---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying juvenile offender review and dispositional hearing requirements; tolling case length limits for certain juvenile offenders; monitoring costs avoided through reductions in youth out-of-home placements by juvenile justice oversight committee."
description: "Clarifying juvenile offender review and dispositional hearing requirements; tolling case length limits for certain juvenile offenders; monitoring costs avoided through reductions in youth out-of-home placements by juvenile justice oversight committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "HB 2454"
citation: "Kansas HB 2454 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4056f06b-20ed-4ccf-ba97-fd0270f9301e"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2454"
source_hash: "341de35addced77b1b64fb08f20b81610b8ba92f017958d8e9296c8786675109"
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 2454 (2017-2018) — Clarifying juvenile offender review and dispositional hearing requirements; tolling case length limits for certain juvenile offenders; monitoring costs avoided through reductions in youth out-of-home placements by juvenile justice oversight committee.

## 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/b2017_18/measures/documents/hb2454_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/hb2454_01_0000.pdf)
3. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/hb2454_02_0000.pdf)
4. **Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2018** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/hb2454_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Concurred with amendments in conference; — **119–0** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **121–1** (pass) · legislature
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight — primary (organization)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-10** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-01-11** Referred to Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Hearing: Monday, February 12, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 152-S
- **2018-02-15** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2018-02-20** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2018-02-20** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 121 Nay: 1 `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Engrossed on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
- **2018-02-21** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-02-22** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** Hearing: Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- **2018-03-06** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2018-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2018-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2018-03-15** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2018-03-20** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2018-03-20** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Wilborn, Senator Lynn and Senator Haley appointed as conferees
- **2018-04-05** Concurred with amendments in conference; Yea: 119 Nay: 0
- **2018-04-06** Reengrossed on Thursday, April 5, 2018
- **2018-04-26** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-26** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 16, 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4056f06b-20ed-4ccf-ba97-fd0270f9301e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).