---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring a person providing wrecker or towing service or agency to provide a certification of compliance to a purchaser upon the sale and transfer of an abandoned or towed vehicle, prohibiting the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, offer for sale, installation or reinstallation of a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or nonfunctional airbag and providing for criminal penalties for violation thereof and expanding permitted lighting equipment on vehicles to include all ground effect lighting."
description: "Requiring a person providing wrecker or towing service or agency to provide a certification of compliance to a purchaser upon the sale and transfer of an abandoned or towed vehicle, prohibiting the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, offer for sale, installation or reinstallation of a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or nonfunctional airbag and providing for criminal penalties for violation thereof and expanding permitted lighting equipment on vehicles to include all ground effect lighting."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2147"
citation: "Kansas HB 2147 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eca856be-cd9c-4d21-8f2b-b181519a4da9"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2147/"
source_hash: "add647e31814772f94dcdb9096418f05fe7f73426ebc421b96d435cad24b859a"
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 2147 (2023-2024) — Requiring a person providing wrecker or towing service or agency to provide a certification of compliance to a purchaser upon the sale and transfer of an abandoned or towed vehicle, prohibiting the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, offer for sale, installation or reinstallation of a counterfeit supplemental restraint system component or nonfunctional airbag and providing for criminal penalties for violation thereof and expanding permitted lighting equipment on vehicles to include all ground effect lighting.

## 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/hb2147_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2147_01_0000.pdf)
3. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2147_03_0000.pdf)
4. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2023** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2147_enrolled.pdf)
5. **{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2147_02_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **106–16** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **122–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Hearing: Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2023-02-21** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Awerkamp `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Awerkamp was adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Engrossed on Friday, February 24, 2023
- **2023-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Hearing: Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 8:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2023-03-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-28** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-03-28** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-03-29** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2023-04-04** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Petersen, Senator Kloos and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
- **2023-04-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2023-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 106 Nay: 16 `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-24** Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eca856be-cd9c-4d21-8f2b-b181519a4da9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).