LegiScan Judiciary Feed

KS HB2171

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Providing that peer review privilege for healthcare providers does not apply to factual information.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2357

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring that appointees to the supreme court be determined to be qualified by the senate.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2593

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Amending the uniform arbitration act of 2000 to make certain agreements to arbitrate in contracts of insurance invalid and creating exceptions therefor.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2780

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring persons who file lawsuits for wrongful conviction compensation to prove additional information, changing the compensation rates to daily rates instead of yearly rates and limiting housing assistance offered to such persons.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2018

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Permitting 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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Senate Committee

KS HB2185

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Permitting short form notification service and alternative methods of service under the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act and clarifying precedence of child-related orders issued under the protection from abuse act.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2354

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring involuntary commitment proceedings to be commenced for a defendant who is awaiting a competency determination.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2592

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring the use of age-verification technology to permit access to internet websites containing material that is harmful to minors.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2380

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2606

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Specifying that certain drug offenses do not give rise to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act, requiring courts to make a finding that forfeiture is not excessive, restricting actions prior to commencement of forfeiture proceedings, requiring probable cause affidavit filing and review to commence proceedings, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property to clear and convincing evidence and authorizing courts to order payment of attorney fees and costs for certain claimants.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Senate Committee

KS HB2017

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the uniform family law arbitration act.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Senate Committee

KS HB2217

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2379

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring protection from abuse and protection from stalking, sexual assault and human trafficking orders to restrain the plaintiff from contacting the defendant.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2381

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring the court to appoint an attorney to represent a child who is the subject of child in need of care proceedings and allowing for the optional appointment of a guardian ad litem.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2383

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Allowing certain persons to take the examination to be certified by the supreme court as qualified to be a district magistrate judge.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2074

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Allowing courts to prohibit possession of a firearm in a temporary custody order pursuant to the care and treatment act for mentally ill persons.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2250

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the supported decision-making agreements act to provide a statutory framework for adults who want decision-making assistance.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2676

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Substitute for HB 2676 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crime of encouraging suicide and providing criminal penalties therefor.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Senate Committee

KS HB2251

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing the department of education to contract with a private vendor to install and operate school bus cameras.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2396

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring a criminal conviction for civil asset forfeiture and proof beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture, remitting proceeds to the state general fund and requiring law enforcement agencies to make forfeiture reports more frequently.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2691

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring landowners whose land is taken by eminent domain for electric transmission lines to be compensated at not less than fair market value multiplied by 150%.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2293

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring prosecutors to disclose their intent to introduce testimony from a jailhouse witness and to forward related information to the Kansas bureau of investigation.

2024/04/30 Senate Died on Senate Calendar

KS HB2409

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the Kansas uniform parentage act (2017).

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2693

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the uniform partition of heirs property act to prescribe procedures and requirements for partition of certain real property.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2294

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Increasing the required age to 21 to purchase or possess cigarettes and tobacco products including electronic cigarettes and establishing unlawful acts under the Kansas cigarette and tobacco products act and penalties for violations thereof.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2692

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2129

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring defendants who petition the court for forensic DNA testing to notify the court when such testing is complete and request a hearing based on whether the evidence is favorable or unfavorable.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2070

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2070 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency, making orders granting custody for adoption subject to the federal Indian child welfare act, directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents in certain circumstances and authorizing appeal of any order of placement of a child.

2024/04/30 House Died in Conference

KS HB2707

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Modifying automobile insurance policy uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage liability limitations for bodily injury or death.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2352

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring the plaintiff's attorney to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that property is subject to forfeiture under the Kansas standard asset seizure and forfeiture act.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2069

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2069 by Committee on Judiciary - Prohibiting conveyance of certain real property in this state to foreign adversaries.

2024/04/30 Senate Died on Senate Calendar

KS HB2708

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Eliminating the cap on nonpecuniary loss in a wrongful death action when the action is brought against a person convicted of murder and extending the statute of limitations for wrongful death actions from two years to five years.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2128

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2356

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2510

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing a party to obtain discovery of the existence and content of an agreement for third-party funding of litigation under the code of civil procedure.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Senate Committee

KS HB2755

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring compensated sureties who post bond in municipal court to comply with certain requirements, requiring a minimum bond premium in district court and providing reasons for suspending or terminating authorization of a compensated surety.

2024/04/30 Senate Died on Senate Calendar

KS HB2355

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Removing sodomy between consenting members of the same sex from the crime of criminal sodomy.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2550

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2753

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Creating the crime of aggravated sexual extortion, providing criminal penalties for violations thereof and adding making a demand for money or other thing of value to the elements of sexual extortion.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2183

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Removing the cap on damages that may be awarded in wrongful death actions.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2782

LegiScan — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing the secretary of corrections to use hypoxia for the purpose of carrying out a sentence of death and requiring the district court to issue a warrant to the secretary of corrections to carry out a sentence of death.

