| KS | SB115 | Pass | Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 22, 2024 |
| KS | SB394 | Pass | Requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Will become law without Governor's signature |
| KS | SB458 | Enroll
75% | Specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act, providing limitations on state and local law enforcement agency requests for federal adoption of a seizure under the act,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | SB473 | Enroll
75% | Authorizing a notice to appear that meets certain requirements to serve as a lawful complaint under the Kansas code of criminal procedure, requiring a minimum bond premium in district court and providing reasons for suspending or terminating authoriz...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | SB349 | Enroll
75% | House Substitute for SB 349 by Committee on Judiciary - Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | SB18 | Pass | Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 22, 2024 |
| KS | SB232 | Engross
50% | House Substitute for Substitute for SB 232 by Committee on Judiciary - Directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
House Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 82 Nay: 38 |
| KS | SB500 | Engross
50% | Providing restricted driving privileges for certain individuals that fail to comply with a traffic citation, authorizing certain individuals with revoked driving privileges to be eligible for restricted driving privileges, permitting such individuals...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
House Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 120 Nay: 0 |
| KS | SB381 | Pass | Authorizing the board of county commissioners of any county that is not the most populous county in a multiple-county judicial district to appoint a coroner to serve as the district coroner for the county at the expense of the county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
| KS | SB491 | Pass | Standardizing criminal history record check fingerprinting language and defining who may be fingerprinted for a criminal history record check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
| KS | SB414 | Engross
50% | Creating the crime of encouraging suicide and providing criminal penalties therefor, amending the crime of aggravated endangering a child to increase the criminal penalties when bodily harm to the child results and when a child is in certain environm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-02
House Motion to accede adopted; Representative Owens, Representative Smith, E. and Representative Carmichael appointed as conferees |
| KS | SB190 | Engross
50% | House Substitute for SB 190 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring persons who file lawsuits for wrongful conviction compensation to prove additional information, changing the compensation rates to daily rates instead of yearly rates and limiting hous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | SB493 | Engross
50% | Requiring ignition interlock device manufacturers to pay fees to the state for the administration of the ignition interlock program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee |
| KS | SB416 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB415 | Intro
25% | Creating the crime of organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, increasing the criminal penalties for theft of certain property, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB379 | Engross
50% | Providing a longer time for notice to creditors by publication when a petition for administration or probate of a will is filed, changing the process for transferring personal property by affidavit in small estates and modifying time requirements for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB448 | Intro
25% | Establishing procedures in the Kansas code of procedure for municipal courts related to determination of an accused person's competency to stand trial and requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for the costs o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB492 | Intro
25% | Repealing the prohibition on transportation of alcoholic beverages in opened containers and on drinking or consuming alcoholic liquor inside vehicles while on the public streets, alleys, roads or highways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee |
| KS | SB483 | Intro
25% | Establishing the crime of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB463 | Intro
25% | Changing the membership of the Kansas judicial council from four resident lawyers to one resident lawyer from each congressional district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB413 | Intro
25% | Specifying criminal penalties for unlawful distribution of fentanyl-related controlled substances when distributed by weight or dosage unit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB449 | Intro
25% | Expanding the definition of healthcare provider for individuals providing care at the scene of an emergency or accident.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB412 | Intro
25% | Modifying criminal sentencing rules applicable in multiple conviction cases where consecutive sentences may be imposed by the sentencing judge and the sentence for the primary crime is a nonprison sentence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB443 | Intro
25% | Requiring landowners whose land is taken by eminent domain for electric transmission lines to be compensated at not less than fair market value multiplied by 150%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Utilities Committee |
| KS | SB444 | Intro
25% | Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of a county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district and allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB441 | Intro
25% | Enacting the fairness in condemnation act to require the condemning authority to provide the property owner notice of a planned condemnation proceeding, an offer for purchase and a court review of compliance with this act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB439 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB440 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting suspension of a person's driving privileges or driver's license due to nonpayment of fines or court costs from traffic citations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB442 | Intro
25% | Prohibiting assignment of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to supervision by court services officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB418 | Intro
25% | Requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a decision has not been entered and filed within six months of submission and a list of cases in which a petition for re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB392 | Intro
25% | Granting the medicaid inspector general access to the prescription monitoring program database without a warrant and replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas bureau of investigation with a member appointed by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB393 | Intro
25% | Requiring automated expungement of certain records from a person's criminal record to seal such records from public view and limit disclosure thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB380 | Intro
25% | Clarifying a special sentencing rule applicable to violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB238 | Intro
25% | Increasing criminal penalties on drug-related crimes when the drug is fentanyl and creating special sentencing rules for mandatory imprisonment and additional terms of imprisonment for drug-related crimes when the drug is fentanyl or is attractive to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
Senate Motion to strike from Calendar adopted; |
| KS | SB174 | Pass | Increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider, adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and for manufacturing or d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, May 11, 2023 |
| KS | SB228 | Pass | Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-26
House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 87 Nay: 37 |
| KS | SB217 | Pass | Including the conduct of utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted persons location, movement or travel patterns in the crime of stalking when done as part of an unlawful course of conduct an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023 |
| KS | SB75 | Pass | Providing a statutory interest rate for prejudgment interest in all civil tort actions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023 |
| KS | SB189 | Pass | Authorizing state and local law enforcement agencies to receive files and information about an applicant from other agencies that received an application for employment from the applicant or conducted an employment background investigation on the app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023 |
| KS | SB244 | Pass | House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating the Kansas general corporation code, the business entity transactions act, the business entity standard treatment act, the Kansas revised uniform limited partnership act and the Kansas ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023 |
| KS | SB243 | Pass | Providing requirements and procedures for settlement agreements involving a minor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023 |
| KS | SB193 | Intro
25% | Enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB74 | Intro
25% | Providing for joint liability for costs and sanctions in third-party funded litigation, requiring certain discovery disclosures and requiring payment of certain costs for nonparty subpoenas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB240 | Intro
25% | Amending the crime of aggravated endangering a child to increase the criminal penalties in certain environments where any person is distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, manufacturing or attempting to manufacture fentanyl-related contro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB191 | Intro
25% | Establishing requirements for the involuntary discharge or transfer of a resident in an adult residential care facility, the right to appeal such discharge or transfer and a process for such appeal.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-16
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB239 | Intro
25% | Providing that certain witnesses shall have the right to be accompanied by a support person during testimony and may be accompanied by a certified critical incident response therapy K9 team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB242 | Intro
25% | Enacting the cold case homicide victims' families' rights act to provide for a system for reviewing the case files of cold case homicides upon written application by certain persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB241 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB72 | Intro
25% | Adding an exception to the hearsay rule to allow admission of statements made to a translator without the testimony of the translator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB216 | Intro
25% | Adding possession or using a firearm during the commission of certain drug crimes to the crime of criminal use of weapons and creating a special sentencing rule of presumptive imprisonment for violations thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
