SB 340 Kansas Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Prohibiting promise scholarship awards from being used to fund corequisite courses.

SB 340 amends Kansas's Promise Scholarship program to clarify that scholarship funds cannot cover remedial courses unless those courses are offered in a corequisite format (where students take remedial content alongside their main course). This directly affects Kansas Promise Scholarship recipients and eligible public/private colleges, as it restricts scholarship use for traditional remedial classes but allows corequisite remedial courses. The bill updates eligibility rules in K.S.A. 74-32,274 to specify that only corequisite remedial courses qualify for funding, while other remedial courses remain ineligible. This change aims to streamline scholarship usage for academic support without altering the program's income limits or funding caps.
Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Mar 2026
Senate Passage
Mar 2026
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 15, 2026 Last action Apr 10, 2026
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What changed between versions

{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} As Amended by House Committee on Education · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill text was reorganized to reflect amendments by the House Committee on Education, which restored the original line numbering and removed the Senate Committee of the Whole header. The substantive policy content regarding income limits, scholarship caps, and usage restrictions remains identical to the previous version, with only minor formatting adjustments to the effective date clause.
TECHNICAL

The header was changed from 'As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole' to 'As Amended by House Committee' to reflect the current legislative stage.

Line numbering was reset to a continuous sequence (1 through 38) instead of the fragmented numbering found in the previous version.

The effective date clause was updated to explicitly mention the 'Kansas register'.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Mar 17, 2026
Lower · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Education
lower
Mar 13, 2026
Committee
Referred to House Committee on Education
lower
Mar 13, 2026
Introduced
Received and Introduced
lower
Mar 12, 2026
Upper · Passed
Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
upper
Mar 11, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
upper
Mar 11, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Adam Thomas was adopted
upper
Mar 11, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Adam Thomas
upper
Mar 2, 2026
Committee
Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole
upper
Feb 27, 2026
Committee
Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
upper
Feb 12, 2026
Upper · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Education
upper
Jan 16, 2026
Committee
Referred to Senate Committee on Education
upper
Jan 15, 2026
Introduced
Introduced
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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