Kansas / State / 2025-2026 Regular Session
2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Chapter 15 (House Bill 2185) Opened Kansas National Guard tuition assistance to dependents
Amended the Kansas national guard educational assistance act to add a definition of "dependent" as an individual registered as an eligible dependent of the sponsoring guard member in the defense enrollment eligibility reporting system, and to let a member pass unused benefit to that dependent. Before this the assistance was usable only by the member. Tracked because it changes the calculation a serving member makes about whether to spend their own remaining hours, and because guidance written before the 2025 session describes the programme as member-only.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, House
- In committee Done, House Education, then Senate Education
- Passed one chamber Done, House, as amended
- Passed both chambers Done, Senate
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- House Committee on Education
What it touches
- K.S.A. 74-32,146
- K.S.A. 74-32,149
Catalog entry
Official record
Read 2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Chapter 15 (House Bill 2185) on the jurisdiction's own record