Volume 43 - Issue 3 - January 18, 2024
State of Kansas
Board of Regents
Notice of Hearing on Proposed Administrative Regulations
The Kansas Board of Regents will conduct a public hearing to consider proposed revocations of K.A.R. 88-13-7, 88-13-8, 88-14-1, 88-14-2, 88-14-3, 88-14-4, 88-18-1, 88-18-2, 88-18-3, 88-18-4, 88-18-5, 88-18-6, 88-18-7, 88-18-8, 88-20-2, 88-20-6, 88-20-7, 88-21-5, 88-21-6, 88-21-7, 88-22-5, 88-27-1, and 88-27-2. The hearing will be held at 11:00 a.m. March 19, 2024, in the Kansas Board of Regents Board Room, 1000 SW Jackson St., Suite 520, Topeka, KS 66612.
This 60-day notice of the public hearing shall constitute a public comment period for receiving written public comments on the proposed revoked regulations. All interested parties may submit comments prior to the hearing to Gage Rohlf at the Kansas Board of Regents at the address above, by phone at 785-430-4236, or by email to grohlf@ksbor.org. All interested parties will be given a reasonable opportunity to present their views orally on the proposed regulations during the hearing. To provide all parties with an opportunity to present their views, it may be necessary to request each participant limit any oral presentation to five minutes.
Any individual with a disability may request accommodation to participate in the public hearing and may request the proposed regulations and economic impact statement in an accessible format. Requests for accommodation to participate in the hearing should be made at least five working days in advance of the hearing by contacting Gage Rohlf using the contact information listed above. Individuals with hearing or speech disabilities may contact the Kansas Relay Center at 800-766-3777 for communication accommodations.
Copies of the proposed regulations and the economic impact statement may be found at http://www.kansasregents.org/about/rules-regulations or by contacting Gage Rohlf.
A summary of the proposed regulations and the economic impact statement of the regulations follows:
The Board of Regents has begun its first five-year review of its rules and regulations pursuant to K.S.A. 77-440. As part of that review, the agency has identified 23 unnecessary regulations: 14 regulations that are obsolete because they relate to obsolete programs, and 9 obsolete regulations that relate to ongoing programs.
These revocations would eliminate those obsolete regulations. The regulations related to obsolete programs are: (1) K.A.R. 88-14-1 through 88-14-4 (Community Resource Program); (2) K.A.R. 88-18-1 through 88-18-8 (Kansas Honors Scholarship Program); and (3) K.A.R. 88-27-1 and 88-27-2 (Washburn University Out-District Tuition). The underlying statutory programs no longer receive state funding and are no longer active.
The obsolete regulations related to ongoing programs are: K.A.R. 88-13-7, 88-13-8, 88-20-6, 88-20-2, 88-20-7, 88-21-5, 88-21-6, 88-21-7 and 88-22-5. These regulations relate to the Student Assistance programs, Nursing Service Scholarship Program, Kansas Ethnic Minority Scholarship Program, and Kansas Teachers Scholarship Program. The regulations are generally obsolete because they reference individual income tax returns, which are no longer used to determine scholarship eligibility, and because they set out confidentiality requirements that have been superseded by other laws. K.A.R. 88-20-2 establishes an out-of-date limit on nursing service scholarships, and K.A.R. 88-21-7 establishes an out-of-date method for apportioning awards under the Ethnic Minority Scholarship Program in the event scholarship funds are over-subscribed.
There is not anticipated to be any economic impact on specific businesses, sectors, public utility ratepayers, or local governments. Revoking these regulations will not impose any implementation or compliance costs on those groups. Revoking the regulations is not anticipated to have any economic impact on the general public.
Blake Flanders
President and CEO
Board of Regents
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