Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas SB172: Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
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.
From the introduced text, February 3, 2025:
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. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. K.S.A. 65-122 is hereby amended to read as follows: 65122. No A person afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease dangerous to the public health shall not be admitted into any public, parochial or private school or licensed child care facility. It shall be the duty of the parent or guardian, and the principal or other person in charge of any public, parochial, private school or licensed child care facility to exclude therefrom any child or other person affected with a disease that is suspected of being infectious or contagious until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation or quarantine for the particular infectious or contagious disease. If the attending person licensed to practice medicine and surgery a physician or local health officer finds upon examination that the person affected with a disease, that is suspected of being infectious or contagious is not suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, he or she such physician may submit a certificate …
Sponsors
- Kenneth Collins (R) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Died in Committee
- : Received and Introduced
- : Final Action - Passed; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
- : Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- : Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary
- : Hearing: Thursday, January 22, 2026, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- : Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- : Introduced
- : Prefiled for Introduction on Wednesday, December 10, 2025
- : Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
Subjects: Children and Minors, Schools, Health and Healthcare
Common questions
- What is SB172?
- SB172 is a bill in the Kansas Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Prohibiting a school from excluding a child who has been exposed to an infectious or contagious disease without an isolation or quarantine order.
- What does SB172 do?
- In its own words: 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.
- What is the status of SB172?
- In committee as of April 10, 2026. Latest action: Died in Committee (April 10, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB172?
- Kenneth Collins (R).
- Where is the official record for SB172?
- On the Kansas Legislature website: https://kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/sb172/
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