How Kansas builds its budget During the summer and fall, state agencies work with the division of the budget, working through base budgets plus any additional funding requests agencies may have.

Kansas lawmakers inserted language in the state budget that would restrict what food benefit recipients can buy. Critics say ...

Kansas collected 30% more taxes than expected in May, largely from individual income taxes that were expected to be impacted ...

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly signed the Republican-led Legislature's large budget bill after issuing dozens of line-item vetoes and recommending lawmaker revisit the blueprint before adjourning the ...

First, Kansas should adopt spending targets that ... failed to properly discuss and defend spending decisions for the state. Budget targets and automatic continuing appropriations likely require ...

Laura Kelly's budget proposal to the Kansas Legislature on Thursday. Here are the highlights of the budget proposal. Will there be state employee pay raises? Employees of Kansas state government ...

Every year in January, Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly submits a budget proposal – a spending blueprint for a $25 billion state government – to the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Under the state budget bill, Kansas' public universities would be barred from requiring employees or students to support or oppose diversity, equity and inclusion policies and from using DEI in ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - The release of the Kansas governor’s budget shows how much she wants the state to spend next year. Governor Laura Kelly’s plan calls for limiting spending increases as ...

WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) - A political organization in Kansas wants to cap Kansas’ State Funds Budget at $18.2 billion based on the rate of population growth and inflation. The Kansas Policy ...

A new study from the nonprofit Robert Dole and Edward Kennedy institutes argues for more robust, consistent funding of local ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (KWCH) - Kansas lawmakers are getting a headstart on the state budget process for next year. In October, a new committee was established to reform the traditional process in which the ...