---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating a portion of United States highway 166 as the SGT Evan S Parker memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 56 as the PFC Shane Austin memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Tom R Van Sickle memorial highway, a certain bridge on K-126 as the Dennis Crain memorial bridge, a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway and bridges on K-66 highway as veterans memorial bridge."
description: "Designating a portion of United States highway 166 as the SGT Evan S Parker memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 56 as the PFC Shane Austin memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Tom R Van Sickle memorial highway, a certain bridge on K-126 as the Dennis Crain memorial bridge, a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway and bridges on K-66 highway as veterans memorial bridge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 2478"
citation: "Kansas HB 2478 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rhiley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72b99ef5-159e-4489-8e0b-81004d576f6e"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2478"
source_hash: "3220db0e78fee5675947d3bc7344b5a84d983a72e1eff9364cd65ac90f2295a5"
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 2478 (2021-2022) — Designating a portion of United States highway 166 as the SGT Evan S Parker memorial highway, a portion of U.S. highway 56 as the PFC Shane Austin memorial highway, a portion of United States highway 69 as the Senator Tom R Van Sickle memorial highway, a certain bridge on K-126 as the Dennis Crain memorial bridge, a portion of United States highway 69 as the AMM2c Walter Scott Brown memorial highway and bridges on K-66 highway as veterans memorial bridge.

## 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/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2478_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2022** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2478_enrolled.pdf)
3. **Version 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2478_01_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed; — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **120–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rhiley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Hearing: Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2022-01-26** Hearing: Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2022-02-11** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-02-17** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 113 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-17** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-02-18** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Hearing: Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 8:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2022-03-09** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2022-03-16** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2022-03-17** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2022-03-22** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Petersen, Senator Claeys and Senator Hawk appointed as conferees
- **2022-03-29** Senator Bowers is appointed to replace Senator Claeys on the Conference Committee
- **2022-03-30** Conference committee report now available
- **2022-03-30** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-31** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 120 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-04-01** Engrossed on Friday, April 1, 2022
- **2022-04-25** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 8, 2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-25** Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72b99ef5-159e-4489-8e0b-81004d576f6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).