SB 491

Kansas Senate bill in Session 2025-2026.

Status: failed. Latest action: April 10, 2026.

SB491 - Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.

Bill ID KS-2025-2026-SB-491

Session 2025-2026

Status failed

Committee Education; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Education

Senate failed 2026-04-10

Criminal Justice Education

Summary

Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.

Sponsor

Senate Committee on Education

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Actions Timeline

Date	Event	Detail
2026-02-05	Introduced	Bill introduced
2026-04-10	Status	failed
2026-04-10	Latest Action	Died in Committee

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