Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2102

Introduced
1/28/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Report Pass
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/14/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/24/25  

Caption

Substitute for HB 2102 by Committee on Education - Providing for the advance enrollment of a military student whose parent or person acting as parent will be stationed in this state and correcting federal statutory citations in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children.

Summary

HB 2102 makes two related changes to Kansas law affecting military-connected students. First, it requires school districts to allow advance enrollment of a military student in kindergarten through grade 12 before the student physically moves into Kansas, so long as the parent or person acting as parent provides evidence that they will be stationed at a military installation in the state during the current or next school year. The bill also extends this advance-enrollment concept to pre-kindergarten programs, if a district offers one and the child is eligible, and it directs districts to take appropriate steps to ensure students with an IEP or Section 504 plan receive needed services when they begin attending. Second, the bill updates the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children by correcting federal statutory citations in the compact language codified in Kansas law. The compact remains the framework for easing school transitions for military children, including enrollment, records transfer, placement, attendance, graduation, and extracurricular participation. The bill repeals and reenacts the existing compact section to incorporate the citation corrections and the new advance-enrollment provisions.

Impact

The bill amends K.S.A. 72-8268 and repeals the existing section, thereby revising Kansas’s codification of the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. In practical terms, it imposes a new statewide enrollment obligation on school districts for qualifying military students and clarifies that proof of address is not required at the time of enrollment, though residency may still matter for attendance if a district lacks open seats. It also affects districts that offer pre-K by requiring enrollment or wait-list placement for eligible military children and reinforces obligations to coordinate special education and disability accommodations upon student transfer.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have been broadly supported and noncontroversial. It passed the House 121-0 and the Senate 40-0, indicating unanimous approval in both chambers. The available record does not show committee debate or opposition, and the measure’s focus on assisting military families and correcting statutory citations likely contributed to the strong bipartisan consensus.

Contention

No significant opposition is reflected in the voting record or available discussion materials. The main policy choices embedded in the bill are the advance-enrollment requirement, the treatment of pre-kindergarten access, and the instruction that districts provide appropriate services for students with IEPs or 504 plans. Any potential tension would likely center on administrative burdens for school districts, open-seat limitations, or how residency and attendance rules are applied, but no specific objections are documented in the provided materials.

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

KS SB7

Authorizing federally licensed firearm dealers, in addition to county sheriffs, to receive applications for concealed carry licenses and forward such applications to the attorney general, prohibiting sheriffs from assessing any fee related to application services and allowing dealers to assess a fee related to application services not to exceed $20.

KS SB2

Eliminating the income limit to qualify for the subtraction modification exempting social security benefits, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, citing the increased property tax homestead refund claim section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, decreasing the normal privilege tax rate, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, decreasing the rate of ad valorem tax imposed by a school district; providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund, reducing the state rate of tax on sales of food and food ingredients and modifying the percent credited to the state highway fund from revenue collected.

KS HB2003

Establishing the veterans' valor property tax relief act providing for an income tax credit or refund for eligible individuals, modifying the definition of household income and increasing the appraised value threshold for eligibility of seniors and disabled veterans related to increased property tax claims and citing the section as the homeowners' property tax freeze program, providing property tax exemptions for certain personal property including watercraft, marine equipment, off-road vehicles, motorized bicycles and certain trailers, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value, providing for certain exclusions from the prohibition of paying taxes under protest after a valuation notice appeal and providing four prior years' values on the annual valuation notice.

KS SB1

Modifying income tax rates for individuals, exempting all social security benefits from Kansas income tax, increasing the Kansas standard deduction and the Kansas personal exemption, increasing the income tax credit amount for household and dependent care expenses, decreasing the privilege tax normal tax, excluding internal revenue code section 1031 exchange transactions as indicators of fair market value for property tax valuation purposes, increasing the extent of property tax exemption for residential property from the statewide school levy, providing for certain transfers to the state school district finance fund and abolishing the local ad valorem tax reduction fund and the county and city revenue sharing fund.

KS SB6

Providing a sales tax exemption for sales of electricity to residential premises by municipally owned or operated utilities.

KS SB4

Requiring all advance voting ballots be returned by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

KS HR6002

Providing for assignment of seats in the House of Representatives for the 2024 special session of the Legislature.

KS HB2001

Authorizing the secretary of commerce to enter into agreements with major professional sports franchises to establish STAR bond projects for a major professional sports complex, providing for additional revenue sources, expanding the powers and discretion of the secretary and making other changes to the STAR bonds financing act to facilitate such projects, limiting the secretary’s authority to approve such projects to one year unless extended by the legislative coordinating council, authorizing the Kansas development finance authority to issue STAR bonds for such projects, transferring funds under certain circumstances from the state gaming revenues fund to the attracting professional sports to Kansas fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025, and, if approved by the legislative coordinating council, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

KS HB2002

Expanding medical assistance eligibility and enacting the cutting healthcare costs for all Kansans act.

KS SB8

Exempting the sale of firearms, firearms accessories, ammunition, firearm safes and firearm safety devices from the retatilers' sales tax.

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