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Senate Committee on Judiciary

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

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

    Room 346-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB3 - Creating a drug abuse treatment program for people on diversion and allowing county and district attorneys to enter into agreements with chief judges and community corrections for supervision.
    SB5 - Aligning the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes with theft.
    SB6 - Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction under domestic battery.
    SB7 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
    SB9 - Requiring newly certified law enforcement officers to attend diversity meetings organized by the Kansas commission on peace officers' standards and training.
    SB54 - Authorizing judges to extend protection from abuse orders for more reasons and tolling time when subject of the order is in prison.
    SB57 - Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2024, in all criminal cases filed prior to the effective date of this act and eliminating such rights in any criminal case filed on or after the effective date of this act.
    SB73 - Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating corruption committed by a public officer or public employee.
    SB74 - Requiring the attorney general to carry out certain duties related to investigating sexual abuse committed by a minister of religion.
    SB75 - Requiring a duly ordained minister of religion to report certain abuse and neglect of children.
    SB123 - Creating a process to terminate the parental rights of a person whose sexual assault of another has resulted in the conception of a child.
    SB132 - Amending credits to on court-imposed fines for community service to the statutory minimum wage.
    SB136 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
    SB141 - Enacting the Kansas uniform directed trust act.
    SB150 - Defining and prohibiting certain deceptive lawsuit advertising practices and restricting the use or disclosure of protected health information to solicit individuals for legal services.
    SB151 - Enacting limitations on contingency fee agreements in certain civil actions.
    SB152 - 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.
    SB195 - Increasing the penalty for certain violations of criminal discharge of a firearm when a person was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm and when a person less than 14 years of age was present in the dwelling, building, structure or motor vehicle at which the offender discharged a firearm.
    SB196 - Requiring courts to order a defendant to pay certain restitution when the defendant's offense resulted in the incapacitation or death of a victim who has a minor child or children.
    SB197 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to increase data collection and reporting on racial profiling and other biased policing.
    SB198 - Amending Kansas open records act provisions regarding access to certain law enforcement audio and video recordings and enacting the police and citizen protection act regarding use of body cameras by law enforcement officers.
    SB205 - Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.
    SB206 - Enacting the fairness in condemnation act to require the condemning authority to provide the property owner notice of a planned condemnation proceeding, an offer for purchase and a court review of compliance with this act.
    SB214 - Making it a crime for a physician to perform gender reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy on certain children.
    SB220 - Increasing the penalty for battery committed against a utility worker.
    SB229 - Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.
    SB230 - Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims.
    SB231 - Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.
    SB246 - Providing statutory procedures and limitations related to forensic evidence collection and clarifying liability for unlawful conduct under the Kansas tort claims act.
    SB247 - Enacting criminal justice reform measures related to hiring, firearms certification and psychological testing of law enforcement officers
    SB270 - Prohibiting the hiring of certain law enforcement officers with history of serious misconduct allegations and making certain law enforcement disciplinary records public records.
    SB271 - Extending the time that victims of childhood sexual abuse have to bring a cause of action.
    SB272 - Requiring sexual assault evidence collection procedures to include a urinalysis test to determine the presence of controlled substances that may have been used to commit the alleged sexual assault.
    SB284 - Amending the Kansas emergency management act to authorize a state of disaster emergency to continue for no longer than 21 days unless ratified by concurrent resolution of the legislature and provide for extensions for specified periods not to exceed 30 days each.
    SB300 - Amending the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act to add a person who has engaged in identity theft or identity fraud to the definition of "covered person" and add identity theft and identity fraud to the definition of "racketeering activity."
    SB301 - Establishing the office of the child advocate within the office of the attorney general and the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    SB308 - Providing for the right of individuals to not wear face coverings in places of public accommodation, refuse vaccinations and access off-label medications.
    HB2029 - Counting any crime with a domestic violence designation as a prior conviction under domestic battery.
    HB2030 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
    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.
    HB2081 - Modifying how certain prior convictions are counted for the special sentencing rule related to possession of a controlled substance and providing concurrent or consecutive sentencing for persons convicted of new crimes while on release for a felony.
    HB2109 - Increasing the county population threshold for a county to be required to have a lawyer representative, increasing the number of lawyer members and decreasing the number of non-lawyer members on the board of indigents' defense services.
    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.
    HB2128 - Clarifying jurisdiction and supervision of offenders in a certified drug abuse treatment program.
    HB2191 - Increasing criminal penalties for the crimes of riot and incitement to riot when the crime occurs in a correctional facility.
    HB2192 - Authorizing court services officers and community corrections officers to provide a certification of identification to offenders for use to obtain a new driver's license.
    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.
    HB2231 - Amending the definition of the crime of conducting a pyramid promotional scheme, providing for an exemption and defining key terms.
    HB2275 - Requiring the department of corrections to develop guidance to be used by parole officers when responding to violations of parole and postrelease supervision and that incentivize compliant behavior.
