{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-3317","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 75-3317","heading":"Purchase of products and services of nonprofit entities for blind and disabled persons; definitions.","body":"As used in K.S.A. 75-3317 through 75-3322, and amendments thereto, unless the context requires otherwise:\n(a) \"Director of purchases\" means the director of purchases of the department of administration;\n(b) \"qualified vendor\" means a not-for-profit entity incorporated in the state of Kansas that:\n(1) Employs persons who are blind or disabled and who reside in Kansas. Persons who are employed by a third-party entity other than the vendor are not employed by the vendor for purposes of this section;\n(2) does business primarily in Kansas or substantially all of its production in Kansas;\n(3) is operated in the interest of and for the benefit of persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities, or both;\n(4) the net income of such entity shall not, in whole or any part, financially benefit any shareholder or other individual; and\n(5) such qualified vendor's primary purpose shall be to provide employment for persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities;\n(c) \"state agency\" means any state office or officer, department, board, commission, institution, bureau or any agency, division or any unit within an office, department, board, commission or other state authority;\n(d) \"unified school district\" means any unified school district, board of education or any purchasing cooperative formed by one or more unified school districts;\n(e) \"committee\" means the state use law committee authorized pursuant to K.S.A. 75-3322c, and amendments thereto;\n(f) \"municipality\" has the meaning ascribed thereto in K.S.A. 75-6102, and amendments thereto; and\n(g) \"persons who are disabled\" means any person of employable age whose disability, whether physical or mental, congenital or acquired by accident, injury or disease, is a substantial barrier to employment.","path":["Chapter 75.—STATE DEPARTMENTS; PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES","Article 33.—CHILDREN AND FAMILIES"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch75/075_033_0017.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:38Z","sha256":"2f9a6486d7b26067c34a2a3e8267888f7843b75ae5ef83acc4ddaaaa639743ae","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-3316","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-75-3319"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}