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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 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 2602 by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile
                                  Justice
                  In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2602 is
          respectfully submitted to your committee.
                   HB 2602 would amend Kansas Juvenile Justice Code to allow for the expungement of an
          adjudication if, in the past two years since final discharge, the juvenile has not been convicted of
          a felony, has not been convicted of a misdemeanor other than a traffic offense, has not been
          adjudicated for another offense under the Kansas Juvenile Justice Code, and is not in pending
          proceedings for a conviction or adjudication. Under current law, any conviction or adjudication
          after final discharge would disqualify the juvenile from having their adjudication expunged.
                  The Judiciary indicates that by making it less restrictive to have a juvenile’s record
          expunged, the bill could increase the number of cases filed in district courts. This may increase
          agency operating expenditures due to the additional time spent by district court judicial and
          nonjudicial personnel in processing, researching, and hearing cases. However, the Judiciary is
          unable to calculate an exact estimate of this effect. The bill has the potential to increase the
          collections of docket fees that are deposited in the State General Fund; however, the amount of
          additional docket fee collections is unknown. The Department of Corrections and the Sentencing
          Commission indicate that the bill would not have a fiscal effect on agency operations. Any fiscal
          effect associated with HB 2602 is not reflected in The FY 2025 Governor’s Budget Report.

                                                               Sincerely,

                                                               Adam C. Proffitt
                                                               Director of the Budget
          cc: Trisha Morrow, Judiciary
              Jennifer King, Department of Corrections
              Scott Schultz, Kansas Sentencing Commission
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 38-2312