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Family / Children Bills

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Bill Title Status Sponsor
HB 2113 HB2113 - Establishing the state conservation fund and transferring $2,500,000 to such fund and providing for the enhanced transfer of moneys from the state general fund to the state water plan fund and from the state water plan fund to the water technical assistance fund and the water project grant fund.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Water
HB 2132 HB2132 - Substitute for Substitute for HB 2132 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care
HB 2294 HB2294 - Substitute for HB 2294 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.
2025-2026 | House
in_committee House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
SB 110 SB110 - Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 111 SB111 - Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 132 SB132 - Establishing certain license fees and training requirements, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements and authorizing the secretary to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care facility availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 144 SB144 - Invalidating restrictive covenants that limit or prohibit the installation of solar panels and allowing the adoption of reasonable rules by homeowners associations concerning solar panels.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Sen. Cindy Holscher
SB 162 SB162 - Requiring certain school district employees to receive training in seizure recognition and related first aid.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Education
SB 172 SB172 - Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
SB 187 SB187 - Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 207 SB207 - Requiring the Kansas children's cabinet and the department of health and environment to implement a pilot program to offer health services, telehealth consultations and medication reimbursements to child care providers, while prohibiting stricter local regulations, allowing local registration of providers, increasing state funding for the child and adult care food program and providing free training and education materials to providers.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Ways and Means
SB 208 SB208 - Prohibiting the use of any prone restraint on a juvenile who is in custody at a juvenile detention facility or juvenile correctional facility or being assessed as part of the juvenile intake and assessment system.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 229 SB229 - House Substitute for SB 229 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Providing amendments, suspensions or repeals of employment security law provisions should follow specified review procedures by the legislature, authorizing the secretary of labor to recognize and approve employer-sponsored supplemental unemployment benefit plans if such plans meet specific criteria and integrating such plans into the employment security law, updating and reorganizing statutory language, enhancing federal conformity by incorporating references to federal laws and guidelines, updating temporary unemployment provisions and providing for eight weeks of temporary unemployment benefits, eliminating debt relief provisions for negative balance employers and other updates to the employment security law.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Commerce
SB 264 SB264 - Removing noncooperation with child support from disqualifications for child care subsidies.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Ways and Means
SB 268 SB268 - Clarifying modifications for certain business interest expenses and federal net operating loss carrybacks and providing a technical change to a statutory cross reference for recaptured moneys related to adoption savings accounts for purposes of Kansas income tax.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation
SB 281 SB281 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 281 by Committee on Education - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during school hours, prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Ways and Means
SB 302 SB302 - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of personal electronic communication devices during instructional time and prohibiting any employee of a school district from using social media to directly communicate with any student for official school purposes.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Sen. Chase Blasi
SB 395 SB395 - Requiring treasurers of candidates and persons who support or oppose constitutional amendments to report lists of small donors' names and addresses to the public disclosure commission and providing that such lists shall not be a part of any report required to be made public.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 414 SB414 - Authorizing the secretary of corrections to enter into a memorandum of understanding to provide money from the evidence-based programs account to residential facilities with behavioral health crisis intervention services for juveniles.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 447 SB447 - Creating a domestic violence task force to study domestic violence across the state and make policy recommendations.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 451 SB451 - House Substitute for SB451 by House Committee on Elections - Clarifying when contributions may be accepted for the primary and general elections, prohibiting the use of public assets by government officers and employees to advocate for proposed amendments to the constitution of the state of Kansas and ballot questions submitted to voters, requiring campaign finance treasurer reports to include the products and services provided by vendors, requiring reporting of small contributions to the public disclosure commission.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 494 SB494 - Expanding the definition of stalking to include more technology-based methods, requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies for making primary aggressor assessments when responding to domestic violence calls and requiring a prosecutor to affirm such assessment was completed, prohibiting public agencies from charging fees to victims of domestic violence for public records, allowing evidence of other domestic violence offenses to be admissible in a criminal action in which the defendant is accused of a domestic violence offense, adding certain contact to options for protection from abuse or stalking orders and allowing lifetime extensions of protection from abuse orders for victims of domestic battery.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Judiciary
SB 502 SB502 - Authorizing the adoption of administrative rules and regulations concerning sports wagering by the Kansas racing and gaming commission.
2025-2026 | Senate
failed Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
SB 513 SB513 - Directing the Kansas department for children and families to develop, procure and implement software to provide direct child care subsidy payments to child care providers.
2025-2026 | Senate
in_committee Senate Committee on Ways and Means
SB 521 SB521 - Providing for income tax credits for payment of employee's child care related expenses and certain employer contributions to expand community child care availability.
2025-2026 | Senate
in_committee Senate Committee on Assessment and Taxation
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