Requiring an annual reimbursement to the Kansas department of wildlife and parks for lost revenue from free or discounted hunting and fishing licenses, permits or passes that were established by legislative enactment on or after July 1, 2027.

As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2543
By Representative W. Carpenter
1-26
AN ACT concerning wildlife and parks; requiring an annual
reimbursement to the Kansas department of wildlife and parks for lost
revenue from free or discounted hunting and fishing licenses, permits
or passes that were established by legislative enactment on or after July
1, 2027; requiring the department to maintain an accounting of lost
revenue and submit such accounting to the director of accounts and
reports and the state treasurer by June 30 of each fiscal year; requiring
that such accounting be subject to audits by the state treasurer; making
an annual transfer from the state general fund to the wildlife fee fund
upon certification of such accounting, subject to appropriation acts of
the legislature.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) (1) The Kansas department of wildlife and parks shall
be reimbursed for lost revenue resulting from the issuance of any free or
partially discounted hunting and fishing license, permit or pass that was
established by legislative enactment on or after July 1, 2027, in an amount
equal to the amount of lost revenue from such discounts.
(2) This section shall also apply to lost revenue resulting from any
exemption to hunting and fishing license, permit or pass that was
established by statute on or after July 1, 2027, in an amount equal to the
amount of lost revenue from such exemptions.
(b) (1) The department shall maintain an accounting of such lost
revenue and certify and submit such accounting to the director of accounts
and reports and the state treasurer on or before June 30 of each fiscal year
for the reimbursement of such lost revenue from the state general fund.
(2) Such accounting and any other records relating to the accounting
shall be subject to audit by the state treasurer.
(c) Upon receipt of certification of such accounting, or as soon
thereafter as moneys are available, and subject to appropriation acts of the
legislature, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer an amount
equal to such accounting from the state general fund to the wildlife fee
fund of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks. Each time that the
department transmits such certification to the director of accounts and
reports and the state treasurer, the department shall transmit a copy to the
director of the budget and the director of legislative research.
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HB 2543—Am. by HC 2
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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