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Committee recommends HB 2007 funding for agencies; voice votes recorded
Summary
The Joint Committee on State Building Construction voted by voice to recommend House Bill 2007 funding for multiple agencies and years, with several added caveats directing follow-up work or study.
The Joint Committee on State Building Construction on Jan. 27 recommended funding under House Bill 2007 for multiple state agencies and fiscal years, conducting a series of voice votes that carried without recorded roll-call tallies.
The committee voted to recommend HB 2007 funding for the Department of Administration (fiscal years 2025–26); Department of Corrections (motions covering 2025 and a substitute for 2026 that asks the legislature to review six additional correctional requests); the Judicial Branch (2025–26, updated with revised budget summary numbers); Department of Commerce (2025–26); Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) for 2025 and for 2026 with added language directing KBI to continue work with the Legislature on lease-to-own options for a new headquarters; Kansas Department of Transportation (2025–26); and the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) for 2025 and for 2026 with added direction that KHP provide a presentation on the Salina campus needs assessment and continue work with the Legislature on Salina/Celina campus needs and Troop J planning.
Why it matters: HB 2007 is the capital/facility funding vehicle the committee used to package agency capital requests. The committee’s recommendations will inform the Legislature’s capital and facilities deliberations during the session.
Details of the recorded motions and committee actions (voice votes unless noted):
- Department of Administration — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for years 2025 and 2026; seconded; motion passed by voice vote. (Transcript: Chair motion; second: Rick Kluse.)
- Department of Corrections — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025; passed by voice vote. For fiscal year 2026 the committee accepted a substitute motion to approve KDOC recommendations consistent with HB 2007 but asked the Legislature to review six additional agency requests; substitute motion carried.
- Judicial Branch — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025–26 based on an updated budget summary; passed by voice vote.
- Department of Commerce — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025–26; passed by voice vote.
- Kansas Bureau of Investigation — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025; passed by voice vote. A separate motion recommending KBI funding for 2026 carried with added language that KBI “continue to work with the Legislature concerning a lease-to-own option for a new headquarters facility and any options thereof.”
- Kansas Department of Transportation — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025–26 (based on updated numbers distributed in the hearing); passed by voice vote.
- Kansas Highway Patrol — Motion to recommend HB 2007 funding for 2025; passed by voice vote. A motion recommending KHP funding for 2026 carried with an added recommendation that KHP present findings from a Salina (Celina) campus needs assessment (pursuant to 2024 House Bill 2551) and continue to work with the Legislature to address campus needs; the motion also included a request that the Legislature review Troop J rehabilitation/repair needs as part of the overall assessment.
What the votes do not show: these were voice votes taken in committee; the record does not include an individual roll-call tally in the transcript provided. Several subsequent substantive follow-ups were requested (presentations, agency-legislature coordination, or further review) and are noted above.
