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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas Bill Requires Removal of Legislative Video Recordings After 10 Years
Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Committee
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What This Bill Proposed
Senate Bill 168 requires the director of legislative administrative services to delete all legislative video recordings from s and video-on-demand platforms after a 10-year retention period. The measure specifies that recordings cannot be kept on these platforms beyond 10 years from their creation date.
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.
director of legislative administrative services
The director is assigned the legal duty to enforce the 10-year retention limit and remove recordings from cloud and on-demand platforms.
general public
Residents lose online cloud and on-demand access to legislative video recordings once they exceed the 10-year threshold.
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This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 10, 2026SenateDied in Committee
- Feb 4, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Utilities
- Feb 3, 2025SenateIntroducedIntroduced
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz10Current news / social attention level
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