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IntroducedJan 20, 2026
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Passed HouseFeb 18, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Kansas House Bill
Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 03, 2026: Hearing: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 8:30 AM Room 144-S
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Mar 03, 2026 08:30am
144-S
Summary
Comments on HB 2477
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Watersponsor
- Josh McGinn on behalf of the Kansas Department of AgricultureRequester
Votes
YES: 124
- Alcala
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- Blex
- Bloom
- Boatman
- Bohi
- Borjon
- Brantley
- Wanda Brownlee Paige
- Brunk
- Bryce
- Buehler
- Butler
- Caiharr
- Carlin
- Carmichael
- B. Carpenter
- W. Carpenter
- Carr
- Chauncey
- Collins
- Corbet
- Croft
- Curtis
- Delperdang
- Droge
- Ellis
- Esau
- Essex
- Estes
- Fairchild
- Featherston
- Francis
- Gardner
- Goddard
- Goetz
- Haskins
- Hawkins
- Helgerson
- Helwig
- Hoffman
- Hoheisel
- Howe
- Howell
- Howerton
- Hoye
- Huebert
- Humphries
- James
- Johnson
- Kessler
- King
- Lewis
- Long
- Martinez
- McDonald
- McNorton
- Melton
- Meyer
- Minnix
- Moser
- Mosley
- Neelly
- Neighbor
- Ohaebosim
- Oropeza
- Osman
- Ousley
- Pickert
- Pishny
- Samantha Poetter Parshall
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- Resman
- Rhiley
- Roeser
- Roth
- L. Ruiz
- S. Ruiz
- Sanders
- Sappington
- Sawyer
- Stephanie Sawyer Clayton
- Schlingensiepen
- Schmoe
- Schreiber
- Schwertfeger
- Seiwert
- Simmons
- A. Smith
- C. Smith
- Steele
- Stiens
- Stogsdill
- Sutton
- Sweely
- Tarwater
- Turk
- Turner
- VanHouden
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- White
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Wolf
- Woodard
- Xu
NO: 0
ABSENT: 1
Actions
- Mar 03, 2026 | Senate
- Hearing: Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 8:30 AM Room 144-S
- Feb 19, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Feb 18, 2026 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Feb 18, 2026 | House
- Final Action - Passed; Yea: 124 Nay: 0
- Feb 17, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed
- Feb 05, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Water
- Jan 29, 2026 | House
- Hearing: Thursday, January 29, 2026, 9:00 AM Room 218-N
- Jan 20, 2026 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Water
Bill Texts
Documents
- As introduced - Supplementary Note
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- House Committee on Water, Thu, Jan 29, 2026: Minutes
- House Committee on Water, Thu, Jan 29, 2026: Testimony by Lane Letourneau, Kansas Department of Agriculture (Proponent HB2477)
- House Committee on Water, Thu, Jan 29, 2026: Testimony by Orrin Feril, Groundwater Management District 5 (Neutral HB2477)
- House Committee on Water, Thu, Jan 29, 2026: Testimony by Justin Cobb, Kansas Farm Bureau (Neutral HB2477)
- House Committee on Water, Thu, Jan 29, 2026: Testimony by Kyle Hamilton, Office of Revisor of Statutes (Bill Brief HB2477)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Water
