| KS | HB2144 | Enroll
75% | Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | HB2353 | Pass | Increasing the amount of time a person may be held for treatment and adding criteria for when continued treatment may be ordered under the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 |
| KS | HB2549 | Pass | Changing the lists of persons who are required to be given notice of the hearing on a petition for an independent or stepparent, private agency or public agency adoption and limiting a petition to terminate parental rights to adoption proceedings and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | HB2675 | Pass | Enacting the uniform nonparent visitation act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024 |
| KS | HB2754 | Pass | Authorizing counties to use home rule powers to exempt from conducting school sanitary inspections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 |
| KS | HB2781 | Pass | Allowing compensation from the crime victims compensation board to be awarded for criminally injurious conduct, and increasing the amount that can be transferred from the crime victims compensation fund to the crime victims assistance fund in each fi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024 |
| KS | HB2070 | Engross
50% | Senate Substitute for HB 2070 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency, making orders granting custody for adoption subject to the federal Indian child welfare act, directing the secreta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Senate Conference committee report now available |
| KS | HB2604 | Pass | Increasing the dollar amount for a small claim to $10,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
| KS | HB2605 | Pass | Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel for an indigent person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
House Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024 |
| KS | HB2510 | Engross
50% | Authorizing a party to obtain discovery of the existence and content of an agreement for third-party funding of litigation under the code of civil procedure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
House Engrossed on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 |
| KS | HB2557 | Pass | Expanding the definition of "peer support counseling session" in the rules of evidence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
House Approved by Governor on Friday, March 29, 2024 |
| KS | HB2293 | Engross
50% | Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
Senate Motion to reconsider previous action. Failing to meet the required 2/3 majority the motion was rejected. Yea: 18 Nay: 17 |
| KS | HB2755 | Engross
50% | Requiring compensated sureties who post bond in municipal court to comply with certain requirements, requiring a minimum bond premium in district court and providing reasons for suspending or terminating authorization of a compensated surety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Senate Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Judiciary |
| KS | HB2676 | Engross
50% | Substitute for HB 2676 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crime of encouraging suicide and providing criminal penalties therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2381 | Intro
25% | Requiring the court to appoint an attorney to represent a child who is the subject of child in need of care proceedings and allowing for the optional appointment of a guardian ad litem.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
House Hearing continuation: Thursday, March 7, 2024, 3:30 PM Room 582-N |
| KS | HB2780 | Intro
25% | 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 housing assistance offered to such persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2606 | Engross
50% | Specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act, requiring courts to make a finding that forfeiture is not excessive, restricting actions prior to commencement of forfeit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2782 | Intro
25% | Authorizing the secretary of corrections to use hypoxia for the purpose of carrying out a sentence of death and requiring the district court to issue a warrant to the secretary of corrections to carry out a sentence of death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2693 | Intro
25% | Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2593 | Intro
25% | Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2592 | Intro
25% | Requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2691 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2753 | Intro
25% | Creating the crime of aggravated sexual extortion, providing criminal penalties for violations thereof and adding making a demand for money or other thing of value to the elements of sexual extortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2707 | Intro
25% | Modifying automobile insurance policy uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Insurance Committee |
| KS | HB2708 | Intro
25% | Eliminating the cap on nonpecuniary loss in a wrongful death action when the action is brought against a person convicted of murder and extending the statute of limitations for wrongful death actions from two years to five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee |
| KS | HB2692 | Intro
25% | Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2550 | Intro
25% | Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2010 | Pass | Senate Substitute for HB 2010 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating a statutory cross reference to provide proper jury instruction in cases when a defendant lacks the required mental state to commit a crime; increasing the penalty for certain violatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-28
House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 |
| KS | HB2130 | Pass | Permitting a copy of a will to be filed and admitted to probate, increasing certain dollar amounts in the Kansas probate code, adjusting time requirements linked to notice by publication and mailing in the Kansas probate code and clarifying how prope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-25
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023 |
| KS | HB2015 | Pass | Authorizing the designee of an employing agency or entity to petition the court for an order requiring infectious disease testing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 |
| KS | HB2016 | Pass | Senate Substitute for HB 2016 by the Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the act against abusive access litigation to create a civil action for determining whether litigation that alleges any access violation under the Americans with disabilities act o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 |
| KS | HB2121 | Pass | Substitute for HB 2121 by the Committee on Judiciary - Extending the suspension of statutory speedy trial time limitations and providing that time during the COVID-19 public health emergency shall not be assessed against the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 10, 2023 |
| KS | HB2127 | Pass | Senate Substitute for HB 2127 by Committee on Judiciary - Permitting a prosecution for childhood sexual abuse to be commenced at any time, extending the time to file civil actions against an individual perpetrator or an entity for recovery of damages...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 |
| KS | HB2131 | Pass | Providing that the mission of the judicial council is to study the administration of justice in Kansas and make recommendations for improvements therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 |
| KS | HB2172 | Pass | Enacting the uniform trust decanting act, authorizing modification of a noncharitable irrevocable trust to provide that the rule against perpetuities is inapplicable, providing that the Kansas uniform statutory rule against perpetuities is inapplicab...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 |
| KS | HB2216 | Pass | Removing the mandatory term of imprisonment as a penalty for driving with license that is canceled, suspended or revoked for failure to pay fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 |
| KS | HB2326 | Pass | Extending the sunset date on the scrap metal theft reduction act and clarifying that catalytic converters are covered by the act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 |
| KS | HB2395 | Pass | Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-04-24
House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023 |
| KS | HB2069 | Engross
50% | Senate Substitute for HB 2069 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-29
Senate Committee of the Whole - Passed over and retain a place on the calendar |
| KS | HB2017 | Engross
50% | Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2380 | Intro
25% | Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture, remitting proceeds from civil asset forfeiture to the state general fund, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property, making certain property ineligible for forfeiture, prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-01
To House Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee |
| KS | HB2028 | Intro
25% | Requiring certain records to be automatically expunged from a person's criminal record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2029 | Intro
25% | Increasing the time of an initial restraining order and possible extensions issued in a protection from abuse order or a protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2215 | Intro
25% | Creating the crime of utilizing a drug-masking product and providing criminal penalties therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2246 | Intro
25% | Substitute for HB 2246 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing requirements for the involuntary discharge or transfer of a resident in an adult residential care facility and authorizing the secretary to investigate and assess a penalty for violation...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2351 | Intro
25% | Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel for an indigent person.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-23
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | HB2409 | Intro
25% | Enacting the Kansas uniform parentage act (2017).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2396 | Intro
25% | Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture, remitting proceeds to the state general fund and requiring law enforcement agencies to make forfeiture reports more...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2379 | Intro
25% | Requiring protection from abuse and protection from stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking orders to restrain the plaintiff from contacting the defendant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | HB2383 | Intro
25% | Allowing certain persons to take the examination to be certified by the supreme court as qualified to be a district magistrate judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-09
To House Judiciary Committee |
