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House Committee on Judiciary

  • Committee Assistant: Kathi Rakestraw 785-296-5805
  • Kathi.Rakestraw@House.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 3:30 pm Location: 582-N

    Room 582-N Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB104 - Requiring a court order be issued directing a child to remain in a present or future placement for certain children in need of care.
    SB304 - Removing the sunset provision in the COVID-19 contact tracing privacy act.
    SB395 - Protecting private property from unauthorized access by certain government officials and unauthorized surveillance.
    SB425 - Directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.
    SB457 - Requiring a waiver of extradition proceedings as a condition of bond.
    SB507 - Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
    SB541 - Prohibiting a governmental entity or public official from ordering or otherwise requiring a person to wear a face mask as a response to a contagious or infectious disease and from restricting worship services or activities; providing that orders and similar actions by public officials relating to gathering limitations and business restrictions shall not exceed 30 days in duration at a time before being renewed or allowed to expire; prohibiting school officials from issuing or requiring use of a COVID-19 vaccination passport or discriminating against a student based upon COVID-19 vaccination status; requiring schools to recognize exemptions from vaccination requirements; prescribing powers, duties and functions of the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college related to contagious or infectious disease and modifying judicial review provisions related thereto; and removing the sunset provision in the COVID-19 contact tracing privacy act.
    HB2013 - Changing the supreme court clerk's information requirements for licensed attorneys and changing procedures related to the supreme court nominating commission and the judicial district nominating commissions.
    HB2024 - Providing immunity from civil liability for adult care homes for COVID-19 claims.
    HB2080 - Transferring duties concerning registration for charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general.
    HB2095 - Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
    HB2099 - Permitting taxpayers to attend BOTA hearings by use of audio or video electronic communication.
    HB2226 - Requiring certain criminal convictions to be expunged from an offender's record automatically.
    HB2285 - Creating the campus free speech act to require each public postsecondary educational institution to adopt a policy of free expression.
    HB2308 - Allowing investigations of child deaths by coroner before performing an autopsy.
    HB2322 - Regulating contract for deed transactions, authorizing recording of contract for deeds or affidavits of equitable interest, listing deceptive practices constituting violations of the consumer protection act, requiring notice to the buyer of default and allowing buyers to cure violations of such default.
    HB2346 - Allowing release of defendants to a pretrial supervision entity or program and allowing fees associated with supervision to the nonjudicial salary adjustment fund at the discretion of a chief judge.
    HB2356 - Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.
    HB2375 - Adding items to the the definitions of a knife and weapon for purposes of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
    HB2376 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy relating to making arrests for violation of a protective order and procedures for separating suspects from the scene for a period of time.
    HB2451 - Directing that tobacco product manufacturer remittances be credited to the Kansas endowment for youth fund rather than deposited into escrow upon certification by the attorney general.
    HB2507 - Adding denial of civil rights based on a person's disability to the crime of denial of civil rights.
    HB2535 - Enacting the individual liberty preservation act to nullify certain federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements, prohibit enforcement of such requirements and provide criminal penalties for violations.
    HB2536 - Providing sexual assault survivors with certain rights.
    HB2538 - Modifying the time requirement for holding a preliminary hearing and allowing testimony to be presented through two-way electronic audio-visual communication devices.
    HB2539 - Creating the crime of violence in the presence of a child and providing criminal penalties for violation thereof.
    HB2542 - Creating the crime of abuse of a sports official and providing criminal penalties therefor.
    HB2557 - Prohibiting the denial of a petition for expungement of a juvenile offense due to the petitioner's inability to pay outstanding costs, fees, fines or restitution and authorizing expungement if the juvenile has not committed an offense in the previous two years.
    HB2603 - Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages caused by such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
    HB2624 - 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.
    HB2625 - Creating the crime of elector fraud to make it a crime to falsify presidential elector certificates.
    HB2640 - Creating a new process for criminal forfeiture of property with a value of less than $100,000 that is used in the commission of certain crimes or is proceeds derived from certain crimes.
    HB2642 - Allowing a proposition related to the method of selecting judges of the district court to be submitted to the voters more than once every eight years.
    HB2647 - Adding a parent's history of committing child sexual abuse to the factors the court shall consider in awarding legal custody, residency and parenting time of a child and creating a rebuttable presumption that it is not in the best interest of the child to have parenting time granted to a parent who is subject to certain sex offender registration requirements.
