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House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice

  • Committee Assistant: Colette Niehues 785-296-7500
  • colette.niehues@house.ks.gov

    • Meeting Day: Daily Time: 1:30 pm Location: 546-S

    Room 546-S Audio Stream

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Bills In Committee
    SB73 - Adding domestic battery and violation of a protection order to the crimes that a person can have the intent to commit when committing burglary or aggravated burglary.
    SB174 - Increasing criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer.
    HB2005 - Creating a traffic infraction for operating a vehicle while fatigued.
    HB2012 - Requiring offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to complete a citizenship curriculum.
    HB2022 - Providing for the appointment of the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol by the attorney general, not the governor; transferring the duties of governor relating to the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general; granting jurisdiction of the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general, a division to be known as the Kansas highway patrol.
    HB2067 - Increasing the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes to match the crime of theft.
    HB2072 - Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.
    HB2104 - Defining options for early discharge from probation for certain offenders and limiting the maximum term of supervision on probation.
    HB2115 - Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless deemed appropriate by the court.
    HB2128 - Creating definitions of "intimate partner" and "intimate partner violence" in the Kansas criminal code and requiring certain considerations be made in determining bond when a crime is committed against an intimate partner.
    HB2151 - Requiring the secretary of corrections to notify judges, prosecutors, nonexpert witnesses and lead investigators when an inmate is released from custody.
    HB2180 - Increasing good time and program credit for certain offenders and removing liability protection for wrongful acts committed by the department of corrections in making good time and program credit calculations.
    HB2186 - Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawful voluntary sexual relations and excluding juveniles adjudicated for the offense from offender registration requirements.
    HB2187 - Adding members to the commission on peace officers' standards and training and requiring the new members to be appointed with a preference to increase diversity.
    HB2212 - Eliminating offender registration requirements for certain juvenile offenders.
    HB2213 - Authorizing offenders subject to offender registration to register at one location, creating a mechanism for fees to be waived and creating a mechanism to seek relief from registration requirements for violent offenders.
    HB2217 - Requiring that a criminal sentence be presumptive imprisonment if a person felony was committed against a person based on that person's actual or perceived race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin or sexual orientation.
    HB2280 - Requiring a person convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense giving rise to such conviction.
    HB2286 - Prohibiting motorcycle profiling by law enforcement agencies.
    HB2295 - Requiring people who live with offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to report when such offender is not home during required hours.
    HB2328 - Excluding tests to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid in a substance from the definition of drug paraphernalia.
    HB2349 - Abolishing the death penalty and creating the crime of aggravated murder.
    HB2353 - Increasing the amount of time a person may be held for treatment and adding criteria for when continued treatment may be ordered under the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.
    HB2354 - Requiring involuntary commitment proceedings to be commenced for a defendant who is awaiting a competency determination.
    HB2355 - Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from the crime of criminal sodomy.
    HB2363 - Releasing any person convicted of a drug offense involving marijuana from such person's sentence and providing for the expungement of any associated records.
    HB2370 - Defining consent in the Kansas criminal code for sexual offenses.
    HB2380 - Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture, remitting proceeds from civil asset forfeiture to the state general fund, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property, making certain property ineligible for forfeiture, providing persons involved in forfeiture proceedings representation by counsel and the ability to demand a jury trial and allowing a person to request a hearing on whether forfeiture is excessive.
    HB2385 - Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.
    Sponsored Bills
    HB2021 - Allowing evidence-based program account money to be used on certain children, requiring the department of corrections to build data systems and allowing for overall case length limit extensions for certain juvenile offenders.
    HB2022 - Providing for the appointment of the superintendent of the Kansas highway patrol by the attorney general, not the governor; transferring the duties of governor relating to the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general; granting jurisdiction of the Kansas highway patrol to the attorney general, a division to be known as the Kansas highway patrol.
    HB2031 - Enacting the reduce armed violence act to increase the criminal penalties for certain violations of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon that involve firearms.
    HB2032 - Allowing persons with felony drug convictions to receive benefits under the food assistance program.
    HB2033 - Changing the criteria used to refer and admit juveniles to a juvenile crisis intervention center.
    HB2067 - Increasing the felony loss thresholds for certain property crimes to match the crime of theft.
    HB2068 - 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.
    HB2069 - Providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law.
    HB2070 - Allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.
    HB2071 - Extending terminal medical release to inmates in the custody of the department of corrections with a condition likely to cause death within 120 days.
    HB2072 - Reducing the criminal penalties for most severity level 5 drug crimes and increasing the penalties for offenders in criminal history category 5-I.
    HB2073 - Prohibiting fines and fees from being assessed against a juvenile or a juvenile's parent, guardian or custodian in a case pursuant to the revised Kansas juvenile justice code.
    HB2104 - Defining options for early discharge from probation for certain offenders and limiting the maximum term of supervision on probation.
    HB2180 - Increasing good time and program credit for certain offenders and removing liability protection for wrongful acts committed by the department of corrections in making good time and program credit calculations.
    HB2186 - Modifying the criminal penalties for unlawful voluntary sexual relations and excluding juveniles adjudicated for the offense from offender registration requirements.
    HB2212 - Eliminating offender registration requirements for certain juvenile offenders.
    HB2213 - Authorizing offenders subject to offender registration to register at one location, creating a mechanism for fees to be waived and creating a mechanism to seek relief from registration requirements for violent offenders.
    HB2214 - Changing the name of the Larned correctional mental health facility to the Larned state correctional facility and removing references to facilities that no longer exist.
    HB2280 - Requiring a person convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for any child of a person killed during the offense giving rise to such conviction.
    HB2295 - Requiring people who live with offenders on probation, parole or postrelease supervision to report when such offender is not home during required hours.
    HB2328 - Excluding tests to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid in a substance from the definition of drug paraphernalia.
    HB2329 - Increasing the additional prison time for the special sentencing rule related to possessing a firearm during the commission of a drug felony.
    HB2350 - Creating the crimes of human smuggling and aggravated human smuggling and providing penalties therefor.
    HB2385 - Creating an inference of an intent to distribute a controlled substance based on the quantity of the substance possessed instead of a rebuttable presumption.
    HB2398 - Adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment.
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