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IntroducedJan 21, 2025
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Passed SenateFeb 19, 2025
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Passed House
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Became Law
Kansas Senate Bill
Requiring school districts to publicly list the names and email addresses of current school board members, authorizing local school board members to add new items to board meeting discussions, ask questions or engage in discussion with members of the public and access school property, authorizing members of the public to address school boards at board meetings and authorizing payment of annual dues to any not-for-profit organization that provides services to member school districts.
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 10, 2026: Died in House Committee
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 47
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Kansas Policy InstituteRequested For
- Senate Committee on Educationsponsor
Votes
Actions
- Apr 10, 2026 | House
- Died in House Committee
- Mar 21, 2025 | House
- Withdrawn from Calendar, Rereferred to House Committee on Education
- Mar 14, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Education
- Mar 11, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 218-N event
- Feb 25, 2025 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to House Committee on Education
- Feb 19, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Doug Shane
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Doug Shane was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Pat Pettey was withdrawn
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Pat Pettey was rejected
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 21, Nay 19
- Feb 18, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Education
- Feb 11, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 144-S event
- Jan 22, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Senate Committee on Education
- Jan 21, 2025 | Senate
- Introduced
Bill Texts
- As IntroducedPDF
- As IntroducedHTML
- As Amended by Senate CommitteePDF
- As Amended by Senate CommitteeHTML
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}PDF
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}HTML
- As Amended by House CommitteePDF
- As Amended by House CommitteeHTML
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Doug Shane (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)PDF
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Doug Shane (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)HTML
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)PDF
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)HTML
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)PDF
- Senate Amendment - Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey (Wed, Feb 19, 2025)HTML
Documents
- As Introduced - Fiscal NotePDF
- As Introduced - Fiscal NoteHTML
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary NotePDF
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary NoteHTML
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary NotePDF
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary NoteHTML
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary NotePDF
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary NoteHTML
- Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Education (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)PDF
- Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Education (Tue, Feb 18, 2025)HTML
- House Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Education (Fri, Mar 14, 2025)PDF
- House Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Education (Fri, Mar 14, 2025)HTML
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 13, 2025: Minutes
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 13, 2025: Testimony by Jason Long, Senior Assistant Revisor,, Office of the Revisor of Statutues
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 13, 2025: Testimony by Jason Long, Senior Assistant Revisor,, Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 13, 2025: Testimony by Jason Long, Senior Assistant Revisor, Office of the Revisor of Statutes
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Minutes
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Fliter, Leah, Assistant Executive Director of Advocacy,, Kansas Association of School Boards
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Frederick, Tracy, Director of Engagement-Strategy,, Kansas School Board Resource Center (KSBRC)
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Karleskint, Jim,, United School Adminstrators (USA) Kansas
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Cawvey Amy, Public
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Shane, Doug, Senator,, State of Kansas Senate Chamber
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Trabert, Dave, Chief Executive Officer,, Kansas Policy
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Workman, Kirsten, Public
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Jason Long, Senior Revisor, Office of Revisor of Statutes
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Kimball, Shannon, Government Relations Specialist,, Kansas Association of School Boards
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Attachment 18, Neutral Written A-Z
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Attachment 17, Proponents Written A-Z
- House · Committee on Education, Mar 11, 2025: Testimony by Attachment 21, Opponents Written A-Z
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Minutes
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Tracy Frederick, PhD, Director of Engagement and Strategy, Kansas School Board Resource Center
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Mike O'Neal, Kansas Policy Institute
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Judith Deedy on behalf, Game On for Kansas Schools
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Leah Fliter, Assistant Executive Director of Advocacy, Kansas Association of School Boards
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Jim Karleskint, United School Administrators
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Ben Jones, Representative, Kansans for excellence in Education
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Denise Shultz, President, Kansas PTA
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Dr. Brent Yeager, Superintendent, Olathe Public Schools USD 233
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Dr. Tonya Merrigan, Superintendent, Blue Valley Schools USD229
- Senate · Committee on Education, Feb 11, 2025: Testimony by Tamera Lawrence, Assistant Revisor, Office of the Revisor of Statutes
