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IntroducedFeb 11, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 18, 2026
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Passed SenateMar 19, 2026
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Became LawApr 09, 2026
Kansas House Bill
Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds.
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House • Apr 09, 2026: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
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Summary
Comments on HB 2374
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Appropriationssponsor
- Representative Francis on behalf of the University of KansasRequester
Votes
YES: 119
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Boatman
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Wanda Brownlee Paige
- Brunk
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Caiharr
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helwig
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Roeser
- Roth
- L. Ruiz
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Apr 09, 2026 | House
- Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
- Mar 26, 2026 | House
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026
- Mar 19, 2026 | Senate
- Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 18, 2026 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Mar 16, 2026 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Education
- Mar 13, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing: Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
- Feb 25, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Education
- Feb 24, 2026 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 19, 2026 | House
- Engrossed on Wednesday, February 18, 2026
- Feb 18, 2026 | House
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 119 Nay: 5
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 13, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Higher Education Budget
- Feb 09, 2026 | House
- Hearing: Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 281-N
- Feb 27, 2025 | House
- Withdrawn from Committee on Appropriations; Referred to Committee on Higher Education Budget
- Feb 11, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Testimony by Tamera Lawrence, Assistant Revisor, Office of the Revisor of Statutes (Revisor Memo)
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Testimony by Rachelle Columbo, Executive Director, Kansas Medical Society (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Testimony by Kelly Whitten, Associate Vice Chairman for State Relations, University of Kansas (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Testimony by Beth Oller, Kansas Academy of Family Physicans (Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Education, Fri, Mar 13, 2026: Testimony by Dena Hubbard, MD, FAAP, Chair Public Policy Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics (Proponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Rachelle Colombo, Executive Director, Kansas Medical Society (HB2374 Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Kelly Whitten, Associate Vice Chancellor, Kansas University (HB2374 Proponent)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Beth Oller, MD, Kansas Academy of Family Physicians (HB2374 Proponent written-only)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Dena Hubbard, MD, Kansas Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (HB2374 Proponent written-only)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Jill Wolters, First Assistant Revisor, Office of Revisor of Statutes (HB2374 Bill Brief)
- Senate Committee on Education, Mon, Feb 9, 2026: Testimony by Kyle B. Vincent, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita (HB2374 Proponent written-only)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Education
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Higher Education Budget
