---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating Silvisaurus condrayi as the official state land fossil."
description: "Designating Silvisaurus condrayi as the official state land fossil."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Kansas SB 3 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bowers"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30575f23-3d23-478c-bf5e-9be7073ba570"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/sb3/"
source_hash: "76c999787731cf3e027d49e2d0e98c57ea6495b093fc78982f36d2cf7032128b"
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 SB 3 (2023-2024) — Designating Silvisaurus condrayi as the official state land fossil.

## 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/sb3_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2023** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/sb3_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **119–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bowers — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Prefiled for Introduction on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 `filing`
- **2023-01-09** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Hearing: Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 10:30 AM Room 144-S
- **2023-01-19** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Federal and State Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Hearing: Thursday, March 9, 2023, 9:00 AM Room 346-S
- **2023-03-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Federal and State Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2023-03-27** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 119 Nay: 4 `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 3, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-24** Approved by Governor on Friday, April 7, 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30575f23-3d23-478c-bf5e-9be7073ba570`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).