2006 Kansas Code - 28-172b

      28-172b.   Indigents' defense services fund. (a) There is hereby established in the state treasury an indigents' defense services fund.

      (b)   The clerk of the district court shall charge a fee of $.50 in each criminal case, to be deducted from the docket fee as provided in K.S.A. 28-172a, and amendments thereto, and shall charge a fee of $.50 in each case pursuant to the Kansas code for care of children or the Kansas juvenile justice code and each mental illness, drug abuse or alcoholism treatment action as provided by subsection (d) of K.S.A. 28-170, and amendments thereto. The clerk of the district court shall remit all such fees received to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount in the state treasury to the credit of the indigents' defense services fund.

      (c)   Moneys in the indigents' defense services fund shall be used exclusively to provide counsel and related services for indigent defendants. Expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chairperson of the state board of indigents' defense services or a person designated by the chairperson.

      History:   L. 1987, ch. 134, § 7; L. 1996, ch. 229, § 30; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 94; July 1.