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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


                                                    March 1, 2021


          The Honorable Dan Kerschen, Chairperson
          Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
          Statehouse, Room 225A-E
          Topeka, Kansas 66612
          Dear Senator Kerschen:
                    SUBJECT:      Fiscal Note for SB 269 by Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
                  In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning SB 269 is
          respectfully submitted to your committee.
                  SB 269 would align existing law concerning dangerous regulated animals with federal
          statutes, as amended and in effect on July 1, 2021. This alignment would cause existing Kansas
          statutes concerning dangerous regulated animals to be amended to exempt nonhuman primates and
          wolves and establish new requirements and prohibitions related to possessing and selling
          nonhuman primates and wolves. In addition, the bill would prohibit any person from allowing a
          dangerous regulated animal to be in proximity to members of the public, including from offering
          photographic opportunities next to dangerous regulated animals. Exemptions from the
          requirements of the bill would include supervised encounters with lemurs to members of the public
          provided by institutions accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums or the Zoological
          Association of America and motion picture or television production companies who have
          contracted with a dealer, exhibitor or carrier licensed or registered under federal law for the
          transportation, purchase, exhibition or use of legally owned dangerous regulated animals.
                  According to the Kansas Department of Agriculture, enactment of SB 269 would have no
          fiscal effect on the expenditures or revenues of the agency.

                                                              Sincerely,

                                                              Adam Proffitt
                                                              Director of the Budget
          cc: Kellen Liebsch, Agriculture
Statutes affected: 
As introduced: 32-1309, 32-1301, 32-1302, 32-1303, 32-1304, 32-1305, 32-1308, 32-1306, 32-1307, 32-1310