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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.
    SB215 - Transferring the authority for postsecondary driver's education programs and driver training schools from the state board of regents to the department of revenue.
    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.
    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.
    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 - Creating the fairness in women's sports act to require that female student athletic teams only include members who are biologically female.
    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 allowing schools to maintain emergency albuterol kits.
    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 from the state board of regents to the department of revenue.
    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.
    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.
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