---
type: "Bill"
title: "House Substitute for SB 60 by Committee on Agriculture - Extending the sunset of certain department of agriculture fees and allowing the secretary of agriculture to charge and collect a paper document processing fee."
description: "House Substitute for SB 60 by Committee on Agriculture - Extending the sunset of certain department of agriculture fees and allowing the secretary of agriculture to charge and collect a paper document processing fee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 60"
citation: "Kansas SB 60 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-06-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db5b3045-2b61-45a7-a58f-19b52512b683"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb60"
source_hash: "722040df8635efc4aa09ca205af78b45dd7b51362127b4d4c97e2acdd96f2886"
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 60 (2017-2018) — House Substitute for SB 60 by Committee on Agriculture - Extending the sunset of certain department of agriculture fees and allowing the secretary of agriculture to charge and collect a paper document processing fee.

## 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/sb60_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb60_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2017** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb60_enrolled.pdf)
4. **H Sub for** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb60_02_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **32–7** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Substitute passed; — **94–24** (pass) · legislature
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **107–11** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **35–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources — primary (organization)
- Committee on Agriculture — cosponsor (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-01-24** Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing: Thursday, February 02, 2017, 08:30 AM Room 159-S
- **2017-02-17** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2017-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2017-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 35 Nay: 5 `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-02-23** Referred to Committee on Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Hearing: Wednesday, March 08, 2017, 03:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2017-03-13** Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Agriculture `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-17** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2017-03-17** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed `substitution, passage`
- **2017-03-17** Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed `passage, substitution`
- **2017-03-20** Final Action - Substitute passed; Yea: 94 Nay: 24 `passage, substitution`
- **2017-03-20** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2017-03-21** Motion to accede adopted; Representative Hoffman, Representative Thompson and Representative Carlin appointed as conferees
- **2017-05-04** Conference committee report now available
- **2017-05-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2017-05-04** Conference Committee Report agree to disagree, not adopted
- **2017-05-18** Conference committee report now available
- **2017-05-18** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 107 Nay: 11 `passage`
- **2017-05-23** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2017-05-23** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 32 Nay: 7 `passage`
- **2017-05-30** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, May 30, 2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-08** Approved by Governor on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db5b3045-2b61-45a7-a58f-19b52512b683`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).