LegiScan Judiciary Feed

KS SB72

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

Adding an exception to the hearsay rule to allow admission of statements made to a translator without the testimony of the translator.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB242

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

Enacting the cold case homicide victims' families' rights act to provide for a system for reviewing the case files of cold case homicides upon written application by certain persons.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB415

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

Creating the crime of organized retail crime, providing criminal penalties for violation thereof, increasing the criminal penalties for theft of certain property, 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 crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB492

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

Repealing the prohibition on transportation of alcoholic beverages in opened containers and on drinking or consuming alcoholic liquor inside vehicles while on the public streets, alleys, roads or highways.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB74

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

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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB412

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

Modifying criminal sentencing rules applicable in multiple conviction cases where consecutive sentences may be imposed by the sentencing judge and the sentence for the primary crime is a nonprison sentence.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB500

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

Providing restricted driving privileges for certain individuals that fail to comply with a traffic citation, authorizing certain individuals with revoked driving privileges to be eligible for restricted driving privileges and permitting such individuals to drive to and from dropping off or picking up children from school or child care, to and from purchasing groceries or fuel and to and from religious worship services.

2024/04/30 Senate Approved by Governor on Friday, May 10, 2024

KS SB241

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

Requiring certain records and files to be automatically expunged from a juvenile's record.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB443

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 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB444

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

Providing that the attorney members of the board of trustees of a county law library in certain counties shall be appointed by the chief judge of the judicial district and allowing such boards to authorize the chief judge to use certain fees for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing functions of the district court of the county.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB441

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

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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB192

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

Providing for payment plans and waiver of fines for traffic fines and court costs, expanding the eligibility for restricted driving privileges, removing and delaying payment for certain fees and eliminating reinstatement of certain fees.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB439

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

Prohibiting the use of restraints during hearings under the revised Kansas juvenile justice code unless restraints are deemed appropriate by the court.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB191

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

Establishing requirements for the involuntary discharge or transfer of a resident in an adult residential care facility, the right to appeal such discharge or transfer and a process for such appeal.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB440

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

Prohibiting suspension of a person's driving privileges or driver's license due to nonpayment of fines or court costs from traffic citations.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB380

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

Clarifying a special sentencing rule applicable to 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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB442

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

Prohibiting assignment of persons found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to supervision by court services officers.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB449

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

Expanding the definition of healthcare provider for individuals providing care at the scene of an emergency or accident.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB188

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

Removing an affirmative defense for public, private and parochial schools from the crime of promotion to minors of material harmful to minors.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB392

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

Granting the medicaid inspector general access to the prescription monitoring program database without a warrant and replacing the member of the program advisory committee representing the Kansas bureau of investigation with a member appointed by the attorney general's office.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB448

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

Establishing procedures in the Kansas code of procedure for municipal courts related to determination of an accused person's competency to stand trial and requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for the costs of keeping persons in the custody of a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB193

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

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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB393

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

Requiring automated expungement of certain records from a person's criminal record to seal such records from public view and limit disclosure thereof.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB216

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

Adding possession or using a firearm during the commission of certain drug crimes to the crime of criminal use of weapons and creating a special sentencing rule of presumptive imprisonment for violations thereof.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB414

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

Requiring certain persons on a third or subsequent conviction of driving under the influence to participate in a multidisciplinary model of services for substance use disorders, removing the requirement that municipal courts collect fingerprints from persons convicted of violating certain municipal ordinance provisions, amending the crime of aggravated endangering a child to increase the criminal penalties when bodily harm to the child results and when a child is in certain environments associated with fentanyl-related controlled substances, increasing the criminal penalties for unlawful distribution of fentanyl-related controlled substances, eliminating the element of concealment from the crime of breach of privacy related to installing or using a device to photograph or record another identifiable person under or through the clothing being worn by that other person or another identifiable person who is nude or in a state of undress, excluding certain types of incarceration time from being included in the allowance for time spent incarcerated when calculating a criminal defendant's sentence and updating the general terms of supervision for offenders on probation and postrelease supervision.

2024/04/30 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, May 9, 2024

KS SB463

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

Changing the membership of the Kansas judicial council from four resident lawyers to one resident lawyer from each congressional district.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB232

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

House Substitute for Substitute for SB 232 by Committee on Judiciary - Providing for child support orders for unborn children from the date of conception.

2024/04/30 Senate No motion to reconsider vetoed bill; Veto sustained

KS SB416

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

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.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB483

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

Establishing the crime of interference with a security camera in a correctional facility.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB239

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

Providing that certain witnesses shall have the right to be accompanied by a support person during testimony and may be accompanied by a certified critical incident response therapy K9 team.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB418

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

Requiring the clerk of the appellate courts to publish monthly a list of cases of the supreme court and court of appeals in which a decision has not been entered and filed within six months of submission and a list of cases in which a petition for review has not been granted or denied within six months of submission.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB493

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

Requiring ignition interlock device manufacturers to pay fees to the state for the administration of the ignition interlock program.

