Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Ways |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Higher Education Budget |
| 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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Taxation |
| HB 2527 |
HB2527 - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities, prohibiting courts from assigning a defendant to work release if the defendant is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes and prohibiting the secretary of corrections from granting an inmate leave from confinement except for specified purposes if theinmate is required to register as a sex offender for certain crimes or is serving a sentence for certain crimes that require registration as a sex offender. 2025-2026 | House
|
passed_lower | Committee on Corrections |
| HB 2800 |
HB2800 - Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from using or commingling state moneys or student fees to compensate a collegiate student athlete for the use of the athlete's name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Appropriations |
| SB 263 |
SB263 - House Substitute for SB 263 by Committee on Education - Establishing standards and requirements for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools and regulating active shooter simulations. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 392 |
SB392 - Prohibiting the filling of a vacancy in the joint candidacy of the governor and lieutenant governor and providing for when a candidate may withdraw in city, school district and community college elections. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Federal |
| SB 65 |
SB65 - House Substitute for SB 65 by House Committee on Elections - Removing cities, counties, school districts and community colleges from the mail ballot election law; authorizing the election of directors by irrigation districts by mail ballot; requiring qualified electors deliver advance ballots unless otherwise provided by federal law. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Elections |
| SB 339 |
SB339 - Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 340 |
SB340 - Prohibiting promise scholarship awards from being used to fund corequisite courses. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 381 |
SB381 - Requiring instruction to provide students with an understanding of communist and socialist regimes and ideologies and that students pass an American civics examination in order to graduate with a high school diploma. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 384 |
SB384 - Extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming applications approved if not approved or denied within 45 days of submission. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 406 |
SB406 - Directing the governor to approve eligible programs for workforce Pell grants and providing requirements for the state workforce development board with regard to eligibility, approval and financing of such programs. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| HB 2522 |
HB2522 - Permitting highway construction and maintenance vehicles in road construction zones to display flashing amber, white or green lights at all times or flashing white and blue lights under certain conditions. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | Committee on Transportation |
| HB 2692 |
HB2692 - Establishing standards of conduct for agents of the United States immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) prohibiting facial covering of agents, requiring vehicles be clearly marked, requiring judicial search warrants, prohibiting raids in places of worships, schools, daycare centers, hospitals and courts, requiring minimum training. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Simmons |
| SB 496 |
SB496 - Requiring postsecondary educational institutions to provide annual training on freedom of speech, association and exercise of religion to certain individuals based on materials, programs and procedures developed by the state board of regents, in consultation with the attorney general, requiring the state board of regents to confirm that each such institution has complied with training requirements and authorizing the attorney general to bring an action to enforce compliance. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 515 |
SB515 - Authorizing nonpublic schools to permit nonaccredited private elementary or secondary school students to participate in certain activities for such nonpublic schools. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Ways |
| HB 2299 |
HB2299 - Senate Substitute for Substitute for HB2299 by Committee on Education - Providing that certain statutory references to accredited nonpublic schools mean nonpublic schools accredited by the state board of education, requiring that schools accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency shall have the same rights as schools accredited by the state board, requiring school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during the school day and prohibiting employees of a school district from using social media to communicate with students for official school purposes. 2025-2026 | House
|
enrolled | Committee on Education |
| SB 419 |
SB419 - Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 231 |
SB231 - House Substitute for SB231 by Committee on Elections - Changing the timing of city, school, community college and certain other municipality elections to fall in even-numbered years and requiring the term of office of municipal elected officials to be either two years or four years. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Elections |
| SB 387 |
SB387 - Requiring school districts to verify the household gross earned income of each student who qualifies for free meals under the national school lunch program and requiring legislative authorization to receive special assistance payments under federal law. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Government Efficiency |
| SB 438 |
SB438 - Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility program, providing a financial hardship exception from such participation and requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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in_committee | Committee on Education |
| SB 534 |
SB534 - Imposing a nameplate capacity tax and a production tax upon certain wind farms and solar facilities, crediting the nameplate capacity tax and the production tax revenue to the property tax relief fund, creating the property tax relief fund, transferring moneys from the property tax relief fund to the state school district finance fund and decreasing the statewide property tax levy for schools. 2025-2026 | Senate
|
in_committee | Committee on Assessment |
| HB 2794 |
HB2794 - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Taxation |
| HB 2795 |
HB2795 - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district. 2025-2026 | House
|
in_committee | Committee on Taxation |