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IntroducedJan 28, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 20, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 19, 2025
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Signed into LawApr 10, 2025
Amending the Kansas open records act by limiting certain charges for furnishing records and employee time required to make records available and exempting certain records from disclosure and amending the Kansas open meetings act by providing for the membership calculation of subordinate groups and requiring public bodies or agencies that live stream meetings to ensure that the public is able to observe.
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House • Apr 11, 2025: Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025
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Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 2134
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Judiciarysponsor
Votes
YES: 123
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
YES: 124
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- S.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Apr 11, 2025 | House
- Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025
- Apr 10, 2025 | House
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025
- Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Mar 27, 2025 | House
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
- Mar 26, 2025 | Senate
- Conference committee report now available
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 24, 2025 | Senate
- Motion to accede adopted; Senator Warren, Senator Titus and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
- Mar 20, 2025 | House
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Representative Humphries , Representative Williams, L. and Representative Osman as conferees
- Mar 19, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 07, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Mar 03, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Monday, March 3, 2025, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- Feb 26, 2025 | House
- Engrossed on Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Feb 26, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 25, 2025 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 20, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 123 Nay: 0
- Feb 18, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Feb 03, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Monday, February 3, 2025, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- Jan 28, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- Conference Committee Report Brief - Wed, Mar 26, 2025PDF
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Jason Thompson, Office of the Revisor (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Jason Thompson, Office of the Revisor (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Jason Thompson, Office of the Revisor (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Matthew Bingesser, Office of the Attorney General (Neutral)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Danielle Dulin, City of Manhattan (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by John Goodyear, League of KS Municipalities (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Wendy Green, Unified Gob't of Wyandotte Co (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Jay Hall, KS Assoc of Counties (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Michael Koss, City of Overland Park (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Paul Kramer, City of Shawnee (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Angela Stallbaumer, KS Assoc of School Boards (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Amanda Stanley, City of Topeka (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Sheriff Jeff Easter, Sedgwick County (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Nick Gregory, City of Maize (Opponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Brett Anderson, Private Citizen (Proponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Dave Trabert, KS Policy Institute (Proponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 3, 2025: Testimony by Emily Bradbury/Alllison Mazzei, KS Press Assoc/KS Assoc of Broadcasters (Proponent)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Matthew Bingesser, Administrative Counsel, Office of the Attorney General (HB2134 Proponent In person)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by John Goodyear, General Counsel, League of Kanasa Municipalities (HB2134 Proponent In person)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Dave Trabert, Chief Executive Officer r, Knsas Policy Institute (HB2134 Proponent In person)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Amanda Stanley, City Attorney, City of Topeka (HB2134 Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Ed Klumpp, Legislative Liason, Kansas Sheriffs' Assocation, Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police (HB2134 Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Jay Hall, Deputy Director and General Counsel, Kansas Assocation of Counties (HB2134 Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Natalie Scott, Revisors Office, State of Kansas (HB2134 Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Wendy Weiss, behalf of, Register of Deeds Association (HB2134 Proponent Written)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Clay Barker, General Counsel, Deputy, Secretary of State (HB2134 Neutral In person)
- House Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 3, 2025: Testimony by Michael Koss, City Attorney, City of Overland Park (HB2134 Neutral Written)
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary