---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses."
description: "Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HB 2237"
citation: "Kansas HB 2237 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration", "Department of", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2026-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/277ad11d-0ec9-4e1a-b2a0-b1b6ca26b081"
source_url: "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2237/"
source_hash: "ef7edde8c215e34bece849616e0cb60413376085b9b4507e56e14efc34eae094"
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 2237 (2025-2026) — Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.

## Version chain

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

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year1/ready_for_publication/hb_2237/hb2237_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/download/?apn=b2025_26/year2/ready_for_publication/hb_2237/hb2237_enrolled.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Committee on Appropriations — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-04-09** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-26** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026
- **2026-03-19** Final Action - Passed; Yea 29, Nay 11 `passage`
- **2026-03-18** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2025-03-19** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 122, Nay 1, Absent 2 `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
- **2025-03-19** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Appropriations `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04** Referred to House Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** Introduced `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/277ad11d-0ec9-4e1a-b2a0-b1b6ca26b081`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).