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Session of 2026
HOUSE BILL No. 2672
By Committee on K-12 Education Budget
Requested by Representative McDonald
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AN ACT concerning persons with intellectual disabilities; removing
certain terminologies from statute; amending K.S.A. 76-17d01 and
K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 76-6b04 and repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 76-6b04 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 76-6b04. (a) There is hereby levied in the year 2025 a state tax of
0.5 mill upon all tangible property in this state that is subject to ad valorem
taxation. The tax levy shall be in addition to all other state tax levies
authorized by law. The tax levy shall be for the use and benefit of state
institutions caring for persons who are mentally ill, retarded, visually
handicapped impaired, with a handicapping hearing loss deaf or hard of
hearing or, tubercular or have an intellectual disability, state institutions
caring for children who are deprived, wayward, miscreant, delinquent,
children in need of care or juvenile offenders and who are in need of
residential care or treatment , or institutions designed primarily to provide
vocational rehabilitation for handicapped persons. As used in this section,
"state institutions" shall include, but not be limited to, those institutions
under the authority of the commissioner of juvenile justice. The proceeds
of such tax levy shall be apportioned in accordance with this act.
(b) The county treasurer of each county shall make the proceeds of
the tax levy provided for in this section available to the state treasurer
immediately upon collection. When available, the state treasurer shall
withdraw from each county the proceeds of the taxes raised by such tax
levy. Upon such withdrawal the state treasurer shall deposit the same in the
state treasury and shall credit the same as provided in K.S.A. 76-6b05, and
amendments thereto.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 76-17d01 is hereby amended to read as follows: 76-
17d01. The state board of social welfare, subject to the approval and
direction of the governor, is hereby authorized to make an application to
the proper agency of the federal government for the purpose of acquiring
for use of the state as an institution for the mentally retarded, persons with
an intellectual disability and related purposes, the property now owned by
the federal government in the city of Topeka, Shawnee county, Kansas,
known as "Winter veterans hospital." Said board may acquire said property
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in accordance with the federal property and administrative services act of
1949, as amended, and any rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
and said board is hereby authorized and empowered to execute any and all
agreements with the federal government or any agency thereof, and shall
have and may exercise any other powers , or do any other acts , that may be
necessary in acquiring said property in accordance with the requirements
of any federal law or rule and regulations promulgated thereunder:
Provided, That said. Such board, before making any such agreements
relating to the acquisition of said property, shall advise the governor of the
terms and conditions of the acquisition, and no further proceedings for
such acquisition shall be taken unless written approval thereof and consent
thereto is given by the governor.
It is the intent of the legislature that the property known as the Winter
veterans hospital should not be acquired by the state unless substantially
all of the real estate and equipment in the various buildings thereof as of
March 10, 1959, is included in the acquisition. The board if it deems it
advisable may designate and authorize one of its members or an officer in
the state department of social welfare to negotiate and sign the necessary
agreements for and on behalf of the board. If the use of said Winter
veterans hospital facility is acquired by the state, the board may pay
external administrative expenses incurred in the transfer of the property.
Upon transfer of the property, the state board of social welfare shall
assume immediate custody, care and maintenance thereof, and shall
proceed to establish and maintain in such facility an institution for the
mentally retarded.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 76-17d01 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 76-6b04 are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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