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Panel favors bill defining 'employed in Kansas' for Education Opportunity Scholarship eligibility
Summary
The Committee on Education passed House Bill 24-87 to add a statutory definition of what it means for a parent to be "employed in Kansas as a teacher or paraprofessional," specifying employment by a unified school district or the governing authority of a nonpublic school and requiring administrator certification to the state board.
The Committee on Education voted to advance House Bill 24-87 after the reviser explained changes to eligibility definitions in the Kansas Education Opportunity Scholarship Program Act.
Jason, the committee reviser, told members HB 24-87 amends statutory definitions to clarify that a parent is "employed in Kansas as a teacher or paraprofessional" if they are an employee of a unified school district or the governing authority of a nonpublic school and their primary duties are classroom instruction or instructional support in pre-K through grade 12. The bill includes a requirement that a school administrator certify an individual’s employment to the State Board of Regents before the person is treated as employed for scholarship eligibility.
Representative Getz moved the bill favorably and Representative Ruiz seconded; the vice chair called for aye and the motion carried on a voice vote, with no roll-call tally recorded in the transcript.
Committee members did not elaborate further in the transcript; the reviser’s explanation frames the bill as a definitional change to clarify eligibility verification for the scholarship program.
