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Session of 1999
          SENATE BILL No. 221           By Committee on Judiciary           2-3          

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  9             AN  ACT concerning criminal procedure; relating to evidence admitted
10             at preliminary examination.
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12       Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
13             Section  1. In addition to the provisions of subsection (3) of K.S.A.
14       22-2902 and K.S.A. 22-2902a and amendments thereto, hearsay evidence
15       shall be admissible at a preliminary examination when the statement is:
16       (a) An out-of-court statement made by a victim named in the charging
17       document for a nonperson felony to establish any element or the lack
18       thereof concerning consent, value, permission, authority or ownership,
19       when the statement relates to any property or premises; and
20             (b) offered in a prosecution under K.S.A. 21-3707 and amendments
21       thereto and is: (1) A statement of account from a bank, savings and loan,
22       credit union or repository; or
23             (2) a stamped or endorsed notation upon a check or draft indicating
24       that the drawee had a closed account or insufficient funds for payment
25       of such check or draft.
26        Sec.  2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
27       publication in the statute book.