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Bill	Senate Substitute for HB 2701 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the statewide broadband expansion planning task force.	Senate Substitute for HB 2701 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the statewide broadband expansion planning task force.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2017-2018	HB 2701	Kansas HB 2701 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted		7	36	4	2018-02-07	2018-04-26	openstates	ocd-bill/74e3c7fa-1be9-4028-b918-0b982936125e	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2701	a3e19a2f0c6771e62d9aa09f2adcd0f358b2dee1991020aeedd6b119aa325e9f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas HB 2701 (2017-2018) — Senate Substitute for HB 2701 by Committee on Utilities - Creating the statewide broadband expansion planning task force.

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. As Amended by Senate Committee (committee substitute) — source
4. Enrolled - Law effective May 03, 2018 (committee substitute) — source
5. S Sub for (committee substitute) — source
6. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source
7. {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 117–3 (pass) · legislature
• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 117–0 (pass) · legislature
• Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications — primary (organization)
• Committee on Utilities — cosponsor (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-07 Introduced
• 2018-02-08 Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications referral-committee
• 2018-02-08 Hearing: Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 09:00 AM Room 582-N
• 2018-02-19 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Gartner amendment-introduction
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Gartner was adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-02-22 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2018-02-22 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 117 Nay: 0 passage
• 2018-02-28 Engrossed on Friday, February 23, 2018
• 2018-02-28 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2018-03-01 Referred separately to Committee on Commerce and Committee on Utilities referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Hearing: Friday, March 09, 2018, 08:30 AM Room 548-S
• 2018-03-12 Hearing continuation: Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 08:30 AM Room 548-S
• 2018-03-15 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Commerce committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-15 Bill now in Committee on Utilities
• 2018-03-19 Hearing: Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 548-S
• 2018-03-19 Hearing continuation: Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 548-S
• 2018-03-26 Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by Committee on Utilities committee-passage-favorable
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed substitution, passage
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Francisco amendment-introduction
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Francisco was adopted amendment-passage
• 2018-03-28 Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended passage, substitution
• 2018-03-29 Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 passage, substitution
• 2018-04-02 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2018-04-03 Motion to accede adopted; Senator Olson, Senator Petersen and Senator Hawk appointed as conferees
• 2018-04-06 Conference committee report now available
• 2018-04-07 Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
• 2018-04-07 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 passage
• 2018-04-07 Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
• 2018-04-07 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 117 Nay: 3 passage
• 2018-04-07 Reengrossed on Saturday, April 7, 2018
• 2018-04-26 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 16, 2018 executive-receipt
• 2018-04-26 Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74e3c7fa-1be9-4028-b918-0b982936125e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).