---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists."
description: "Enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2453"
citation: "Kansas HB 2453 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-03-08"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2791b616-0a47-403a-89da-b6f617a55e8d"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2453/"
source_hash: "fcb1edcf56ad638c4cd46eb61c8e7a003b84f9f81a7c1ab6e978aeade4033a89"
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 2453 (2023-2024) — Enacting the dentist and dental hygienist compact to provide interstate practice privileges for dentists and dental hygienists.

## 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/hb2453_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2453_enrolled.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-03-08** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Hearing: Thursday, January 25, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- **2024-02-07** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 119 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Hearing: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- **2024-03-20** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 38 Nay: 2 `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 5, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-25** Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2791b616-0a47-403a-89da-b6f617a55e8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).