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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 153: Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 153 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on February 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Establishing the Kansas paid prenatal personal leave act requiring employers to provide 20 hours of paid prenatal personal leave. Primary sponsor: Patrick Schmidt (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Patrick SchmidtPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate19

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Committee
  2. Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce
  3. Introduced

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source