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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2274: Designating Kansas as a purple heart state and permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency when applying for nondriver identification cards.

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 2274 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on February 5, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Designating Kansas as a purple heart state and permitting homeless veterans to use alternative forms of proof of identity and residency when applying for nondriver identification cards. Primary sponsor: Committee on Veterans and Military. Most recent recorded action (March 13, 2026): Approved by Governor on Thursday, March 12, 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 Veterans and MilitaryPrimary 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 Thursday, March 12, 2026
  2. Enrolled and presented to Governor on Tuesday, March 3, 2026
  3. Engrossed on Thursday, February 26, 2026
  4. Concurred with amendments; Yea 121, Nay 0, Absent 4
  5. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 40, Nay 0
  6. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  7. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  8. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs
  9. Withdrawn from Calendar, Rereferred to Senate Committee on Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs
  10. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs
  11. Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs; Rereferred to Senate Committee on Senate Select Committee on Veterans Affairs
  12. Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Ways and Means; Referred to Senate Committee on Ways and Means

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

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