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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2453: Requiring applications for advance voting ballots be filed by the 14th day prior to election day, that advance voting in person be completed by 12:00 p.m. on the Sunday prior to election day, extending the time for transmittal of advance voting ballots to 22 days prior to an election and ending the time for voter registration at 23 days prior to election day.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 2453 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on January 15, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring applications for advance voting ballots be filed by the 14th day prior to election day, that advance voting in person be completed by 12:00 p.m. on the Sunday prior to election day, extending the time for transmittal of advance voting ballots to 22 days prior to an election and ending the time for voter registration at 23 days prior to election day. Primary sponsor: Committee on Elections. Most recent recorded action (April 10, 2026): Died in Senate Committee.

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 ElectionsPrimary 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. Died in Senate Committee
  2. Referred to Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs
  3. Engrossed on Tuesday, February 17, 2026
  4. Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 86, Nay 38, Absent 1
  5. Received and Introduced
  6. Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
  7. Committee of the Whole - Motion to Amend - Offered by Rep. Kirk Haskins
  8. Rep. Sandy Pickert raised a question of germaneness. The amendment was ruled not germane
  9. Committee of the Whole - Ruling of the chair was sustained
  10. Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
  11. Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Elections
  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