Kansas bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas SB 408

Excluding a child engaging in age-appropriate independent activities from the definition of a child in need of care in the revised Kansas code for care of children, requiring the secretary for children and families to enter into a memorandum of understanding with military organizations and create a referral process for children in need of care cases involving children of military personnel to provide families with services that a military family advocacy program offers, authorizing a challenge to a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity as soon as practicable after discovery of fraud, duress or mistake of fact and specifying that certain genetic testing results shall constitute a change of circumstances that warrants a court finding of material mistake of fact.

1. Introduced
2. In committee
3. Passed Senate
4. Passed House
5. To Governor
6. Became law

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary

Summary

Text versions

• As Introduced
• As Amended by House Committee on Judiciary
• Enrolled

Roll-call votes

No recorded votes on this bill.

Actions

• Jan 28, 2026 · Senate
  Introduced
• Jan 29, 2026 · Senate
  Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary
• Feb 12, 2026 · Senate
  Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Judiciary
• Feb 17, 2026 · Senate
  Committee of the Whole - Be passed
• Feb 18, 2026 · Senate
  Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0
• Feb 18, 2026 · House
  Received and Introduced
• Feb 18, 2026 · House
  Referred to House Committee on Judiciary
• Mar 17, 2026 · House
  Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Judiciary
• Mar 18, 2026 · House
  Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• Mar 18, 2026 · House
  Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
• Mar 18, 2026 · House
  Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
• Mar 18, 2026 · House
  Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1
• Mar 23, 2026 · Senate
  Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson
• Mar 23, 2026 · House
  Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman appointed as conferees
• Mar 26, 2026 · Senate
  Concurred with amendments in conference; Yea 39, Nay 0, Absent 1
• Apr 9, 2026 · Senate
  Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026
• Apr 9, 2026 · Senate
  Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026