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IntroducedJan 28, 2026
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Passed SenateFeb 18, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 18, 2026
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Became Law
Kansas Senate Bill
Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.
Last Action See all actions
House • Mar 18, 2026: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on SB 408
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Judiciarysponsor

Votes
YES: 124
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- 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
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- 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
- Samantha Poetter Parshall
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L. Ruiz
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Storm
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Mar 18, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
- Mar 17, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Mar 02, 2026 | House
- Hearing: Monday, March 2, 2026, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- Feb 18, 2026 | House
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 18, 2026 | Senate
- Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Feb 17, 2026 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Feb 12, 2026 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 11, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- Jan 29, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Jan 28, 2026 | Senate
- Introduced
Documents
- As introduced - Supplementary Note
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Tanya Keys, Deputy Secretary, Dept Children Families (SB408 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Kristalle Hedrick, CEO, Children's Alliance of Kansas (SB408 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Diane Redleaf, Let Grow (SB408 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Lenore Skenazy, President, Let Grow (SB408 Pro)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Peter Gray, Professor, Boston College (SB408 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Michael Ramey< President, Parental Rights Foundation (SB408 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Johnathan Haidt, Professor, Author, New York University (SB408 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Kerrie Lonard, Office of he Child Advocate (SB408 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Chance Berndt, Assistant Public Defender, BIDS Legislative Committee (SB408 Pro WO)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 11, 2026: Testimony by Natalie Scott, Revisors Office, State of Kansas (SB408 Bill Brief)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary
