Kansas 2023-2024 Regular Session Status: Passed Senate

SB 315 — Requiring child care facilities, elementary, secondary and postsecondary educational institutions and employers to grant exemptions from vaccine requirements without inquiring into the sincerity of the request and repealing the meningitis vaccine requirement to live in student housing.

Last action — Died in House Committee

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

This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” 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This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis.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 in House Committee

  2. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services

  3. Received and Introduced

  4. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 22 Nay: 18

  5. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

  6. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

  7. Committee of the Whole - Now working on

  8. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare

  9. Hearing: Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 8:30 AM Room 142-S

  10. Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare

  11. Introduced

Sponsors

  • Committee on Federal and State Affairs · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 164 not signed on · 9 voted No

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Federal and State Affairs

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (164)

164 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Passed 22 Yea · 18 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 16300
Unaffiliated 6900
Democrat 0600
Total 221800
% of votes cast 55%45%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Baumgardner — Yea
Kerschen — Yea
Olson — Yea
Pyle — Yea
Steffen — Yea
Straub — Yea
Doll — Nay
Faust-Goudeau — Nay
Holland — Nay
Longbine — Nay
McGinn — Nay
O'Shea — Nay
Pittman — Nay
Reddi — Nay
Ware — Nay
Cindy Holscher Democrat Nay
David Haley Democrat Nay
Dinah Sykes Democrat Nay
Ethan Corson Democrat Nay
Marci Francisco Democrat Nay
Pat Pettey Democrat Nay
Beverly Gossage Republican Yea
Brenda Dietrich Republican Nay
Caryn Tyson Republican Yea
Chase Blasi Republican Nay
Elaine Bowers Republican Yea
Joseph Claeys Republican Yea
Kellie Warren Republican Yea
Larry Alley Republican Yea
Michael Fagg Republican Yea
Mike Petersen Republican Yea
Mike Thompson Republican Yea
Renee Erickson Republican Yea
Rick Billinger Republican Yea
Rick Kloos Republican Yea
Rick Wilborn Republican Yea
Ronald Ryckman Republican Nay
Tim Shallenburger Republican Yea
Ty Masterson Republican Yea
Virgil Peck Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors SB 315?
SB 315 is sponsored by Committee on Federal and State Affairs.
What is the current status of SB 315?
This bill died with 2023-2024 Regular Session. It reached “Passed Senate” 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 315?
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