SB1706 • 2026

Modifies provisions relating to funding for the Kansas City Police Department

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Lewis, Patty; House handler: N/A
Last action: 2026-05-07
Official status: Second Read and Referred S Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee
Effective date: 2026-08-28

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Modifies provisions relating to funding for the Kansas City Police Department

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1706 - This act provides that the General Assembly shall appropriate funding that equals the amount Kansas City appropriated in the previous fiscal year to the Board of Police Commissioners for the operation of the Kansas City Police Department.

What This Bill Does

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1706 - This act provides that the General Assembly shall appropriate funding that equals the amount Kansas City appropriated in the previous fiscal year to the Board of Police Commissioners for the operation of the Kansas City Police Department.
TRISTAN BENSON, JR.

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Bill History

2026-05-07 S1606
Second Read and Referred S Transportation, Infrastructure and Public Safety Committee
2026-02-23 S423
S First Read

Official Summary Text

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Introduced

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SB 1706 - This act provides that the General Assembly shall appropriate funding that equals the amount Kansas City appropriated in the previous fiscal year to the Board of Police Commissioners for the operation of the Kansas City Police Department.
TRISTAN BENSON, JR.

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EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1706
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR LEWIS.
6642S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 84.730, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to funding
for the Kansas City police department.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 84.730, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 84.730, 2
to read as follows:3
84.730. 1. (1) It shall be the duty of the board, on 1
the fifteenth day of January of each year, to prepare, in 2
writing, a budget estimating the sum of money which will be 3
necessary for the next fiscal year, to enable the board to 4
discharge the duties hereby imposed upon it, and to meet the 5
expenses of the police department, which it shall forthwith 6
certify to the governing body of such cities, and the budget 7
shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization units, 8
activities, functions, and character classes in not less 9
detail than "personal services", "contractual services", 10
"commodities", and "capital outlays", and shall in any event 11
be prepared in form and detail similar to the form and 12
detail in which budgets for the various departments of such 13
city government are prepared. The governing body of the 14
cities is hereby required to appropriate the total amount so 15
certified, payable out of the revenue of the cities after 16
first having deducted the amount necessary to pay the 17
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interest on the indebtedness of the cities, the amount 18
necessary for lighting the city, and any sum required by law 19
to be placed to the credit of the sinking fund of the 20
cities[, and]. 21
(2) If the board shall be required to call out extra 22
police force and the expense thereof shall not have been 23
contemplated in their estimate for the fiscal year during 24
which the extra police force is called out, it shall 25
immediately certify the expense of such additional force, 26
and the additional amount so required shall be appropriated 27
for that purpose, except that in no event shall the 28
governing body of the cities be required to appropriate for 29
the use of the police board in any fiscal year an amount in 30
excess of one-fourth of the general revenue fund of such 31
year. 32
2. The general assembly shall appropriate for each 33
fiscal year an amount of moneys equal to the amount that was 34
appropriated by any such city in the city's previous fiscal 35
year for use of the police board to fund the police 36
department of such city. 37
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