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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 339: 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.

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 339 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 15, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: 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. Primary sponsor: Committee on Education. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died on House Calendar.

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 EducationPrimary 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 on House Calendar
  2. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Education
  3. Received and Introduced
  4. Referred to House Committee on Education
  5. Final Action - Not passed; Yea 17, Nay 23
  6. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 24, Nay 15, Absent 1
  7. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  8. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Doug Shane
  9. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Doug Shane was adopted
  10. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Doug Shane
  11. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Doug Shane was adopted
  12. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended

Showing 12 most recent of 18 actions. Full history

Sources

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