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Dec. 6, 2019
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Judiciary

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

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Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

Bills In Committee
SB21 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
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.
SB65 - Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating corruption committed by a public officer or public employee.
SB83 - Increasing the credit to the EMS revolving fund from district court fines, penalties or forfeitures.
SB84 - Amending the Kansas act against discrimination to include sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
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.
SB95 - Transferring certain duties concerning substances to be administered in carrying out a sentence of death from the secretary of health and environment to the state board of pharmacy and state board of healing arts.
SB96 - Requiring inspections of areas in a state correctional facility designated by the secretary of corrections for use in carrying out a sentence of death.
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.
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.
SB114 - Prisoner healthcare costs; payment; cities, counties and other governmental entities.
SB119 - Encouraging judicial districts to establish and utilize specialty courts.
SB154 - Creating a vacatur process for human trafficking victims to petition a court to set aside certain conviction or diversion agreements and related arrest records.
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.
SB212 - Creating a Kansas victim information and notification everyday (VINE) coordinator within the office of the attorney general.
SB213 - Clarifying the attorney general's legal representation duties related to the Kansas open meetings and records acts.
SB214 - Allowing certain exceptions to the confidentiality of state child death review board documents.
SB215 - Increasing penalties for domestic battery and amending child endangerment to include domestic battery in the presence of a child.
SB227 - Adding provisions for human trafficking victims in the criminal defense of compulsion and changing provisions for expungement of adult and juvenile offenses committed by such victims.
HB2018 - Substitute for HB 2018 by Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice - Creating the Kansas criminal justice reform commission.
HB2137 - Legislative review of exceptions to disclosure of public records under the Kansas open records act.
HB2243 - Exempting animal shelters from registration requirements as a charitable organization.
HB2244 - Creating an affirmative defense to the crime of possession of a controlled substance for possession of certain medical treatments.
HB2336 - Clarifying when offenders under supervision of the secretary of corrections are awarded jail credit.
HB2396 - Allowing use of certified drug abuse treatment programs for certain offenders convicted of unlawful cultivation or distribution of controlled substances; amending available sanctions for violation of condition of postrelease supervision.
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 adding ammunition to the definition of weapon.
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.
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