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SB168 • 2026

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

What This Bill Does

  • Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-10 Senate

    Died in Committee

  2. 2025-02-04 Senate

    Referred to Senate Committee on Utilities

  3. 2025-02-03 Senate

    Introduced

Official Summary Text

Requiring the director of legislative administrative services to remove legislative video recordings from cloud based servers and video on demand platforms after 10 years.

Current Bill Text

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Session of 2025
SENATE BILL No. 168
By Committee on Utilities
2-3
AN ACT concerning legislative video recordings; requiring the director of
legislative administrative service to remove legislative video recordings
from cloud-based servers and video on demand platforms after 10
years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) The director of legislative administrative services may
retain legislative video recordings on any cloud-based server or video on
demand platform for a period of 10 years from the date such recording was
made. The director of legislative administrative services shall not retain
any legislative video recording on any cloud server or video on demand
platform beyond such 10-year period and shall remove, or cause to be
removed, any such legislative video recording from any cloud-based
server or video on demand platform at the end of such 10-year period.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) "Cloud-based server" means a virtual server operating within a
cloud computing environment that allows users to access computing
resources such as processing, storage and applications remotely and on
demand by a user.
(2) "Video on demand platform" means an audiovisual media
distribution system that allows users to access audiovisual content and
digital media on demand by a user.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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