republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2021-2022/hb-2158.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight, providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents, requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement, permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family foster homes where a former foster care youth with certain juvenile adjudications resides making permanent provisions for the advisory committee on trauma and the statewide trauma system regional council to conduct closed meetings and keep privileged records regarding trauma cases."
description: "Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight, providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents, requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement, permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family foster homes where a former foster care youth with certain juvenile adjudications resides making permanent provisions for the advisory committee on trauma and the statewide trauma system regional council to conduct closed meetings and keep privileged records regarding trauma cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "HB 2158"
citation: "Kansas HB 2158 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39d6d8f8-1839-4faa-b351-0423e387dca7"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/hb2158"
source_hash: "12063a74c6f33381b4ca320de787a16812a258cffc6590fb417089c96bf716f0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ks"]
---

# Kansas HB 2158 (2021-2022) — Establishing the joint committee on child welfare system oversight, providing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents, requiring visual observation of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect as part of an investigation, exempting the caregiver of a child in state out-of-home placement from the child care assistance 20-hour-per-week work requirement, permitting the secretary for children and families to license certain family foster homes where a former foster care youth with certain juvenile adjudications resides making permanent provisions for the advisory committee on trauma and the statewide trauma system regional council to conduct closed meetings and keep privileged records regarding trauma cases.

## Version chain

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

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2158_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by Senate Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2158_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/hb2158_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed; — **121–1** (pass) · lower
- Final Action - Passed as amended; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **121–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Withdrawn from Committee on Health and Human Services; Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Development `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Hearing: Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 9:00 AM Room 218-N
- **2021-02-10** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Development `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-02-17** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 121 Nay: 1 `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-19** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Hearing: Thursday, March 18, 2021, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
- **2021-03-19** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-30** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-03-30** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2021-03-30** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2021-04-08** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Hilderbrand, Senator Gossage and Senator Pettey appointed as conferees
- **2021-05-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2021-05-05** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 121 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-05-07** Engrossed on Friday, May 7, 2021
- **2021-05-26** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 14, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-26** Approved by Governor on Friday, May 21, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39d6d8f8-1839-4faa-b351-0423e387dca7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).