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Senate Committee on Judiciary

  • Committee Assistant: Kim Sage 785-296-6817
  • Kim.Sage@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.
    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.
    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.
    SB317 - Authorizing certain individuals with revoked licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.
    SB321 - Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code and authorizing exceptions if the court holds a hearing and makes certain findings on the record.
    SB344 - Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.
    SB352 - Enacting the community defense and human trafficking reduction act to regulate sexually orientated businesses and human trafficking and to impose criminal penalties for violations.
    SB364 - Modifying the rules of evidence to require courts to allow certain persons with specialized training to testify on the issue of impairment.
    SB365 - Requiring courts to order domestic violence offender assessments for first-time offenders convicted of domestic battery and requiring courts and prosecutors to provide relevant documents to the certified batterer intervention programs completing such assessments when assessments are ordered or required under the Kansas criminal code or the Kansas family law code.
    SB371 - Revoking authority to suspend driving privileges for the nonpayment of fines from traffic citations.
    SB409 - 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.
    SB411 - 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.
    SB412 - Increasing the criminal penalties for violation of a protective order.
    SB413 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of domestic battery.
    SB414 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of driving under the influence.
    SB415 - Defining "primary aggressor" for domestic violence purposes in the Kansas criminal code, the Kansas code of criminal procedure and the protection from abuse act.
    SB416 - Requiring law enforcement officers investigating alleged domestic violence to conduct a lethality assessment.
    SB420 - 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.
    SB424 - Requiring independent investigations and reports for incidents of law enforcement officer-involved deaths and use of aggressive force.
    SB465 - Enacting the responsible gun ownership act and creating the crime of unlawful storage of a firearm.
    SB466 - Prohibiting certain acts by places of public accommodations based upon a person's vaccination status or possession of an immunity passport and prohibiting governing bodies of any city or county, public officials of any city or county and local health officers from requiring that a person wear a face mask based on an epidemic or other public health reason.
    SB473 - Increasing criminal penalties for escape from custody and aiding escape involving sexually violent predators.
    SB492 - Providing immunity from civil liability for the person who files a citizen-initiated grand jury petition and requiring such person to be the first witness called by such grand jury.
    SB521 - Prohibiting motorcycle profiling by law enforcement agencies.
    SB533 - Increasing the period of time that a person is disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for certain violations and prohibiting prosecuting attorneys from concealing certain traffic violations from the CDLIS driver report for holders of commercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits.
    SB535 - Requiring law enforcement agencies to determine whether applicants have been employed in law enforcement and examine certain records.
    SB536 - Requiring the attorney general to investigate allegations of misconduct by a prosecuting attorney that may have contributed to a wrongful conviction and, if the evidence warrants, prosecute any appropriate criminal charges and commence ouster proceedings against such prosecuting attorney.
    SB537 - Requiring state agencies, political subdivisions, state contractors and vendors to disclose certain contracts, gifts or grants received from foreign sources and state educational institutions to screen certain foreign applicants seeking employment in certain research positions, prohibiting agreements with or accepting grants from certain foreign countries of concern and establishing research integrity offices and international travel and approval programs at state educational institutions.
    SB550 - Authorizing certain individuals with revoked driver's licenses to be eligible for restricted driving privileges.
    SB557 - Changing the scope of crimes that may be expunged to exempt an individual from the crime of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
    SB558 - Establishing a procedure for a petition for restoration of a person's firearms rights by a person whose prior conviction prohibited the possession of firearms and that has been expunged.
    SB572 - Enacting the covert firearms act and establishing criminal penalties for the possession, manufacture, distribution, transportation, shipping or receiving of certain firearms or components.
    SB575 - Creating a presumption that joint legal custody and maximized parenting time in temporary parenting plans are in the best interests of a child and defining related terms under the Kansas family law code.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    HB2447 - Permitting testimony to be presented using a two-way electronic audio-video communication device during a preliminary hearing.
    HB2496 - Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.
    HB2654 - Providing guidance to determine how offenders under the supervision of two or more supervision agency can have supervision consolidated into one agency.
    HB2674 - Requiring a forfeiture of an appearance bond to be set aside in certain circumstances.
    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.
    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.
    SCR1617 - Constitutional amendment deleting the power of the governor to call special sessions of the legislature or two-thirds of the legislature to require the governor to call a special session and requiring the legislature meet on a monthly basis following adjournment of the regular session.
    SCR1618 - Proposing a constitutional amendment that provides for legislative authority to revoke or suspend rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
    SCR1624 - Amending the constitution of the state of Kansas to require that certain individuals be mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect.
    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 - Establishing the parents' bill of rights for parents of students attending elementary or secondary school in this state.
    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.
    SB300 - Substitute for SB 300 by Committee on Judiciary - 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."
