Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 larry.campbell@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612 Division of the Budget http://budget.kansas.gov
Larry L. Campbell, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


January 31, 2019


The Honorable Bill Sutton, Chairperson
House Committee on Elections
Statehouse, Room 274-W
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Sutton:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2019 by Representative Carmichael
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2019 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
Current law establishes voting crimes and penalties. Crimes associated with unlawfully
marking, signing, or transmitting one or more advance ballots or interfering with or delaying
transmission of an advance ballot are severity level nine, nonperson felonies. HB 2019 would
make these crimes class C misdemeanors.
Current law exempts from the crime of election bribery businesses or organizations that
provide a product with a value less than $3 to a person who has voted, regardless of how the person
voted. HB 2019 would remove that exemption. Current law defines voting without being qualified
as knowingly voting or attempting to vote in any election district when not lawfully registered in
that district and voting by a person who is not a citizen of the United States or does not meet the
qualifications of an elector and makes these acts severity level seven, nonperson felonies. HB
2019 would remove the requirement that a voter be registered in a particular district, as well as the
requirement that the person be a citizen of the United States, while adding prohibitions against
voting or offering to vote more than once and inducing or aiding a person to vote more than once
in the same election. The bill would make voting without being qualified a class A misdemeanor.
The bill would also alter statutory language contained in the declaration that must be made in order
for a voter whose name does not show up in the registration book to vote.
The Honorable Bill Sutton, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2019

According to the Kansas Secretary of State, enactment of HB 2019 would have no fiscal
effect on the agency. The Kansas Sentencing Commission also indicates that it would not
experience any fiscal effect if the bill were to be enacted.


Sincerely,

Larry L. Campbell
Director of the Budget


cc: Bryan Caskey, Office of the Secretary of State
Scott Schultz, Sentencing Commission


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 25-2434, 25-1128, 25-2409, 25-2416, 25-2423, 25-2431, 25-2507