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Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building                                                                              Phone: (785) 296-2436
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Topeka, KS 66612                                 Division of the Budget                                  http://budget.kansas.gov
Larry L. Campbell, Director                                                                             Laura Kelly, Governor

                                                   February 18, 2019


         The Honorable Elaine Bowers, Chairperson
         Senate Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government
         Statehouse, Room 223-E
         Topeka, Kansas 66612
         Dear Senator Bowers:
                   SUBJECT:       Fiscal Note for SB 132 by Senate Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local
                                  Government
                 In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning SB 132 is
         respectfully submitted to your committee.
                 Current law prohibits electioneering within a radius of 250 feet from the entrance of a
         polling place on election day or advance voting site during the time period allowed by law for
         casting a ballot. SB 132 would reduce that radius to 50 feet. To the activities that are prohibited
         within that radius, the bill would add gathering signatures or otherwise circulating a petition,
         regardless of the subject of the petition. The bill would also add to the list of activities exempt
         from the definition of electioneering wearing, exhibiting or distributing labels, signs, posters,
         stickers or other materials that clearly identify a candidate in the election or clearly indicate support
         or opposition to a question submitted election at a location separated from the polling place or
         advance voting site by a public street, road, highway or driveway or on public property that is not
         used as a polling place.
                 According to the Kansas Secretary of State, enactment of SB 132 could have a minor fiscal
         effect on the agency as it would need to update existing training and education materials to
         implement the new law. The changes could be accomplished within existing resources. Any fiscal
         effect associated with SB 132 is not reflected in The FY 2020 Governor’s Budget Report.
                 The Kansas Association of Counties states that enactment of SB 132 would have no fiscal
         effect on Kansas counties.

                                                                 Sincerely,

                                                                 Larry L. Campbell
                                                                 Division of the Budget
         cc: Jay Hall, Association of Counties
             Bryan Caskey, Office of the Secretary of State
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 25-2430, 25-2812