# Kansas HB 2374: 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. Kansas HB 2374, 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., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Committee on Appropriations; status signed, last action 2026-04-06 (Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2374-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas HB 2374 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: 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. - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-11 - Last action: 2026-04-06, Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026 - Sponsor: Committee on Appropriations - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: senate committee on education, house committee on higher education budget, house committee on appropriations - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (318 yes, 10 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 3 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Fewer service options for medical borrowers: cost, low. 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 med… - Medical students get tuition and living loans: mixed, high. 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 com… - Specialty student loans require Kansas service: mixed, medium. 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 includ… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Appropriations ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | House | Yea: 119 Nay: 5 | pass | 119 | 5 | | | 2026-03-19 | Senate | Final Action - Passed | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-02-18 | House | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 119 | 5 | | ## Actions (17) - 2026-04-06: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026 (House) - 2026-03-26: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026 (House) - 2026-03-19: Final Action - Passed; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2026-03-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate) - 2026-03-16: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Education (Senate) - 2026-03-13: Hearing: Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 144-S (Senate) - 2026-02-25: Referred to Senate Committee on Education (Senate) - 2026-02-24: Received and Introduced (Senate) - 2026-02-19: Engrossed on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 (House) - 2026-02-18: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 119, Nay 5, Absent 1 (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2026-02-17: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2026-02-13: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Higher Education Budget (House) - 2026-02-09: Hearing: Monday, February 9, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 281-N (House) - 2025-02-27: Withdrawn from House Committee on Higher Education Budget; Referred to House Committee on Higher Education Budget (House) - 2025-02-11: Introduced (House) - 2025-02-11: Referred to House Committee on Appropriations (House) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee on Higher Education Budget: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_enrolled.pdf) ## Related bills - SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes in the Kansas criminal code. (signed) - SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage and the retail sale of higher ethanol blends of fuel, discontinuing the tax cred… (signed) - SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholic liquor depending on whether the taxpayer is a qualifying Kansas investor or a… (signed) - HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes. (signed) - HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a religious assembly, providin… (became law) - HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed) ## Sources - [As Amended by House Committee on Higher Education Budget (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2374/hb2374_enrolled.pdf) ## Related - [SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and r…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB430-2025-2026) - [SB 82: Providing tax credits for expenditures for lockable gun and ammunition storage…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB82-2025-2026) - [SB 300: Providing for the apportionment of business income by manufacturers of alcoholi…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB300-2025-2026) - [HB 2029: Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2029-2025-2026) - [HB 2018: Senate Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Federal and State Affairs - Creat…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2018-2025-2026) - [HB 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026) - [Kansas bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas/bills) - [Kansas state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kansas) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2374-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).