Kansas Senate Bill 491

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Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: Introduced on February 5 2026 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-03-02 - Senate Hearing: Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.

Enacting the Haylee Weissenbach protecting students act to establish the office of education inspector general, authorize the education inspector general to conduct audits, investigations and reviews of educational institutions, require reporting of suspected professional and criminal misconduct by school employees and agents, require certain individuals to register on an educator misconduct registry, require criminal history record checks of school employees and agents and provide for civil penalties for violations of this act.

Senate Education Committee

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-02	Senate	Senate Hearing: Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
2026-02-24	Senate	Senate Withdrawn from Committee on Ways and Means; Rereferred to Committee on Education
2026-02-19	Senate	Senate Withdrawn from Committee on Education; Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
2026-02-06	Senate	Senate Referred to Committee on Education
2026-02-05	Senate	Senate Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb491/
Text	https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb491_00_0000.pdf
Supplement	https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/fisc_note_sb491_00_0000.pdf