(a) Health care personnel seeking to be credentialed by the state shall submit a credentialing application to the secretary upon forms approved by the secretary. The application shall be accompanied by an application fee of $1,000. The secretary shall not accept a credentialing application unless such application is accompanied by the application fee and is signed by 100 or more Kansas resident proponents of credentialing the health care occupation or profession seeking to be credentialed. All credentialing applications accepted by the secretary shall be referred to the technical committee for review and recommendation in accordance with the provisions of this act and rules and regulations adopted by the secretary. The application fee established under this subsection (a) shall apply to every group of health care personnel which submits a credentialing application to the secretary on and after the effective date of this act and to every group of health care personnel which has not filed both a notice of intention and a fully answered application before the effective date of this act.

(b) The secretary shall remit all moneys received from fees under this section to the state treasurer in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 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 state general fund.