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SB 172KANSASSession 2025-2026State Billdead

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Kansas SB 172 Prohibits School Exclusion for Disease Exposure Without Isolation Order

Original title: AN ACT concerning public health; relating to schools and child care facilities; prohibiting a school or such facility from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without a valid isolation or quarantine order; amending K.S.A. 65-122 and repealing the existing section.

Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Committee

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What This Bill Proposed

Schools and child care facilities are prohibited from excluding children solely based on exposure to an infectious or contagious disease unless a formal has been issued by a local health officer or the secretary.

Why it matters

Changes whether healthy students who were merely exposed to an illness can be kept out of class without an official health order.

Who It Would Have Affected

Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.

Directly affected

public, parochial or private school students

Students cannot be excluded from school for disease exposure unless a formal health order is issued.

Directly affected

licensed child care facility children

Children in child care facilities are protected from exclusion due to exposure absent an official isolation order.

Directly affected

school and child care facility administrators

Administrators must follow statutory requirements regarding when children exposed to contagious diseases may be excluded.

Key Facts

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can a school send my child home just because they were exposed to a sick classmate?

No, under this bill a school cannot exclude a child for mere exposure unless a local health officer or the secretary has issued a formal .

What happens if a child actually has a contagious disease?

Persons afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease dangerous to public health are not admitted to schools or child care facilities until their prescribed isolation period ends.

How can a student mistakenly suspected of having a disease return to school?

A physician or local health officer can examine the individual and submit a certificate stating they do not have an infectious or contagious disease, requiring their readmission.

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Where This Stands

This bill did not become law - Died in committee.

Procedural history

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Apr 10, 2026Senate
Died in Committee
Feb 4, 2025SenateCommittee
Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
Feb 3, 2025SenateIntroduced
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