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


February 8, 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 2092 by House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile
Justice
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2092 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2092 would remove “drug offender” from the definition of “offender” in the Kansas
Offender Registration Act and would remove subsections relating to defining “drug offender.”
The bill would also remove the felony penalty for multiple nonpayments of offender registration
fees to the sheriff.
The Kansas Sentencing Commission estimates that enactment of HB 2092 would result in
a decrease of 51 adult prison beds by the end of FY 2022. By the end of FY 2031, HB 2092 would
result in 83 fewer beds being 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 the reduction
in prison population would not be sufficient to reduce current prison expenditures. The
Department notes that the reduction would be beneficial towards avoiding future prison costs and
would improve the ability to socially distance inmates to help mitigate the spread of the
coronavirus in the facility, staff working at the facility, and inmates released into the community.
The Office of Judicial Administration indicates that enactment of the bill would have a
negligible fiscal effect that could be absorbed within existing resources. The Office of the Attorney
General states that the bill would have no fiscal effect. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2092
is not reflected in The FY 2022 Governor’s Budget Report.
The Honorable Russell Jennings, Chairperson
Page 2—HB 2092

The Kansas Association of Counties indicates that the bill could reduce expenditures for
counties because the county would no longer monitor some offenders, but a precise fiscal effect
cannot be estimated.


Sincerely,

Adam Proffitt
Director of the Budget

cc: Debbie Thomas, Judiciary
Willie Prescott, Office of the Attorney General
Scott Schultz, Sentencing Commission
Randy Bowman, Corrections
Jay Hall, Association of Counties


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 22-4902, 22-4903, 22-4905, 22-4906, 22-4909