2024/04/30 House Died in House Committee

KS SB240

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

Amending the crime of aggravated endangering a child to increase the criminal penalties in certain environments where any person is distributing, possessing with intent to distribute, manufacturing or attempting to manufacture fentanyl-related controlled substances.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB413

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

Specifying criminal penalties for unlawful distribution of fentanyl-related controlled substances when distributed by weight or dosage unit.

2024/04/30 Senate Died in Committee

KS SB473

LegiScan — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Authorizing a notice to appear that meets certain requirements to serve as a lawful complaint under the Kansas code of criminal procedure, requiring a minimum bond premium in district court and providing reasons for suspending or terminating authorization of a compensated surety.

2024/04/29 House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 87 Nay: 38

KS SB349

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

House Substitute for SB 349 by Committee on Judiciary - Continuing in existence certain exceptions to the disclosure of public records under the open records act.

2024/04/25 Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 23, 2024

KS SB115

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

Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency and prescribing certain powers, duties and functions thereof.

2024/04/25 Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 22, 2024

KS SB18

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

Enacting the Kansas campus restoration act to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities at postsecondary educational institutions, establishing the Kansas campus restoration fund in the state treasury and authorizing certain transfers from the state general fund to such fund.

2024/04/25 Senate Approved by Governor on Monday, April 22, 2024

KS SB458

LegiScan — Thu, 25 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, providing limitations on state and local law enforcement agency requests for federal adoption of a seizure under the act, requiring probable cause affidavit filing and review to commence forfeiture proceedings, increasing the burden of proof required to forfeit property to clear and convincing evidence, authorizing courts to order payment of attorney fees and costs for certain claimants and requiring the Kansas bureau of investigation to submit forfeiture fund financial reports to the legislature.

2024/04/25 Senate Approved by Governor on Tuesday, April 23, 2024

KS SB394

LegiScan — Thu, 25 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.

2024/04/25 Senate Will become law without Governor's signature

KS SB381

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

Authorizing the board of county commissioners of any county that is not the most populous county in a multiple-county judicial district to appoint a coroner to serve as the district coroner for the county at the expense of the county.

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

KS SB491

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

Standardizing criminal history record check fingerprinting language and defining who may be fingerprinted for a criminal history record check.

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

KS SB190

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

House Substitute for SB 190 by Committee on Judiciary - 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 to such persons.

2024/03/28 House Stricken from Calendar by Rule 1507

KS SB379

LegiScan — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Providing a longer time for notice to creditors by publication when a petition for administration or probate of a will is filed, changing the process for transferring personal property by affidavit in small estates and modifying time requirements for notice by publication related to sales at public auction in the Kansas probate code.

2024/02/19 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary

KS SB238

LegiScan — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Increasing criminal penalties on drug-related crimes when the drug is fentanyl and creating special sentencing rules for mandatory imprisonment and additional terms of imprisonment for drug-related crimes when the drug is fentanyl or is attractive to minors because of its appearance or packaging.

2024/01/10 Senate Motion to strike from Calendar adopted;

KS SB174

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

Increasing the criminal penalties for battery of a healthcare provider, adding the placing of controlled substances into pills into the definition of manufacture, increasing the criminal penalties for manufacturing fentanyl and for manufacturing or distributing any controlled substances that are likely to be attractive to minors because of their appearance or packaging, creating a special sentencing rule to make sentences for distributing fentanyl presumptive imprisonment, excluding materials used to detect the presence of fentanyl, ketamine or gamma hydroxybutyric acid from the definition of drug paraphernalia, 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, increasing criminal penalties for the crime of interference with law enforcement when the violation involves fleeing from a law enforcement officer and authorizing the attorney general to prosecute certain crimes that are part of an alleged course of criminal conduct that occurred in two or more counties.

2023/04/28 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, May 11, 2023

KS SB228

LegiScan — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Requiring the secretary for aging and disability services to reimburse counties for certain costs when a person is in a county jail awaiting examination, evaluation or treatment for competency, modernizing statutes concerning county jails, removing the requirement that every county shall have a jail, modifying procedures used when district courts commit prisoners to jail in another county and when counties contract with city jails to keep prisoners and requiring a medical examination before certain United States prisoners or city prisoners are taken into custody of a county jail.

2023/04/26 House Motion to override veto prevailed; Yea: 87 Nay: 37

KS SB217

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

Including the conduct of utilizing any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine the targeted persons location, movement or travel patterns in the crime of stalking when done as part of an unlawful course of conduct and authorizing orders to prohibit such conduct under the Kansas family law code, the revised Kansas code for care of children, the protection from abuse act and the protection from stalking, sexual assault or human trafficking act and 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.

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

KS SB75

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

Providing a statutory interest rate for prejudgment interest in all civil tort actions.

2023/04/24 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023

KS SB244

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

House Substitute for SB 244 by Committee on Judiciary - Updating the Kansas general corporation code, the business entity transactions act, the business entity standard treatment act, the Kansas revised uniform limited partnership act and the Kansas uniform partnership act.

2023/04/24 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023

KS SB243

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

Providing requirements and procedures for settlement agreements involving a minor.

2023/04/24 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023

KS SB189

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

Authorizing state and local law enforcement agencies to receive files and information about an applicant from other agencies that received an application for employment from the applicant or conducted an employment background investigation on the applicant.

2023/04/24 Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 20, 2023