75-438. Information and services fees; fund. (a) There is hereby created the information and services fee fund in the state treasury. The secretary of state shall charge and collect an information and services fee. The secretary of state shall adopt rules and regulations fixing the fees to be charged and collected under this section. If fees or charges for such information-related duties and services otherwise are authorized by law, the information and service fees may be charged in addition to the existing information-related or service fee or charge. The secretary of state shall remit all moneys received from fees and charges under this section, and amendments thereto, 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 information and services fee fund.

(b) All expenditures from the information and services fee fund shall be in accordance with appropriations acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the secretary of state or by a person or persons designated by the secretary.

(c) On the effective date of this act, the information and copy service fee fund is hereby redesignated as the information and services fee fund. On the effective date of this act, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer all moneys in the information and copy service fee fund to the information and services fee fund. On the effective date of this act, all liabilities of the information and copy service fee fund are hereby transferred to and imposed on the information and services fee fund and the information and copy service fee fund is hereby abolished.

History: L. 1982, ch. 363, § 4; L. 2001, ch. 5, § 359; L. 2002, ch. 182, § 5; L. 2003, ch. 143, § 1; May 22.