---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing all-terrain vehicles to cross federal or state highways."
description: "Allowing all-terrain vehicles to cross federal or state highways."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "HB 2248"
citation: "Kansas HB 2248 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4fa6761-4597-41cb-aa6f-4d84468f5241"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2248"
source_hash: "a406643197174ccca014145ce213bb977f825ae3cdb7430730362e78d3dbba21"
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 2248 (2019-2020) — Allowing all-terrain vehicles to cross federal or state highways.

## 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/hb2248_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2248_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2019** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2248_enrolled.pdf)
4. **{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2019_20/measures/documents/hb2248_02_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **110–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** Hearing: Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2019-02-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2019-02-26** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 122 Nay: 2 `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** Hearing: Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 8:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2019-03-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `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 - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Braun `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Braun was adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended `passage`
- **2019-03-27** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2019-04-01** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2019-04-01** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Petersen, Senator Goddard and Senator Pettey appointed as conferees
- **2019-05-01** Senator Wilborn, Senator Rucker, and Senator Miller are appointed to replace Senator Petersen, Senator Goddard, and Senator Pettey on the Conference Committee
- **2019-05-01** Representative Patton, Representative Ralph, and Representative Carmichael are appointed to replace Representative Proehl, Representative Thimesch, and Representative Helgerson on the Conference Committee
- **2019-05-04** Conference committee report now available
- **2019-05-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2019-05-04** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2019-05-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2019-05-04** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 110 Nay: 11 `passage`
- **2019-05-04** Engrossed on Monday, May 6, 2019
- **2019-05-29** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 10, 2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-29** Approved by Governor on Thursday, May 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/b4fa6761-4597-41cb-aa6f-4d84468f5241`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).