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As Amended by House Committee
{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}
Session of 2026
SENATE BILL No. 340
By Committee on Education
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AN ACT concerning education; relating to the Kansas promise scholarship
program; prohibiting Kansas promise scholarship awards from being
used to fund {remedial hours offered as part of } corequisite courses;
amending K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,274 and repealing the existing
section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,274 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 74-32,274. (a) Subject to appropriations, the amount of a Kansas
promise scholarship for a student for each academic year shall be
determined as follows:
(1) For a student enrolled in a promise eligible program offered by an
eligible public postsecondary educational institution described in K.S.A.
2025 Supp. 74-32,271(b)(1)(A) or (B), and amendments thereto, the
scholarship amount shall be the aggregate amount of tuition, required fees
and the cost of books and required materials for the promise eligible
program at the eligible postsecondary educational institution for the
academic year in which the student is enrolled and receiving the
scholarship minus the aggregate amount of all other aid awarded to such
student for such academic year.
(2) For a student enrolled in a promise eligible program offered by an
eligible private postsecondary educational institution described in K.S.A.
2025 Supp. 74-32,271(b)(1)(C), and amendments thereto, the scholarship
amount shall be the aggregate amount of tuition, required fees and the cost
of books and materials for such program for the academic year in which
the student is enrolled and receiving the scholarship minus the aggregate
amount of all other aid awarded to such student for such academic year,
except that a scholarship awarded pursuant to this paragraph shall not
exceed the average cost of tuition, required fees and the cost of books and
required materials for such promise eligible program when offered by an
eligible public postsecondary educationa l institution described in K.S.A.
2025 Supp. 74-32,271(b)(1)(A) or (B), and amendments thereto.
(b) Kansas promise scholarships shall only be awarded to an eligible
student whose family household income equals $100,000 or less for a
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family of one or two, $150,000 or less for a family of three and, for
household sizes above three, a household income that is equal to or less
than the family of three amount plus $4,800 for each additional family
member.
(c) (1) Kansas promise scholarship awards shall be used only to pay
for up to a total of 68 promise scholarship funded credit hours or a total of
$20,000 in Kansas promise scholarship awards, whichever occurs first,
over the lifetime of the student who received the Kansas promise
scholarship award regardless of the eligible postsecondary educational
institution such student attended.
(2) Kansas promise scholarship awards shall not be used to fund:
(A) Prerequisite classes required for a promise eligible program
unless such classes are a designated course within the eligible program; or
(B) any remedial course, as defined in K.S.A. 76-7,151, and
amendments thereto, unless such including any course is {remedial hours}
offered in {as part of} a corequisite format {course}.
(d) For each fiscal year, the appropriation made for the Kansas
promise scholarship program shall not exceed $10,000,000.
(e) The state board of regents shall disburse funds based on
reimbursement requests from eligible postsecondary educational
institutions. Reimbursement requests shall be based on the actual amount
of Kansas promise scholarship amounts awarded by an eligible
postsecondary educational institution for the appropriate academic period.
Any eligible postsecondary educational institution seeking reimbursement
shall submit a reimbursement request to the state board of regents on or
before September 1, December 1, March 1 and June 1 of each year. The
state board of regents shall disburse the appropriate amount of funds to
eligible postsecondary educational institutions on September 15,
December 15, March 15 and June 15 each year.
(f) As used in this section, "aid" includes any grant, scholarship or
financial assistance awards that do not require repayment. "Aid" does not
include any military financial educational benefits or any family
postsecondary savings account or other qualified tuition program
established pursuant to section 529 of the internal revenue code of 1986, as
amended.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 74-32,274 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book Kansas register.
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