    HB2277 - Clarifying the definition of possession in the Kansas criminal code.
    HB2361 - Authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty courts, creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources fund.
    HB2362 - Modifying the elements of and making changes to the criminal penalties of abuse of a child.
    HB2366 - Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.
    HB2374 - Authorizing the Kansas sentencing commission to change risk assessment cut-off levels for participation in the certified drug abuse treatment program.
    HB2387 - 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.
    HB2412 - 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.
    HB2416 - Modifying the procedure for declaring and extending a state of disaster emergency, limiting powers granted to the governor during a state of disaster emergency, authorizing the legislative coordinating council and the legislature to take certain action related to a state of disaster emergency and prohibiting the governor or the state board of education from closing private schools during a state of disaster emergency.
    Resolutions In Committee
    SCR1604 - A constitutional amendment allowing for a voter petition process to call the legislature into special session during a state of disaster emergency.
    SCR1605 - Constitutional amendment reserving the powers of initiative and referendum to the people.
    SCR1607 - Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that locally elected school boards are the only governmental entity with the authority to close schools.
    SCR1608 - Proposing to amend section 3 of the Kansas bill of rights regarding the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances, including by citizen-initiated grand jury.
    Sponsored Bills
    SB14 - Extending certain provisions of the governmental response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas and providing certain relief related to health, welfare, property and economic security during this public health emergency.
    SB56 - Requiring posting of a human trafficking awareness notice approved by the attorney general in certain businesses and public places.
    SB57 - Suspending statutory speedy trial rights until May 1, 2024, in all criminal cases filed prior to the effective date of this act and eliminating such rights in any criminal case filed on or after the effective date of this act.
    SB58 - Prohibiting the filing of certain liens or claims against real or personal property and providing for criminal penalties.
    SB59 - 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."
    SB102 - Requiring earlier notice of anticipated release from custody of a person who may be a sexually violent predator to the attorney general and a multidisciplinary team and specifying where such person will be detained during civil commitment proceedings.
    SB103 - Amending the Kansas power of attorney act regarding the form of a power of attorney and the duties of third parties relying and acting on a power of attorney.
    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.
    SB105 - Prohibiting denial of a petition for expungement due to the petitioner's inability to pay outstanding costs, fees, fines or restitution.
    SB106 - Enacting the revised uniform law on notarial acts and repealing the uniform law on notarial acts.
    SB107 - Enacting the uniform fiduciary income and principal act (UFIPA).
    SB122 - Modifying certain rules of evidence in the code of civil procedure related to authentication of records and documents.
    SB123 - Creating a process to terminate the parental rights of a person whose sexual assault of another has resulted in the conception of a child.
    SB141 - Enacting the Kansas uniform directed trust act.
    SB150 - Defining and prohibiting certain deceptive lawsuit advertising practices and restricting the use or disclosure of protected health information to solicit individuals for legal services.
    SB151 - Enacting limitations on contingency fee agreements in certain civil actions.
    SB152 - 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.
    SB204 - Prohibiting a court from requiring psychiatric or psychological examinations of an alleged victim of any crime.
    SB205 - Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.
    SB206 - Enacting the fairness in condemnation act to require the condemning authority to provide the property owner notice of a planned condemnation proceeding, an offer for purchase and a court review of compliance with this act.
    SB220 - Increasing the penalty for battery committed against a utility worker.
    SB229 - Providing for payment of interest in civil actions for wrongful conviction and directing the attorney general to seek damages for the state from any person who knowingly contributed to the wrongful conviction and prosecute ouster and criminal proceedings as warranted.
    SB230 - Creating the crime of deprivation of rights under color of law and providing a civil action for victims.
    SB231 - Increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes.
    SB246 - Providing statutory procedures and limitations related to forensic evidence collection and clarifying liability for unlawful conduct under the Kansas tort claims act.
    SB247 - Enacting criminal justice reform measures related to hiring, firearms certification and psychological testing of law enforcement officers
    SB273 - Substitute for SB 273 by Committee on Judiciary - Amending the Kansas emergency management act, modifying the procedure for declaring and extending a state of disaster emergency, limiting powers granted to the governor, defining public health disasters and establishing special provisions therefor, creating the joint committee on emergency management, prescribing certain powers, duties and functions of the secretary of health and environment, city and county government, the board of education of each school district, the governing body of each community college and the governing body of each technical college and establishing judicial review thereof and limiting powers of city health officers and local health officers.
    SB286 - Substitute for SB 286 by Committee on Judiciary – Enacting the COVID-19 business relief act to provide funds for impacted businesses, create the COVID-19 business relief fund and the COVID-19 business relief claims board, provide for administration of this act by the attorney general and require certain counties to establish and administer a county COVID-19 business relief fund and certain cities to establish and administer a city COVID-19 business relief fund.
    HB2153 - Senate Substitute for HB 2153 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate within the office of the attorney general and the joint committee on child welfare system oversight.
    Sponsored Resolutions - 2021 Legislative Session
    SCR1602 - 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.
    SCR1604 - A constitutional amendment allowing for a voter petition process to call the legislature into special session during a state of disaster emergency.
    SCR1608 - Proposing to amend section 3 of the Kansas bill of rights regarding the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances, including by citizen-initiated grand jury.
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