---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating a portion of United States highway 69 in Crawford county as the Robert Lessen memorial highway."
description: "Designating a portion of United States highway 69 in Crawford county as the Robert Lessen memorial highway."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2014"
citation: "Kansas HB 2014 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Collins"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/158c88c2-d023-4ea3-bd97-f2f71d55bf21"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2014/"
source_hash: "d1416130491e9ba14c7ffdabe5f3947c5496d216361ea380a45df9b6caee6b31"
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 2014 (2023-2024) — Designating a portion of United States highway 69 in Crawford county as the Robert Lessen memorial highway.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2014_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2014_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2023** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2014_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Action - Passed; — **118–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **122–1** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Collins — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Hearing: Thursday, February 2, 2023, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2023-02-07** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-02-08** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 118 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-02-09** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-02-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Hearing: Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 8:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2023-03-09** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-03-15** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-03-15** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 36 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-28** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2023-04-03** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Petersen, Senator Kloos and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
- **2023-04-05** Senator Thompson and Senator Faust-Goudeau are appointed to replace Senator Petersen and Senator Corson on the Conference Committee
- **2023-04-05** Representative Carpenter, W., Representative Kessler, and Representative Hoye are appointed to replace Representative Francis, Representative Neelly, and Representative Ballard on the Conference Committee
- **2023-04-06** Conference committee report now available
- **2023-04-06** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 122 Nay: 1 `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-24** Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/158c88c2-d023-4ea3-bd97-f2f71d55bf21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).