republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2023-2024/sb-438.md

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Bill	Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.	Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2023-2024	SB 438	Kansas SB 438 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted		4	28	0	2024-02-01	2024-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/18089990-1110-4653-a2d8-1c6bdd386cf7	http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/sb438/	3c9262cddec58584a67ea2730e2184358f8ec2d22a63d03e430c720b9157c216	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 438 (2023-2024) — Establishing the Kansas blueprint for literacy and a literacy advisory committee, directing the board of regents to appoint a director of literacy education, requiring the board of regents and board of education to collaborate on a literacy micro-credential, providing university presidents and deans of education oversight over postsecondary literacy courses, requiring a plan to establish centers of excellence in reading, requiring the board of education to submit annual reports to the legislature on literacy goals; establishing the Kansas education opportunity scholarship to replace the Kansas ethnic minority scholarship, removing limits on Kansas nursing service scholarship awards and modifying the interest rate terms and repayment obligations for such awards, eliminating the requirement to subtract other aid from the state payment for the AO-K program, modifying financial limitations on Kansas hero's scholarship awards and broadening eligibility requirements for such awards.

Version chain

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

1. As introduced (filed) — source
2. As Amended by Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Committee on Education — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-01 Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 Hearing: Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
• 2024-02-20 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2024-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2024-02-22 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 passage
• 2024-02-28 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Committee on K-12 Education Budget referral-committee
• 2024-03-11 Withdrawn from Committee on K-12 Education Budget; Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 Hearing: Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 218-N
• 2024-03-25 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Education committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2024-03-27 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Thomas amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-27 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Thomas was adopted amendment-passage
• 2024-03-27 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2024-03-27 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 passage
• 2024-03-27 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2024-04-01 Motion to accede adopted; Representative Thomas, Representative Estes and Representative Stogsdill appointed as conferees
• 2024-04-04 Conference committee report now available
• 2024-04-04 Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Thomas, Representative Estes and Representative Stogsdill appointed as second conferees
• 2024-04-04 Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Baumgardner, Senator Erickson and Senator Sykes appointed as second conferees
• 2024-04-04 Conference committee report now available
• 2024-04-04 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 98 Nay: 22 passage
• 2024-04-05 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 34 Nay: 3 passage
• 2024-04-25 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-25 Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/18089990-1110-4653-a2d8-1c6bdd386cf7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).