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
Adam Proffitt, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


January 25, 2021


The Honorable Russell Jennings, Chairperson
House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
Statehouse, Room 151B-S
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Jennings:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2031 by Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile
Justice Oversight
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2031 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2031 would amend the good time credit system and credit earned by inmates of adult
correctional facilities. For crimes committed on or after July 1, 2021, good time credit would be
calculated as 25.0 percent of the prison sentence for a person felony and 40.0 percent of the prison
sentence for a nonperson felony. The bill would also increase the amount of good time credit that
could be earned by an inmate and subtracted from their sentence for successful completion of
programs from 120 to 150 days.
The Kansas Sentencing Commission estimates that enactment of HB 2031 would result in
a decrease of 86 adult prison beds in FY 2022. By FY 2031, 564 fewer adult prison beds would
be needed. The current estimated available bed capacity is 9,420 for males and 948 for females.
Based upon the Commission’s most recent ten-year projection contained in its FY 2020 Adult
Inmate Prison Population Projections report, it is estimated that the year-end population for
available male capacity will be under capacity by 1,287 inmates in FY 2021 and 1,241 inmates in
FY 2022. The Department of Corrections indicates that a reduction of 86 beds is approximately
1.0 percent of its current facility population. The Department states that the reduction in prison
population would not be sufficient to reduce current prison expenditures but would be beneficial
towards effectively housing, managing, and providing programs and services to inmates and could
also help avoid long-term costs related to building more beds.
The Honorable Russell Jennings, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2031

The Office of Judicial Administration indicates that enactment of HB 2031 would have a
negligible fiscal effect. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2031 is not reflected in The FY 2022
Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Adam Proffitt
Director of the Budget

cc: Scott Schultz, Sentencing Commission
Randy Bowman, Corrections
Debbie Thomas, Judiciary


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 21-6821