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Kansas · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

HB 2477: Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes.

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 2477 is a bill introduced in the Kansas House on January 20, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Requiring the Kansas department of agriculture to publish a map on the department's official website that shows the location of all applied for diversions of water, including requested changes in the point of diversion by more than 300 feet, and expanding the current individual notice requirement to apply to all landowners that are within half a mile of such applied for diversions or changes. Primary sponsor: Committee on Water. Most recent recorded action (March 23, 2026): Approved by Governor on Friday, March 20, 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 WaterPrimary 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 Friday, March 20, 2026
  2. Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 13, 2026
  3. Consent Calendar Passed
  4. Committee Report recommending bill be passed and placed on Consent Calendar by Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
  5. Referred to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
  6. Final Action - Passed; Yea 124, Nay 0, Absent 1
  7. Received and Introduced
  8. Committee of the Whole - Be passed
  9. Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Water
  10. Introduced
  11. Referred to House Committee on Water

Sources

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