Federal ‘‘1 Big Beautiful Bill’’ and Rescissions Act bring mixed funding shifts, new state costs for Kansas

Dylan Dear, assistant director of fiscal affairs at the Kansas Legislative Research Department (KLRD), told the Legislative Budget Committee on Aug. 15 that the 1 Big Beautiful Bill Act (known in the memo as OBBA) and a separate Rescissions Act of 2025 will produce a mixture of added federal grant opportunities for Kansas and rescissions of previously unobligated federal balances.

KLRD summarized provisions that affect SNAP and other food programs, Medicaid and CHIP, agriculture and conservation programs, energy and climate programs, public safety grants and a long list of rescinded unobligated balances. The memorandum, Dear said, is a work in progress and KLRD will issue updates as agencies provide firmer numbers.

The most immediate household-level changes flagged by KLRD are to SNAP. OBBA would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use the all-items CPI-U (CPIU) to update the Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), instead of a market-based reevaluation; KLRD said that change could cause SNAP benefits to lag food-cost changes over time. OBBA would also expand SNAP work requirements by raising the upper age limit from 54 to 64 and lower the dependent-childcare exemption age to 14. KLRD’s fiscal staff estimated that a new federal state-share…