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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2237: Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2237 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Authorizing hiring, recruitment and retention bonuses in state agencies' employee award and recognition program, increasing the limitation on such award or bonus to $10,000, eliminating the secretary of administration's authority to adopt rules and regulations and requiring such secretary to submit an annual report to certain legislative committees concerning such awards and bonuses. Primary sponsor: Committee on Appropriations. Most recent recorded action (April 9, 2026): Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Committee on AppropriationsPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Approved by Governor on Monday, April 6, 2026
  2. Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 27, 2026
  3. Final Action - Passed; Yea 29, Nay 11
  4. Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  5. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Senate Committee on Ways and Means
  6. Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means
  7. Received and Introduced
  8. Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  9. Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
  10. Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 122, Nay 1, Absent 2
  11. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Appropriations
  12. Introduced

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source