| KS | HB2536 | Pass | Establishing the SOUL family legal permanency option for children 16 years of age or older.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | HB2628 | Pass | Requiring the secretary for children and families to release certain information related to a child fatality when criminal charges are filed alleging that a person caused such fatality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 |
| KS | HB2629 | Pass | Requiring the secretary for health and environment to provide a death certificate of a child to the state child death review board, increasing the number of board members, allowing for compensation and providing for the disclosure of certain records ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | HB2189 | Intro
25% | Substitute for HB 2189 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Granting jurisdiction to the court to extend custody of non-minor dependents and allow the secretary for children and families to provide reentry services to an eligible young adu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
House Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care |
| KS | HB2785 | Intro
25% | Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
House Hearing continuation: Monday, March 11, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 346-S |
| KS | HB2581 | Intro
25% | Eliminating the court's requirement to order child support be paid to the secretary when custody of a child is awarded to the secretary.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2664 | Intro
25% | Providing appropriations for and establishing a grant program for home-based child care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee |
| KS | HB2772 | Intro
25% | Establishing the Kansas Indian child welfare act and providing additional requirements for child custody proceedings involving an Indian child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2771 | Intro
25% | Creating the healthy food site grant program to award grants for food retail or food system enterprises within one mile of a school in a designated food desert in an urban area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| KS | HB2769 | Intro
25% | Requiring public schools and school districts to participate in federal meal programs and providing for reimbursement for free meals at all public schools and school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| KS | HB2770 | Intro
25% | Creating the Kansas food and financial literacy grant program for local food security service providers to develop food and financial literacy materials and training for food assistance applicants and recipients.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee |
| KS | HB2554 | Intro
25% | Directing the secretary for children and families to identify relatives and persons with whom a child in custody of the secretary has close emotional ties for placement and send notice of custody to the persons when identified.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2552 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the secretary for children and families from using federal benefits of a child in need of care for the care and custody of the child and requiring the secretary to create and maintain an account of such benefits received for such child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2553 | Intro
25% | Establishing procedures for law enforcement agencies and the secretary for children and families to follow and use when a child in custody of the secretary is reported missing and requiring the secretary to obtain a nondrivers' identification card fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2742 | Intro
25% | Requiring the secretary for children and families to reimburse hospitals when a child in custody of the secretary remains at such hospital and is no longer receiving medical services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2721 | Intro
25% | Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2580 | Intro
25% | Including mental, emotional and behavioral health treatment to medical services that may be provided to a child alleged or adjudicated to be a child in need of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2555 | Intro
25% | Authorizing schools to maintain emergency albuterol kits and administer such medication in emergency situations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Health and Human Services Committee |
| KS | HB2240 | Pass | Requiring the clerk of the district court to give notice of qualified residential treatment program placement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 10, 2023 |
| KS | HB2194 | Engross
50% | Enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-04
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | HB2361 | Intro
25% | Limiting when the court is required to give preference to a relative for the custody for adoption of a child in need of care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
House Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care |
| KS | HB2299 | Intro
25% | Directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-16
House Committee Report recommending bill be further amended and be passed as amended by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care |
| KS | HB2034 | Engross
50% | Requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-15
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare |
| KS | HB2153 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the attorney general to coordinate training regarding a multidisciplinary team approach to intervention in reports involving alleged human trafficking for law enforcement agencies and requiring training on human trafficking awareness and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2371 | Intro
25% | Limiting the number of children in out-of-home placement cases assigned to case managers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2407 | Intro
25% | Creating conditions for the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations and eliminating the parental consent requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
| KS | HB2377 | Intro
25% | Directing the office of vital statistics to provide birth or death certificates to the Kansas department for children and families and exempt the department from fees for such certificates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-15
To House Child Welfare and Foster Care Committee |
