Kansas Legislature

SB 83

AN ACT concerning education; making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, for the state department of education; establishing the sunflower education equity act; providing education savings accounts for students; establishing the sunflower education equity scholarship fund; requiring each school district to provide a salary increase to each licensed teacher in the school district in school year 2023-2024; defining enrollment of small school districts as the highest enrollment of the four preceding years under the Kansas school equity and enhancement act; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 72-3120 and 72-5132 and repealing the existing sections.

Senate - Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; - 02/23/2023

On roll call the vote was:

Yea - (22):

Alley, Baumgardner, Blasi, Bowers, Claeys, Erickson, Fagg, Gossage, Kloos, Masterson, O'Shea, Olson, Peck, Petersen, Ryckman, Shallenburger, Steffen, Straub, Thompson, Tyson, Warren, Wilborn,

Nay - (16):

Corson, Dietrich, Doll, Faust-Goudeau, Francisco, Haley, Holland, Holscher, Kerschen, Longbine, McGinn, Pettey, Pittman, Reddi, Sykes, Ware,

Present and Passing - (1):

Pyle,

Absent and Not Voting - (1):

Billinger,

Not Voting - (0):