---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing for the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people."
description: "Providing for the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 2008"
citation: "Kansas HB 2008 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Haswood", "Victors"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a41a5835-762c-41c5-a93f-b910d171f002"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2008"
source_hash: "f95894b512633bcac10a0ec077a942cba6916b8e880d1da67390257c9535e78e"
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 2008 (2021-2022) — Providing for the attorney general to coordinate training for law enforcement agencies on missing and murdered indigenous people.

## 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/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2008_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2008_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar Passed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **123–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Haswood — primary (person)
- Victors — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled for Introduction on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Withdrawn from Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice; Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Hearing: Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2021-01-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-28** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-01-28** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-01-28** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 123 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-01-28** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-29** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Withdrawn from Committee on Judiciary; Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Hearing: Thursday, March 18, 2021, 10:30 AM Room 144-S
- **2021-03-18** Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Committee on Federal and State Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Consent Calendar Passed Yea: 40 Nay: 0
- **2021-03-29** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 29, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-07** Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a41a5835-762c-41c5-a93f-b910d171f002`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).