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HB 2330

Designating November 14 of each year as Ruby Bridges walk to school day in the state of Kansas.

2025-2026 Regular Session

Designates November 14 each year as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas to honor desegregation history and promote anti-bullying/anti-racism dialogue, with no funding or mand

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Bill Summary · HB 2330

Summary — HB 2330 (2025): Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day (Kansas)

Purpose

HB 2330 designates November 14 of each year as “Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day” in the State of Kansas. The designation commemorates Ruby Bridges’ historic first day at William Frantz Elementary School and aims to encourage schools, students, teachers and communities to honor her role in school desegregation and to engage in dialogue and anti‑bullying/anti‑racism activities.

Key provisions

  • Designates November 14 each year as Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas.
  • If November 14 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the observance is to be commemorated on the following Wednesday.
  • The bill is a symbolic day of commemoration; it does not create a public holiday or impose programmatic duties or funding requirements on schools or state agencies.
  • The bill takes effect upon its publication in the statute book (per the act’s text).

Who is affected

  • Primarily symbolic: students, teachers, school staff, local school districts and community organizations that choose to mark the day through events, walks, classroom activities or discussions.
  • State agencies (Kansas Historical Society and Kansas Department of Education) — the fiscal note indicates no operational or funding impacts for these agencies.

Fiscal/administrative impact

  • The Division of the Budget (fiscal note dated February 14, 2025) reports no fiscal effect on the Kansas Historical Society or the Kansas Department of Education from enactment of this bill.
  • Because the bill is a designation only and contains no mandated programs or funding, no state budget appropriation is required.

Background / context

  • The designation ties to Kansas’s historical role in Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka), and to Ruby Bridges as a national civil‑rights symbol (famously depicted in Norman Rockwell’s 1964 painting “The Problem We All Live With”). The bill notes prior commemorations in Kansas (including November 14, 2024).

Procedural status / next steps

  • Introduced: February 3, 2025 (requested by Representative Ballard on behalf of the Kansas Black Leadership Council; introduced by the House Committee on Appropriations).
  • Hearing scheduled: Monday, February 17, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 218‑N (House Committee on Education).
  • If enacted, the designation becomes law and is effective upon publication in the statute book.

(Report based on the bill text and the Division of the Budget fiscal note dated February 14, 2025.)

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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