# Kansas SB 324: Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties for violations thereof.

Kansas SB 324, Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties for violations thereof., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Transportation; status failed, last action 2026-04-10 (Died in Committee) (as of 2026-10-11).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas SB 324
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Prohibiting the use of a mobile telephone while operating a motor vehicle in school or construction zones and providing penalties for violations thereof.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2026-01-14
- Last action: 2026-04-10, Died in Committee
- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: senate committee on transportation, senate committee on ways and means, senate committee on judiciary
- Touches household money: no
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Transportation

## Actions (9)

- 2026-04-10: Died in Committee (Senate)
- 2026-02-24: Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Transportation; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2026-02-19: Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means (Senate)
- 2026-02-16: Be passed over and retain a place on the Calendar (Senate)
- 2026-02-16: Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary (Senate)
- 2026-02-03: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2026-01-27: Hearing: Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 8:30 AM — Room 546-S (Senate)
- 2026-01-15: Referred to Senate Committee on Transportation (Senate)
- 2026-01-14: Introduced (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_324/sb324_00_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferability of credentials earned through ACT workkeys career readiness assessments to… (failed)

## Sources
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_324/sb324_00_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 2530: Substitute for HB 2530 by Committee on Education - Providing for the transferab…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2530-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB324-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-11).