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Tamara, Reviser's Office, told conferees that the Senate version had listed examples of ancillary activities — pep rallies, awards ceremonies, lettering events and yearbook or promotional functions — while the House version described ancillary participation more broadly as “any district sponsored events, ceremonies, programs, or other functions directly related to the primary activity.” Tamara said the bill also authorizes a local board of education to adopt policies regarding participation.

The change to remove a fixed nine‑week wait and instead tie ineligibility to KSHSAA rules drew extended discussion. Jason, committee advisor, said “limited participation” in the draft bill would allow a student to attend practices but would deny full participation in competitive games. Jason and other staff also explained that KSHSAA rules treat different transfer and eligibility cases differently: for transfers without a parental move, grades 9–12 may face a one‑calendar‑year waiting period and grades 7–8 an 18‑week period; scholarship rules treat a semester as at least 18 weeks.

Representatives on the committee said the bill is intended to close a loophole in which parents withdraw students who are academically ineligible, register them as homeschoolers and then allow them to continue competing. Representative Vestas said the intent was to require students who withdraw from a given attendance center to meet the same eligibility standards as they would if they remained. Representative Estes and others pressed for clarity that the change apply to students who have withdrawn to attend nonpublic or virtual schools, not to routine transfers among district schools.

Not all members agreed on the scope. Representative Norton called the bill “a classic example of legislative overreach,” saying the local school board and the State Board of Education could address isolated incidents. The committee discussed definitions and the phrase “limited participation,” and conferees agreed to adopt the Senate language with the modification that the post‑withdrawal ineligibility period be governed by KSHSAA eligibility rules rather than a specified nine weeks.

The committee recorded consensus on Senate Bill 114 with that adjustment; no formal roll‑call vote was recorded in the transcript.

Next steps: conferees said the revised language will be reflected in the final conference text and the parties concurred on the change before proceeding to other items.

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Jason, committee advisor, summarized the substitute: it declares antisemitism against state public policy for educational and law enforcement purposes, adopts the IHRA working definition with contemporary examples, and specifies that nothing in the act is to be construed to diminish or infringe any rights protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights of the State of Kansas.

Representative Vestas offered to move the substitute into Promise Scholarship bill number 44; Senate conferees agreed. Committee members recorded agreement on all conference bills and adjourned following the exchange.

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Tamara, Reviser's Office, summarized that parties involved in administering the program and the treasurer’s office had agreed that the program is administratively labor intensive and that sunsetting in three years and phasing benefits into a 529 plan‑style structure would be acceptable. Jason, committee advisor, added that the bill includes provisions for audits of withdrawals during the phase‑out and authority for the secretary to determine nonqualified withdrawals; the draft would take effect upon publication in the Kansas Register as currently written.

Representative Estes said the House offered to accept Senate Bill 281 “as is” and add its contents to Senate Bill 50 (the uniform interest rate bill) to connect the provisions to postsecondary finance. The committee discussed points of nexus and procedural connections to other education and finance bills; staff said the programs in SB 281 could be used for postsecondary educational expenses, which formed the basis for the offered connection.

Conferees indicated agreement to the Senate position and to moving the contents as discussed; no formal roll call appears in the transcript for this committee action.

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