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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 161: Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program or increases cost to the state or making certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

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 161 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on February 3, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring legislative approval prior to any state agency seeking or implementing a public assistance program waiver or other authorization from the federal government that expands eligibility for any public assistance program or increases cost to the state or making certain changes in services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Primary sponsor: Committee on Government Efficiency. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in House 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

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on Government EfficiencyPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“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 House Committee
  2. Received and Introduced
  3. Referred to House Committee on Welfare Reform
  4. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 30, Nay 10
  5. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  6. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Pat Pettey
  7. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Pat Pettey was rejected; Yea 12, Nay 28
  8. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  9. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
  10. Referred to Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
  11. Introduced

Sources

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