---
type: "Bill"
title: "Designating a portion of interstate 435 as the Officer Donald Burton Gamblin Jr memorial highway and a portion of United States highway 69 as the Robert Lessen memorial highway."
description: "Designating a portion of interstate 435 as the Officer Donald Burton Gamblin Jr memorial highway and a portion of United States highway 69 as the Robert Lessen memorial highway."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2298"
citation: "Kansas HB 2298 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ab0c005-01ec-4486-bfe5-95238dfc013c"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2298/"
source_hash: "016ac226be089bf8287d868e82edb7c5a76c9f626b353b7f079ef1641d0af67b"
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 2298 (2023-2024) — Designating a portion of interstate 435 as the Officer Donald Burton Gamblin Jr memorial highway and a portion of United States highway 69 as the Robert Lessen memorial highway.

## 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/hb2298_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2298_01_0000.pdf)
3. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2298_02_0000.pdf)
4. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2023** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2298_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **122–0** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **122–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Transportation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-02-07** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Hearing: Monday, February 13, 2023, 1:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2023-02-16** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Engrossed on Thursday, February 23, 2023
- **2023-02-23** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** Hearing: Tuesday, March 14, 2023, 8:30 AM Room 546-S
- **2023-03-16** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-23** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-23** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-03-23** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-03-27** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-27** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2023-03-28** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Petersen, Senator Dietrich and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
- **2023-03-29** Senator Kloos is appointed to replace Senator Dietrich on the Conference Committee
- **2023-04-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2023-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-04-24** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-25** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ab0c005-01ec-4486-bfe5-95238dfc013c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).