Allows separating service members and their families to retain their earned Medicaid priority while living outside the state. Reducing wait time once they return to the state. https://portal.kmap-state-ks.us/Documents/Provider/Bulletins/21201-%20General%20-%20HCBS_Military_Inclusion.pdf. May also reach out to Kancare directly at https://www.kancare.ks.gov.

Establishes a permissive veterans’ preference for private employers to hire.

Program is designed to help schools respond to thge educational challenges military-connected children face during their transition to a new school and to keep them on track to be college, work force and life ready.

Kansas Military CDL Skills Test Waiver Program - In accordance with K.S.A 2011 Supp. 8-2,133 "The director may authorize the skills test required by subsection (a) to be waived for an applicant that provides evidence of military commercial vehicle driving experience. To qualify for such a waiver, the applicant must satisfy the criteria established by 49 C.F.R. § 383.77."

This policy requires a school district to enroll any military student in kindergarten or any of the grades one through 12 prior to such student physically residing in this state if such student provides evidence that such student's parent or person acting as parent will be stationed at a military installation in this state during the current or immediately succeeding school year. This policy further clarifies that those with special education needs are included.

Enacting the Kansas adult learner grant act to establish a grant program for adult learners to pursue certain fields of study, enacting the career technical education credential and transition incentive for employment success act to require school districts to pay for the cost of assessments for students to obtain an approved career technical education credential, designating military veterans and spouses or dependents of such veterans who were stationed in Kansas for at least 11 months as residents for purposes of tuition and fees at postsecondary educational institutions and expanding the eligible fields of study under the Kansas promise scholarship act.