republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2021-2022/sb-47.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns and authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct, exempting compensation attributable as a result of identity fraud, extending the dates when corporate returns are required to be filed, providing conformity with the federal return due date for returns other than corporate returns, providing a temporary withholding option for certain teleworking employees, establishing the Eisenhower foundation contribution credit and the friends of cedar crest association contribution credit, extending the time period and expanding eligibility for the single city port authority credit, extending the time period for eligibility in the loan repayment program and income tax credit related to rural opportunity zones and defining rural opportunity zone on the basis of population."
description: "Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns and authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct, exempting compensation attributable as a result of identity fraud, extending the dates when corporate returns are required to be filed, providing conformity with the federal return due date for returns other than corporate returns, providing a temporary withholding option for certain teleworking employees, establishing the Eisenhower foundation contribution credit and the friends of cedar crest association contribution credit, extending the time period and expanding eligibility for the single city port authority credit, extending the time period for eligibility in the loan repayment program and income tax credit related to rural opportunity zones and defining rural opportunity zone on the basis of population."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "Kansas SB 47 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4ad9cc4-4170-444b-8b84-b30241001ad1"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb47"
source_hash: "d50f17126804fc186ae6cb64e23434c5130cb33367691d322bef275163a5c6fd"
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 47 (2021-2022) — Enacting the Kansas taxpayer protection act requiring the signature and tax identification number of paid tax return preparers on income tax returns and authorizing actions to enjoin paid tax return preparers from engaging in certain conduct, exempting compensation attributable as a result of identity fraud, extending the dates when corporate returns are required to be filed, providing conformity with the federal return due date for returns other than corporate returns, providing a temporary withholding option for certain teleworking employees, establishing the Eisenhower foundation contribution credit and the friends of cedar crest association contribution credit, extending the time period and expanding eligibility for the single city port authority credit, extending the time period for eligibility in the loan repayment program and income tax credit related to rural opportunity zones and defining rural opportunity zone on the basis of population.

## 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/sb47_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective May 27, 2021** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb47_enrolled.pdf)
3. **{As Amended by House Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb47_01_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **115–8** (pass) · lower
- Conference Committee Report was adopted; — **107–14** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar Passed — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Assessment and Taxation — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-01-22** Referred to Committee on Assessment and Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-22** Hearing: Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 9:30 AM Room 548-S
- **2021-01-26** Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Committee on Assessment and Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-01** Consent Calendar Passed Yea: 39 Nay: 0
- **2021-02-02** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-02-03** Referred to Committee on Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Hearing: Monday, February 8, 2021, 3:30 PM Room 346-S
- **2021-02-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Taxation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2021-03-04** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Gartner `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-03-04** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Representative Gartner was adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-04** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 115 Nay: 8 `passage`
- **2021-03-10** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2021-03-15** Motion to accede adopted; Representative Smith, A., Representative Mason and Representative Gartner appointed as conferees
- **2021-05-04** Conference committee report now available
- **2021-05-04** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-04** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 107 Nay: 14 `passage`
- **2021-05-05** Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted;
- **2021-05-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 40 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2021-05-07** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, May 7, 2021 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-05-26** Approved by Governor on Monday, May 17, 2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4ad9cc4-4170-444b-8b84-b30241001ad1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).