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Judiciary

  • Committee Assistant: Iris Evans 785-296-6817
  • Iris.Evans@Senate.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 10:30 am Location: 346-S

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    SCR 1613 Testimony:

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    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    SB18 - Providing a process for the attorney general to enter into diversion agreements; authorizing certain entities to access a criminal defendant's presentence investigation report; amending the crime of counterfeiting currency.
    SB19 - Authorizing certain entities to access a criminal defendant's presentence investigation report.
    SB20 - Extending the judicial branch surcharge to fund the costs of non-judicial personnel; extending recognition of tribal court judgments pursuant to supreme court rules.
    SB45 - Enhancing penalties for offenses causing death or serious bodily injury to public safety sector employees.
    SB46 - Creating a procedure for owner to recover misappropriated property from pawnbroker or precious metal dealer.
    SB55 - Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act.
    SB58 - Granting immunity from civil liability to the person who files a grand jury petition.
    SB77 - Requiring the department for children and families to offer services to children with problem sexual behavior and to such child's family.
    SB78 - Regulating assignment of rights or benefits to a residential contractor under a property and casualty insurance policy insuring residential real estate; amending the definition of "consumer transaction" and "supplier" in the Kansas consumer protection act.
    SB80 - Increasing the criminal penalty for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon and amending the crime as it relates to knives.
    SB81 - Changing penalties for crimes related to motor vehicles.
    SB85 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of domestic battery.
    SB86 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of driving under the influence.
    SB87 - Allowing certain persons with suspended drivers' licenses to enter into amnesty agreements with the district court.
    SB88 - Increasing the criminal penalties for violation of a protective order.
    SB89 - Modifying the membership and duties of the substance abuse policy board of the Kansas criminal justice coordinating council.
    SB100 - Amending residency restrictions for persons on transitional or conditional release under the Kansas sexually violent predator act.
    SB101 - Amending ignition interlock requirements for certain first time DUI-related offenses.
    SB102 - Creating the Kansas closed case task force, pertaining to identification and investigation of hits to the combined DNA index system (CODIS) in closed cases.
    SB103 - Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.
    SB106 - Directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of a person and to prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.
    SB107 - Modifying when attorney fees are awarded in certain actions against an insurance company.
    SB108 - Increasing criminal penalties for abuse of a child and involuntary manslaughter when the victim is under 6 years of age and exempting certain victims from being considered an aggressor or participant as a mitigating factor when considering a departure sentence.
    SB133 - Clarifying when a receipt of property seized by law enforcement should be sent to the court and who seized weapons should be returned to.
    SB134 - Amending the crime of counterfeiting currency.
    SB160 - Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to give certain notices and conduct a lethality assessment.
    SB161 - Defining "primary aggressor" for domestic violence purposes.
    SB166 - Deeming children as foster children under the grandparents as caregivers act.
    SB183 - Creating the extreme risk protective order act.
    SB219 - Substitute for SB 219 by Committee on Judiciary - Transferring responsibility for the scrap metal database to the Kansas bureau of investigation, reducing the registration fee for scrap metal dealers and changing scrap metal dealer obligations under the scrap metal theft reduction act.
    SB293 - Transferring duties concerning registration for charitable organizations and the address confidentiality program (safe at home) from the secretary of state to the attorney general.
    SB311 - Concerning the admission into evidence of any tape or recording created using an electronic monitoring device in an adult care home.
    SB313 - Removing provisional employment from adult care homes, home health agencies and providers of disability services.
    SB319 - Clarifying that bond agents seeking discharge as a surety are required to return the person released on bond to the court in the county where the complaint subject to the bond was filed.
    SB320 - Expanding the definition of "infectious disease" in certain testing statutes related to crimes in which the transmission of body fluids from one person to another may have been involved.
    SB331 - Authorizing department of corrections employees, local correctional or detention officers, judicial branch employees and municipal court employees to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    SB332 - Changing requirements for court orders directing a child to remain in a present or future placement issued for children in need of care.
    SB333 - Modifying criminal procedures relating to a defendant's competency or incompetency to stand trial.
    SB334 - Modifying certain rules of evidence in the code of civil procedure related to authentication of records and documents.
    SB344 - Removing the requirement to photograph vehicles in the scrap metal theft reduction act.
    SB355 - Prohibiting psychiatric or psychological examinations of victims of crimes.
    SB371 - Requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the attorney general in certain businesses and public places.
    SB372 - Prohibiting the filing of certain liens or claims against real or personal property and providing for criminal penalties.
    SB373 - Modifying the crimes of selling sexual relations, promoting the sale of sexual relations and buying sexual relations by changing terminology from "sexual relations" to "a sex act."
    SB403 - Changing the appointment and confirmation process for court of appeals judges by eliminating certain time restrictions, requiring senate confirmation and specifically authorizing the governor to withdraw a nominee.
    SB404 - Creating a process to terminate the parental rights of a person whose sexual assault of another has resulted in the conception of a child.
    SB405 - Amendments related to driving under the influence concerning motorized bicycle drivers' licenses, ignition interlock devices and driving under the influence by any person less than 21 years of age.
    SB420 - Requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crime of breach of privacy.
    SB426 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt policies regarding false information relayed to individuals during custodial interrogations.
    SB427 - Reviewing and continuing expiring exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
    SB428 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to increase data collection and reporting on racial profiling and other biased policing.
    SB429 - Establishing requirements for issuing an arrest bond under the code of criminal procedure and authorizing each judicial district to establish an arrest bond schedule.
    SB430 - Requiring independent investigations for incidents of officer-involved use of force.
    SB444 - Enacting the public litigation coordination act to restrict certain contracts by public entities for legal services on a contingent fee basis.
    SB445 - Defining and prohibiting certain deceptive lawsuit advertising practices and restricting the use or disclosure of protected health information to solicit individuals for legal services.
    SB446 - Enacting limitations on contingency fee agreements in certain civil actions.
    SB447 - 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.
    SB450 - Requiring adult care home employees to receive annual dementia care training.
    SB451 - Creating the right to appeal an involuntary discharge or transfer from an adult residential care facility.
    HB2034 - Senate Substitute for HB 2034 by Committee on Judiciary - Requiring restitution be due immediately unless the court orders a payment plan.
    HB2137 - Senate Substitute for HB 2137 by Committee on Judiciary - Reviewing and continuing expiring exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act and eliminating a photograph record requirement in the scrap metal theft reduction act.
    HB2244 - Senate Substitute for HB 2244 by Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the COVID-19 response and reopening for business liability protection act.
    HB2396 - Senate Substitute for HB 2396 by Committee on Judiciary – Enacting the governmental response to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2020 Legislative Session
    SCR1613 - Amending the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas to reserve to the people the right to regulate abortion through their elected state representatives and senators.
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