can be implemented as written
with no additional changes. The MPC is built to receive the information as entered by law
enforcement when a NCIC missing person entry is made and is therefore largely reliant on the
fields available in NCIC for missing person entries. The Bureau’s assumption is this information
is being entered by local law enforcement.
The Office of Judicial Administration indicates that HB 2553 would have a negligible fiscal
effect on expenditures of the Judicial Branch and would not have a fiscal effect on revenues.
The Kansas Highway Patrol and the Office of the Attorney General indicate that HB 2533
would have no fiscal effect on expenditures for the agencies. Any fiscal effect associated with HB
2553 is not reflected in The FY 2025 Governor’s Budget Report.
The Kansas Association of Counties indicates that HB 2553 would have no fiscal effect on
counties to locate a missing child, as there are no new responsibilities allocated specifically to
counties. The costs of additional training required would be absorbed.

Sincerely,

Adam C. Proffitt
Director of the Budget


cc: Kim Holter, Department for Children & Families
Sherry Macke, Kansas Highway Patrol
Jay Hall, Kansas Association of Counties
William Hendrix, Office of the Attorney General
Paul Weisgerber, Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Trisha Morrow, Judiciary


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 38-2221, 38-2289, 75-712c