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Committee advances changes to Kansas 9‑1‑1 law, authorizes $1 million transfer to operations fund
Summary
The House Utilities Committee voted to advance HB 2110, which would amend the Kansas 9‑1‑1 Act: removing a contracting requirement, moving existing funds into the state treasury, authorizing an immediate $1,000,000 transfer into the State 9‑1‑1 Board operations fund on July 1, 2025, and removing a cap on the grant‑fund transfer.
The House Utilities Committee on HB 2110 approved amendments and voted to pass the bill favorably, advancing it from committee. Committee staff summarized the bill as a set of technical and fiscal changes to the Kansas 9‑1‑1 Act that shift existing local 9‑1‑1 collections into the state treasury and change how the State 9‑1‑1 Board may move funds between accounts.
Nick Myers, assistant revisor at the Office of the Revisor of Statutes, told the committee the bill would “remove the requirement that the 9 11 coordinating council … contract with the local collection point administrator,” reschedule when funds are established in the state treasury, and reschedule transfers of funds currently held outside the treasury into the new state funds. Myers said the bill would require an immediate transfer of $1,000,000 on July 1, 2025 into the state operations fund for use by the State 9‑1‑1 Board and would authorize the board to make discretionary annual transfers from its operations fund into the State 9‑1‑1 Grant Fund for unencumbered monies. The bill would also remove a cap on the grant‑fund transfer, making 1 cent of every 9‑1‑1 fee permanently remitted to the grant fund without a statutory cap.
Committee members debated effective dates in the bill’s language and moved a substitute motion to change the effective date from publication in the statute book to the register. Senator Petersen offered the substitute motion to make the change; the committee approved the substitute motion by voice vote.
Following amendment, Senator Francisco moved that the committee pass HB 2110 as amended, and Senator Petersen seconded the motion. The committee advanced the bill favorably for passage by voice vote; the chair announced “Motion carries.”
What’s next: HB 2110 was passed out of committee as amended and will proceed to the next stage of the legislative process. The committee record shows voice‑vote approval for the substitute effective‑date amendment and for final passage as amended; no roll‑call vote was recorded in the transcript.