    HB2648 - Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture, remitting proceeds from civil asset forfeiture to the state general fund and removing provisions making motor vehicles with altered vehicle identification numbers contraband.
    HB2651 - Allowing a person to petition the court for a payment plan to pay traffic fees, fines and court costs.
    HB2652 - Continuing the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas by extending the expanded use of telemedicine, the authority of the board of healing arts to grant certain temporary emergency licenses, the suspension of certain requirements related to medical care facilities and immunity from civil liability for certain healthcare providers, certain persons conducting business in this state and covered facilities for COVID-19 claims until January 20, 2023.
    HB2668 - Prohibiting certain restrictions on freedom of worship by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities and limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.
    HB2670 - Prohibiting certain acts by business entities, governmental entities or public officials based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport, amending the Kansas act against discrimination to define unlawful employment practices related to vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and limiting powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.
    HB2679 - Prohibiting certain restrictions on the operation of private businesses by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities and limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and local health officers.
    HB2694 - Enacting the third party litigation financing consumer protection act to require regulation of litigation financing.
    HB2725 - Creating a presumption that joint legal custody in temporary parenting plans are in the bests interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.
    HB2730 - Prohibiting certain restrictions on freedom of worship by governmental entities and public officials, limiting related state of disaster emergency powers of the governor and state of local disaster emergency powers of counties and cities, limiting related powers of the secretary of health and environment and limiting local health officers to making recommendations.
    HB2745 - Characterizing separation from Kansas national guard service due to non-compliance with a COVID-19 vaccine requirement as a general discharge under honorable conditions.
    Resolutions In Committee
    HCR5006 - A constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; and changing the nomination and appointment process for court of appeals judges to use the existing process for supreme court justices.
    HCR5017 - Supporting the adoption of the COVID-19 Vaccine Bill of Rights
    HR6019 - Supporting the Team Roc lawsuit against the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB273 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 273 by Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the COVID-19 small business relief act to provide funds for impacted small businesses, create the COVID-19 small business relief fund of the legislative coordinating council and the COVID-19 small business relief claims board, require certain counties to establish and administer a county COVID-19 small business relief fund and certain cities to establish and administer a city COVID-19 small business relief fund, require a study by the legislative division of post audit and prohibit compensation for intangible losses related to the COVID-19 public health emergency under the Kansas emergency management act.
    SB286 - House Substitute for Substitute for SB 286 - Continuing the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas by extending the expanded use of telemedicine, the suspension of certain requirements related to medical care facilities and immunity from civil liability for certain healthcare providers, certain persons conducting business in this state and covered facilities for COVID-19 claims until January 20, 2023, creating the crime of interference with the conduct of a hospital and increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider.
    SB416 - Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to conduct a lethality assessment.
    HB2049 - Substitute for HB 2049 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting a public agency from charging a fee for records requested for an audit by the legislative division of post audit.
    HB2075 - Allowing venue for an adoption when the state is the agency to be where the state agency or its subcontracting agency has an office.
    HB2076 - 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.
    HB2078 - Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2023, in all criminal cases, providing guidelines for prioritizing trials and requiring the office of judicial administration to prepare and submit a report to the legislature in 2022 and 2023.
    HB2079 - Transferring duties concerning address confidentiality program (safe at home) and the registration of charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general, enacting the Kansas fights addiction act to establish a grant program for the purpose of preventing, reducing, treating and mitigating the effects of substance abuse and addiction and requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the attorney general in certain businesses and public places.
    HB2080 - Transferring duties concerning registration for charitable organizations from the secretary of state to the attorney general.
    HB2082 - Authorizing the crime victims compensation board to waive application time restrictions for certain victims to receive compensation for mental health counseling and adding certain children to the definition of victim.
    HB2093 - Increasing criminal penalties for fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer when operating a stolen vehicle, committing certain driving violations or causing a collision involving another driver and making fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer evidence of intent to commit theft of a vehicle.
    HB2095 - Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
    HB2096 - Authorizing department of corrections employees, local correctional or detention officers, judicial branch employees, municipal court employees and administrative hearing officers to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    HB2098 - Allowing a court to change a spouse's name to a name that is different than a maiden or former name during a divorce proceeding.
