K.S.A. § 75-777 — KS Code / Chapter 75 / Article 7 / Section 75-777
75-777 - Disposition of recoveries from opioid litigation; Kansas fights addiction fund and municipalities fight addiction fund created.
Status: in_force

75-777. Disposition of recoveries from opioid litigation; Kansas fights addiction fund and municipalities fight addiction fund created. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the attorney general shall remit to the state treasurer in accordance with K.S.A. 75-4215, and amendments thereto, all moneys that are received by the state pursuant to opioid litigation in which the attorney general is involved that is dedicated by the terms of such litigation for the abatement or remediation of substance abuse or addiction. Upon receipt of each such remittance, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire amount into the state treasury. The state treasurer shall credit 75% of each such deposit to the Kansas fights addiction fund and 25% of each such deposit to the municipalities fight addiction fund.

(b) There is hereby established in the state treasury the Kansas fights addiction fund, and such fund shall be administered by the attorney general. Except as provided in subsection (c), moneys in the Kansas fights addiction fund shall be expended subject to any agreement authorized under K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-778(d), and amendments thereto, for grants approved by the Kansas fights addiction grant review board created by K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 75-778, and amendments thereto, to qualified applicants for projects and activities that prevent, reduce, treat or mitigate the effects of substance abuse and addiction. Any such expenditure for a grant shall not be used to supplant any other source of funding. No moneys shall be expended from the Kansas fights addiction fund for the payment of litigation costs, expenses or attorney fees related to opioid litigation.

(c) On July 1 of each year, or as soon thereafter as moneys are available, the director of accounts and reports shall transfer $200,000 from the Kansas fights addiction fund to the prescription monitoring program fund established by K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 65-1694a, and amendments thereto. For any fiscal year, if there are insufficient unencumbered moneys in the Kansas fights addiction fund to make such transfer, no transfer shall be made under this subsection for such fiscal year.

(d) (1) There is hereby established in the state treasury the municipalities fight addiction fund, and such fund shall be administered by the attorney general to disburse funds to municipalities. Moneys in the municipalities fight addiction fund shall be expended subject to an agreement between the attorney general, the Kansas association of counties and the league of Kansas municipalities for projects and activities that prevent, reduce, treat or mitigate the effects of substance abuse and addiction or to reimburse the municipality for previous expenses related to substance abuse mitigation or arising from covered conduct. Moneys may also be used to reimburse municipalities for the payment of litigation costs, expenses or attorney fees related to opioid litigation, except that a municipality shall first seek payment from applicable outside settlement sources or settlement fee funds prior to seeking payment from the municipalities fight addiction fund.

(2) An agreement between the attorney general, the Kansas association of counties and the league of Kansas municipalities shall determine the method for disbursing moneys from the fund, and such moneys shall be disbursed to municipalities that have not filed opioid litigation and municipalities that have filed opioid litigation and have entered into an agreement with the attorney general prior to January 1, 2022, that releases the municipality's legal claims arising from covered conduct to the attorney general and assigns any future legal claims arising from covered conduct to the attorney general.

(e) All expenditures from the Kansas fights addiction fund and the municipalities fight addiction fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports pursuant to vouchers approved by the attorney general or the attorney general's designee.