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Bill Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots with a distinctive watermark, requiring the secretary of state and local election officers to develop an affidavit to be signed by election workers regarding handling of completed ballots, requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years, requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period and exempting poll workers from certain election crimes. Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots with a distinctive watermark, requiring the secretary of state and local election officers to develop an affidavit to be signed by election workers regarding handling of completed ballots, requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years, requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period and exempting poll workers from certain election crimes. us/states/ks Kansas Legislature 2021-2022 HB 2138 Kansas HB 2138 (2021-2022)
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Kansas HB 2138 (2021-2022) — Providing for the use of electronic poll books in elections and the approval of such books by the secretary of state, requiring all voting systems for elections to use individual voter-verified paper ballots with a distinctive watermark, requiring the secretary of state and local election officers to develop an affidavit to be signed by election workers regarding handling of completed ballots, requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years, requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period and exempting poll workers from certain election crimes.

Version chain

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

  1. As introduced (filed) — source
  2. Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2022 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Version 2 (committee substitute) — source
  4. {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Final Action - Passed; — 120–4 (pass) · lower
  • Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 82–40 (pass) · lower
  • Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Peck was adopted — 20–15 (pass) · upper
  • Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; — 33–6 (pass) · upper
  • Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 28–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Committee on Federal and State Affairs — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-01-26 Introduced introduction
  • 2021-01-27 Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2021-01-27 Hearing: Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 9:00 AM Room 346-S
  • 2021-02-22 Hearing: Friday, February 26, 2021, 9:00 AM Room 346-S
  • 2021-03-01 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Federal and State Affairs committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  • 2021-03-02 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
  • 2021-03-03 Final Action - Passed; Yea: 120 Nay: 4 passage
  • 2021-03-03 Received and Introduced introduction
  • 2021-03-05 Referred to Committee on Federal and State Affairs referral-committee
  • 2021-03-11 Hearing: Monday, March 15, 2021, 10:30 AM Room 144-S
  • 2021-03-18 Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Federal and State Affairs committee-passage-favorable
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed passage, substitution
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Alley amendment-introduction
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Alley was adopted amendment-passage
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Peck amendment-introduction
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Peck was adopted Yea: 20 Nay: 15 amendment-passage
  • 2021-04-07 Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended passage, substitution
  • 2021-04-08 Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 33 Nay: 6 passage, substitution
  • 2021-04-09 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
  • 2021-05-03 Motion to accede adopted; Senator Alley, Senator Hilderbrand and Senator Faust-Goudeau appointed as conferees
  • 2022-03-30 Senator Olson is appointed to replace Senator Alley on the Conference Committee
  • 2022-03-31 Representative Bergquist and Representative Miller are appointed to replace Representative Arnberger and Representative Ruiz, L. on the Conference Committee
  • 2022-04-01 Conference committee report now available
  • 2022-04-01 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 28 Nay: 8 passage
  • 2022-04-26 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 82 Nay: 40 passage
  • 2022-04-27 Reengrossed on Wednesday, April 27, 2022
  • 2022-05-23 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 6, 2022 executive-receipt
  • 2022-05-23 Approved by Governor on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a81a8004-f1fa-4610-b96a-22bb948acdf1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).