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Read. Follow. Verify.Kansas Legislature Establishes Office of Early Childhood and Modifies Child Care Licensing Rules
Last action · April 10, 2026: Died in Senate Committee
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 2294 establishes the Kansas Office of Early Childhood to oversee child care programs, transfers day care licensing and subsidy administration from the Department of Health and Environment, and reduces certain license fees and staff training requirements.
Child care centers, family child care homes, and parents across Kansas face restructured administrative oversight, updated facility standards, and new waiver application processes administered by a centralized state office.
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.
Child care facility operators
Operators experience a change in licensing authority to the Kansas Office of Early Childhood, elimination of annual day care facility license fees, new waiver application processes, and updated staff qualification standards.
Parents and families
Families utilize centralized child care advocacy services, access an online information dissemination system detailing facility citations, and participate in subsidized child care programs administered by the new office.
State regulatory agencies
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Office of Early Childhood transfer administrative duties, inspection responsibilities, and fund balances pursuant to statutory timelines.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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How are day care facility license fees affected by this act?
Are child care facilities allowed to bill the state for empty enrollment slots?
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This bill did not become law - Died in committee.
Procedural history
19 actions- Apr 10, 2026SenateDied in Senate Committee
- Mar 25, 2025SenateCommitteeReferred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
- Mar 24, 2025SenateIntroducedReceived and Introduced
- Mar 20, 2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Mar 20, 2025HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed
- Mar 20, 2025HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed
Show 13 earlier actions
- Mar 20, 2025HouseFloorMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- Mar 20, 2025HouseFloorEmergency Final Action - Substitute passed
- Mar 19, 2025HouseFloorCommittee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by
- Mar 17, 2025HouseWithdrawn from House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development; Rereferred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Mar 11, 2025HouseWithdrawn from House Committee on Calendar and Printing; Referred to House Committee on Calendar and Printing
- Mar 6, 2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Now working on
- Mar 6, 2025HouseFloorCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Mar 6, 2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Mar 5, 2025HouseFloorCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by
- Feb 27, 2025HouseHearing: Thursday, February 27, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 346-S
- Feb 17, 2025HouseWithdrawn from House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development; Referred to House Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
- Feb 5, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced
- Feb 5, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to House Committee on Appropriations
Version history
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Centralization of Early Childhood Programs
The legislation systematically consolidates multiple early childhood programs, previously scattered across health and family service agencies, into a single newly created office.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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