republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2023-2024/hb-2144.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties."
description: "Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2144"
citation: "Kansas HB 2144 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 30
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2eea9335-5c95-4513-86b1-edfe79d0f574"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2144/"
source_hash: "6d48238badbf8419bf9b4f2caadcefb416226890bfc6af65e4f32fda91fe4eb6"
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 2144 (2023-2024) — Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

## Version chain

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

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2144_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 1, 2024** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2144_enrolled.pdf)
3. **Version 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2144_01_0000.pdf)
4. **{As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole}** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2144_02_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed; — **123–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** Hearing: Wednesday, February 1, 2023, 3:30 PM Room 582-N
- **2023-02-13** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-01** Withdrawn from Committee on Appropriations and re-referred to Committee of the Whole `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-07** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 123 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-09** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Hearing: Thursday, March 23, 2023, 10:30 AM Room 346-S
- **2024-03-21** Committee Report recommending substitute bill be passed by `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-03-25** Committee of the Whole - Passed over and retain a place on the calendar
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted recommending substitute bill be passed `passage, substitution`
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Warren `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Warren was adopted `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Senator Corson `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Senator Corson was rejected `amendment-failure`
- **2024-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Substitute bill be passed as amended `passage, substitution`
- **2024-03-27** Final Action - Substitute passed as amended; Yea: 30 Nay: 10 `passage, substitution`
- **2024-04-01** Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed
- **2024-04-01** Motion to accede adopted; Senator Warren, Senator Wilborn and Senator Corson appointed as conferees
- **2024-04-05** Conference committee report now available
- **2024-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 32 Nay: 4 `passage`
- **2024-04-05** Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 107 Nay: 12 `passage`
- **2024-04-25** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-25** Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2eea9335-5c95-4513-86b1-edfe79d0f574`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).