Division of the Budget
Landon State Office Building Phone: (785) 296-2436
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 adam.c.proffitt@ks.gov
Topeka, KS 66612 Division of the Budget http://budget.kansas.gov
Adam Proffitt, Director Laura Kelly, Governor


February 17, 2021


The Honorable Elaine Bowers, Chairperson
Senate Committee on Transparency and Ethics
Statehouse, Room 223A-E
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Dear Senator Bowers:
SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for SB 182 by Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning SB 182 is
respectfully submitted to your committee.
Current law requires reports filed by treasurers for candidates for state office, other than
candidates elected on a state-wide basis, to be filed with the Secretary of State. Reports for state-
wide office are required to be filed electronically with the Secretary of State. SB 182 would amend
the law to require reports for all state offices filed by treasurers to be filed electronically, but would
allow a candidate for state office to request an exemption from the electronic filing requirement,
which may be granted for cause by the Governmental Ethics Commission.
The Governmental Ethics Commission reports that enactment of SB 182 would result in a
reduction to expenditures of approximately $3,000 from the agency’s fee fund in odd-numbered
years due to cost-savings for data entry temporary assistance. However, because of the pandemic,
data entry temporary assistance was not hired in FY 2021, so the first time these savings would be
realized would not be until FY 2023. Additional savings are expected as candidates who file
electronically would not require paper copies of expenditure reports and would likely require fewer
Errors and Omissions Reports. The agency is unable to estimate the amount of savings that would
be realized from candidates who would request waivers for cause. It is expected, however, that
savings from enactment of the bill would continue to increase over time, as printing and mailing
reports would become largely unnecessary and the electronic filing system would adjust to catch
more errors at the time of filing.
The Office of the Secretary of State indicates enactment of SB 182 would not have an
immediate fiscal effect on the agency’s operations; however, enactment of the bill could have a
long-term fiscal effect if additional changes are needed to the current campaign finance electronic
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filing system because of all candidates for state office having to file electronically. Also, the
agency states with additional candidates using the filing system, it may create deficiencies in the
current system that would not otherwise have been found, which would necessitate adjustments to
the current system. Any fiscal effect associated with SB 182 is not reflected in The FY 2022
Governor’s Budget Report.


Sincerely,

Adam Proffitt
Director of the Budget

cc: Mark Skoglund, Governmental Ethics
Sandy Tompkins, Office of the Secretary of State


Statutes affected:
As introduced: 25-4148