HB 2238 Kansas House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Directing legislative administrative services to prepare all committee minutes.

HB 2238 shifts the responsibility for preparing committee meeting minutes from the Legislative Research Department to the Legislative Administrative Services. The bill amends Kansas statutes to require Legislative Administrative Services to create minutes for all committee meetings (including special, select, joint, and standing committees), documenting attendance, agenda decisions, committee actions, and other relevant details during both legislative sessions and adjourned periods. This change reassigns an internal administrative duty within the Kansas legislature, affecting how committee records are maintained. The bill repeals prior language assigning this task to the Legislative Research Department and takes effect upon publication in the statute book.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Apr 2025
Introduced Feb 4, 2025 Signed Apr 10, 2025
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As Amended by House Committee on Legislative Modernization Enrolled · 4 edits · Apr 10, 2025
MODERATE
This bill reorganizes the legislative staff by transferring the responsibility for preparing committee minutes from the legislative research department to the newly named division of legislative administrative services. It also clarifies the specific duties of both departments, ensuring administrative staff handle general support and minute-taking while research staff focus on study assistance and fiscal analysis.
Scope change
The scope of the division of legislative administrative services was expanded to explicitly include the preparation of committee minutes, a task previously handled by the legislative research department.
REQUIREMENT

The duty to prepare committee minutes was moved from the legislative research department to the division of legislative administrative services.

The legislative research department's duties were narrowed to focus on assisting with committee planning, research, and fiscal analysis, removing the requirement to prepare minutes.

DEFINITION

The title of the administrative services unit was changed from 'department' to 'division' in the statutory text.

TECHNICAL

Added certification language and signature lines for the Speaker, Chief Clerk, Senate President, Secretary, and Governor to finalize the enrolled bill.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
14
Key actions
8
Committee
4
Apr 10, 2025
Signed into law
Approved by Governor on Wednesday, March 26, 2025
lower
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Consent Calendar Passed
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
upper
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
Referred to Senate Committee on Government Efficiency
upper
Feb 25, 2025
Introduced
Received and Introduced
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 123, Nay 0, Absent 2
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Legislative Modernization
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
Referred to House Committee on Legislative Modernization
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Introduced
Introduced
lower
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