Kansas Statutes 75-6513. Cafeteria benefits fund created; payment of cost of authorized programs from fund; moneys deposited in fund; expenditures from fund
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 75-6513
- 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
(a) There is hereby created in the state treasury the cafeteria benefits fund.
(b) The cost of the state healthcare benefits program, including the costs of administering the program, shall be paid from the cafeteria benefits fund. The Kansas state employees health care commission shall remit all moneys received by or for the commission pursuant to the state healthcare benefits program 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 cafeteria benefits fund.
(c) Each state agency shall pay into the cafeteria benefits fund amounts specified by the secretary of administration to pay for costs of administering the cafeteria plan as provided by law, including the costs of benefits provided thereunder.
(d) All expenditures from the cafeteria benefits fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by: (1) The chairperson of the Kansas state employees health care commission or by a person or persons designated by the chairperson, for expenditures relating to the state healthcare benefits program; and (2) the secretary of administration or by a person or persons designated by the secretary, for expenditures relating to administering the cafeteria plan as provided by law, including the costs of benefits provided thereunder. The director of accounts and reports shall issue warrants pursuant to vouchers approved under this section for payments from the cafeteria benefits fund notwithstanding the fact that claims for such payments were not submitted or processed for payment from money appropriated for the fiscal year in which the fund first became liable to make such payments.