SESSION OF 2020
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE
BILL NO. 2180
As Recommended by House Committee on
Transportation

Brief*
Sub. for HB 2180 would increase a service fee paid for
each application for vehicle registration or renewal and would
apply the service fee to each title transaction.
The bill also would remove or reduce a number of other
fees related to vehicle titling and registration.

Increased Fees (Sections 9 and 14)
The bill would increase the service fee paid to a county
treasurer; the Division of Vehicles, Kansas Department of
Revenue (Division); or a contractor of the Division for each
application for vehicle registration or renewal to $9.50 from a
maximum of $5.00. The bill also would apply the service fee
to each title transaction. The bill would remove authority for a
county treasurer to charge an additional registration fee
related to vehicle registration facilities.
The bill would increase the fee for a permit to operate a
salvage vehicle on the highways from $1.00 to $9.50, which
the county treasurer would retain, and remove a requirement
for each county treasurer to annually forward 25 percent of
fees from salvage vehicle permits to the Division. It also
would remove a requirement for the Division to keep a special
fund for those moneys.
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*Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research
Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental
note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.kslegislature.org
Deposits into Special Funds (Section 8)
The bill would require the service fee imposed by the bill
to be deposited into a special fund for use in paying for
necessary help and expenses for duties related to vehicle
registration and titling. It would remove the requirement for
the county treasurer, Division, or contractor to deposit $0.75
of each license application, $0.75 of each application for
transfer of a license plate, and $2.00 from each application
for certificate of title into such funds; however, the bill would
require the Division or contractor to deposit $0.75 of each
commercial or apportioned license application into a special
fund for necessary help and expenses association with those
duties..
The bill would require the service fee imposed by the bill
to be deposited into such a fund.

Reducing Title Fees (Sections 2, 3, 5, 11, 14, 15, and 16)
The bill would reduce from $10.00 to $8.00 the fees for
various title transactions, including for an original certificate of
title, a title showing a security interest, a name change on a
title, and a new title showing a lien had been satisfied.

Reducing Registration Fees (Sections 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12,
and 13)
The bill would reduce the fee for registering a vehicle by
$0.75. The fees reduced would include those for basic
registration of any type of vehicle, a personalized license
plate, transfer of a license plate to another vehicle, and
replacing a license plate.
The fee reductions would not be applicable to the annual
license fee for a truck or truck tractor registered as a
commercial motor vehicle to which the commercial vehicle
fee applies or with apportioned registration or to a trailer,

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semitrailer, travel trailer, or pole trailer with an apportioned or
commercial motor vehicle registration. The bill would create
new registration categories for those vehicles.

Removing Miscellaneous Fees (Sections 2, 5, 8, 10, and
17)
The bill would remove fees for the following types of
transactions:
● A certificate of title for a repossessed vehicle;
● Processing and mailing a copy of a title application
to the lienholder;
● Replacing a registration receipt or decal;
● Registering an antique vehicle (as a separate fee);
and
● Collecting sales tax on occasional sale of a vehicle.
Technical Changes
The bill would update statutes and make technical
corrections.

Effective Date
The bill would become effective January 1, 2021.

Background
The bill was introduced by the House Committee on
Transportation at the request of the Kansas County
Treasurers Association (KCTA).

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 In the House Committee hearing on February 21, 2019,
a KCTA representative and the county treasurers of Crawford,
Johnson, Montgomery, Riley, and Wallace counties provided
proponent testimony. The county treasurers of Douglas,
Sedgwick, and Smith counties provided written-only
proponent testimony. Proponents stated the current fee
structure is complicated and difficult to explain, the bill would
simplify transactions, and the proposal had been developed
by a working group in which county treasurers, legislators,
and employees of the Division participated. Proponents noted
county treasurers act as agents of the State when providing
vehicle registration and titling services, county-level duties
had increased in recent years, fees retained by the counties
had not increased in many years, and nearly all counties
receive county tax levy support for some motor vehicle
expenses, including for staff and for office equipment.
A representative of the Division provided neutral
testimony and stated the Division had participated in task
force meetings to discuss compensation for the county
treasurers. No opponent testimony was provided.
On February 20, 2020, the House Committee amended
the bill to reduce the amount of the service fee for each
registration or title transaction from $10.00 to $9.50 and to
make technical changes. The Committee also voted to place
the amended contents into a substitute bill.
According to the revised fiscal note prepared by the
Division of the Budget in 2019 on the bill as introduced, the
Department of Revenue estimates the agency would receive
additional annual revenue of $143,680 from all funds from the
fee changes in the bill. The agency would also incur
expenditures of $15,840 from all funds for programming
updates to its information systems. The fiscal note states the
bill would have no fiscal effect on the Kansas Department of
Transportation or the State Highway Fund.


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Statutes affected:
As introduced: 8-132, 8-135, 79-5104, 8-135a, 8-135c, 8-139, 8-143, 8-143j, 8-145, 8-145d, 8-167, 8-170, 8-172, 8-195, 8-198, 58-4204, 74-2013, 79-3604
Version 2: 8-132, 8-135, 79-5104, 8-135a, 8-135c, 8-139, 8-143, 8-143j, 8-145, 8-145d, 8-167, 8-170, 8-172, 8-195, 8-198, 58-4204, 74-2013, 79-3604