Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2320 - Authorizing children in the custody of the secretary of the department for children and families to attend school in any school district, requiring records for such students to be timely transferred between school districts and requiring a transportation plan if the child remains in the school of origin.
AN ACT concerning education; relating to school districts; relating to children in the custody of the secretary for children and families; requiring transfer of a child's records when such child's placement is changed by the secretary and establishing a deadline for the transfer of such records; authorizing children in the custody of the secretary to attend any school district; authorizing such children to remain enrolled in and continue attending the school of origin; amending K.S.A. 38-2218 and 72-3439 and K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 72-3122, 72-3123 and 72-3124 and repealing the existing sections.
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| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-06 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-19 | Status | passed_lower |
| 2026-03-19 | Latest Action | Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
| HB 2798 | HB2798 - Substitute for HB 2798 by Committee on Higher Education Budget - Granting authority to state educational institutions regarding transactions involving contracts, easements and the procurement of goods and services, exempting the state educational institutions from statutes governing such transactions and authorizing legislators to request copies of certain documents. | in_committee |
| SB 303 | SB303 - House Substitute for SB 303 by Committee on Taxation - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district, discontinuing certain sales tax exemptions, imposing sales tax on certain sales of lottery tickets, imposing an excise tax on all sports wagers as a rate of 2% of the amount wagered, creating the property tax relief fund and providing for transfers therefrom to the state school district finance fund and creating the sports wagering privilege tax refund fund. | in_committee |
| SB 517 | SB517 - Expanding the every child can read act reporting requirements and amending the Kansas blueprint for literacy to provide certain requirements for the state board of education, the state board of regents and school districts with regard to literacy education and reporting. | introduced |
| HB 2374 | HB2374 - Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds. | passed_lower |
| HB 2402 | HB2402 - Senate Substitute for HB 2402 by Committee on Education - Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception to such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation. | passed_lower |
| HB 2482 | HB2482 - Removing the requirement that the state board of education use a certain exam provider to deliver certain college entrance and career readiness exams and requiring the board to provide for such exams using any provider. | passed_lower |
| HB 2485 | HB2485 - Authorizing the chief executive officer of the state board of regents to negotiate and settle any repayment obligations arising under any scholarship, grant or other financial aid program administered by the board and prohibiting the payment of additional funds to any student who is subject to repayment obligations under such financial aid programs. | passed_lower |
| HB 2487 | HB2487 - Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program. | passed_lower |