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SB339

Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily recess, prohibiting limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons, requiring a Kansas state fitness test and designating required recess time as part of the school term.

Chamber Passed·3/11/26

Kansas SB339 mandates elementary students receive daily recess, prohibits limiting it for discipline, and includes it in the school term.

Kansas SB339 requires school districts to provide at least 20 minutes of daily organized recess for students in grades kindergarten through five. It prohibits limiting or withholding recess for disciplinary reasons and designates this recess time as part of the school term. The bill also mandates a Kansas state fitness test.

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Where it stands

Last
Passed the Senate · 24–15 · Mar 11
Current
The House
Next
House floor vote

Sponsors

0
0
Democratic CaucusRepublican Caucus

Roll Call Votes

24 Yea

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15 Nay

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1 Absent

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Calendar

Mar 13

1:30 PM

House Education Hearing

Jan 22

2:30 PM

Senate Education Hearing

History

Mar 17

House

House Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education

Mar 13

House

House Hearing: Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:30 PM Room 218-N

Mar 11

House

House Received and Introduced