Legislature overrides vetoes on foreign exchange student placement and campus speech bills
Measures address school-district access for exchange students and create new legal protections for student political activity
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers Thursday overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's vetoes of two education-related bills, one addressing foreign exchange student placement and another establishing legal protections for political and ideological expression on college campuses.
SB 361 passed the House 85-38 and the Senate 29-10. The bill allows foreign exchange students to attend the public school district where their host family resides, bypassing the state's open-enrollment lottery. Under current law, exchange students are subject to the same lottery process as other transfer students.
HB 2333, known as the Kansas Intellectual Rights and Knowledge Act, passed the House 85-38 and the Senate 29-11. The bill authorizes students and student organizations to act on their political and ideological beliefs and creates a civil cause of action for those who allege their rights have been violated. The measure is part of a wave of campus-speech legislation adopted in Republican-led states in recent years.
Both measures take effect upon publication in the Kansas Register.
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