20-1a11. Judicial branch education fund; receipts; expenditures; municipal judge training fund abolished.
20-1a11
20-1a11. Judicial branch education fund; receipts; expenditures; municipal
judge training fund abolished.
(a) There is hereby created in the state treasury a
judicial branch education fund.
(b) All money credited to the fund shall be used for the purpose of
educating and training judicial branch officers and employees; for
administering the training, testing and education of municipal judges as
provided in K.S.A. 12-4114, and amendments thereto; for educating and training
municipal judges and municipal court support staff; and for the planning and
implementation of a
family court system as provided by law.
Expenditures
from the judicial branch education 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 chief justice of the supreme court or by a
person or persons designated by the chief justice.
(c) The chief justice may apply for, receive and accept money from any
source for the purposes for which money in the judicial branch education fund
may be expended. Upon receiving any such money, the chief justice shall remit
the entire amount
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
judicial branch
education fund.
(d) Upon the effective date of this act, the director of accounts and
reports is directed to transfer all moneys in the municipal judge training fund
to the judicial branch education fund. Upon the effective date of this act, all
liabilities of the municipal judge training fund existing prior to such date
are hereby imposed on the judicial branch education fund. Whenever the
municipal judge training fund, or words of like effect, is referred to or
designated by any statute, contract, or other document, such reference or
designation shall be deemed to apply to the judicial branch education fund. The
municipal judge training fund is hereby abolished.
History: L. 1992, ch. 315, § 1;
L. 1997, ch. 156, § 35;
L. 2001, ch. 5, § 74; July 1.