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Ways and Means staff outlines state budget profile, highlights education and health reappropriations
Summary
Committee staff presented Senate Bill 315 budget profiles showing roughly $10.9 billion SGF for FY2026 and $10.7 billion for FY2027, and flagged million-dollar-plus adjustments across higher education, health, public safety and reappropriations.
Dylan, a committee staffer, briefed the Senate Ways and Means Committee on the shorthand budget profile tied to Senate Bill 315, calling attention to the State General Fund totals and agency-level adjustments that exceed $1 million.
Dylan told the committee the committee’s recommendation for SGF is about $10.9 billion in fiscal 2026 and $10.7 billion in fiscal 2027. He said the profile shows the state remains positive in ending balances through 2030 but warned the committee would be under the 7.5 percent ending balance requirement by 2030 under the current recommendation. On revenue assumptions, Dylan said consensus revenue estimates assume steady-state conditions and that staff build alternate recession profiles for modeling, but federal emergency funding (for example, ARPA) is unpredictable and excluded from baseline forecasts.
Staff highlighted specific adjustments: a net $1 million increase for two-year technical education reimbursements and various reappropriation restorations; a $5 million increase tied to literacy initiatives; multi-million dollar increases for Wichita State University aviation research and KU Med parking; reappropriations in health and human services including $133.9 million returned as reappropriations tied to HCBS/IDD programs; and significant contract nursing increases for state hospitals.
Committee members asked clarifying questions about how these numbers relate across years, how FTE counts change, and whether some policy committee changes (for example, Commerce’s recommendation on Creative Arts Industries Commission funding) had been incorporated. Dylan and staff answered that some policy committee changes are noted on separate sheets and that a budget recommendation can be reopened and adjusted before it is reported out of Ways and Means.
The presentation provided the committee a granular view of where SGF increases and reappropriations occur, and committee members used the briefing to probe revenue assumptions and targeted spending increases.
