SESSION OF 1999



SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON SENATE BILL NO. 92



As Amended by House Committee on

Judiciary





Brief(1)



S.B. 92 amends the law dealing with parole hearings to permit comments by the victim or victim's family to be contemporaneously recorded as well as prerecorded and to be presented by any technological means.



The Senate Committee amendment was clarifying.



The House Committee inserted the provision on contemporaneously recorded means.





Background



The bill was supported by the Kansas Parole Board.



The bill has no fiscal impact.

1. *Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at http://www.ink.org/public/legislative/bill_search.html.