republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2017-2018/hb-2439.md

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Bill	Creating an additional crime of involuntary manslaughter for certain violations of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.	Creating an additional crime of involuntary manslaughter for certain violations of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2017-2018	HB 2439	Kansas HB 2439 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	Representative Brim Representative Delperdang Representative Jennings Representative Mastroni Representative Ryckman Representative Schwab Representative Smith, E. Representative Tarwater Representative Wheeler	4	24	2	2018-01-08	2018-03-09	openstates	ocd-bill/db3e0661-4507-49d0-a55e-d0958f54c457	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2439	eae15e562f1fa81842ffdac08c54cc16286e402ff9b5794961123da8b77ec618	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas HB 2439 (2017-2018) — Creating an additional crime of involuntary manslaughter for certain violations of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

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 July 01, 2018 (committee substitute) — source
4. {As Amended by Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Action - Passed; — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Final Action - Passed as amended; — 122–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Representative Brim — primary (person)
• Representative Delperdang — primary (person)
• Representative Jennings — primary (person)
• Representative Mastroni — primary (person)
• Representative Ryckman — primary (person)
• Representative Schwab — primary (person)
• Representative Smith, E. — primary (person)
• Representative Tarwater — primary (person)
• Representative Wheeler — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-08 Prefiled for Introduction on Thursday, December 21, 2017 filing
• 2018-01-08 Introduced introduction
• 2018-01-08 Referred to Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Hearing: Thursday, January 18, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 152-S
• 2018-01-10 Hearing: Thursday, January 18, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 152-S
• 2018-01-25 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Hodge amendment-introduction
• 2018-01-26 Representative Jennings raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane.
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Jennings amendment-introduction
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Jennings was adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-01-26 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2018-01-29 Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 122 Nay: 0 passage
• 2018-01-29 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2018-01-30 Engrossed on Friday, January 26, 2018
• 2018-01-30 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 Hearing: Tuesday, February 06, 2018, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
• 2018-02-08 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-21 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-02-21 Committee of the Whole - Be passed passage
• 2018-02-22 Final Action - Passed; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 passage
• 2018-03-02 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 02, 2018 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor on Friday, March 9, 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db3e0661-4507-49d0-a55e-d0958f54c457. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).