Last week the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services announced it would be adding new language to its contracts with service providers to add further restriction against service providers using state or federal funding to influence legislation.
While providers of service to persons with developmental disabilities are no longer under SRS's purview, SRS spokesperson explained that the Brownback administration is planning to add the new language to all state-administered contracts. If implemented, this could indeed affect service-providers in the DD community.
Currently, there are already some restrictions from spending government money on lobbying, however this new language will take those restrictions further. Below is an article from Kansas Health Institute explaining the state's lobbying prohibition language...
Lobbying prohibition added to SRS contracts
May 29, 2012
by Dave Ranney
http://www.khi.org/news/2012/may/29/lobbying-prohibition-added-srs-contracts/\
This proposed language by the State to add to all contracts with service providers also made a splash with national nonprofit organizations. Below is a commentary written by Rick Cohen of Nonprofit Quarterly:
Kansas Nonprofits Told to Sit Down and Shut Up
May 30, 2012
by Rick Cohen
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/20420-kansas-nonprofits-told-to-sit-down-and-shut-up.html
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