republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2023-2024/hb-2024.md

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Bill	Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children.	Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2023-2024	HB 2024	Kansas HB 2024 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted		5	29	4	2023-01-12	2023-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b7c4b836-7d38-4e6e-ae89-c28f10df8368	http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2024/	6fe129fbef7af1432a37d549a35cfc0ce57b083d6908d52635965fa4f64cd963	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas HB 2024 (2023-2024) — Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children.

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. As Further Amended by House Committee (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled - Law effective May 4, 2023 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — 35–5 (pass) · upper
• Final Action - Passed as amended; — 94–30 (pass) · lower
• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 116–0 (pass) · lower
• Conference Committee Report was adopted; — 36–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joint Committee on Child Welfare System Oversight — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-12 Introduced introduction
• 2023-01-13 Referred to Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care referral-committee
• 2023-01-18 Hearing: Monday, January 23, 2023, 1:30 PM Room 152-S
• 2023-02-01 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-08 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2023-02-08 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2023-02-08 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Representative Carr amendment-introduction
• 2023-02-08 Committee of the Whole - Motion by Representative Concannon to rerefer to Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care passed referral-committee
• 2023-02-17 Committee Report recommending bill be further amended and be passed as amended by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care committee-passage
• 2023-02-21 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2023-02-21 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2023-02-21 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended passage
• 2023-02-22 Engrossed on Tuesday, February 21, 2023
• 2023-02-22 Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 94 Nay: 30 passage
• 2023-02-22 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare referral-committee
• 2023-03-08 Hearing: Monday, March 13, 2023, 8:30 AM Room 142-S
• 2023-03-14 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Public Health and Welfare committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-29 Committee of the Whole - Now working on
• 2023-03-29 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
• 2023-03-29 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2023-03-29 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 35 Nay: 5 passage
• 2023-04-03 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
• 2023-04-04 Motion to accede adopted; Senator Gossage, Senator Erickson and Senator Pettey appointed as conferees
• 2023-04-06 Conference committee report now available
• 2023-04-06 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 36 Nay: 1 passage
• 2023-04-06 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 116 Nay: 0 passage
• 2023-04-24 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-04-25 Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7c4b836-7d38-4e6e-ae89-c28f10df8368. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).