# Kansas SB 271: Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter. Kansas SB 271, Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Ways and Means; status signed, last action 2026-04-09 (Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB271-2025-2026 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kansas SB 271 - State: Kansas - Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session - Title: Updating income eligibility requirements for the state children's health insurance program and requiring the Robert G. (Bob) Bethell joint committee on home and community based services and KanCare oversight hold meetings each quarter. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-02-17 - Last action: 2026-04-09, Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026 - Sponsor: Committee on Ways and Means - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: house committee on health and human services, senate committee on public health and welfare - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 8 (646 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 2 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - More access to children's health coverage: benefit, high. Kansas sets the children's health plan income limit at 250% of federal poverty guidelines, replacing limits tied to 2008 guidelines. Other eligibility requirements and available state and federal funding still apply. Eligible pregnant children get coverage when the state requests and receives pregn… - Family fees and delayed children's coverage: cost, low. Kansas must set a sliding fee for each family in the children's health plan, based on ability to pay. The law does not set fee amounts. After all overdue premiums are paid, an otherwise eligible child regains coverage at renewal—not during the remaining months before renewal. ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Committee on Ways and Means ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 119 Nay: 0 | pass | 119 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 40 Nay: 0 | pass | 40 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 39 Nay: 0 | pass | 39 | 0 | | | 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 125 Nay: 0 | pass | 125 | 0 | | | 2026-03-27 | Senate | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 39 | 0 | | | 2026-03-26 | House | Conference Committee Report was adopted | pass | 125 | 0 | | | 2026-03-12 | House | Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 119 | 0 | | | 2026-02-18 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended | pass | 40 | 0 | | ## Actions (23) - 2026-04-09: Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 3, 2026 (Senate) - 2026-04-09: Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 9, 2026 (Senate) - 2026-03-27: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 39, Nay 0, Absent 1 (Senate) - 2026-03-26: Conference committee report now available (House) - 2026-03-26: Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 125, Nay 0 (House) - 2026-03-23: Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Cindy Holscher (Senate) - 2026-03-23: Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz appointed as conferees (House) - 2026-03-12: Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 119, Nay 0, Absent 5 (House) - 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (House) - 2026-03-11: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended (House) - 2026-03-04: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2026-03-03: Hearing: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N (House) - 2026-02-24: Received and Introduced (House) - 2026-02-24: Referred to House Committee on Health and Human Services (House) - 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted (Senate) - 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Kenny Titus (Senate) - 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Kenny Titus was adopted (Senate) - 2026-02-18: Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended (Senate) - 2026-02-18: Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 (Senate) - 2026-02-17: Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2026-02-05: Hearing: Thursday, February 5, 2026, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S (Senate) - 2025-02-18: Referred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (Senate) - 2025-02-17: Introduced (Senate) ## Bill text - As Amended by House Committee: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_03_0000.pdf) - As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_01_0000.pdf) - As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_00_0000.pdf) - Enrolled: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_enrolled.pdf) - {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_02_0000.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 (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_03_0000.pdf) - [As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_01_0000.pdf) - [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_00_0000.pdf) - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_enrolled.pdf) - [{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_271/sb271_02_0000.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-SB271-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-17).