Kansas HB 2763 — Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.
Kansas, 2025-2026. HB 2763: Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for discipli
Latest action
April 10, 2026 — Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
Summary
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Sponsors
- Committee on Health and Human Services — primary sponsor
Bill text
Enrolled Read version ↗ Read version ↗
As Amended by Senate Committee Read version ↗ Read version ↗
As Amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services Read version ↗ Read version ↗
As Introduced Read version ↗ Read version ↗
Recorded votes
No roll-call votes were supplied for this bill. This does not imply that no vote occurred.
Legislative history
- Introduced
- Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 116, Nay 0, Absent 9
- Engrossed on Tuesday, February 24, 2026
- Received and Introduced
- Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 39, Nay 1
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz
- Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Pat Pettey appointed as conferees
- Sen. Cindy Holscher is appointed to replace Sen. Pat Pettey on the Conference Committee
- Sen. Renee Erickson, Sen. Adam Thomas, and Sen. Dinah Sykes are appointed to replace Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford, and Sen. Cindy Holscher on the Conference Committee
- Rep. Susan Estes, Rep. Kyle McNorton, and Rep. Jerry Stogsdill are appointed to replace Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce, and Rep. Susan Ruiz on the Conference Committee
- Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Sen. Renee Erickson, Sen. Adam Thomas and Sen. Dinah Sykes appointed as second conferees
- Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
- Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Rep. Susan Estes, Rep. Kyle McNorton and Rep. Jerry Stogsdill appointed as second conferees
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 29, Nay 10, Absent 1
- Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
- Motion to suspend rule 1502 adopted
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 74, Nay 47, Absent 4
- Reengrossed on Monday, April 13, 2026
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 17, 2026
- Vetoed by Governor; Returned to House on Monday, April 27, 2026
- No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained
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