SB 408

Kansas Senate bill in Session 2025-2026.

Status: enacted. Latest action: April 9, 2026.

SB408 - Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

Bill ID KS-2025-2026-SB-408
Session 2025-2026
Status enacted
Committee Judiciary
Senate enacted 2026-04-09
Summary

Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

Sponsor
Senate Committee on Judiciary
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Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
2026-01-28 Introduced Bill introduced
2026-04-09 Status enacted
2026-04-09 Latest Action Approved by Governor on 04-09-2026
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