# Kansas SB 419: Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.

Kansas SB 419, Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions., is a 2025–2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Committee on Education; status failed, last action 2026-04-10 (Died in House Committee); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19).

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## Facts
- Bill: Kansas SB 419
- State: Kansas
- Session: 2025–2026 Regular Session
- Title: Enacting the Kansas intellectual rights and knowledge act, providing a civil cause of action and penalties for violations of such act and authorizing students and student associations to exercise political and ideological beliefs, values and missions.
- Status: failed
- Chamber: Senate
- Introduced: 2026-01-28
- Last action: 2026-04-10, Died in House Committee
- Sponsor: Committee on Education
- Cosponsors: 0
- Subjects: house committee on education, senate committee on ways and means, senate committee on education
- Touches household money: yes
- Roll calls: 2 (58 yes, 22 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 0

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview

No economic impacts identified for this bill.

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Committee on Education

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-04-23 | Senate | Yea: 29 Nay: 11 | pass | 29 | 11 |   |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate | Emergency Final Action - Passed | pass | 29 | 11 |   |

## Actions (13)

- 2026-04-10: Died in House Committee (House)
- 2026-03-11: Received and Introduced (House)
- 2026-03-11: Referred to House Committee on Education (House)
- 2026-03-10: Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Dinah Sykes (Senate)
- 2026-03-10: Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Dinah Sykes was rejected (Senate)
- 2026-03-10: Committee of the Whole - Be passed (Senate)
- 2026-03-10: Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 29, Nay 11 (Senate)
- 2026-03-02: Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole (Senate)
- 2026-02-27: Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means (Senate)
- 2026-02-10: Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Education (Senate)
- 2026-02-04: Hearing: Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 1:30 PM — Room 144-S (Senate)
- 2026-01-29: Referred to Senate Committee on Education (Senate)
- 2026-01-28: Introduced (Senate)

## Bill text

- As Introduced: [PDF](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_419/sb419_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 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts received as compensation for members of the armed forces. (failed)

## Sources
- [As Introduced (PDF)](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/sb_419/sb419_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 2036: Providing a Kansas income tax subtraction modification for certain amounts rece…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-HB2036-2025-2026)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KS-SB419-2025-2026 (as of 2026-10-19).