Appropriations panel ties bills effective date to Kansas Register, sets provision to end July 1, 2030

Members of the Committee on Appropriations discussed changing a bills effective date to publication in the Kansas Register and adding language that the provision will end on July 1, 2030.

The exchange focused on whether the bill should use the term "repeal" or "sunset" to describe the end of the provision. "I was under the impression that it was repeal, not sunset. That's the same thing?" said Speaker 2, a committee member. Speaker 3, a staff member, replied, "It will just no longer be effective. I mean, we'll have a section at the end that says the provisions of this section shall no longer be effective on 07/01/2030." Speaker 1, a committee member, initiated the change request, saying the effective date should be moved "to Kansas register, which we did earlier, and sunset the provision of the bill on July 2030. So it'll sunset in 20 20 30."

Members indicated informal agreement to the wording after that clarification. "I mean, we agree. I mean, as long as, you know, it says repeal. We have a deal. We have a deal," Speaker 2 said. Committee discussion also clarified that the continuing appropriation at page 4 remains in the bill text: "Except for the continuing appropriation on page 4. That's where it stays. Right," Speaker 1 said.

There was no formal vote recorded in the transcript excerpt. The record shows agreement among the present members on the effective-date wording and the sunset/repeal language, and that the continuing appropriation language on page 4 will be retained.