Kansas modifies KPERS board rules, mandates actuarial contribution rates for new police and fire employers, and repeals retiree return-to-work statutes

Original title: AN ACT concerning state-managed investments; relating to deposits, procedures, standards and requirements therefor and certain retirement benefits therefrom; requiring banks, savings and loan associations and savings banks to enter into a written agreement with the state treasurer to be a depository of public moneys; increasing the market value of securities necessary to secure the deposit of public moneys; providing procedures for when a depository fails to follow the requirements of the state treasurer; authorizing the state treasurer to assess a fee to operate the public moneys pooled method; creating the public moneys fee fund of the state treasurer; providing exceptions to the public moneys pooled method; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, for the office of the state treasurer; authorizing a certain transfer from the state general fund to the public moneys fee fund; modifying investment standards for the board of trustees of the Kansas public employees retirement system of moneys certified by the state treasurer as equivalent to the aggregate net amount received for unclaimed property and authorizing investments in certain foreign governments; authorizing the board of trustees to elect the vice chairperson of the board; requiring newly affiliated employers of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system to contribute at the actuarial required rate for past and future service; repealing certain working after retirement statutes for state and local elected officials; amending K.S.A. 9-1401, 9-1403, 9-1405, 9-1406, 9-1407, 9-1408, 74-4967 and 75-4201 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 9-1402, 9-1410, 12-1675, 74-4905, 75-2263 and 75-4218 and repealing the existing sections; also repealing K.S.A. 74-4915b and 74-4915c.