All state agencies send their recommendations for the next SFY budget to the Division of Budget each year in mid-September. Then a process of meetings, caseload estimating and state revenue estimating gets underway, which results in the Governor determining her budget recommendation that is presented to the Legislature In January. The Legislature has hearings and deliberates on and amends what they receive and finally late in the session send their amended version back to the Governor for signature.
Governor Kelly has asked all state agencies to prepare budget options, including a 10% “reduced resource” budget option for SFY 2022. (This would amount to an approximate $40M reduction in state funds in the KDADS budget over current year.) LeadingAge Kansas is on record as not supporting budget reductions for the NF, HCBS, PACE programs.
