Kansas 2021 Special Session Status: Introduced 2 R cosponsors

SB 2 — Prohibiting certain acts by business entities, governmental entities or public officials based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport; ensuring a right to in-person visitation at medical care facilities and adult care homes; allowing patients to sign a liability waiver to be prescribed off-label use drugs; prohibiting certain public health orders related to isolation and quarantine, stay-at-home orders, curfews and face masks; limiting isolation or quarantine orders to recommendations and providing criminal penalties for certain violations; amending the employment security law to provide exceptions to benefit eligibility conditions and disqualification conditions based on an employee's unwillingness to receive a vaccination; amending the Kansas act against discrimination to define unlawful employment practices related to vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport; limiting state of disaster emergency powers of the governor related to stay-at-home orders, curfews and face masks; and amending provisions related to childhood immunizations required for attendance at a child care facility or school and exemptions from such requirements.

Last action — Died on Calendar

  1. 1
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2021 Special Session. It reached “Introduced” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Died on Calendar

  2. Introduced

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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4 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 161 not signed on

Sponsors (4)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (161)

161 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 2?
SB 2 is sponsored by Steffen, Straub, Caryn Tyson (Republican), and Mike Thompson (Republican).
What is the current status of SB 2?
This bill died with 2021 Special Session. It reached “Introduced” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
Where can I track SB 2?
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