republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2017-2018/hb-2017.md

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Bill	Vacancy elections; United States representative to congress.	Vacancy elections; United States representative to congress.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2017-2018	HB 2017	Kansas HB 2017 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Representative Esau	4	19	2	2017-01-09	2017-01-18	openstates	ocd-bill/dc57c969-23b5-4a9a-9a71-305ac53d9bd7	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2017	8cdb520c80e53bf7892d26baf65bbba14a18fbfc895314fd7f7c374ebb9b9f81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas HB 2017 (2017-2018) — Vacancy elections; United States representative to congress.

Version chain

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

1. As introduced (filed) — source
2. As Amended by House Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled - Law effective January 18, 2017 (committee substitute) — source
4. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 122–1 (pass) · legislature
• Emergency Final Action - Passed; — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Representative Esau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-09 Prefiled for Introduction on Friday, January 06, 2017 filing
• 2017-01-09 Introduced introduction
• 2017-01-10 Hearing and possible action: Tuesday, January 10, 2017, 01:30 PM Room 281-N
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Elections referral-committee
• 2017-01-11 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Elections committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-01-12 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2017-01-12 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2017-01-12 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carmichael amendment-introduction
• 2017-01-12 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Carmichael was adopted amendment-passage
• 2017-01-12 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2017-01-12 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 1 passage
• 2017-01-12 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Committee of the Whole
• 2017-01-17 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2017-01-17 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
• 2017-01-17 Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 passage
• 2017-01-18 Engrossed on Wednesday, January 18, 2017
• 2017-01-18 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 executive-receipt
• 2017-01-18 Approved by Governor on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc57c969-23b5-4a9a-9a71-305ac53d9bd7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).