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 Richard Proehl, Chairperson
House Committee on Transportation
Statehouse, Room 581B-W
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Representative Proehl:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2169 by House Committee on Transportation
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2169 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
HB 2169 would provide on and after January 1, 2022, any owner or lessee of one or more
passenger vehicles or trucks registered for a gross weight of 20,000 pounds or less, who is a Kansas
resident, may be issued one Proud Educator license plate for each vehicle upon proper registration
and payment of the regular license fee, as provided in KSA 8-143. The bill would authorize the
Kansas Educators Support Foundation to allow the use of its logo to be affixed on license plates.
Royalty payments must be at least $25 and no more than $100 for each license plate and must be
issued to the Kansas Educators Support Foundation or the county treasurer. Annual royalty
payments collected by county treasurers would be remitted to the State Treasurer and credited to
the Kansas Educators Support Foundation Royalty Fund. Certain other requirements that are
consistent with other specialty plates are also specified in the bill.
Current law prohibits the Director of Vehicles from issuing any new distinctive license
plate unless there is a guarantee of an initial issuance of at least 500 license plates; and the
distinctive license plate would be discontinued if less than 250 plates are issued in any subsequent
two-year period. HB 2169 would reduce these minimum issuance requirements to a 250-plate
guarantee and less than 125 license plates, respectively. The bill would include several technical
amendments.
The Department of Revenue indicates the new license plates would be subject to the $40
regular license fee but reducing the minimum plate requirement from 500 to 250 plates would
reduce the revenue that could be generated and deposited into the State Highway Fund to $9,812.50
($39.25 x 250 plates). Likewise, the revenue that could be generated by the county treasurers
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would be reduced to $187.50 ($0.75 x 250). The Department also estimates that creating, testing,
printing and shipping the plates would increase expenditures by approximately $6,946. According
to statute, the sponsoring organization would be responsible for paying up to $20,000 to the
Division of Vehicles to defray the cost of initial production which would be credited to the
Distinctive License Plate Fund. Any fiscal effect associated with HB 2169 is not reflected in The
FY 2022 Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Adam Proffitt
Director of the Budget

cc: Lynn Robinson, Department of Revenue


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 8-1