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Committee approves Commerce budget as amended, restores reappropriations and funds FY27 enhancements
Summary
The committee voted to restore several FY26 reappropriations, approved a substitute to reappropriate travel-and-tourism EDIF funding, adopted multiple FY27 enhancements (arts, public broadcasting, towns grant, LevelUp), added lapse language for vacant EDIF FTEs and accepted the amended Commerce budget.
A legislative committee approved a set of FY26 reappropriations, added deadline and lapse language for EDIF-funded positions, and adopted several FY27 enhancements to the Department of Commerce budget after testimony from Kansas Legislative Research Department staff and agency representatives.
Jacob Crespi, fiscal analyst with the Kansas Legislative Research Department, opened the Commerce portion of the hearing and summarized the agency’s budget materials, noting the agency itself had not requested enhancements but the governor’s recommendation included several items. "The agency, in the budget summary in front of you has not requested any enhancements or supplemental requests," Crespi said, describing the document the committee had before it.
The committee approved three FY26 reappropriations in an initial motion: $50,000 for Advantage…
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