---
type: "Bill"
title: "House Substitute for SB 56 by Committee on Government, Technology and Security - Creating the Kansas cybersecurity act and revising membership of the information technology executive council."
description: "House Substitute for SB 56 by Committee on Government, Technology and Security - Creating the Kansas cybersecurity act and revising membership of the information technology executive council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 56"
citation: "Kansas SB 56 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2018-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d76ce75-f854-49e1-972e-bedcb3c46bb6"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb56"
source_hash: "e8f889ad916640145b4a0124cbb74825a437d5919edd7f1c1d2f0670433666c1"
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 56 (2017-2018) — House Substitute for SB 56 by Committee on Government, Technology and Security - Creating the Kansas cybersecurity act and revising membership of the information technology executive council.

## Version chain

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

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb56_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2018** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb56_enrolled.pdf)
3. **H Sub for** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb56_01_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed; — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Substitute passed; — **124–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **119–0** (pass) · legislature
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **37–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government — primary (organization)
- Committee on Government, Technology and Security — cosponsor (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-01-24** Referred to Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Hearing: Wednesday, February 01, 2017, 09:30 AM Room 142-S
- **2017-02-08** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2017-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2017-02-23** Referred to Committee on Elections `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Hearing: Monday, March 13, 2017, 01:30 PM Room 281-N
- **2018-01-17** Hearing: Monday, January 22, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 281-N
- **2018-03-19** Withdrawn from Committee on Elections; Referred to Committee on Government, Technology and Security `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Government, Technology and Security `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2018-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed `substitution, passage`
- **2018-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed `passage, substitution`
- **2018-03-27** Final Action - Substitute passed; Yea: 124 Nay: 0 `passage, substitution`
- **2018-03-28** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2018-03-28** Motion to accede adopted; Representative Sloan, Representative Lewis and Representative Curtis appointed as conferees
- **2018-04-02** Senator Hawk is appointed to replace Senator Kelly on the Conference Committee
- **2018-04-06** Conference committee report now available
- **2018-04-06** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 119 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2018-04-26** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2018-04-26** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 37 Nay: 2 `passage`
- **2018-05-01** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, May 01, 2018 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-05-04** Approved by Governor on Friday, May 11, 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d76ce75-f854-49e1-972e-bedcb3c46bb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).