Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2294: Substitute for HB 2294 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood.

Did not advance Last action April 10, 2026: Died in Senate Committee

Plain-language summary

HB 2294 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on February 5, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Substitute for HB 2294 by Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development - Reducing certain license fees and training requirements for child care staff, creating a process for day care facility licensees to apply for temporary waiver of certain statutory requirements, authorizing the secretary of health and environment to develop and operate pilot programs to increase child care availability or capacity, transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and creating day care licensing duties of the director of early childhood. Primary sponsor: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Senate Committee.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development.