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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 351: Requiring correctional facilities and jails to allow inmates and prisoners to make telephone calls at no cost.

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 351 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 21, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring correctional facilities and jails to allow inmates and prisoners to make telephone calls at no cost. Primary sponsor: Tim Shallenburger (Republican). 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): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tim ShallenburgerPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate13

“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 Judiciary
  3. Introduced

Sources

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