2019 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 72 - Schools
Article 56 - School Finance Litigation
72-5631 General fund money to finance litigation, prohibited.
72-5631. General fund money to finance litigation, prohibited. (a) No school district shall expend, use or transfer any moneys from the general fund of the district for the purpose of engaging in or supporting in any manner any litigation by the school district or any person, association, corporation or other entity against the state of Kansas, the state board of education, the state department of education, other state agency or any state officer or employee regarding the Kansas school equity and enhancement act or any other law concerning school finance. No such moneys shall be paid, donated or otherwise provided to any person, association, corporation or other entity and used for the purpose of any such litigation.
(b) Nothing in K.S.A. 72-5143, and amendments thereto, or this section shall be construed as prohibiting the expenditure, use or transfer of moneys from that portion of the proceeds of any tax levied by a school district pursuant to K.S.A. 72-5147, and amendments thereto, that was levied to finance a school district's local option budget, for the purposes specified in subsection (a).
History: L. 2005, ch. 2, § 3 (Special Session); L. 2015, ch. 4, § 40; L. 2017, ch. 95, § 68; July 1.
