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House Committee on Education

  • Committee Assistant: Diane Bernheimer 785-296-3113
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    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 218-N

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

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    HB2040 - Revising the Kansas school equity and enhancement act to provide per-student education funding based on student enrollment in the current school year.
    HB2080 - Authorizing students enrolled in a virtual school to take virtual state assessments.
    HB2081 - Creating the aspiring future teacher of the year scholarship program; such scholarships based on the recipients of the Kansas teacher of the year award backgrounds and attributes; making and concerning appropriations for the program for fiscal years ending June 30, 2024, June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026, June 30, 2027, and June 30, 2028, for the department of education for such scholarships.
    HB2138 - Creating the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act to provide additional state aid to certain school districts for students who obtain career technical education credentials.
    HB2139 - Creating the crime of abuse of a sports official and providing criminal penalties therefor.
    HB2142 - Creating the get the lead out of school drinking water act to require schools to comply with legal limits on lead content in school drinking water.
    HB2143 - Establishing requirements for school district bullying policies and procedures for investigating complaints.
    HB2163 - Requiring statutory due process procedures for a school district's non-renewal or termination of a teacher contract.
    HB2223 - Removing the sunset for the high-density at-risk student weighting under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.
    HB2224 - Increasing the number of school days and hours that must be provided by school districts for each school year.
    HB2236 - Establishing parents' right to direct the education, upbringing and moral or religious training of their children including the right to object to harmful and inappropriate educational materials.
    HB2238 - Creating the fairness in women's sports act to require that female student athletic teams only include members who are biologically female.
    HB2248 - Requiring school districts to adopt policies to ensure parents may review educational materials and records pertinent to their child.
    HB2278 - Requiring audits of safe and secure schools plans for all school districts including staggered on-site inspections.
    HB2322 - Revising the definition of "children with disabilities" for purposes of providing special education to replace emotional disturbance with emotional disability.
    HB2494 - Substitute for HB 2494 by Committee on Education - Establishing policy requirements for cardiac emergency response plans for school districts and providing a grant program for the implementation of such policy.
    HB2509 - Providing reimbursement payments for the cost of career technical education assessments to school districts under the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act.
    HB2539 - Removing the Kansas residency requirement for eligibility for a Kansas promise scholarship and modifying the definition of part-time student under such program.
    HB2574 - Establishing term limits for members of the board of education for unified school district No. 207, Fort Leavenworth.
    HB2641 - Requiring school districts to prohibit the use of privately owned electronic communication devices during school hours.
    HB2644 - Establishing uniform interest rate provisions for service scholarships administered by the Kansas board of regents that have repayment obligations as a part of the terms and conditions of such scholarship and authorizing the Kansas board of regents to recover the costs of collecting such repayment obligations and charge fees to cover the costs of administering such scholarship programs.
    HB2645 - Amending the nursing service scholarship program to remove limits on the amount of awards and number of scholarships, remove the sponsorship requirement, modify the interest rate terms for repayment obligations and abolish the nursing service scholarship review committee.
    HB2646 - Modifying the financial limitations on awards under the Kansas hero's scholarship act and broadening the eligibility requirements for such awards.
    HB2700 - Establishing the school library rating system task force to develop a rating system for materials available to students in public school libraries and requiring school districts to implement such rating system.
    HB2701 - Expanding the income tax credit for school and classroom supplies to increase the tax credit to $500 with an annual adjustment for the cost of inflation and to allow additional school employees to claim the credit.
    HB2702 - Specifying the eligibility requirements to participate in activities governed by the Kansas state high school activities association for students enrolled in a nonpublic school.
    HB2703 - Including placement in foster care as a criteria for a student to be eligible for at-risk programs and services.
    HB2719 - Extending the time that school districts may provide notice to parents of the administration of any nonacademic test, questionnaire, survey or examination and requiring school districts to contact parents if any such test, questionnaire, survey or examination indicates concerns.
    HB2730 - Expanding the tax credit for low income students scholarship program act to allow students enrolled in underperforming school districts to be eligible for a scholarship.
    HB2731 - Requiring the state board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on certain statistics of students who take the statewide assessments.
    HB2732 - Authorizing school districts to employ or accept chaplains as volunteers.
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