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IntroducedJan 30, 2025
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Passed HouseFeb 20, 2025
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Passed SenateMar 20, 2025
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Signed into LawApr 10, 2025
Enacting the municipal employee whistleblower act to provide statutory protections for municipal employees who report or disclose unlawful or dangerous conduct.
Last Action See all actions
House • Apr 10, 2025: Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 2160
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Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Local Governmentsponsor
Votes
YES: 121
- 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
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- 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: 122
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Barth
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brownlee
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B.
- W.
- Carr
- Chauncey
- 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
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
Actions
- Apr 10, 2025 | House
- Reengrossed on Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025
- Mar 26, 2025 | House
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 122 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 Bowers, Senator Ryckman and Senator Faust Goudeau appointed as conferees
- Mar 24, 2025 | House
- Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Representative Bergquist , Representative Blex and Representative Featherston as conferees
- Mar 20, 2025 | Senate
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Clifford
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Clifford was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- Mar 17, 2025 | Senate
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics
- Mar 05, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 9:30 AM Room 142-S
- Feb 26, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics
- Feb 25, 2025 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 20, 2025 | House
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 121 Nay: 0
- Engrossed on Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Feb 19, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 18, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Local Government
- Feb 14, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Friday, February 14, 2025, 9:00 AM Room 281-N
- Feb 12, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 9:00 AM Room 281-N - CANCELED
- Jan 30, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Local Government
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- As Amended by Senate Committee - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- Conference Committee Report Brief - Wed, Mar 26, 2025PDF
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Patricia DeDamos, citizen (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Lyn Levine, Precinct Committee Person (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Brett Anderson, Precinct Committeeman (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Kari Sue Vosburgh, Precinct Committeewoman (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Anne Dare, citizen (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by John Ims, Senate District #1 (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Tammy Minihan, Precinct Committeewoman (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by John Goodyear, League of Kansas Municipalities (neutral)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Jay Hall, Kansas Association of Counties (neutral)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Dick Carter, City of Overland Park (opponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Susan Walker, Bourbon County Clerk (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Catherine Ellsworth, citizen (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Shane Walker, Bourbon County (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Lora Holdridge, Bourbon County Regiser of Deeds (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Caedran Sullivan, Shawnee Mission School District (proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Fri, Feb 14, 2025: Testimony by Jason Long, Revisor of Statutes (bill summary)
- House Committee on Local Government, Thu, Mar 13, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Local Government, Thu, Mar 13, 2025: Testimony by Senator Tory Blew, (HB2160 Amendment)
- House Committee on Local Government, Thu, Mar 13, 2025: Testimony by Sentor Pettey, (HB2160 Amendment)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Minutes
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Jay Hall, Kansas Association of Counties (Proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Kari Sue Vosburgh, Sedgwick County Precinct Committeewoman (Proponent-Written Only)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Tammy Minihan, Republican Precinct Committeewoman-Sedgwick County (Proponent-Written Only)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Brett Anderson, Republican Precinct Committeeman-Sedgwick County (Proponent-Written Only)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Michael Koss, City of Overland Park (Opponent-Written Only)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by John Goodyear, The League of Kansas Municipalities (Proponent)
- House Committee on Local Government, Wed, Mar 5, 2025: Testimony by Charles Reimer, Office of the Revisor (HB2160 Bill Brief)
- Conference Committee Report
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Local Government, Transparency and Ethics
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Local Government
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