2023 Legislative Session begins Monday, January 9

The 2023 Legislative Session begins Monday, January 9. Governor Kelly will release her Fiscal Year 2024 budget proposal on Thursday, January 12. Traditionally, each year the budget proposal serves as the starting point for legislative debate in the months that follow.

KU looks forward to reviewing the budget proposal and will help identify specific items in the proposal that would benefit higher education and share information about those items with KU audiences in the days ahead.

As a reminder, last year's session resulted in the best higher education budget in years, including essential operations funding, increased need-based scholarships, merit salary increases and other critical investments. As a result, KU was able to hold tuition flat for a fourth consecutive year—providing welcome relief for Kansas families as we all cope with pervasive rising prices. We thank our state government officials for their leadership during the 2022 session and look forward to continuing productive discussions in 2023.