republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2021-2022/sb-40.md

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Bill	Prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to the COVID-19 health emergency, adding the vice president of the senate to the legislative coordinating council, modifying the procedure for the declaration and extension of a state of disaster emergency under the Kansas emergency management act, prohibiting certain actions by the governor related to the COVID-19 health emergency and revoking all executive orders related to such emergency on March 31, 2021, establishing judicial review for certain executive orders issued during a state of disaster emergency and certain actions taken by a local unit of government during a state of local disaster emergency, authorizing the legislature or the legislative coordinating council to revoke certain orders issued by the secretary of health and environment and limiting powers granted to local health officers related to certain orders.	Prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to the COVID-19 health emergency, adding the vice president of the senate to the legislative coordinating council, modifying the procedure for the declaration and extension of a state of disaster emergency under the Kansas emergency management act, prohibiting certain actions by the governor related to the COVID-19 health emergency and revoking all executive orders related to such emergency on March 31, 2021, establishing judicial review for certain executive orders issued during a state of disaster emergency and certain actions taken by a local unit of government during a state of local disaster emergency, authorizing the legislature or the legislative coordinating council to revoke certain orders issued by the secretary of health and environment and limiting powers granted to local health officers related to certain orders.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2021-2022	SB 40	Kansas SB 40 (2021-2022)	bill		enacted		5	30	4	2021-01-21	2021-03-25	openstates	ocd-bill/82cf793d-6d80-4fe4-8f3c-255e22f2a3e1	http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb40	8ac72daad8fc607926b80359671128bae1a8258194db1799cde2f4af983926e6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 40 (2021-2022) — Prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to the COVID-19 health emergency, adding the vice president of the senate to the legislative coordinating council, modifying the procedure for the declaration and extension of a state of disaster emergency under the Kansas emergency management act, prohibiting certain actions by the governor related to the COVID-19 health emergency and revoking all executive orders related to such emergency on March 31, 2021, establishing judicial review for certain executive orders issued during a state of disaster emergency and certain actions taken by a local unit of government during a state of local disaster emergency, authorizing the legislature or the legislative coordinating council to revoke certain orders issued by the secretary of health and environment and limiting powers granted to local health officers related to certain orders.

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 March 25, 2021 (committee substitute) — source
4. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source
5. {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 123–1 (pass) · lower
• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 118–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21 Introduced introduction
• 2021-01-22 Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-22 Hearing: Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 8:30 AM Room 144-S
• 2021-01-28 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-04 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2021-02-04 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2021-02-04 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Kerschen amendment-introduction
• 2021-02-04 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Kerschen was adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-02-04 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended passage
• 2021-02-04 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 37 Nay: 0 passage
• 2021-02-05 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2021-02-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture referral-committee
• 2021-02-10 Hearing: Thursday, February 18, 2021, 3:30 PM Room 112-N
• 2021-02-23 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Agriculture committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-02-25 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2021-02-25 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Haswood amendment-introduction
• 2021-02-25 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Haswood was adopted amendment-passage
• 2021-02-25 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2021-02-25 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 123 Nay: 1 passage
• 2021-02-25 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2021-03-01 Motion to accede adopted; Representative Rahjes, Representative Smith, E. and Representative Carlin appointed as conferees
• 2021-03-03 Senator Warren, Senator Wilborn, and Senator Corson are appointed to replace Senator Kerschen, Senator Straub, and Senator Ware on the Conference Committee
• 2021-03-03 Representative Patton, Representative Ralph, and Representative Carmichael are appointed to replace Representative Rahjes, Representative Smith, E., and Representative Carlin on the Conference Committee
• 2021-03-10 Senator Thompson is appointed to replace Senator Wilborn on the Conference Committee
• 2021-03-12 Senator Wilborn is appointed to replace Senator Thompson on the Conference Committee
• 2021-03-16 Conference committee report now available
• 2021-03-16 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 118 Nay: 5 passage
• 2021-03-16 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 31 Nay: 8 passage
• 2021-03-18 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Thursday, March 18, 2021 executive-receipt
• 2021-03-25 Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82cf793d-6d80-4fe4-8f3c-255e22f2a3e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).