State Legislative Sessions Advance Bills in Kansas and Indiana

Two unrelated state legislative actions were reported. In Kansas, the 2026 legislative session concluded with hundreds of bills passed, according to Audacy/KNSS Radio, including a bell-to-bell cellphone ban for schools; Governor Laura Kelly had signed 20 bills into law at the time of reporting, with an App Store Accountability Act requiring parental permission and ID verification for app downloads still moving through the House. In Indiana, according to the Indiana Capital Chronicle, the legislature passed a Medicaid bill reshaping parts of the state's long-term care system, clearing the House 96-0 and the Senate 46-4, and sent it to Governor Mike Braun. Indiana lawmakers also advanced a provision allowing the state to scrutinize and potentially eliminate college degree programs tied to low post-graduation earnings, a measure that drew warnings it could undermine underpaid professions. Ivy Tech Community College received a statutory overhaul affecting its mission and governance structure. These Indiana measures were still progressing through the legislative process as of the report date. Each of these developments comes from a single publisher, meaning the specific details—including exact bill counts, vote tallies, and the fate of pending measures like Kansas's App Store Accountability Act—remain unconfirmed by independent corroboration. The final outcomes of Indiana's degree-program scrutiny provision and its passage to the governor's desk, as well as the ultimate disposition of Kansas's pending bills, are not established in the available reporting.