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 2092 by Representatives Pittman and Finney
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2092 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
Current law allows citizens to register to vote during the 20 days prior to an election. HB
2092 would amend that law to allow voter registration on any day that the main offices of the
county government are open including on an election day. County election officers would be
required to allow a person who is not a registered voter and appears at the county election office
to apply for an advance voting ballot to register and vote immediately by a regular, rather than
provisional, ballot. The bill would establish the requirements for a qualified person who appears
on either election day at the polling place in which the person resides or at a satellite advance
voting site during the advance voting period to register and vote a provisional ballot. The bill
would also require that the provisional ballot be counted unless the county board of canvassers
determines that it was improperly cast or that the person has otherwise voted in the election. The
bill would also establish the procedure for a person to immediately register to vote in an election
and specifies how that person could provide proof of citizenship as required by statute and under
what circumstances that person’s registration and provisional ballot could be rejected. The bill
would also make technical corrections to existing statutes.
According to the Office of the Secretary of State, enactment of HB 2092 would result in
increased expenditures of approximately $50,000 annually from agency fee funds. Of this amount,
$25,000 would be used to update all training and education materials used by the agency staff, the
general public and county election officials and to conduct special training sessions on the new
law for county election officials. An additional $25,000 would be used to provide public outreach
materials and programs to inform the voting public of the change. The agency indicates that
enactment of the bill would also cause increased costs for the 105 county election offices. The
costs for these offices would be for training of county election staff and election board workers,
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hiring additional board workers to process more provisional voters, acquiring electronic poll books
in counties that do not currently have electronic poll books, and increasing supplies such as ballots,
and provisional ballot envelopes. After consulting with the county election offices, the agency
estimates that the costs could range from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars per
election per county.
The Kansas Association of Counties also states that enactment of HB 2092 would cause
additional expense to Kansas counties for training and staff; however, the Association is unable to
estimate what that cost might amount to. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2092 is not reflected
in The FY 2020 Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Larry L. Campbell
Director of the Budget


cc: Bryan Caskey, Office of the Secretary of State
Chardae Caine, League of Municipalities
Jay Hall, Association of Counties


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 25-2316c, 25-3602, 25-2311