Policy-focused browsing for Kansas legislation.
| Bill | Title | Status | Sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB 489 |
SB489 - Providing for a universal homestead exemption from ad valorem property taxation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| SB 49 |
SB49 - Requiring that each attendance center needs assessment be conducted by the local board of education and include input from board members, teachers, school site councils and school administrators and that board members receive certain state assessment data and identify allocations of money in the school district budget and budget summary. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 491 |
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. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| 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
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| SB 514 |
SB514 - Authorizing students to participate in school activities immediately upon transfer to another school unless such students were recruited, induced or unduly influenced to transfer for athletic activity participation. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| 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 | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| 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 | Senate Committee on Ways and Means |
| SB 529 |
SB529 - Requiring the state department of education to prepare and publish a Kansas building report card for virtual schools offered by a school district separately from any report card prepared and published for a traditional school operated by such school district. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 532 |
SB532 - Decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| 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
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failed | Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation |
| 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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failed | Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| SB 75 |
SB75 - Establishing the education opportunity tax credit to provide an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children who are not enrolled in public school. 2025-2026 | Senate
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failed | Senate Committee on Education |
| HB 2068 |
HB2068 - Establishing the remote practice of pharmacy, requiring certain conditions for such practice and limiting activities performed under such practice, permitting a pharmacist to initiate therapy for certain conditions consistent with the pharmacist's education, training and experience, adding pharmacists who initiate such therapy to the healthcare stabilization fund and allowing a pharmacist to dispense a one-time emergency refill of a noncontrolled prescription drug for up to a 90-day supply when no refills remain, adopting compounding standards established by the United States pharmacopeia and allowing for exemptions from such standards and removing the authority of the state board of pharmacy to authorize individuals to access the prescription monitoring program database by rules and regulations. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development |
| HB 2164 |
HB2164 - Senate Substitute for HB 2164 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting certain sex offenders from entering onto school property or attending school activities and creating criminal penalties for violation thereof. 2025-2026 | House
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in_committee | House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice |
| HB 2250 |
HB2250 - Permitting the use of expedited partner therapy to treat sexually transmitted infections, authorizing a licensed private psychiatric hospital to maintain a stock supply of emergency medication kits for pharmaceutical emergencies, allowing expired emergency opioid antagonists to be used to treat an opioid overdose, permitting first responders to distribute and administer expired emergency opioid antagonists, permitting a pharmacist to distribute epinephrine delivery systems to a school for use in emergency medication kits and amending definitions related to medication in schools to allow for use of epinephrine delivery systems. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |
| HB 2320 |
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. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on K-12 Education Budget |
| HB 2331 |
HB2331 - Creating the crime of aggravated criminal desecration and providing penalties therefor, authorizing the disposition of the unclaimed remains of deceased persons by district coroners and providing exemptions from liability for such actions, establishing requirements for programs of continuing education for licensed embalmers and funeral directors and authorizing the use of the word "crematory"" as part of the business name for businesses owned by the same person who owns a licensed crematory." 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Federal and State Affairs |
| HB 2333 |
HB2333 - 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 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Insurance |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Appropriations |
| 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, requiring the state department of education to assist school districts seeking such participation, extending the application deadline for authorization to operate as a public innovative district from December 1 to May 1 and deeming such applications approved if not approved or denied within 45 days of submission. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Appropriations |
| 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. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on K-12 Education Budget |
| HB 2485 |
HB2485 - Authorizing the chief executive officer of the board of regents to negotiate and settle repayment obligations arising under financial aid programs administered by the board, providing requirements for agreements between postsecondary educational institutions and school districts for postsecondary courses taught in secondary schools, directing the governor to approve short-term workforce training programs for Pell grant eligibility, modifying requirements under the every child can read act and prohibiting Kansas promise scholarship awards for remedial hours. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Education |
| HB 2487 |
HB2487 - Defining teacher and paraprofessional for purposes of eligibility for a scholarship under the Kansas education opportunity scholarship program. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Education |
| HB 2479 |
HB2479 - Authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification as a condition of release prior to trial for certain offenders charged with a domestic violence offense, domestic battery, stalking or violation of a protective order, modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy and increasing the criminal penalties for certain violations of such crime, modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, describing who is a person in a position of authority for a school for the crime of unlawful sexual relations and increasing the penalties for the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child if the child is less than six years of age. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Judiciary |
| HB 2534 |
HB2534 - Requiring school districts to provide fentanyl abuse education programs and maintain a supply of naloxone in all schools, requiring the department of education to establish guidelines for active shooter drills conducted by public and accredited nonpublic elementary and secondary schools, regulating active shooter simulations in such schools and modifying the requirements for student cohorts and achievement goals in school district at-risk student accountability plans. 2025-2026 | House
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enacted | House Committee on Health and Human Services |