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Kansas Supreme Court warns House cuts threaten court operations, asks Legislature to restore funding
Summary
The Kansas judicial branch told the Senate Ways and Means Committee that House-level cuts and a floor transfer reduced operating funds that the courts say are critical to maintaining case processing and court technology; Chief Justice Marla Luckert urged restoration of the funding.
Molly Pratt, fiscal analyst with the Legislative Research Department, told the Senate Ways and Means Committee the judicial branch budget summary is in volume 1 on page 96 and summarized the agency's request and the House substitute for House Bill 2007.
Pratt said the judicial branch was approved for about $223,000,000 in fiscal year 2025 and the agency's FY2026 request was approximately $251,100,000 before legislative adjustments. She described which enhancement requests were deleted by the interim Legislative Budget Committee and which items the House added back, including a partial state general fund transfer for specialty courts and several IT and software projects included in the House substitute for House Bill 2007.
Chief Justice Marla Luckert addressed the committee after the staff overview. She thanked the committee for prior budget support and said the branch processed more than 330,000 cases in…
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