2025SB 78

Pushing Back on Woke Accrediting Cartels

2025 - Kansas Senate

Conservatives Support

Description

This bill requires colleges to regularly review accreditation policies, forbids accrediting agencies from forcing institutions to violate state law, and creates a cause of action if they do. It gives Kansas schools tools to resist ideological or unlawful demands from unaccountable national accreditors. CPAC supports defending state sovereignty and academic freedom from politicized accreditation bodies and supported this bill. The Senate passed this bill on 2025-02-19 by a vote of 38-2. The bill later became law.

39

Voted Yes

2

Voted No

0

Did Not Vote

Legislators · 41

LegislatorVote
Larry Alley

Senate · KS

Conservative
Mike Argabright

Senate · KS

Conservative
Rick Billinger

Senate · KS

Conservative
Chase Blasi

Senate · KS

Conservative
Tory Marie Blew

Senate · KS

Conservative
Elaine Bowers

Senate · KS

Conservative
Craig Bowser

Senate · KS

Conservative
J.R. Claeys

Senate · KS

Conservative
Joe Claeys

Senate · KS

Conservative
Bill Clifford

Senate · KS

Conservative
Ethan Corson

Senate · KS

Conservative
Brenda Dietrich

Senate · KS

Conservative
Renee Erickson

Senate · KS

Conservative
Michael Fagg

Senate · KS

Conservative
Oletha Faust-Goudeau

Senate · KS

Conservative
Marci Francisco

Senate · KS

Leftist
Beverly Gossage

Senate · KS

Conservative
David Haley

Senate · KS

Conservative
Cindy Holscher

Senate · KS

Leftist
Jeff Klemp

Senate · KS

Conservative
Rick Kloos

Senate · KS

Conservative
Ty Masterson

Senate · KS

Conservative
Michael Murphy

Senate · KS

Conservative
Stephen Owens

Senate · KS

Conservative
Virgil Peck

Senate · KS

Conservative
Mike Petersen

Senate · KS

Conservative
Pat Pettey

Senate · KS

Conservative
TJ Rose

Senate · KS

Conservative
Ronald Ryckman Sr.

Senate · KS

Conservative
Patrick Schmidt

Senate · KS

Conservative
Tim Shallenburger

Senate · KS

Conservative
Douglas Shane

Senate · KS

Conservative
Brad Starnes

Senate · KS

Conservative
Dinah Sykes

Senate · KS

Conservative
Adam Thomas

Senate · KS

Conservative
Mike L Thompson

Senate · KS

Conservative
Kenny Titus

Senate · KS

Conservative
Caryn Tyson

Senate · KS

Conservative
Mary Ware

Senate · KS

Conservative
Kellie Warren

Senate · KS

Conservative
Laura Kelly

Senate

Conservative

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