---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2021, FY 2022 and FY 2023; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing limited remote learning; providing the criteria for identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services; requiring boards of education to allocate sufficient school district moneys to improve student academic performance; authorizing school districts to pay tuition and fees for concurrent and dual enrollment programs; expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program; extending the high-density at-risk weighting; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to certain nonpublic school students."
description: "Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2021, FY 2022 and FY 2023; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing limited remote learning; providing the criteria for identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services; requiring boards of education to allocate sufficient school district moneys to improve student academic performance; authorizing school districts to pay tuition and fees for concurrent and dual enrollment programs; expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program; extending the high-density at-risk weighting; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to certain nonpublic school students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 2134"
citation: "Kansas HB 2134 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-26"
last_action: "2021-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01521510-1a57-4e82-a48a-911e74b8f8a9"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2134"
source_hash: "ba3933e7cf186d8f27341add13e6c79527f88a4093ee2031944be80ea3a6ce87"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
---

# Kansas HB 2134 (2021-2022) — Making appropriations for the Kansas state department of education for FY 2021, FY 2022 and FY 2023; requiring a Kansas foster care children annual academic report card; authorizing limited remote learning; providing the criteria for identification of students eligible to receive at-risk programs and services; requiring boards of education to allocate sufficient school district moneys to improve student academic performance; authorizing school districts to pay tuition and fees for concurrent and dual enrollment programs; expanding student eligibility under the tax credit for low income students scholarship program; extending the high-density at-risk weighting; providing ACT college entrance exams and workkeys assessments to certain nonpublic school students.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2134_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2134_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2134_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **107–9** (pass) · lower
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **123–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **35–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance and Pensions — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-26** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-26** Hearing: Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 3:30 PM Room 218-N
- **2021-01-27** Referred to Committee on Insurance and Pensions `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-04** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Insurance and Pensions `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-11** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-02-11** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-02-11** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 123 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-02-11** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Hearing: Tuesday, March 23, 2021, 9:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2021-03-23** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-29** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-03-29** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2021-03-29** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2021-03-30** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 2 `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2021-04-06** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Longbine, Senator Peck and Senator Holscher appointed as conferees
- **2021-05-05** Senator Baumgardner, Senator Erickson, and Senator Sykes are appointed to replace Senator Longbine, Senator Peck, and Senator Holscher on the Conference Committee
- **2021-05-06** Representative Williams, Representative Hoffman, and Representative Winn are appointed to replace Representative S. Johnson, Representative Croft, and Representative Neighbor on the Conference Committee
- **2021-05-07** Conference committee report now available
- **2021-05-07** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-07** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 35 Nay: 4 `passage`
- **2021-05-07** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-07** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 107 Nay: 9 `passage`
- **2021-05-26** Engrossed on Monday, May 10, 2021
- **2021-05-26** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 14, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-26** Approved by Governor on Monday, May 24, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01521510-1a57-4e82-a48a-911e74b8f8a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).