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IntroducedFeb 01, 2024
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Passed SenateFeb 22, 2024
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Passed HouseMar 27, 2024
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Signed into LawApr 25, 2024
Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.
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Senate • Apr 25, 2024: Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Official Summary/Bill Text
Comments on SB 438
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Education
Votes
YES: 122
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blew
- Blex
- Bloom
- Borjon
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Clifford
- Collins
- Concannon
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Dodson
- Droge
- Ellis
- Eplee
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Garber
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Haswood
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Highberger
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Hougland
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Humphries
- Jacobs
- Johnson
- Kessler
- Landwehr
- Lewis
- Martinez
- Mason
- Maughan
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- D.
- S.
- V.
- Minnix
- Moser
- Murphy
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Owens
- Penn
- Pickert
- Poskin
- Probst
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Robinson
- Roth
- L.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Seiwert
- A.
- C.
- E.
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Tarwater
- Thomas
- Thompson
- Titus
- Turk
- Turner
- Underhill
- Waggoner
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- K.
- Winn
- Woodard
- Xu
- Younger
NO: 0
YES: 98
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Ballard
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blew
- Blex
- Borjon
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- B.
- W.
- Clifford
- Collins
- Concannon
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Dodson
- Droge
- Ellis
- Eplee
- Essex
- Estes
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Haswood
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Humphries
- Johnson
- Kessler
- Landwehr
- Lewis
- Mason
- McDonald
- Melton
- Meyer
- D.
- S.
- V.
- Minnix
- Moser
- Murphy
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Osman
- Ousley
- Owens
- Penn
- Pickert
- Poskin
- Probst
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Resman
- Robinson
- Roth
- Sanders
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Seiwert
- A.
- C.
- E.
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Tarwater
- Thomas
- Thompson
- Titus
- Turk
- Turner
- Underhill
- Waggoner
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- K.
- L.
- Winn
- Younger
NO: 22
Actions
- Apr 25, 2024 | Senate
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024
- Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Apr 05, 2024 | Senate
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 34 Nay: 3
- Apr 04, 2024 | House
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 98 Nay: 22
- Apr 04, 2024 | Senate
- Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Baumgardner, Senator Erickson and Senator Sykes appointed as second conferees
- Apr 04, 2024 | House
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Thomas, Representative Estes and Representative Stogsdill appointed as second conferees
- Apr 01, 2024 | House
- Motion to accede adopted; Representative Thomas, Representative Estes and Representative Stogsdill appointed as conferees
- Mar 27, 2024 | Senate
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Senator Baumgardner , Senator Erickson and Senator Sykes as conferees
- Mar 27, 2024 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Thomas
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Thomas was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0
- Mar 25, 2024 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Education
- Mar 20, 2024 | House
- Hearing: Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 218-N
- Mar 11, 2024 | House
- Withdrawn from Committee on K-12 Education Budget; Referred to Committee on Education
- Feb 28, 2024 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on K-12 Education Budget
- Feb 22, 2024 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Feb 20, 2024 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education
- Feb 14, 2024 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
- Feb 02, 2024 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Education
- Feb 01, 2024 | Senate
- Introduced
Documents
- Thu, Apr 4, 2024 - Supplementary Note
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Feb 14, 2024: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Feb 14, 2024: Testimony by Chris Stanyer, Chief Mission Officer, Goodwill Industries of Kansas
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Feb 14, 2024: Testimony by Dr. Blake Flanders, PhD, President and CEO, Kansas Board of Regents
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Feb 14, 2024: Testimony by Adam Proffitt, Director, Kansas Division of the Budget
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Feb 14, 2024: Testimony by Tamera Lawrence, Assistant Revisor, The Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Thu, Mar 21, 2024: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Thu, Mar 21, 2024: Testimony by Jason Long,
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Mar 20, 2024: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Mar 20, 2024: Testimony by Chris Stanyer, Goodwill Industries
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Mar 20, 2024: Testimony by Kelly Oliver, Kansas Board of Regents
- Senate Committee on Education, Wed, Mar 20, 2024: Testimony by Jason Long,
- Conference Committee Report
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Education
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education