    HB2109 - Prohibiting the disclosure of personal information about a person's affiliation with an entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code and continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.
    HB2120 - Removing the spousal exception from the crime of sexual battery.
    HB2125 - Allowing a copy of a will to be filed and admitted to probate and allowing a will or a copy of a will filed within six months after the death of the testator to be admitted to probate at any time.
    HB2126 - Providing immunity from civil liability for COVID-19 claims for certain covered facilities, including adult care homes, community mental health centers, crisis intervention centers, community service providers and community developmental disability organizations.
    HB2127 - Requiring the department for children and families to release information to the public related to a child fatality caused by abuse or neglect when criminal charges are filed related to the fatality.
    HB2152 - Clarifying how property held under a transfer-on-death deed is distributed when one beneficiary predeceases the grantor.
    HB2153 - Increasing the criminal penalty for mistreatment of a dependent adult or elder person when the victim is a resident of an adult care home.
    HB2154 - Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install and operate school bus cameras.
    HB2189 - Providing restrictions, lender reporting and other requirements for alternative small installment loans made under the UCCC.
    HB2223 - Amending the crimes of criminal sodomy and sexual battery to make certain conduct unlawful when the victim's consent was obtained through a knowing misrepresentation.
    HB2226 - Requiring certain criminal convictions to be expunged from an offender's record automatically.
    HB2227 - Allowing the chief justice to suspend certain time limitations during a state of local disaster emergency, suspend certain verification requirements and authorize use of electronic audio-visual communication to expeditiously resolve cases, and extending the chief justice's authority to suspend time limitations during a disaster emergency until June 30, 2022.
    HB2228 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy regarding submission of sexual assault evidence kits and allowing evidence collection at child advocacy centers or other facilities.
    HB2229 - Increasing the criminal penalties for multiple thefts of mail.
    HB2264 - Permitting student athletes at postsecondary educational institutions to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation.
    HB2292 - Creating exemptions in the open records act for cyber security assessments, plans and vulnerabilities.
    HB2299 - Requiring retention of fingerprints by the Kansas bureau of investigation for participation in the federal rap back program; imposing restrictions on surveillance by certain employees of the Kansas department of wildlife and parks on private property; expanding the jurisdiction and powers of law enforcement officers to include situations when an activity is observed leading the officer to reasonably suspect a person is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and reasonably believe that a person is in imminent danger of death or bodily injury without immediate action; allowing a search warrant to be executed within 240 hours from the time of issuance; and directing the Kansas department for children and families to share certain information with investigating law enforcement agencies.
    HB2307 - Expanding the definition of compensable personal injury in workers compensation law to include mental injuries suffered from physical injury, emotional shock or after a series of work-related events.
    HB2308 - Allowing investigations of child deaths by coroner before performing an autopsy.
    HB2348 - Modifying automobile insurance policy uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.
    HB2356 - Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.
    HB2362 - Modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child.
    HB2363 - Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel.
    HB2364 - Defining torturing for the purposes of the crime of cruelty to animals.
    HB2365 - Providing immunity from criminal prosecution for possession of controlled substances or drug paraphernalia if seeking assistance related to substance use.
    HB2366 - Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.
    HB2369 - Extending the Kansas closed case task force and providing for staff assistance.
    HB2375 - Adding items to the the definitions of a knife and weapon for purposes of the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
    HB2376 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to adopt a policy relating to making arrests for violation of a protective order and procedures for separating suspects from the scene for a period of time.
    HB2377 - Revising laws relating to operating an aircraft under the influence, including prescribing criminal and administrative penalties and providing for testing of blood, breath, urine or other bodily substances, and preliminary screening tests of breath or oral fluid; authorizing reinstatement of a driver's license for certain persons with an ignition interlock device restriction; requiring persons with an ignition interlock device restriction to complete the ignition interlock device program before driving privileges are fully reinstated; providing for reduced ignition interlock device program costs for certain persons; providing that the highway patrol has oversight of state certification of ignition interlock manufacturers and their service providers; modifying the criminal penalties for driving a commercial motor vehicle under the influence and driving under the influence; increasing the period of disqualification for certain offenses committed by a person with commercial driving privileges; and prohibiting prosecuting attorneys from concealing certain traffic violations from the CDLIS driver report.
