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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 419: Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.

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 419 is a bill introduced in the Kansas Senate on January 28, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions. Primary sponsor: Committee on Education. 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 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 in House Committee
  2. Received and Introduced
  3. Referred to House Committee on Education
  4. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Dinah Sykes
  5. Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Dinah Sykes was rejected
  6. Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  7. Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 29, Nay 11
  8. Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole
  9. Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
  10. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Education
  11. Referred to Senate Committee on Education
  12. Introduced

Sources

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