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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 22, 2021


          The Honorable Sean Tarwater, Chairperson
          House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
          Statehouse, Room 151D-S
          Topeka, Kansas 66612
          Dear Representative Tarwater:
                    SUBJECT:      Fiscal Note for HB 2354 by House Committee on K-12 Education Budget
                  In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2354 is
          respectfully submitted to your committee.
                 HB 2354 would provide a mechanism by which contributions to professional employees’
          organizations and to public employees’ organizations that are deducted from the employee’s wages
          would be stopped upon receipt of a written request from the employee.
                  The boards of education or public employer would notify their employees of their right to
          resign from and stop all financial obligations to the professional employees’ organization or public
          employee organization.
                 Authorizations for deductions from employees of professional employees’ organizations
          must be on a form approved by the Secretary of Labor and cannot exceed one year. Authorizations
          for deductions from public employees must be on a form approved by the Public Employees
          Relations Board and cannot exceed one year.
                 The Department of Administration indicates enactment of HB 2354 would result in a
          negligible fiscal effect. The Kansas Department of Labor states there would be no fiscal effect to
          agency operations if the bill is enacted.
The Honorable Sean Tarwater, Chairperson
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        The League of Kansas Municipalities states enactment of the bill would have a fiscal effect
on cities with unions in the form of increased human resources administrative costs; however, the
fiscal effect cannot be estimated. The Kansas Department of Education indicates any costs to
school districts would be negligible.


                                                     Sincerely,

                                                     Adam Proffitt
                                                     Director of the Budget

cc: Jeff Scannell, Department of Administration
    Debbie Thomas, Judiciary
    Randy Bowman, Corrections
    Craig Neuenswander, Education
    Wendi Stark, League of Municipalities
    Jay Hall, Association of Counties
    Dawn Palmberg, Department of Labor
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 44-319, 44-1203, 72-2219, 72-2241, 75-4324, 75-4327, 75-5501