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type: "Bill"
title: "Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments."
description: "Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "SB 421"
citation: "Kansas SB 421 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-05-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6cd588c-947e-423a-87a1-44765cce265b"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb421"
source_hash: "86c22862d344450027c54f72bd9f0926e7154259bb7f4ae4213124ad9bdbba08"
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 SB 421 (2021-2022) — Transferring a total of $1,125,000,000 from the state general fund to the Kansas public employees retirement fund during FY 2022 and FY 2023, allowing the state finance council to stop such FY 2023 transfers and eliminating certain level-dollar KPERS employer contribution payments.
## 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/sb421_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb421_01_0000.pdf)
3. **Enrolled - Law effective May 19, 2022** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb421_enrolled.pdf)
4. **{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb421_02_0000.pdf)
## Votes
- Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Xu was rejected — **38–79** (fail) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **106–10** (pass) · lower
- Final Action - Passed; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **113–5** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **26–10** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Committee on Ways and Means — primary (organization)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-01** Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-02-03** Hearing: Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 10:30 AM Room 548-S
- **2022-02-03** Referred to Committee on Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Ways and Means `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-02-22** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Committee on Insurance and Pensions `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Hearing: Monday, March 7, 2022, 3:30 PM Room 218-N
- **2022-03-08** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Insurance and Pensions `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Waymaster `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Waymaster was adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Xu `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-03-09** Representative S. Johnson raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled germane.
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Xu was rejected Yea: 38 Nay: 79 `amendment-failure`
- **2022-03-09** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 113 Nay: 5 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2022-03-15** Motion to accede adopted; Representative S. Johnson, Representative Croft and Representative Neighbor appointed as conferees
- **2022-03-31** Conference committee report now available
- **2022-03-31** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 106 Nay: 10 `passage`
- **2022-04-28** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2022-04-28** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 26 Nay: 10 `passage`
- **2022-05-23** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 6, 2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-05-23** Approved by Governor on Thursday, May 12, 2022 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6cd588c-947e-423a-87a1-44765cce265b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).