Bill Commons

KS HB 2535

dead

Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.

Kansas · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did KS HB 2535 pass?

No. KS HB 2535 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process. Latest recorded action (2026-04-10): Rep. Daniel Hawkins, Rep. Chris Croft, and Rep. Tom Sawyer are appointed to replace Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams, and Rep. Dan Osman on the Conference Committee

What is KS HB 2535 about?

KS HB 2535 is a bill in the 2026 Regular Session titled “Providing that certain portions of the crime of cruelty to animals do not apply to any person who catches a feral cat to provide vaccination, spaying or neutering and returns such cat back to the location where such cat is caught.”.

Who sponsors KS HB 2535?

Committee on Judiciary is the primary sponsor of KS HB 2535.

Introduced
2026-01-23
Latest action
2026-04-10 — Rep. Daniel Hawkins, Rep. Chris Croft, and Rep. Tom Sawyer are appointed to replace Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams, and Rep. Dan Osman on the Conference Committee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Committee on Judiciaryprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-04-10

    Rep. Daniel Hawkins, Rep. Chris Croft, and Rep. Tom Sawyer are appointed to replace Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams, and Rep. Dan Osman on the Conference Committee

  2. 2026-04-10

    Sen. Ty Masterson and Sen. Chase Blasi are appointed to replace Sen. Kellie Warren and Sen. Kenny Titus on the Conference Committee

  3. 2026-04-10

    Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

  4. 2026-04-10

    Motion to suspend Joint Rule 4 (k) to allow consideration adopted

  5. 2026-04-10

    Conference committee report now available

  6. 2026-04-10

    Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 30, Nay 8, Absent 1

  7. 2026-04-10

    Motion to not adopt Conference Committee Report passed; Yea 107, Nay 14, Absent 4 (Bill is killed)

  8. 2026-04-10

    Died on Calendar

    failure

  9. 2026-03-24

    Motion to accede adopted; Sen. Kellie Warren, Sen. Kenny Titus and Sen. Ethan Corson appointed as conferees

  10. 2026-03-23

    Nonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Susan Humphries, Rep. Laura Williams and Rep. Dan Osman

  11. 2026-03-19

    Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 39, Nay 1

    passage

  12. 2026-03-18

    Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted

    passage

  13. 2026-03-18

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended

    passage

  14. 2026-03-05

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Judiciary

    committee-passage-favorable

  15. 2026-02-26

    Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary

    referral-committee

  16. 2026-02-25

    Received and Introduced

    introduction

  17. 2026-02-19

    Committee of the Whole - Be passed

    passage

  18. 2026-02-19

    Motion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted

  19. 2026-02-19

    Emergency Final Action - Passed; Yea 98, Nay 18, Absent 9

    passage

  20. 2026-02-10

    Committee Report recommending bill be passed by House Committee on Judiciary

    committee-passage-favorable

  21. 2026-01-23

    Introduced

    introduction

  22. 2026-01-23

    Referred to House Committee on Judiciary

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/bills/HB2535/

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T04:56:44.586501Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=KS&identifier=HB 2535. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.