---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university."
description: "Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "SB 453"
citation: "Kansas SB 453 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce5b173f-4364-4fe7-9fbb-df25ba888ae9"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb453"
source_hash: "aa2d9164d42b6b1a340c91b8fccab5bfbb9c1b661c8464eea60d2b6866764f7b"
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 453 (2021-2022) — Requiring unlicensed employees in adult care homes to complete certain training requirements, reinstating the social worker applicant option for board-approved postgraduate supervised experience, allowing master's and clinical level licensees to take the baccalaureate addiction counselor test and requiring the behavioral sciences regulatory board to accept a master of social work degree from Fort Hays state university as from an accredited college or university.

## 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/sb453_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb453_02_0000.pdf)
3. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb453_01_0000.pdf)
4. **Enrolled - Law effective April 28, 2022** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb453_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **122–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Health and Welfare — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Hearing: Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- **2022-02-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2022-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Hearing: Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- **2022-03-16** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-21** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-03-21** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2022-03-21** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2022-03-21** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-22** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2022-03-23** Motion to accede adopted; Representative Landwehr, Representative Eplee and Representative Ruiz, S. appointed as conferees
- **2022-03-31** Conference committee report now available
- **2022-04-01** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 116 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-04-01** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 8, 2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-25** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 18, 2022 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce5b173f-4364-4fe7-9fbb-df25ba888ae9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).