---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the social work licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for social workers."
description: "Enacting the social work licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for social workers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2484"
citation: "Kansas HB 2484 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruiz,S."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c56383f-891d-489e-827d-4f7d869eaf95"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2484/"
source_hash: "8bbd65512dd30bf3c1ac1f539df86e7b30f3cc229c102593a2f5b81d51b2e4ae"
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 2484 (2023-2024) — Enacting the social work licensure compact to provide interstate practice privileges for social workers.

## 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/hb2484_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2484_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2484_enrolled.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Ruiz,S. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Prefiled for Introduction on Friday, January 5, 2024 `filing`
- **2024-01-08** Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Hearing: Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- **2024-02-14** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2024-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 118 Nay: 2 `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Engrossed on Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- **2024-02-29** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2024-03-01** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** Hearing: Monday, March 18, 2024, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- **2024-03-20** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 35 Nay: 5 `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 5, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-25** Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c56383f-891d-489e-827d-4f7d869eaf95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).