§ 72-1167 — Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Kansas uniform financial accounting and reporting act.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) "Budget summary" means a one-page summary of the official budget adopted by the board of education of the school district, and shall include, but is not limited to, graphs depicting the total expenditures in the budget by category, supplemental and general fund expenditures, instruction expenditures, enrollment figures, mill rates by fund and average salaries. For purposes of this section, a one-page budget at a glance format developed by the state board, and any successor format shall be deemed a budget summary, provided it complies with the requirements of this section.
(2) "Reporting system" means the uniform reporting system, including a uniform chart of accounts, developed by the state board as required by this section.
(3) "School district" means a unified school district organized and operated under the laws of this state.
(4) "State board" means the state board of education.
(c) The state board shall develop and maintain a uniform reporting system for the receipts and expenditures of school districts. The accounting records maintained by each school district shall be coordinated with the uniform reporting system. Each school district shall record the receipts and expenditures of the district in accordance with a uniform classification of accounts or chart of accounts and reports as shall be prescribed by the state board. Each school district shall submit such reports and statements as may be required by the state board. The state board shall design, revise and direct the use of accounting records and fiscal procedures and prescribe uniform classifications for receipts and expenditures for all school districts. The reporting system shall include all funds held by a school district regardless of the source of the moneys held in such funds, including, but not limited to, all funds funded by fees or other sources of revenue not derived from tax levies. The state board shall prescribe the necessary forms to be used by school districts in connection with such uniform reporting system.
(d) The reporting system developed by the state board shall be developed in such a manner that allows school districts to record and report any information required by state or federal law.
(e) The reporting system shall provide records showing by funds, accounts and other pertinent classifications, the amounts appropriated, the estimated revenues, actual revenues or receipts, the amounts available for expenditure, the total and itemized expenditures, the unencumbered cash balances, excluding state aid receivable, actual balances on hand and the unencumbered balances of allotments or appropriations for each school district.
(f) The reporting system shall allow a person to search the data and allow for the comparison of data by school district.
(g) Each school district shall annually submit a report to the state board on all construction activity undertaken by the school district which was financed by the issuance of bonds and which such bonds have not matured. Such report shall include all revenue receipts, all expenditures of bond proceeds authorized by law, the dates for commencement and completion of such construction activity, the estimated cost and the actual cost of such construction activity. The information provided in the report shall be in a form so as to readily identify such information with a specific construction project. Such report shall be submitted in a form and manner prescribed by the state board in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(h) From and after July 1, 2012, the board of education of each school district shall record and report the receipts and expenditures of the district in the manner prescribed by the state board in accordance with this section.
(i) (1) Each school district shall annually publish on such district's internet website:
(A) A copy of form 150, estimated legal maximum general fund budget, or any successor document containing the same or similar information, that was submitted by such district to the state board of education for the immediately preceding school year; and
(B) the budget summary for the current school year and actual expenditures for the immediately preceding two school years showing total dollars net of transfers and dollars per pupil for each of the following:
(i) Function 1000, instruction;
(ii) function 2100, student support;
(iii) function 2200, instructional staff support;
(iv) functions 2300 through 2500, administration;
(v) function 2600, operation and maintenance;
(vi) function 2700, transportation;
(vii) function 3100, food service;
(viii) functions 2900, 3200 and 3300, other current spending;
(ix) function 4000, capital outlay;
(x) function 5100, debt service;
(xi) the total expenditures which is the sum of the amounts in clauses (i) through (x);
(xii) the spending allocated to function 1000, instruction, excluding capital outlay and debt service expenditures, as a percentage of total expenditures;
(xiii) the spending allocated to function 1000, instruction, excluding capital outlay and debt service expenditures, as a percentage of current spending, which is the sum of expenditures for functions 1000 through 3300 less capital outlay and debt service expenditures included in any of those functions; and
(xiv) the revenue in total dollars net of transfers both in total and disaggregated to show the amount of revenue received from local, state and federal revenue sources.
(2) For purposes of subsection (i)(1)(B), all per pupil amounts shall be calculated using the full-time equivalent enrollment of the school district. All function categories and other accounting categories shall refer to those same categories as established and required for financial accounting purposes by the state board as published in the Kansas state department of education's Kansas accounting handbook for unified school districts, as published in August 2012, or later versions as established in rules and regulations adopted by the state board.
(3) Publications required by this subsection shall be made available to the public at every meeting held by the board of education of each school district when the board is discussing the district's budget or any other school finance matter.
(j) The department of education shall annually publish on its internet website:
(1) All of the publications required under subsection (i); and
(2) the following expenditures for each school district on a per pupil basis:
(A) Total expenditures;
(B) capital outlay expenditures;
(C) bond and interest expenditures; and
(D) all other expenditures not included in subparagraph (B) or (C).
(k) All reports prepared pursuant to this section shall be published in accordance with K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 72-1181, and amendments thereto.

Legislative History

L. 2006, ch. 197, § 2; L. 2011, ch. 106, § 4; L. 2013, ch. 99, § 8; L. 2014, ch. 93, § 45; L. 2019, ch. 19, § 6; July 1.