HB2202 • 2026

Requiring the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to provide certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.

Children Education

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Last action: 2026-04-10
Official status: Died in Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requiring the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to provide certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.

What This Bill Does

Requiring the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to provide certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.

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Bill History

2026-04-10 House
Died in Committee
2025-02-03 House
Referred to House Committee on Education
2025-02-03 House
Introduced

Official Summary Text

Requiring the state board of regents and postsecondary educational institutions to provide certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2202
By Committee on K-12 Education Budget
Requested by Representative McDonald on behalf of Kathryn Meinhardt of Dream
Acres FASD Community and Kansas FASD Support Network
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AN ACT concerning postsecondary education; relating to the state board
of regents; requiring postsecondary educational institutions to equip
certain pre-service teachers with essential knowledge and skills to
support children affected by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) The state board of regents and each postsecondary
educational institution shall ensure that pre-service teachers in the fields
of early childhood, elementary, secondary and special education, are
equipped with essential knowledge and skills to support children affected
by fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, including, but not limited to:
(1) The common signs of and behaviors associated with fetal alcohol
syndrome disorders;
(2) the impacts of fetal alcohol syndrome disorders upon learning and
behavior; and
(3) techniques for communicating with a parent or guardian about a
suspected fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, educational intervention efforts
and whether an evaluation for special education and related services is
warranted.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) "Pre-service teacher" means an individual who is receiving the
education and training to become a licensed teacher but is not yet licensed.
(2) "Postsecondary educational institution" means any:
(A) State educational institution as defined in K.S.A. 76-711, and
amendments thereto;
(B) municipal university;
(C) community college; or
(D) not-for-profit institution of postsecondary education that has its
main campus or principal place of operation in Kansas, is operated
independently and not controlled or administered by a state agency or
subdivision of this state, maintains open enrollment and is accredited by a
nationally recognized accrediting agency for higher education in the
United States.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
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