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Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 28-172b

  • 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
  • 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 established in the state treasury an indigents’ defense services fund.

(b) Moneys in the indigents’ defense services fund shall be used exclusively to provide counsel and related services for indigent defendants. Expenditures from such fund shall be made in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the chairperson of the state board of indigents’ defense services or a person designated by the chairperson.