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March 24, 2019
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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.
SB157 - Creating a presumption in favor of shared parenting time for temporary orders.
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.
SB219 - Transferring responsibility for the scrap metal database to the Kansas bureau of investigation, reducing the registration fee for scrap metal dealers, and requiring a tonnage excise tax.
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.
HB2038 - Revoking spousal inheritance rights upon divorce.
HB2039 - Extending recognition of tribal court judgments pursuant to supreme court rules.
HB2048 - Clarifying the definition of comparable offense under the Kansas criminal code.
HB2105 - Updating laws concerning limited liability companies.
HB2191 - Amending the procedure for execution of a search warrant for electronically stored information.
HB2206 - Changing the bonding and cost requirements for animals taken into custody under a violation of cruelty to animals.
HB2211 - Allowing judges to waive or reduce driver's license reinstatement fees.
HB2243 - Exempting animal shelters from registration requirements as a charitable organization.
HB2279 - Requiring law enforcement officers to provide information about timing of release from custody when an arrest is made following a domestic violence call.
HB2281 - Providing that a court order modifying a criminal sentence only modifies the portion of the sentence referenced by the court and not remaining portions of the original sentence.
HB2290 - Creating a crime victims compensation division within the attorney general's office.
HB2336 - Clarifying when offenders under supervision of the secretary of corrections are awarded jail credit.
HB2360 - Concerning background checks of employees and volunteers that have unsupervised access to children, the elderly or individuals with disabilities.
HB2365 - Providing for confidential communications of Kansas national guard members in peer support counseling sessions.
Sponsored Bills
SB18 - Providing a process for the attorney general to enter into diversion agreements.
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.
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.
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 making a presumption of unfitness against any parent convicted of either crime.
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.
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