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House Committee adopts Board of Accountancy fee‑fund budget, restores partial database lease funding
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee advanced the Board of Accountancy’s fee‑fund budget recommendations for fiscal years 2025–2027 and restored part of a requested database and laptop lease supplement after the agency reported a licensing database delay.
The House Committee on Appropriations on Aug. 27 advanced budget recommendations for the Kansas Board of Accountancy for fiscal years 2025–2027, endorsing fee‑fund expenditures and restoring part of a supplemental request tied to an agency licensing database delay.
Chairperson Mosier, presenting the Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee’s report, told the committee the Board of Accountancy’s revised 2025 estimate was $534,357, all from the Board of Accountancy Fee Fund, with 3 FTE. The agency’s revised estimate for 2025 exceeded the 2024 legislative approval by about 10.7%, Mosier said.
Mosier said the agency submitted two supplemental requests: payment to the Office of Information Technology Services to continue hosting or completing a database conversion (the original amount cited was $36,332) and a salary and wage supplemental for $15,256. The Legislative Budget Committee (LBC) had recommended deleting both supplements; Mosier said the House budget committee then recommended adding back $24,047 of the $36,332 deletion to cover licensing database and laptop leases in FY2025.
Mosier explained the rationale: the Department of Administration-led licensing database conversion will be delayed until April 2026, the agency’s director told the committee, forcing the Board to continue payments on the existing database and related laptop leases. Mosier said the new director had been on the job for about a month and the agency did not have reserves to cover the unanticipated expense.
Representative Rogers pressed why the committee added back only about $24,000 rather than the full $36,332 the governor’s recommendation had included. Mosier and Representatives Estes and Rogers discussed a personnel change at the agency during the transition; Representative Estes said the previous executive director had anticipated a larger transition cost that did not materialize after the executive director left, which the committee relied on in restoring the smaller amount.
Mosier also reviewed the committee’s concurrence with the agency’s requests for 2026 and 2027 (roughly $483,965 for 2026 and $489,996 for 2027, both from the fee fund, with three FTEs retained). Mosier noted there have been no fee increases since 2019 and performance measures tracked certificates, complaints and numbers of firms.
The committee moved and approved the Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee’s recommendations for the Board of Accountancy as provided in House Bill 2,007 by voice vote.
Votes at the committee were recorded as voice votes. The committee report and Mosier’s presentation were the primary sources for the details described.
Ending: The committee’s action advances the board’s fee‑funded budget package to the full House Committee on Appropriations for inclusion in HB 2,007.
