republic-os/legislation/us/states/ks/2025-2026/sb-237.md

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Bill	Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.	Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.	us/states/ks	Kansas Legislature	2025-2026	SB 237	Kansas SB 237 (2025-2026)	bill	HB 2349	enacted		5	26	0	2025-02-06	2025-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/edda4606-bd87-417a-8e40-f8e67c0dfbb9	https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/SB237/	f908adc6d52c8ab8112280dbe0fc1d612821047af93c33170254a844edde77ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ks

Kansas SB 237 (2025-2026) — Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.

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 on Judiciary (committee substitute) — source
3. {As Amended by House Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source
4. {As Amended by Senate Committee of the Whole} (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (organization)

Timeline

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

• 2025-04-11 Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-11 Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 18, 2025
• 2025-04-10 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 38, Nay 2
• 2025-04-10 Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted
• 2025-03-27 Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 121, Nay 3, Absent 1
• 2025-03-27 Conference committee report now available
• 2025-03-24 Motion to accede adopted; Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman appointed as conferees
• 2025-03-24 Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson
• 2025-03-20 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 118, Nay 0, Absent 7 passage
• 2025-03-20 Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
• 2025-03-20 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended passage
• 2025-03-20 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Rep. Dan Osman was adopted passage
• 2025-03-20 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Dan Osman
• 2025-03-19 Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-10 Referred to House Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Received and Introduced introduction
• 2025-03-06 Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0 passage
• 2025-03-06 Committee of the Whole - Be passed as further amended passage
• 2025-03-06 Committee of the Whole - Amendment by Sen. Kellie Warren was adopted passage
• 2025-03-06 Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Sen. Kellie Warren
• 2025-03-06 Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted passage
• 2025-02-25 Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole referral-committee
• 2025-02-20 Withdrawn from Calendar; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-07 Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Introduced introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/edda4606-bd87-417a-8e40-f8e67c0dfbb9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).