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IntroducedFeb 27, 2026
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Passed HouseMar 12, 2026
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Passed Senate
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Became Law
Kansas House Bill
Establishing the business enterprise program oversight task force to review state administration of priority placement for blind vendors on state property, allowing audits on the administration of such program, abolishing the vending facilities account outside the state treasury, establishing the business enterprise program fund in the Kansas department for children and families in the state treasury and transferring moneys from the vending facilities account to the business enterprise program fund.
Last Action See all actions
Senate • Mar 17, 2026: Referred to Committee on Government Efficiency
Latest Bill Text See all bill texts
Summary
Comments on HB 2788
Tweets
Whip Lists
Sponsors
- Committee on Appropriationssponsor

Votes
YES: 117
- Amyx
- Anderson
- Awerkamp
- Ballard
- Barrett
- Bergkamp
- Bergquist
- 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
- Poskin
- Proctor
- Rahjes
- Reavis
- 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
- Vaughn
- Waggoner
- Ward
- Wasinger
- Waymaster
- Weigel
- Wikle
- Wilborn
- Willcott
- K. Williams
- L. Williams
- Wilson
- Woodard
- Xu
Actions
- Mar 17, 2026 | Senate
- Referred to Committee on Government Efficiency
- Mar 16, 2026 | Senate
- Received and Introduced
- Mar 13, 2026 | House
- Engrossed on Thursday, March 12, 2026
- Mar 12, 2026 | House
- Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 117 Nay: 1
- Mar 09, 2026 | House
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Appropriations
- Mar 04, 2026 | House
- Hearing: Wednesday, March 4, 2026, 9:00 AM Room 112-N
- Feb 27, 2026 | House
- Introduced
- Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Documents
- As introduced - Fiscal Note
- As Amended by House Committee - Supplementary Note
- House Committee on Appropriations, Thu, Mar 5, 2026: Minutes
- House Committee on Appropriations, Thu, Mar 5, 2026: Testimony by Representative Williams, District 77 (HB2788 Amendment - Audit)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Thu, Mar 5, 2026: Testimony by Representative Carpenter, District 75 (HB2788 Amendment - Member Elections)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Thu, Mar 5, 2026: Testimony by Representative Williams, District 77 (HB2788 Amendment - Task Force)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Minutes
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Representative Williams, (Proponent - In-Person)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Tom Page, Chair, Kansas Advisory Committee on Services for the Blind (Testimony Virtually - Neutral)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Andrew Cain, Business Enterprise Program (BEP) Vendor (Testimony Written-Only - Proponent)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Greg Meise, BEP Business Owner (Testimony Written-Only - Proponent)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Matt Miller, Private Citizen (Testimony Written-Only - Proponent)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Jessie Pringle, Assistant Revisor of Statutes, Office of Revisor of Statutes (Bill Brief)
- House Committee on Appropriations, Wed, Mar 4, 2026: Testimony by Laura Howard, Secretary, Department for Children and Families (Testimony Written-Only - Neutral)
- Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Appropriations
