---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Kansas school equity and enhancement act."
description: "Creating the Kansas school equity and enhancement act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "Kansas SB 19 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b7ad853-80fb-4542-98fb-0bc8e089670b"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb19"
source_hash: "5e2ba4f3a1bb98700ccfb09e3c52851e8e0a8bd94cccdb47a6eceb74ce6fa6de"
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 SB 19 (2017-2018) — Creating the Kansas school equity and enhancement act.

## 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/sb19_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb19_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2017** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb19_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **67–55** (pass) · legislature
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **23–17** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **119–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference Committee Report not adopted; — **32–91** (fail) · legislature
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-01-13** Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-17** Hearing: Thursday, January 19, 2017, 09:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2017-01-26** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Financial Institutions and Insurance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-02** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2017-02-02** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2017-02-02** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 38 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2017-02-03** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee on Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** Hearing: Thursday, February 16, 2017, 09:00 AM Room 281-N
- **2017-03-09** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Insurance `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2017-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2017-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2017-03-17** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 119 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2017-03-20** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2017-03-21** Motion to accede adopted; Representative Vickrey, Representative Dove and Representative Neighbor appointed as conferees
- **2017-06-01** Representative Campbell, Representative Aurand, and Representative Trimmer are appointed to replace Representative Vickrey, Representative Dove, and Representative Neighbor on the Conference Committee
- **2017-06-03** Senator Denning, Senator McGinn, and Senator Hensley are appointed to replace Senator Longbine, Senator Billinger, and Senator Rogers on the Conference Committee
- **2017-06-04** Conference committee report now available
- **2017-06-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2017-06-04** Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Representative Campbell, Representative Aurand and Representative Trimmer appointed as second conferees
- **2017-06-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2017-06-04** Conference Committee Report agree to disagree adopted; Senator Denning, Senator McGinn and Senator Hensley appointed as second conferees
- **2017-06-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2017-06-05** Conference Committee Report not adopted; Yea: 32 Nay: 91 `failure`
- **2017-06-05** Motion to Reconsider Adopted
- **2017-06-05** Conference Committee Report not adopted; Representative Campbell, Representative Aurand and Representative Trimmer appointed as third conferees
- **2017-06-05** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Denning, Senator McGinn and Senator Hensley appointed as third conferees
- **2017-06-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2017-06-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 67 Nay: 55 `passage`
- **2017-06-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 23 Nay: 17 `passage`
- **2017-06-09** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, June 09, 2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-26** Approved by Governor on Thursday, June 15, 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b7ad853-80fb-4542-98fb-0bc8e089670b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).