| KS | SB156 | Pass | Increasing the reimbursement amount of money that the secretary of corrections may make to inmates for losses for personal injury or property damage or loss caused by negligence and requiring notice to the secretary for claims exceeding the reimburse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| KS | SB186 | Pass | Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| KS | SB204 | Pass | Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of the county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district, allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| KS | SB237 | Pass | Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-11
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025 |
| KS | SB54 | Pass | Substitute for SB 54 by Committee on Judiciary - Limiting discovery and disclosure of third-party litigation funding agreements and requiring reporting of such agreements to courts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 7, 2025 |
| KS | SB135 | Pass | Providing precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 |
| KS | SB241 | Pass | Providing that restrictive covenants in certain contracts are enforceable and not considered a restraint of trade in certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-10
Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 |
| KS | SB30 | Engross
Recessed | Requiring that adoption of new occupational licensing requirements and material changes to existing occupational licenses by a state agency be approved by joint resolution of the legislature unless otherwise ratified by the legislature by the enactme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
House Conference Committee Report was adopted; Yea: 86 Nay: 38 |
| KS | SB157 | Engross
Recessed | Requiring search warrants to be issued only on the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause made by a law enforcement officer, warrants issued for failure to appear to be provided to a compensated surety, bond forfeiture to be set aside i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
House Motion to accede adopted; Representative Humphries, Representative Williams, L. and Representative Osman appointed as conferees |
| KS | SB53 | Engross
Recessed | 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 board to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | SB71 | Engross
Recessed | Increasing the criminal penalties for buying sexual relations, removing provisions regarding city ordinances prohibiting buying sexual relations, requiring certain offenders to complete an educational or treatment program regarding commercial sexual ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | SB70 | Engross
Recessed | Prohibiting fees for electronic copies of records under the open records act, exempting from disclosure formally closed investigations with no found violations, requiring county or district attorneys to file reports of violations with the attorney ge...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | SB128 | Engross
Recessed | Creating an exception to certain mandatory reporting obligations for licensed social workers when working under the supervision of an attorney and permitting an attorney to require a licensed social worker to keep ethical obligations of attorney-clie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507 |
| KS | SB138 | Engross
Recessed | House Substitute for SB 138 by Committee on Judiciary - Authorizing law enforcement officers to conduct investigations of violations of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-21
To House Calendar and Printing Committee |
| KS | SB84 | Engross
Recessed | Modifying criminal use of a financial card to include certain conduct involving gift cards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
House Motion to accede adopted; Representative Humphries, Representative Williams, L. and Representative Osman appointed as conferees |
| KS | SB222 | Engross
Recessed | Prohibiting deference to a state agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or regulation or document by a state court or an officer hearing an administrative action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB244 | Engross
Recessed | Prohibiting a compensated surety from making loans for certain portions of the required minimum appearance bond premium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB242 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring that a political subdivision hold an open meeting to discuss a contingency fee contract for legal services before approving such contract and requiring the attorney general to approve such contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB155 | Intro
Recessed | Adding harboring or concealing a person who has violated terms of probation to the crime of obstructing apprehension or prosecution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB188 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring a secured release for release prior to trial when a person is charged with certain offenses and creating a mechanism for unsecured judicial release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB127 | Intro
Recessed | Expanding the hearsay exception for statements made to a physician to all healthcare providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB247 | Intro
Recessed | Eliminating the exemption for vehicle dealers from certain requirements of the scrap metal theft reduction act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB245 | Intro
Recessed | Providing that no person shall be sentenced to death for crimes committed after July 1, 2025, and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB246 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring all applicants for teaching licenses and certificates and employees of a school district or public innovative district to submit to a criminal history record check and creating the criminal history record check reimbursement fund for certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB248 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring criminal history record check information relating to hemp producers to be sent to the state fire marshal, updating the fingerprinting language for the state banking commissioner for money transmitters and earned wage access services provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB240 | Intro
Recessed | Establishing procedures for a civil action instituted by the commissioner of insurance related to fraudulent insurance acts, providing that expunged criminal records will be disclosed in any application for licensure as an insurance producer or publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB239 | Intro
Recessed | Creating a special sentencing rule to add 100 months to a sentence for distribution of a controlled substance when the substance involved is fentanyl and the distribution causes the death of a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB243 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring outpatient competency evaluations in certain circumstances and requiring the court to make specific findings for inpatient competency evaluations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB129 | Intro
Recessed | Raising the mandatory retirement age for magistrate judges regularly admitted to practice law who serve in counties with a population of 10,000 or fewer people.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB203 | Intro
Recessed | Authorizing a notice to appear to be issued for an unavailable witness or a material witness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB205 | Intro
Recessed | Increasing the criminal penalty for certain violations of breach of privacy when the victim is a child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB221 | Intro
Recessed | Changing the membership of the judicial council to have one resident lawyer from each judicial district instead of four resident lawyers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB206 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring any person convicted of distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm or death or register under the Kansas offender registration act for 15 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB60 | Intro
Recessed | Prohibiting second and successive motions and ineffective counsel claims in habeas corpus actions and providing for direct appeal to the supreme court in habeas corpus appeals filed by inmates sentenced to death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB187 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB185 | Intro
Recessed | Providing that certain legal violations relating to victims of crime are not grounds for appeal in a criminal case.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB183 | Intro
Recessed | Creating the crimes of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and aggravated interference with a security camera in a correctional facility and providing criminal penalties therefor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB62 | Intro
Recessed | Creating the crime of engaging in a street stunt, providing criminal penalties therefor and adding engaging in a street stunt to the list of crimes included in fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB158 | Intro
Recessed | Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee |
| KS | SB61 | Intro
Recessed | Requiring an electric public utility to pay a landowner's attorney fees when a party appeals the appraisers' award and the jury renders a verdict that is greater than the appraisers' award in an eminent domain action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB111 | Intro
Recessed | 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] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KS | SB110 | Intro
Recessed | 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] | 2025-01-30
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
