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Senate Committee on Education

  • Committee Assistant: Cyndie Rexer 785-296-7368
  • Cyndie.Rexer@Senate.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 144-S

    Room 144-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB44 - Expanding the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program to include military servicemembers and veterans and allowing contributions by charitable organizations.
    SB139 - Permitting the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations regarding student beliefs and practices on an opt-out basis and providing conditions therefor.
    SB144 - Making the high-density at-risk student weighting of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act permanent by removing the sunset.
    SB221 - Establishing the follow the student tax credit that would allow an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children not enrolled in public school.
    SB363 - Requiring school districts to annually publish on the internet a list of training materials and activities used for student instruction and teacher professional development at each school of the school district.
    SB372 - Prohibiting the state school for the deaf from dismissing or transferring any student who gains access to hearing.
    SB380 - Revising certain definitions relating to exceptional children by replacing emotional disturbance with emotional disability.
    SB393 - Requiring school districts to annually publish on the internet a list of learning materials and activities used for student instruction at each school of the school district and providing a penalty for violations thereof.
    SB452 - Including those who receive a high school equivalency (HSE) credentials for performance-based payments for certain postsecondary educational institutions.
    SB475 - Establishing the Kansas hope scholarship program to provide educational savings accounts for students.
    SB499 - Requiring a second student count for virtual school enrollment, increasing certain virtual school state aid amounts and providing for additional state aid for certain students who transfer to virtual schools.
    SB515 - Requiring nondiscrimination in school district classroom instruction, public access to learning materials and removal of inherently divisive concepts from state board of education policies, guidelines and other materials.
    SB525 - Requiring at least 65% of moneys provided by the state to be expended in the classroom or for instruction.
    SB528 - Requiring school districts to provide a reimbursement to teachers for classroom supplies.
    SB545 - Requiring nonpublic schools to participate in certain assessments and publish on their website performance accountability reports and longitudinal achievement reports.
    HB2119 - Substitute for HB 2119 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget – Making and concerning appropriations for the department of education for fiscal years ending June 30, 2021, June 30, 2022, and June 30, 2023, creating and expanding school choice programs, restricting remote learning and remote enrollment and extending the statewide property tax levy for schools.
    HB2512 - Substitute for Substitute for HB 2512 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2022, FY 2023 and FY 2024, establishing requirements relating to academic achievement and third-grade literacy, authorizing credits to be earned through alternative educational opportunities, requiring KSHSAA members and employees to report child abuse and neglect, requiring boards of education of school districts to consider district needs assessments and academic assessments when approving district budgets, authorizing part-time enrollment for certain students, establishing an alternative graduation rate calculation for virtual schools, providing virtual school state aid for credit deficient students and amending the age of initial eligibility for the tax credit for low income students scholarship program.
    HB2596 - Authorizing the board of education of a school district to contract with transportation network companies to provide certain transportation services.
    HB2615 - Substitute for HB 2615 by Committee on K-12 Education Budget - Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
    HB2631 - Enacting the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act to provide additional state aid for school districts based on students obtaining a credential.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB31 - Excluding U.S.D. No. 207, Fort Leavenworth and virtual school students from the capital improvements state aid determination.
    SB32 - Authorizing school districts to pay the tuition for a student's dual or concurrent enrollment in a postsecondary educational institution and requiring a tuition waiver for foster children who are dually or concurrently enrolled.
    SB43 - Substitute for SB 43 by Committee on Education - Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide postsecondary educational scholarships for certain two-year associate degree programs, career and technical education certificates and other stand-alone programs.
    SB44 - Expanding the low-income family postsecondary savings accounts incentive program to include military servicemembers and veterans and allowing contributions by charitable organizations.
    SB51 - Requiring the state department of education and the department for children and families to publish a Kansas foster care children academic report card.
    SB55 - Clarifying the authority of healing arts school clinics to provide healing arts services.
    SB61 - Amending the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to expand student eligibility.
    SB62 - Amending the standards for school-administered vision screenings for students, establishing the Kansas children's vision health and school readiness commission and relating to the powers and duties of the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing with regard to registration of interpreters, communication access services guidelines and adoption of rules and regulations.
    SB63 - Expanding the provision of the ACT college entrance exam and workkeys assessments to students enrolled in nonpublic schools.
    SB64 - Amending the private and out-of-state postsecondary educational institution act to clarify the state board of regents' authority and provide additional student protections and institutional accountability.
    SB93 - Requiring the allocation of sufficient school district moneys to improve academic performance of underachieving students.
    SB144 - Making the high-density at-risk student weighting of the Kansas school equity and enhancement act permanent by removing the sunset.
    SB173 - Extending the high-density at-risk student weighting, requiring certain transfers to the at-risk fund of a school district and establishing requirements for school district at-risk fund expenditures and for identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services.
    SB185 - Clarifying the authority of the Kansas commission for the deaf and hard of hearing with regard to registration of interpreters, establishing guidelines for communication access services and authorizing the adoption of rules and regulations.
    SB215 - Transferring the authority for postsecondary driver's education programs and driver training schools to the department of revenue and authorizing the board of education of a school district to contract with transportation network companies to provide certain transportation services.
    SB221 - Establishing the follow the student tax credit that would allow an income tax credit for taxpayers with eligible dependent children not enrolled in public school.
    SB232 - Providing for COVID-19 hazard pay for teachers.
    SB340 - Amending the Kansas promise scholarship act by clarifying the responsibilities of the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions and authorizing designation of additional programs and fields of study.
    SB341 - Removing federal impact aid from the determination of local foundation aid in the Kansas school equity and enhancement act and removing excluding Fort Leavenworth school district and virtual school students from the capital improvement state aid determination.
    SB362 - Requiring local boards of education to document and consider the school needs assessment and state assessments in the budget process.
    SB363 - Requiring school districts to annually publish on the internet a list of training materials and activities used for student instruction and teacher professional development at each school of the school district.
    SB452 - Including those who receive a high school equivalency (HSE) credentials for performance-based payments for certain postsecondary educational institutions.
    SB455 - Allowing K-12 students to transfer to and attend school in any school district in the state.
    SB456 - Regarding the teacher service scholarship program; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2023, June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, for the state board of regents to fund such scholarships.
    SB475 - Establishing the Kansas hope scholarship program to provide educational savings accounts for students.
    SB484 - Enacting the fairness in women's sports act to require that student athletic teams only include members who are of the same biological sex unless designated as coed.
    SB496 - Establishing the parents' bill of rights for parents of students attending elementary or secondary school in this state.
    SB499 - Requiring a second student count for virtual school enrollment, increasing certain virtual school state aid amounts and providing for additional state aid for certain students who transfer to virtual schools.
    HB2287 - Senate Substitute for HB 2287 by Committee on Education - Creating the Kansas promise scholarship act to provide postsecondary educational scholarship for certain two-year associate degree programs, career and technical education certificates and other stand-alone programs.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    SR1727 - Congratulating and commending the members of the 2022 Kansas Teacher of the Year team.
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