    HB2387 - Prohibiting the issuance of a request for proposal or entering into a new contract for the administration and provision of benefits under the medical assistance program and removing the authority of the governor to prohibit attending or conducting certain religious services and worship services.
    HB2389 - Authorizing a notice to appear for unlawful possession of marijuana and defining complaint in the Kansas code of criminal procedure to include such notice to appear.
    HB2390 - Making permanent certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act, creating exemptions in the open records act for cyber security assessments, plans and vulnerabilities, prohibiting the filing of certain liens or claims against real or personal property and providing for criminal penalties and authorizing local correctional or detention officers and administrative hearing officers to have identifying information restricted from public access on public websites that identify home addresses or home ownership.
    HB2447 - Permitting testimony to be presented using a two-way electronic audio-video communication device during a preliminary hearing.
    HB2477 - Renewing certain provisions of law authorizing expanded practice by certain healthcare professionals and suspending certain licensure and other requirements for adult care homes.
    HB2495 - Prohibiting the disclosure of personal information about a person's affiliation with an entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under section 501(c) of the federal internal revenue code.
    HB2496 - Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.
    HB2507 - Adding denial of civil rights based on a person's disability to the crime of denial of civil rights.
    HB2508 - Modifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code, modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child, requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances, permitting testimony to be presented using a two-way electronic audio-video communication device during a preliminary hearing, making changes to the process for evaluating and treating people who are undergoing evaluation for competency to stand trial and allowing mobile competency evaluations.
    HB2527 - Removing the authority for law enforcement officers to deliver a child in need of care to a court services officer and prohibiting supervision of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect by court services officers.
    HB2537 - Requiring the insurance department to hold a hearing in cases involving an order under the Kansas administrative procedure act.
    HB2538 - Modifying the time requirement for holding a preliminary hearing and allowing testimony to be presented through two-way electronic audio-visual communication devices.
    HB2539 - Creating the crime of violence in the presence of a child and providing criminal penalties for violation thereof.
    HB2556 - Prohibiting denial of a petition for expungement due to the petitioner's inability to pay outstanding costs, fees, fines or restitution.
    HB2557 - Prohibiting the denial of a petition for expungement of a juvenile offense due to the petitioner's inability to pay outstanding costs, fees, fines or restitution and authorizing expungement if the juvenile has not committed an offense in the previous two years.
    HB2574 - Establishing a time limitation for awarding compensation for mental health counseling and increasing certain compensation award amounts by the crime victims compensation board.
    HB2575 - Requiring certain records to be automatically expunged from a person's criminal record.
    HB2603 - Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages caused by such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
    HB2604 - Prohibiting final hemp products that are intended for food, seed, seed meal and seed oil for consumption from containing any tetrahydrocannabinol.
    HB2608 - Removing provisions authorizing criminal restitution to be enforced as a civil judgment and authorizing judicial districts to contract for collection services for criminal restitution.
    HB2624 - 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.
    HB2647 - Adding a parent's history of committing child sexual abuse to the factors the court shall consider in awarding legal custody, residency and parenting time of a child and creating a rebuttable presumption that it is not in the best interest of the child to have parenting time granted to a parent who is subject to certain sex offender registration requirements.
    HB2648 - Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture, remitting proceeds from civil asset forfeiture to the state general fund and removing provisions making motor vehicles with altered vehicle identification numbers contraband.
    HB2651 - Allowing a person to petition the court for a payment plan to pay traffic fees, fines and court costs.
    HB2652 - Continuing the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas by extending the expanded use of telemedicine, the authority of the board of healing arts to grant certain temporary emergency licenses, the suspension of certain requirements related to medical care facilities and immunity from civil liability for certain healthcare providers, certain persons conducting business in this state and covered facilities for COVID-19 claims until January 20, 2023.
    HB2674 - Requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances.
    HB2694 - Enacting the third party litigation financing consumer protection act to require regulation of litigation financing.
    HB2697 - Making changes to the process for evaluating and treating people who are undergoing evaluation for competency to stand trial and allowing such evaluation and treatment at various facilities.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    HCR5006 - A constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; and changing the nomination and appointment process for court of appeals judges to use the existing process for supreme court justices.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2022 Legislative Session
    HCR5006 - A constitutional amendment revising article 3, relating to the judiciary; placing the court of appeals into the constitution; and changing the nomination and appointment process for court of appeals judges to use the existing process for supreme court justices.
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