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Committee hears where K-12 budget stands as Senate prepares to vote
Summary
Kansas Legislative Research Department staff summarized changes between House and Senate action on the K-12 budget, noting several program funding moves, deletions, and items moved between agencies ahead of anticipated final votes.
Jennifer Light, Kansas Legislative Research Department, briefed the Committee on K-12 Education Budget on differences between the budget committee report, House action and the Senate committees as the Senate prepared to vote.
Light said: "In 2025, the Safe and Secure grants left this budget committee with $5,000,000 SGF," and that the Senate Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Ways and Means had removed that funding, leaving $0 for Safe and Secure Schools in the KSDE budget for 2025. She told the committee the 2026 Safe and Secure Schools amount originally left in the committee at $7 million in 2026 but was moved in House action to the attorney general's budget and that "in Senate Committee on Ways and Means, there was an addition of $1,500,000 with language regarding that it needs to be spent on AEDs and CPR." Light said she would follow up to clarify whether that $1.5 million is part of or in addition to the $7 million moved to the attorney general.
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