2024/04/30 House Died in Committee

KS HB2781

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Allowing compensation from the crime victims compensation board to be awarded for criminally injurious conduct, and increasing the amount that can be transferred from the crime victims compensation fund to the crime victims assistance fund in each fiscal year.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024

KS HB2675

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the uniform nonparent visitation act.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024

KS HB2144

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2144 by Committee on Judiciary - Creating the crimes of encouraging suicide and organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, including organized retail crime in the definition of racketeering activity under the Kansas racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute specified crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

KS HB2353

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

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.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024

KS HB2549

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Changing the lists of persons who are required to be given notice of the hearing on a petition for an independent or stepparent, private agency or public agency adoption and limiting a petition to terminate parental rights to adoption proceedings and setting requirements for such petitions filed separately from petitions for adoption.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 15, 2024

KS HB2754

LegiScan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing counties to use home rule powers to exempt from conducting school sanitary inspections.

2024/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 12, 2024

KS HB2604

LegiScan — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Increasing the dollar amount for a small claim to $10,000.

2024/04/04 House Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024

KS HB2605

LegiScan — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel for an indigent person.

2024/04/04 House Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 4, 2024

KS HB2557

LegiScan — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Expanding the definition of "peer support counseling session" in the rules of evidence.

2024/03/28 House Approved by Governor on Friday, March 29, 2024

KS HB2010

LegiScan — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2010 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating a statutory cross reference to provide proper jury instruction in cases when a defendant lacks the required mental state to commit a crime; 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; 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; providing that the service of postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as otherwise provided by law; and allowing certain nondrug offenders to participate in a certified drug abuse treatment program.

2023/04/28 House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, May 10, 2023

KS HB2130

LegiScan — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Permitting a copy of a will to be filed and admitted to probate, increasing certain dollar amounts in the Kansas probate code, adjusting time requirements linked to notice by publication and mailing in the Kansas probate code and clarifying how property held under a transfer-on-death deed is distributed when one beneficiary predeceases the grantor.

2023/04/25 House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 24, 2023

KS HB2015

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing the designee of an employing agency or entity to petition the court for an order requiring infectious disease testing.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023

KS HB2016

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2016 by the Committee on Judiciary - Enacting the act against abusive access litigation to create a civil action for determining whether litigation that alleges any access violation under the Americans with disabilities act or similar law constitutes abusive litigation and authorize penalties for such abusive litigation.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023

KS HB2216

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Removing the mandatory term of imprisonment as a penalty for driving with license that is canceled, suspended or revoked for failure to pay fines.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 18, 2023

KS HB2395

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023

KS HB2121

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Substitute for HB 2121 by the Committee on Judiciary - Extending the suspension of statutory speedy trial time limitations and providing that time during the COVID-19 public health emergency shall not be assessed against the state.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Monday, April 10, 2023

KS HB2127

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Senate Substitute for HB 2127 by Committee on Judiciary - Permitting a prosecution for childhood sexual abuse to be commenced at any time, extending the time to file civil actions against an individual perpetrator or an entity for recovery of damages caused by childhood sexual abuse and providing exceptions in the Kansas tort claims act for claims arising from such abuse.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023

KS HB2131

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Providing that the mission of the judicial council is to study the administration of justice in Kansas and make recommendations for improvements therefor.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023

KS HB2326

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Extending the sunset date on the scrap metal theft reduction act and clarifying that catalytic converters are covered by the act.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Friday, April 14, 2023

KS HB2172

LegiScan — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Enacting the uniform trust decanting act, authorizing modification of a noncharitable irrevocable trust to provide that the rule against perpetuities is inapplicable, providing that the Kansas uniform statutory rule against perpetuities is inapplicable to trusts under certain circumstances and modifying the definition of resident trust in the Kansas income tax act.

2023/04/24 House Approved by Governor on Wednesday, April 19, 2023

KS HB2215

LegiScan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Creating the crime of utilizing a drug-masking product and providing criminal penalties therefor.

2023/02/23 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

KS HB2028

LegiScan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Requiring certain records to be automatically expunged from a person's criminal record.

2023/02/23 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

KS HB2029

LegiScan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Increasing the time of an initial restraining order and possible extensions issued in a protection from abuse order or a protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking order.

2023/02/23 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

KS HB2246

LegiScan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Substitute for HB 2246 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing requirements for the involuntary discharge or transfer of a resident in an adult residential care facility and authorizing the secretary to investigate and assess a penalty for violations.

2023/02/23 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

KS HB2351

LegiScan — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Increasing the maximum rate paid to appointed counsel for an indigent person.

2023/02/23 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507