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IntroducedFeb 11, 2025
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Passed HouseMar 06, 2025
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Passed Senate
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Signed into Law
Establishing the removal of squatters act, providing a procedure to remove a squatter from a dwelling unit, requiring owners or agents of dwelling units to provide an affidavit to the county sheriff department or police department , requiring notice to vacate by the sheriff, establishing the crime of providing a false affidavit and establishing a civil cause of action for wrongful removal of a person from a dwelling unit, allowing attorney fees and punitive damages.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 17, 2025: Hearing: Monday, March 17, 2025, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary/Bill Text
Comments on HB 2378
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Federal and State Affairssponsor
Votes
YES: 114
- 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
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hill
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Miller
- Minnix
- Moser
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Penn
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Poetter
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L.
- Sanders
- Sawyer
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A.
- C.
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Thompson
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K.
- Winn
- Wolf
- Xu
ABSENT: 3
Actions
- Mar 17, 2025 | Senate
- Hearing: Monday, March 17, 2025, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- Mar 07, 2025 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Mar 06, 2025 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Mar 06, 2025 | House
- Engrossed on Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 114 Nay: 8
- Mar 05, 2025 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carpenter, W.
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Carpenter, W. was adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Feb 27, 2025 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Federal and State Affairs
- Feb 17, 2025 | House
- Hearing: Monday, February 17, 2025, 9:00 AM Room 346-S
- Feb 11, 2025 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} - Supplementary Note
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Will Carpenter, Representative 75th District, Kansas House of Representatives (HB2378 Proponent In person)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Mark Tomb, Vice President of Governmental Affairs, Kansas Association of Realtors (HB2378 Proponent In person)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Chief Darrell Atteberry, Bel Aire Police Dept, Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police (HB2378 Proponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Rebekah Gaston, Kansas Attorney (HB2378 Neutral In person)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Nathan Madden, Policy Impact Strategist, Health Forward Foundation (HB2378 Opponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Dustin Hare, Economic Security Policy Advisor, Kansas Action for Children (HB2378 Opponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Sheriff Jeff Easter KSA Legislative Chair, Kansas Sheriffs' Assoc (HB2378 Proponent In person)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Kileen Lindgren, Legal Policy Manager, Pacific Legal Foundation (HB2378 Proponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Eliazbeth Patton, Kansas State Director,, Americans For Prosperity Kansas (HB2378 Proponent Written)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Natalie Scott, Revisor's Office, State of Kansas (HB2378 Bill Brief)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Mar 17, 2025: Testimony by Natalie Scott, Revisor's Office, State of Kansas (HB2378 Bill Brief 2)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 26, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Wed, Feb 26, 2025: Testimony by Representative John Resman, House Legislature (HB2378)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Minutes
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Sheriff Jeff Easter, Sedgewick, KS State Sheriff Assn (Oral Webex proponent)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Will Carpenter, Representative, 75th District (Oral proponent, HB2378)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Dustin Hare, Economic Security Policy Advisor (Written Opponent)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Mike Heim, Office of the Revisor of Statutes (HB2378 briefing)
- Senate Committee on Judiciary, Mon, Feb 17, 2025: Testimony by Will Carpenter, Chairman (Oral proponent)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Federal and State Affairs
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