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Representative McDonald introduces three fetal alcohol spectrum disorder bills to committee record
Summary
Representative McDonald presented three bills to add fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) to education and awareness provisions: adding FASD to special-education health impairments (25RS 0775), adding FASD to teacher-preparation requirements (25RS 0786), and creating a FASD awareness day (25RS 0750). No committee action or vote was recorded.
Representative Laura McDonald introduced three bills related to fetal alcohol spectrum disorder during the Committee on K-12 Education Budget meeting.
McDonald said she presented the measures on behalf of the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Support Network of Kansas and Dreammakers Farm. She identified the bills as 25RS 0775, which would add fetal alcohol spectrum disorder to the health-impairments portion of special-education eligibility; 25RS 0786, which would add FASD to Kansas Board of Regents requirements for teacher-preparation programs; and 25RS 0750, which would create a fetal alcohol spectrum awareness day. She did not move a motion or seek a committee vote during the discussion.
The bills were read into the record and noted as being presented to the committee; committee staff did not record a formal recommendation or vote in the transcript. Committee members asked no substantive policy questions during the introduction. No fiscal details were provided at the time of introduction.
Next steps: the measures, as introduced, proceed through customary bill-processing steps (referral and committee consideration) unless the sponsor or chair takes alternate action. The transcript does not record any request for a committee vote on these introductions.
