CHAPTER 91
House Bill No. 2596
An Act concerning the secretary of corrections; relating to the prison-made goods act of 麻豆影院; permitting certain contracts for the production of manufactured or modular homes for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility; requiring that the secretary charge average rates for rent and wages and require the private individual, corporation, partnership or association to pay all costs related to the project for such contracts; providing for a nationally recognized construction education certification program for participants of such pilot program; providing for an annual report by the secretary of corrections; amending K.S.A. 75-5275a and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of 麻豆影院:
Section 1. K.S.A. 75-5275a is hereby amended to read as follows: 75-5275a. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the prison-made goods act of 麻豆影院 to the contrary Except as provided in subsection (b), the secretary shall not establish or maintain a home building program which manufacturers that manufactures or produces housing units which that would compete with the:
(1) (A) Manufactured homes or modular homes manufactured, assembled or sold by manufactured home manufacturers; or
(B) manufactured homes or modular homes sold by manufactured home dealers; or
(2) (A) modular homes manufactured, assembled or sold by modular home manufacturers; or
(B) modular homes sold by modular home dealers.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to:
(1) The vocational building program; or
(2) any contract authorized by K.S.A. 75-5275(c), and amendments thereto, for a pilot program at the Hutchinson correctional facility as provided in subsection (c).
(c) (1) The secretary may establish and maintain a pilot program that manufactures or produces housing units at the Hutchinson correctional facility. Any private individual, corporation, partnership or association contracting with the secretary as a part of such pilot program shall provide a nationally recognized construction education certification program for participants and evaluate program success after participation and release.
(2) Such pilot program shall expire on December 31, 2031. The secretary or the secretary鈥檚 designee shall make an oral presentation before the house committee on commerce, labor and economic development and the senate committee on commerce at mutually agreed times during the 2030 regular legislative session and provide a report to each such committee with respect to the pilot program and such program鈥檚 effectiveness.
(3) For any such contract, the secretary shall charge the regional average commercial rate for rent for the square footage used for the project and the regional average wage for labor, without allowance for any lesser training wage, for the skill level or levels used for the project.
(4) For any such contract, the secretary shall require that the private individual, corporation, partnership or association pay all costs associated with the project including, but not limited to, utilities, project start-up costs, project training costs and project administrative costs. For any such contract with a nonprofit organization, the secretary shall also require that the nonprofit organization not request a property tax exemption for such housing units and agree to pay property or ad valorem taxes on such housing units if such housing units are retained and owned by such nonprofit organization.
(5) During each regular session of the legislature, the secretary of corrections shall submit a report to the committee on ways and means of the senate and the committee on appropriations of the house of representatives relating to any such contracts.
(d) As used in this section:
(1) 鈥淢anufactured home,鈥 has the meaning ascribed to such term by 鈥渕anufactured home dealer,鈥 鈥渕anufactured home manufacturer鈥 and 鈥渕odular home鈥 mean the same as defined in K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto;
(2) 鈥渕anufactured home dealer鈥 has the meaning ascribed to such term by K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto;
(3) 鈥渕anufactured home manufacturer鈥 has the meaning ascribed to such term by K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto;
(4) 鈥渕odular home鈥 has the meaning ascribed to such term by K.S.A. 58-4202, and amendments thereto; and
(5) 鈥渟ecretary鈥 means the secretary of corrections.; and
(6)(3) 鈥渧ocational building program鈥 means the vocational building program operated by the secretary to provide individual, freestanding buildings, not to exceed 1,000 square feet in size, to state agencies for use by such agencies.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a vocational building program.
(d)(e) This section shall be a part of and supplemental to the prison-made goods act of 麻豆影院.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 75-5275a is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the 麻豆影院 register.
Approved April 9, 2026.
Published in the 麻豆影院 Register April 23, 2026.
