---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing for department of health and environment response operations for water and soil pollutant release, discharge or escape."
description: "Providing for department of health and environment response operations for water and soil pollutant release, discharge or escape."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 2155"
citation: "Kansas HB 2155 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c1b5f46-caed-4a5e-987c-7ed4eb8120cb"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2155"
source_hash: "8f59ec069f06236108334a65164e2215ab6cb261101d5c88e42c3735e51e0c02"
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 2155 (2021-2022) — Providing for department of health and environment response operations for water and soil pollutant release, discharge or escape.

## 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/hb2155_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2155_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **85–36** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Agriculture `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** Hearing: Thursday, February 4, 2021, 3:30 PM Room 112-N
- **2021-02-11** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Agriculture `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-18** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-02-18** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 85 Nay: 36 `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-19** Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Hearing: Friday, March 12, 2021, 8:30 AM Room 144-S
- **2021-03-16** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-24** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-03-24** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Final Action - Passed; `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 2, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-09** Approved by Governor on Friday, April 9, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c1b5f46-caed-4a5e-987c-7ed4eb8120cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).