---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring community colleges to publish certain taxpayer and student transparency data."
description: "Requiring community colleges to publish certain taxpayer and student transparency data."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 2144"
citation: "Kansas HB 2144 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da3ab4d9-ddb4-449a-a9a0-d396159d9dd2"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2144"
source_hash: "84063215483d3f7c7f3504354a35da7348833178fa6804d9137a048a0caa7b1d"
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 2144 (2019-2020) — Requiring community colleges to publish certain taxpayer and student transparency data.

## 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/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2144_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2144_01_0000.pdf)
3. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2144_02_0000.pdf)
4. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2019** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2144_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Concurred with amendments in conference; — **116–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-05** Introduced
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Hearing: Tuesday, February 12, 2019, 1:30 PM Room 218-N
- **2019-02-25** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2019-02-27** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2019-02-27** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 84 Nay: 40 `passage`
- **2019-02-28** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** Engrossed on Wednesday, February 27, 2019
- **2019-03-06** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Hearing: Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 1:30 PM Room 144-S
- **2019-03-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Education `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2019-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2019-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2019-03-27** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-02** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2019-04-02** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Baumgardner, Senator Alley and Senator Sykes appointed as conferees
- **2019-04-04** Concurred with amendments in conference; Yea: 116 Nay: 6
- **2019-04-05** Reengrossed on Thursday, April 4, 2019
- **2019-05-01** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 8, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-01** Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 16, 2019 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da3ab4d9-ddb4-449a-a9a0-d396159d9dd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).