    SB344 - Providing an exception to criminal liability when a defendant has a mental disease or defect so as not to know the nature of the act or that such act was wrong.
    SB364 - Modifying the rules of evidence to require courts to allow certain persons with specialized training to testify on the issue of impairment.
    SB365 - Requiring courts to order domestic violence offender assessments for first-time offenders convicted of domestic battery and requiring courts and prosecutors to provide relevant documents to the certified batterer intervention programs completing such assessments when assessments are ordered or required under the Kansas criminal code or the Kansas family law code.
    SB366 - Creating a mechanism to seek relief from the Kansas offender registration act requirements for drug offenders, allowing expungement of offenses when such relief is granted and requiring registration as a sex offender for certain violations of the crimes of breach of privacy, internet trading in child pornography and aggravated internet trading in child pornography.
    SB367 - Requiring officers to file copies of receipts with the court when property is seized under a search warrant and providing requirements and procedures for destruction or disposition of dangerous drugs and return or disposition of weapons.
    SB368 - Requiring registration as a sex offender for violations of the crime of internet trading in child pornography or aggravated internet trading in child pornography.
    SB408 - Increasing the criminal penalties for multiple thefts of mail; specifying that the crime of burglary includes, without authority, entering into or remaining within any locked or secured portion of any dwelling, building or other structure, with intent to commit another crime therein; providing guidance to determine how offenders under the supervision of two or more supervision agencies can have supervision consolidated into one agency; requiring an offender who raises error in such offender's criminal history calculation for the first time on appeal to show prejudicial error and authorizing the court to correct an illegal sentence while a direct appeal is pending; and transferring the responsibility to certify drug abuse treatment providers that participate in the certified drug abuse treatment program from the department of corrections to the Kansas sentencing commission.
    SB409 - 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.
    SB410 - Requiring the state capitol and legislative meetings to be open to the public.
    SB411 - 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.
    SB412 - Increasing the criminal penalties for violation of a protective order.
    SB413 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of domestic battery.
    SB414 - Authorizing staggered sentencing for certain offenders convicted of driving under the influence.
    SB415 - Defining "primary aggressor" for domestic violence purposes in the Kansas criminal code, the Kansas code of criminal procedure and the protection from abuse act.
    SB419 - Allowing certain employees from the department of corrections to attend the Kansas law enforcement training center and including special agents of the department of corrections in the definition of law enforcement officer under the Kansas law enforcement training act.
    SB434 - Creating exemptions in the open records act for records that contain captured license plate data or that pertain to the location of an automated license plate recognition system.
    SB435 - Expanding law enforcement officers' jurisdiction to include situations when an illegal act is observed that the officer reasonably believes will jeopardize the safety of any person without immediate action.
    SB438 - Requiring audits of any federal, statewide or state legislative race that is within 1% of the total votes cast and requiring randomized audits of elections procedures used in four counties in even-numbered years.
    SB439 - Requiring a county election officer to send a confirmation of address when there is no election-related activity for any four calendar year period.
    SB457 - Requiring a waiver of extradition proceedings as a condition of bond.
    SB483 - Increasing criminal penalties for theft and criminal damage to property involving remote service units such as automated cash dispensing machines and automated teller machines.
    SB490 - Expanding options for legal surrender of an infant to include infant refuge cribs.
    SB491 - Permitting workers compensation benefits for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
    SB497 - Authorizing the attorney general to coordinate training regarding a multidisciplinary team approach to intervention in reports involving alleged human trafficking for law enforcement agencies and requiring training on human trafficking awareness and identification for certain child welfare agencies, juvenile justice agencies, mental health professionals and school personnel.
    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.
    HB2361 - Senate Substitute for HB 2361 by Committee on Judiciary - Removing the requirement that all district court judges in Douglas county serve on the board of trustees of the law library, authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules establishing specialty court programs, creating the specialty court funding advisory committee and the specialty court resources fund, authorizing courts to order defendants to participate in specialty court programs and allowing expungement of certain convictions when defendants complete the requirements of such programs.
    HB2416 - Senate Substitute for HB 2416 by Committee on Judiciary – Requiring compensation for the use, restriction on use, damage, loss or destruction of property as a result of certain governmental actions, authorizing reimbursement of property taxes levied upon businesses shut down or restricted as a result of certain governmental actions related to contagious or infectious disease in humans and establishing the COVID-19 retail storefront property tax relief act to provide partial refunds to certain businesses impacted by COVID-19-related shutdowns and restrictions.
    HB2495 - Senate Substitute for HB 2495 by Committee on Judiciary - 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.
    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.
    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 Resolutions - 2022 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.
    SCR1618 - Proposing a constitutional amendment that provides for legislative authority to revoke or suspend rules and regulations adopted by executive branch agencies and officials.
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