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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Requiring employers who impose COVID-19 vaccine requirements to allow medical and religious exemptions, providing for waiver requests, authorizing a complaint and investigation process with the secretary of labor for violations related to exemptions, enforcement actions by the attorney general and civil penalties to be imposed by a court for such violations and providing exceptions under the employment security law related to benefit eligibility conditions and disqualification conditions based on refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine requirements."
+description: "Requiring employers who impose COVID-19 vaccine requirements to allow medical and religious exemptions, providing for waiver requests, authorizing a complaint and investigation process with the secretary of labor for violations related to exemptions, enforcement actions by the attorney general and civil penalties to be imposed by a court for such violations and providing exceptions under the employment security law related to benefit eligibility conditions and disqualification conditions based on refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine requirements."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
+legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
+session: "2021S1"
+identifier: "HB 2001"
+citation: "Kansas HB 2001 (2021S1)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barker", "Landwehr", "Owens", "Tarwater"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-11-22"
+last_action: "2021-11-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6b92c93-bea5-4b22-bc6c-00470413a59a"
+source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2001"
+source_hash: "0dffccdceb14eba6f7fceec52ae67dd8e1566a812f82f2d85b5fd0386e89101d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
+---
+
+# Kansas HB 2001 (2021S1) — Requiring employers who impose COVID-19 vaccine requirements to allow medical and religious exemptions, providing for waiver requests, authorizing a complaint and investigation process with the secretary of labor for violations related to exemptions, enforcement actions by the attorney general and civil penalties to be imposed by a court for such violations and providing exceptions under the employment security law related to benefit eligibility conditions and disqualification conditions based on refusal to comply with COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2021s/b2021s/measures/documents/hb2001_00_0000.pdf)
+2. **{As Amended by House on Final Action}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2021s/b2021s/measures/documents/hb2001_01_0000.pdf)
+3. **{As Amended by Senate on Final Action}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2021s/b2021s/measures/documents/hb2001_02_0000.pdf)
+4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li_2021s/b2021s/measures/documents/hb2001_enrolled.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Pyle was adopted — **28–7** (pass) · upper
+- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **25–13** (pass) · upper
+- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **24–11** (pass) · upper
+- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **77–34** (pass) · lower
+- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **78–40** (pass) · lower
+- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Straub was adopted — **30–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barker — primary (person)
+- Landwehr — primary (person)
+- Owens — primary (person)
+- Tarwater — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-11-22** Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Motion to move bill to Emergency Final Action Subject to Amendment and Debate, adopted by 2/3 majority.
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to refer to committee failed Committee on Federal and State Affairs
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Jacobs `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Jacobs was adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 78 Nay: 40 `passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Handwritten Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Jacobs
+- **2021-11-22** Received and Introduced `introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Masterson `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Masterson was adopted `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Pyle `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Pyle was adopted Yea: 28 Nay: 7 `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator McGinn `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Senator Masterson raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane.
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Straub `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-11-22** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Straub was adopted Yea: 30 Nay: 6 `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 25 Nay: 13 `passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
+- **2021-11-22** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Masterson, Senator Erickson and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
+- **2021-11-22** Conference committee report now available
+- **2021-11-22** Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Masterson, Senator Erickson and Senator Corson appointed as second conferees
+- **2021-11-22** Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Barker, Representative Owens and Representative Miller appointed as second conferees
+- **2021-11-22** Conference committee report now available
+- **2021-11-22** Conference committee report now available
+- **2021-11-22** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 24 Nay: 11 `passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 77 Nay: 34 `passage`
+- **2021-11-22** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-11-22** Approved by Governor on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d6b92c93-bea5-4b22-bc6c-00470413a59a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).
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