Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2472: Enacting the forming open and robust university minds or FORUM Act, prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from certain actions concerning freedom of speech, expression and association, providing exceptions thereto, providing for monetary damages, and requiring the submission of a report to the legislature and the governor.

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

Plain-language summary

HB 2472 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on January 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacting the forming open and robust university minds or FORUM Act, prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from certain actions concerning freedom of speech, expression and association, providing exceptions thereto, providing for monetary damages, and requiring the submission of a report to the legislature and the governor. Primary sponsor: Committee on Higher Education Budget. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Committee.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: Committee on Higher Education Budget.