All Roll Calls
Yes: 318 • No: 10
KansasHB 23742025–2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
Creating the specialty practice student loan program and the specialty practice student loan repayment fund, allowing for the transfer of funds from the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds to the specialty practice student loan repayment fund and abolishing the OBGYN and psychiatry medical student loan repayment funds.
Sponsored By: Committee on Appropriations
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Medical students get tuition and living loans
Medical student loans cover all tuition plus a student-chosen living stipend of up to $2,000 monthly for 12 months. That means up to $24,000 for living costs, plus tuition. Retroactive loans cover tuition already paid and a stipend based on the maximum monthly amount for 12 months. This support comes as loans, not grants, and awards depend on available state funding.
Specialty student loans require Kansas service
The University of Kansas School of Medicine offers specialty loans to undergraduate medical students, subject to available state funding. Students must commit to full-time practice in Kansas communities outside Douglas, Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee, and Wyandotte counties. Approved specialties include gynecology, general psychiatry, and others the chancellor approves based on workforce needs. Unawarded specialty loan agreements in a fiscal year can go to primary care students. Unawarded primary care agreements cannot shift to specialty students.
Fewer service options for medical borrowers
The law ends a separate psychiatry loan route for up to 12 students. That route allowed psychiatry faculty service or at least 100 hours of on-site mental health care each month. Primary care borrowers' faculty-service option now covers only general internal medicine, general pediatrics, family medicine, or family practice—not psychiatry. At the University of Kansas School of Medicine, this option requires two years of full-time faculty service per year owed. The existing cap remains: no more than 25% of full-time faculty in those departments may count toward loan service obligations.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Appropriations
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 119 Nay: 5
Yes: 119 • No: 5
Senate vote • 3/19/2026
Final Action - Passed
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 2/18/2026
Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 119 • No: 5
Actions Timeline
Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
4/6/2026HouseEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026
3/26/2026HouseFinal Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0
3/19/2026SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed
3/18/2026SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Education
3/16/2026SenateHearing: Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 144-S
3/13/2026SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Education
2/25/2026SenateReceived and Introduced
2/24/2026SenateEngrossed on Wednesday, February 18, 2026
2/19/2026HouseFinal Action - Passed as amended; Yea 119, Nay 5, Absent 1
2/18/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/17/2026HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/17/2026HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Higher Education Budget
2/13/2026HouseHearing: Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 281-N
2/9/2026HouseWithdrawn from House Committee on Higher Education Budget; Referred to House Committee on Higher Education Budget
2/27/2025HouseIntroduced
2/11/2025HouseReferred to House Committee on Appropriations
2/11/2025House
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Higher Education Budget
As Introduced
Enrolled
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