Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-3726b

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201

During any fiscal year, the attorney general may transfer all or any part of one of the attorney general’s items of appropriation for the fiscal year from the state general fund to another of the attorney general’s items of appropriation for the fiscal year from the state general fund for operating expenditures regarding interstate water rights. The attorney general shall certify each such transfer to the director of accounts and reports and shall transmit a copy of each such certification at the same time to the director of the budget and the director of the legislative research department. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any item of appropriation for the attorney general for the Kansas bureau of investigation.