republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2017-2018/sb-68.md

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Bill	Enacting the Kansas lay caregiver act.	Enacting the Kansas lay caregiver act.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2017-2018	SB 68	Kansas SB 68 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted		3	20	2	2017-01-23	2017-03-29	openstates	ocd-bill/cd240f89-6bf9-4a60-86b3-7e4bd5cf3ed1	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb68	65e94864b231ccb2e272a24795db652454bb6a3a760c9c71d0193182e0ad2268	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 68 (2017-2018) — Enacting the Kansas lay caregiver act.

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 Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2017 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 38–1 (pass) · legislature
• Final Action - Passed; — 125–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-23 Introduced introduction
• 2017-01-24 Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Hearing: Wednesday, February 01, 2017, 09:30 AM Room 118-N
• 2017-01-31 Hearing: Wednesday, February 01, 2017, 09:30 AM Room 118-N
• 2017-02-21 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-02-23 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2017-02-23 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2017-02-23 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2017-02-23 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 38 Nay: 1 passage
• 2017-02-23 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2017-03-06 Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 Hearing: Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 01:30 PM Room 546-S
• 2017-03-15 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Health and Human Services committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-03-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2017-03-22 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Ward amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-22 Representative Hawkins raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane.
• 2017-03-22 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
• 2017-03-23 Final Action - Passed; Yea: 125 Nay: 0 passage
• 2017-03-27 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, March 27, 2017 executive-receipt
• 2017-03-29 Approved by Governor on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd240f89-6bf9-4a60-86b3-7e4bd5cf3ed1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).