Kansas - Session 2025-2026
Title: HB2788 - Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.
AN ACT concerning the department for children and families; establishing a business enterprise program oversight task force; providing for the membership, duties and dissolution of such task force; requiring the task force to submit a report to the legislature; permitting an audit of the business enterprise program; naming the existing program as the business enterprise program and renaming the vending facilities advisory committee to the committee of blind vendors; establishing the business enterprise program fund in the state treasury and transferring moneys to such fund from the vending facilities account outside the state treasury; requiring the secretary to provide notice to the committee when rejecting input thereof; providing requirements for the election of members of the committee; amending K.S.A. 75-3337, 75-3339a, 75-3340 and 75-3343 and repealing the existing sections.
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-27 | Introduced | Bill introduced |
| 2026-03-17 | Status | in_committee |
| 2026-03-17 | Latest Action | Referred to Committee on Government Efficiency |
| Bill | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|
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